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May 09, 2019
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La Gaveta Producciones Docs in Cannes

La Gaveta Producciones  (ICEX STAND A5). 



IN PRODUCTION  

LOLAS

Trailer

Feature documentary. Comedy/Human Affairs



Synopsis. A theatre play, a little dog hit by a car, a demonstration of ladies in their 80s on a war footing, a village ruled by women. LOLAS is not just a documentary; it is a tale of friendship, courage, love and joy of life. The Lolas will make you laugh, cry, learn and, eventually, will steal your heart. 



Phase: Work in progress finished



Looking for: International sales agents/TV broadcasters/ distribution



Territories of interest: Europe and Latin America

LOLAS Website
 

RAVE CULTURE

Trailer

Password: Hardcore

 

Feature documentary. Music/History



Synopsis. Do you remember the rave scene in the late 80’s and early 90’s? Tracksuits, electronic music and synthetic drugs left a mark in a whole generation. This is the story of the producers who made that scene possible. A voyage 30 years after the beginnings of rave music.



Phase: Production



Looking for: Co-producers, especially in the UK; international sales agents/TV broadcasters



Territories of interest: UK, Northern Europe, US, Spain

 

A HOME WITH NO CLOSETS



Feature documentary. LGTBI/History/Comedy



Synopsis.They didn’t want to go back in the closet, to conceal, that the old age snatch so much fight from them. They had a dream: founding the first public LGTBI retirement home in the world. 



Phase: Preproduction



Looking for: Co-producers/international sales agents/TV broadcasters



Territories of interest: Europe, Latin America

 

BARE FEET IN SHANTY TOWN

Feature documentary. Human Interest/Childhood



Synopsis. Have these kids, sexual genre victims, really escaped FARC, the militia, the drug cartels? El Chocó, the Colombian Afro-American territory par excellence, registers the highest levels of poverty, crime and sexual abuse in the country. Their hopes and dreams may come true thanks to music and dance. 



Phase: Preproduction



Looking for: Co-producers/international sales agents/TV broadcasters



Territories of interest: Europe, Latin America

 

KALULU AND THE AFRONAUTS

Pic by Cristina de Middel

Synopsis. In the middle of the Cold War, the XX c. two superpowers confronted each other in the field of the Space Race to show their superiority worldwide. Out of the blue, a third actor claimed a role in the Space conquer: Zambia.  In the sixties, Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, director of Zambia’s National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy, demanded Russia and NASA to support his Space Program in exchange for sharing his knowledge and technology to reach Mars. Was Nkoloso’s Space Program the result of the wild dreams of a mad man or a plot to conceal in Zambia the training camps for liberation armies?  Nkoloso may have plotted, along with the first president of the postcolonial Zambia, one of the wittiest machinations against the British metropolis. 



Phase: Development/Research



Looking for: Co-producers/international sales agents/TV broadcasters



Territories of interest: Worldwide

 

FINISHED

Isleños, a Root of America

Trailer

Feature documentary. History/Social Interest



Synopsis. The search of this people's identity makes Isleños, a Root of America a piece of Universal History and has become a key question in the US today. A travel in time throughout North American History, dealing with community unknown by general public, with significant and unique influence on politics, arts, war conflicts and the American society. 



Looking for: Our last documentary, already finished. Are you interested in broadcasting it? Ask us for the screening!

 

Isleños Website

 

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