FÉLIX in PRODUCTION

Polen Audiovisual is currently producing the documentary film Félix with the support of IMCINE-FOPROCINE, directed by Adriana Trujillo. Félix, which will premiere next year, captures the story of a human smuggler who is also a low-budget border film actor. In this documentary we are exposed to the network he controls in Tijuana: the strategies, methods and members of his organization which smuggles undocumented immigrants into the United States. Félix reveals the world of human smuggling from the point of view and perspective of the smuggler and includes fragments from films in which he has portrayed or fictionalized himself. More information at: felixdocumentary.com

NEW project SKIN DESTINATION receives support from PECDA and FONCA for its realization

Everybody at Polen is celebrating the start of our new documentary project, this time in film essay format, titled Skin Destination. With this documentary we intend to create a more experimental documentary discourse in order to approach the great amount of bodily practices that develop on a daily basis in Tijuana: aesthetic operations, countless drugstores, dental offices, drug traffic and consumption, bodies mutilated by the hand of drug trafficking, a variety of medical services for tourists in a scenario where thousands of bodies enter and exit the country on a daily basis. The project recently received the support from both the Baja California State Program Artistic Creation and Development (PECDA), and the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA). Skin Destination is directed by Adriana Trujillo and produced by José Inerzia.

TIJUANA is heard in BERLIN

Tijuana’s talent has reached as far as Germany with director Itzel Martínez del Cañizo’s documentary Que suene la calle (Let the Streets be Heard) (Mexico, 2006). Several screenings have been scheduled from January through August in movie theaters across Berlin. This year the site of the “This is Tijuana” festival was the Babylon theater (www.babylonberlin.de), and it included three documentaries about Tijuana from different points of view (two of the works are by German directors). With this documentary cycle the world’s interest and curiosity towards Tijuana has manifested.

Video Journal WORKSHOP in BARCELONA

“Auto-Play: Video-Diary Workshop” was developed by Adriana Trujillo and José Inerzia at the CitiLab Citizen’s Media and Technology Center in Barcelona, and it focuses on the use of the video-diary format by means of personal cameras –mobile type flips-. The diary will reflect everyday life through intimate testimonies and by means of the collaborative method with a group of young people. The workshop was made up of 8 young Spaniards who were interested in exploring their personal realities in this Catalan city in order to later portray them in documentary shorts. Through Auto-play, six experience maps were created around the city’s configuration-perception. The workshop was a direct means of the citizenship’s participation by means of practice-registry of city routes. More information at: http://vision.projectescitilab.eu/

COMPILATION AND ARCHIVE DOCUMENTARY Revolution << Rewind under development << Rewind

Polen began this project with a public call for submissions beginning past May and ending August 31 hoping that citizens would share their old family film and videos for the development of a compilation documentary through found footage. The project searched for border images from the memory and point of view of its citizens. We received over a hundred rolls of super 8 and 16 mm film from all 5 counties in Baja California. The documentary will be called Revolution Rewind as a celebration of this region’s domestic history and aims at recovering the valuable visual archive that is scattered in the treasures of several families in the region.

LET THE STREET BE HEARD and BODILY POSTCARDS screened around Mexico City

"Guelcome to Tijuana", a film showcase that integrated the most representative current creations on the border took place from April to May of 2010 at Mexico City’s Cine Club Condesa. In it, Polen Audiovisual’s documentaries Que suene la calle (Let the Street be Heard, 2006) by Itzel Martínez del C., and “Postales Corporales” (Corporal Postcards, 2005) by Adriana Trujillo, played a fundamental role.

DOCUMENTARY PROJECT PRODUCTION WORKSHOP at UABC’s CIC-MUSEUM

From the 24 to 26 of March 2010, José Inerzia, producer at Polen Audiovisual, presented From Idea to Screen in 3 Steps, a workshop at Baja California’s Autonomous University Cultural Research Center in Mexicali, with over 30 students in attendance. Inerzia still offers counseling, follows through and revises scripts from the workshop.

IMCINE awards FOPROCINE to FÉLIX

The Mexican Institute of Cinematography awarded the Digital Documentary Film Support (FOPROCINE) to Félix, directed by Adriana Trujillo and produced by José Inerzia. The documentary’s world premiere is expected to be in 2010.

Bordocs receives IMCINE’s support for festivals

In 2009 Bordocs Documentary Forum joins the film festival network with the support of the Mexican Institute of Cinematography (IMCINE). The Forum will take place from October 29 to November 7 in the cities of Tijuana and San Diego.

bordocs.org

The Department of Culture and Education in the city of La Plata, through Mexican anthropologist Liliana Cordero, picked two documentaries from Polen Audiovisual, Itzel Martínez’s Que suene la calle (Let the Street be Heard) and Adriana Trujillo’s Geografías Cruzadas (Cross Geographies), to be screened during the Compromiso Film Showcase in La Plata, Argentina. The screenings took place in March.

http://laplatago.com/index.php/febrero-ciclo-cine-compromiso/

Bordocs in Proyecta Aragón

Bordocs presented a selection of documentary shorts at Proyecta Aragón film and video Festival, which took place during the month of December in several cities throughout the Aragonese community. Bordocs’s appearance in Spain was made up of the following documentary shorts: Flores en el ring (Flowers in the Ring) by Patricia Martinez, La mutilación de San Pedro, según San Xavier (The Mutilation of Saint Peter according to Saint Xavier) by Olivia Portillo Rangel. Ejecución en Bellas Artes, crónica deun videosimulacro (Execution at Bellas Artes, Chronicle of a video simulacrum) directed by Mignon, and Dragones Urbanos (Urban Dragons) by Pavel Valenzuela Arámburo. Participants received an official certificate signed by the festival’s director Vicky Calavia and the Joaquín Roncal Foundation.

http://proyectaragon.blogspot.com/2008/10/proyectaragon-2008.html

FÉLIX receives IMCINE-DOCS DF award

Polen Audiovisual earned one of the grants awarded by IMCINE-DOCS DF during the last DOCSDF Festival, as well as a grant for project development for 3:Videodiario de un pollero (now Félix) The documentary is directed by Adriana Trujillo and produced by José Inerzia.

www.docsdf.com