1. Art and Diseño

18 NARAtive Film 2015-2016 (Title: work-in-progress)
Japan
Fiction / HD / Japanese / Spanish / 70 mins
Carlos M.
QUINTELA
Director: Carlos M. QUINTELA
Producer: KAWASE Naomi
HAF Goals: Funds, Co-producers, Sales agents, Pre-sales
Budget: US$200,000
Secured Budget: US$100,000
Director’s Filmography:
2015 Project of the Century
2013 The Swimming Pool
Director
Carlos M. QUINTELA
Born in 1984, Havana (Cuba). His graduation film
was presented at the Short Film Corner Court
Metrage at Cannes Film Festival in 2010. Later
he received the prize Haciendo Cine, bringing to
production of his first feature, The Swimming Pool.
His latest script, “Ismael”, won the Coral Prize
for Unpublished Script at the 34th Latin American
International Film Festival in Havana, and in 2014,
Special Mention prize at the Nara International Film
Festival 2014 where he was selected as director for
the NARAtive Filmmaking Project 2015-2016.
Producer
NARAtive Film 2015-2016
Synopsis
Nara International Film Festival Organizing
Committee
Nara International Film Festival was founded in
2008. Its founders include the filmmaker KAWASE
Naomi, who serves as the Executive Director.
The biennial festival organises the unique NARAtive
Filmmaking Project, in which a filmmaker from the
main competition is invited to make a feature in
Nara. So far the project has produced the films by
ZHAO Ye (China), YAMASAKI Toyoko (Japan),
Pedro GONZALEZ RUBIO (Mexico), and JANG
Kunjae (South Korea). GONZALEZ RUBIO’s Inori
won the Grand Prize of Cineasti del Presente at
Locarno in 2012.
KAWASE Naomi
Director’s Statement
Nara International Film Festival biennially invites
emerging filmmakers to make a feature in Nara, the
original ancient capital of Japan.
It is my pleasure to have this great opportunity
to be the director for the NARAtive Filmmaking
Project 2015-2016.
An internationally established filmmaker, KAWASE
Naomi, serves as the producer of the films and
so far, the project has produced four films: Last
Chestnuts (directed by ZHAO Ye, China), Bion
(directed by YAMASAKI Toyoko, Japan), Inori
(directed by Pedro GONZALEZ RUBIO, Mexico),
and A Midsummer’s Fantasia (directed by JANG
Kunjae, South Korea). In addition to KAWASE
Naomi, those filmmakers invited to the project work
with the crews of Japan’s leading film professionals,
incorporating the local culture, history, and people
of where each project is based in. For the NARAtive
Film 2015-2016, the Cuban filmmaker, Carlos M.
QUINTELA, the director of The Swimming Pool, has
been appointed as the director and is currently in
the process of script development.
I am excited and curious myself to see how the film
will develop. I will try my best to make a good film
based in Nara, Japan.
With her first feature, KAWASE became the
youngest filmmaker to receive Camera d’Or award
at Cannes for Mogari no mori, which won the Grand
Prix in 2007. In 2009, she received the Carrosse
d’Or from the Director’s Fortnight at Cannes for
her lifetime achievement and the FIPRESCI prize
at San Sebastian (2010). Her films Hanezu (2011)
and Futatsu Me No Mado (Still the Water, 2014)
also have been invited for competition at Cannes.
In 2013, KAWASE became the first Japanese
filmmaker to be a juror for the Cannes Film Festival.
KAWASE also is one of the founders and Executive
Director of the Nara International Film Festival
2014.
Contact
KITAGAWA Shinji
Nara International Film Festival Organizing
Committee
Nara IFF Office, Tsunofuri-Shinya-Cho 8, 3F,
Nara City 630-8223, Japan
Tel: +81-742955780
Email: [email protected]
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