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Santa Clara. Birth in Three Phases

Santa Clara. Nascimento em três fases

VIFF Short Forum

Canadian Premiere

Amidst the ruins of the Monastery of Santa Clara, workers clean, weed, and drill.

Directors
Featuring

Nico Franco, Rita Franco

Credits
Country of Origin

Spain

Year

2024

Language

No Dialogue

Film Contact
18+
9 min
Documentary Experimental & Avant Garde Shorts
Brona Films

Credits & Director

Producer

Ana Román

Screenwriter

Arturo Franco, Tono Mejuto

Cinematography

Tono Mejuto

Editor

Tono Mejuto, Arturo Franco

Original Music

Arturo Franco

Arturo Franco headshot

Arturo Franco

Franco Arturo is an architect, curator, and filmmaker born in La Coruña and living in Madrid. His work focuses on the exploration of contemporary cities and the ways they are inhabited. As an architect, he has been recognized for revitalizing and recovering city spaces; as a sculptor and filmmaker, he participates in the same transversal view of what surrounds us, discovering and revealing what a city offers its citizens.

Tono Mejuto headshot

Tono Mejuto

Tono Mejuto is a photographer and filmmaker trained as an architect in La Coruña, Graz, and Santiago de Chile. He completed a master’s degree in documentary photography at Blank Paper (Madrid) and trained with filmmakers and photographers like Isaki Lacuesta or Xavier Ribas. His first photobook, Unidade Veciñal, was published by Fabulatorio in 2015, and he has been awarded grants and residencies internationally, including the BAICC residency in Toronto. His short films have screened at festivals in Spain, Chile, Brazil, the US, and Mexico, among others.

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