Distribution
Yo Creo Content distributes documentary films to educational institutions in the US. We specialize in multicultural and foreign-language documentaries that help students and researchers gain a better understanding of our world.
Spanish Exile (2017)
Rubén, a Spanish filmmaker living abroad since 2009, explores the political and socioeconomic reasons behind the recent massive migration of Spain’s “Lost Generation”. In the process, he describes the Indignados movement from the POV of Spanish exiles and tells his own personal story.
Topics: Current Spanish culture, Democracy and Representation, Globalization, Race, Migration, European Politics, the Great Recession, Political Economy, Latino Identity, Social Movements, Economic Outlook for Millennials, Unemployment, Debt, Austerity.
Country: USA & Spain
Running time: 74 min.
Director: Rubén Hornillo
Available formats:
– DVD
Festivals:
– II Madrid Human Rights Film Festival
– X Contra el Silencio Todas Las Voces (Mexico City)
– Atlantida Film Fest
– Madrid International Film Festival 2018
– Alcances Festival de Cine Documental 50 (Cádiz, Spain)
– Films Infest 2018 – Winner Best National Documentary (Mallorca, Spain)
– Latino Film Market 2018 (New York City)
Cheques Matta (2017)
Cheques Matta are small format works of art, similar to that of an American Bank Draft which the painter Roberto Matta sent by mail to his friends with economic problems during the first years of the Military Dictatorship in Chile. The quantity of these works and how many are conserved today is unknown. Upon discovering some of these drawings, a search began to try to delve into their history and that of the people who received them.
Topics: Chile, Latin American Culture & Politics, Social Movements, Artivism, Latin American Art, Art History, Authoritarian Regimes and Dictatorships, Alternative Currency, Neoliberalism, Commodification of Art, Cuba, Socialism
Country: Chile
Running time: 68 min.
Director: Leo Contreras Barahona
Available formats:
Festivals:
– 38th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana, 2016.
– SANFIC 13 Santiago International Film Festival 2017. Chile.
– FICVIÑA Viña del Mar International Film Festival. 2017. Chile.
– FEDOCHI 13 Chiloé Documentary Festival 2017. National Competition Official Selection. Chile
– 3rd Colchagua International Film Festival 2017. Chile.
– ATLANTIDOC 11th International Documentary Film Festival of Uruguay, 2017.
– 8th National Cineteca Festival. 2018. Chile.
– FECICH 10. Chilean Film Festival.
– X Contra el Silencio Todas Las Voces – Best Art & Society Documentary (Mexico City)
– 14th International Human Rights Film Festival of Sucre, Bolivia. (2018)
– Arte Non Stop Festival 2018 – Best Documentary Director (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
From Silence to the Word (2017)
The terror following the Fascist victory of the coup d’etat of 1936 subjected Spain to the silencing of unpunished crimes and injustices, prolonged until this day. Not until the age of forty did director Ignacio Castrena learn of the nightmare that his father and grandparents had endured during the Spanish Civil War. After realizing that the consequences were still being felt in his family two generations later, Castrena felt motivated to continue digging into his family history to discover how the story of his grandfather, Ruperto, fit into the larger context of those defeated in the war.
Topics: Western European History, Recent European History, Spanish Civil War, Collective Memory, Authoritarian Regimes and Dictatorships, Franquismo, Fascism, Spain.
Country: Spain
Languages: Spanish with English Subtitles
Running time: 78 min.
Director: Ignacio Castresana Fernández
Available formats:
– DVD
Festivals:
– II Madrid Human Rights Film Festival