Alba Sotorra Clua
| Alba Sotorra Clua | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1980 |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🏢 Organization | Alba Sotorra SL. |
Alba Sotorra Clua (Reus, 1980[1]) is a Catalan documentary[2] film director [3]and producer[4]. She is also the founder of the audiovisual production company Alba Sotorra S.L.[5]
Her movies are focused on contemporary and controversial topics that involve opposite visions of the world, related to political, human and social conflicts happening nowadays. Her work is mainly centered in representing freedom, equality and identity. The stories of her movies are based on characters with a strong narrative, intended for both national and international audiences.
Her most relevant projects are the feature documentary films[6] Unveiled Views (2008), Qatar the Race (2011), Game Over (2015), which she received the Gaudí Award for the best documentary film, and Commander Arian (2018), also nominated to the Gaudí Awards. At the moments she is developing other projects, including the feature documentary Francesca and Love.
Biography and education[7][edit]
She was born in Reus, in 1980. She has licensed in Audiovisual Communication for Universidad Complutense[8] in Madrid (2004) and for the European Master for Cultural Studies for Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in Tarragona (2007). She has been working, shooting and living worldwide, with a particular emphasis on the Middle East, especially in Syria, Turkey, Iran and Qatar.
She has carried out different documentary script writing and directing workshops, among them: SOURCES2 (2010), Berlinale Talent Campus (2011), Dok Incubator (2014), IDFA Academy (2015) and EAVE Producers Workshop (2017). She is a member of PROA (Productors Association) and CIMA (Women Producers Association). She has been awarded with the best fledging director by the Directors College of Catalonia[9], in 2016.
Productions[10][edit]
Commander Arian[11][edit]
In Commander Arian, Sotorra gets inside the Syrian war first line in order to document the fight of the Kurdish women in the northern part of the country against Islamic State, as well as their feminist revolution in Rojava. Sotorra follows commander Arian, who is 30 years old, and is part of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ). This is a military army exclusively formed by women, founded in 2012 with the goal to defend themselves from the Dáesh[12] and to transform the patriarchal society where they live. In this story, Arian leads a battalion to Kobané with the mission to liberate the population who is living under the siege of the Daesh. She will do the possible to show her colleagues the true sense of their fight.
This is her second documentary feature film. Commander Arian had its world premiere in the HOTDOCS Festival, in 2018 (the only Class A documentary festival). It had its European premiere in Sheffield International Doc Fest (UK), was nominated for the Tim Hetherington Award and her Asian premiere was in the Shanghai International Film Festival. The documentary is a coproduction with Boekamp & Kriegsheim (Germany), Televisió de Catalunya, Televisió Espanyola and counts with the support of Movistar +[13], Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (ICEC) and the German cinema fund Berlin Medienboard. It was also nominated for the Gaudí Awards 2019, in the Best Documentary Film category. [14]
Game over (2015)[15][edit]
Documentary feature film that won the Gaudí award to the Best Documentary Film in 2016. It was also awarded as a best documentary of new realization in Festival Internacional DOCS Barcelona and it had received an honorable mention in Ciutat de Barcelona awards. It had its national premiere in the International Film Festival of Karlovy Vary. It also competed in the Malaga Film Festival, Documenta Madrid, Planed Doc (Poland) and Alcances Film Festival of Cáceres, among others. It is a coproduction with Televisió de Catalunya, Televisión Española and counts with the support of the Hamburg Cinema Fund and ICEC.
Unveiled Views (2008)[16][edit]
Unveiled Views is the combative portrait of five women artists from Bosnia, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. With the founding from ICEC and Women Catalan Institute. It was awarded as best documentary film in Festival de Cine Invisible (Bilbao), Mollerussa Film Festival and International Film Festival REC (Tarragona). It has also participated in the Guadalajara International Film Festival (Mexico), Karachi International Film Festival (Pakistan), Cines del Sur (Granada), Cervantes Institute from Tel Aviv (Israel), International Women Festival (Egypt), CCCB (Barcelona), Blue Apple Berlin (Germany). Furthermore, it was retransmitted in televisions from Portugal, Britain, India and Venezuela.
Qatar, The Race (2011)[17][edit]
Documentary shot in Qatar. World premiere in Planet Doc (Poland). Co-produced for Televisió de Catalunya and DTM (Qatar).
Francesca and Love (in development)[18][edit]
Feature length documentary in development, selected for the EAVE program for project development, which counts with the support of Creative Europe Development of MEDIA plus the development and production from ICEC.
References[edit]
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- ↑ "Alba Sotorra". catalanfilms.cat. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "La directora catalana que va filmar la lluita feminista a la guerra de Síria". El Temps (in Catalan). Retrieved 2019-11-07.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ s.r.o, Appio Digital. "Alba Sotorra | DOKweb". dokweb.net. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "About us". Alba Sotorra. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ Alba Sotorra en Filmin (in español), retrieved 2019-11-07
- ↑ "Biografía de Alba Sotorra - Departamento de Bibliotecas y Documentación del Instituto Cervantes". www.cervantes.es. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "Plural Femení. Dones artistes a les comarques de Tarragona. Fotografia-Audiovisual | Biblioteca virtual Ramon Berenguer IV - Diputació de Tarragona". www.dipta.cat. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "L'Alternativa » Jurats". alternativa.cccb.org (in català). Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "Alba Sotorra". La Mostra de CineBaix (in català). Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "Commander Arian". Alba Sotorra. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "Alba Sotorra retrata la lluita de les dones kurdes". La llança. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "Alba Sotorra Clua — Network — EAVE". eave.org. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ Sotorra, Alba, Un ejército de mujeres, retrieved 2019-11-07
- ↑ "Game Over". Alba Sotorra. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "Unveiled Views". Alba Sotorra. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "QATAR THE RACE". Alba Sotorra. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- ↑ "Francesca i el amor". Alba Sotorra. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
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