Border Diaries

Project information

Talent	Irene Gutierrez
Role of participant	Director, scriptwriter, executive producer, cinematographer, sound recorder
Director	Irene Gutiérrez
Producer	Irene Gutiérrez
Screenwriter	Irene Gutiérrez
Status	finished

Production details

Running time	25 min
Genre	Documentary (Creative)
Year of production	2012
Country of Production	Spain
Production Company	Cienfuegos Producciones
Website	https://vimeo.com/140222320

Synopsis

I was born in Ceuta, the border between Spain and Morocco. Now I’ve returned 15 years after I left, but the place I’ve found is completely different that the place I grew up. This film was supposed to be the diary of my journey, but I found someone else voices, another border diaries.

Participation in international festivals / awards

- Part of the film archive of the Art Museum Reina Sofía.
- Screened at the Glasgow Centre for the Contemporary Art.
- Screened at Indie Lisbon IFF (Portugal), NAFA European Ethnographic Film Festival (Denmark), Glasgow Human Rights FF & Glasgow Refugee Week (Scotland), San Francisco Migrant IFF (USA).
- Part of the International Showcase Cinemigrante (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico).
- Screened at Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces (Mexico), Arusha African FF (Tanzania), Manya Human Rights FF (Uganda), CEME International Documentary Film Festival on Migration and Exile (Mexico).
- Distributed by Hamaca Videoarte.
- Part of the academic study Mediating migration in Ceuta, Melilla, and Barcelona: Border thinking and transnationalism from below in independent documentary by Josetxo Cerdán and Miguel Fernández Labayen for the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

Crew

Sound recorder	Youssef Drissi
Editor	Manueñ Muñoz

Sales

Name	Irene Gutiérrez
Company	Cienfuegos Producciones
E-mail	cienfuegosproducciones@gmail.com