Emmanuel Blanchard
DIRECTOR
Graduated from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne with a BA in Film and an MA in Arts and Digital Media.
He directed five university short films before working as an editor and post-producer on films such as Sin Otoño, Sin Primavera (2012), La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer (2012), Alfaro Vive Carajo (2015), Instantánea (2016), Mi tía Toty (2016), Siguiente Round (2018), Yo, Isabel (2019), La Playa de los Enchaquirados (2021). He recently directed Diferencias (2019) and Matilde (2020; Best Ecuadorian Documentary Short Award - Guayaquil International Film Festival) two short films that were selected in several festivals around the world.
He is currently associate producer of La República Invisible and La Cinta Corta and directs his first feature-length documentary: Fiebre de motocicleta.
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Julia Silva
PRODUCER
She studied audiovisual production and direction at the National University of Córdoba - Argentina. She is the founder, director and general producer of La Cinta Corta cultural foundation, (www.lacintacorta.com) which works in audiovisual and artistic projects in Ecuador, Latin America and Europe: La Cinta Corta Itinerant Festival 2005 to 2012, Cine Cita, Documentary Film Workshops in the Andean region and short film production. Living Legends, animation, documentary and oral tradition workshops in Latin America and Europe. She has produced and directed two professional short films: Amelia (2007) and Crisálida (2016), She has worked on nine feature films in the directing and production areas, such as DeCaravana (2012), Saudade (2014), Tan Distintos (2015), Alba (2016), Chuquiragua (2017), Cenizas (2018), Gafas Amarillas (2020), Alucina (2018 - 2021), El Niño Probeta (2021). Julia Silva has won several times the National Fund for the Promotion of Ecuadorian Cinema, has made alliances and co-productions with producers, companies, national and international organizations. FIEBRE DE MOTOCICLETA is her first feature-length documentary as a producer. She is also a film teacher, film and theater actress.
Previous works
LA REPUBLICA INVISIBLE
La República Invisible is an Ecuadorian production company, created with the aim of producing young and independent films from the Andean region. We are interested in getting involved in projects that are risky from an artistic point of view, that experiment with the possibilities of cinematographic language. Sin otoño, sin primavera (2012) is the first feature film, which won 8 awards, including Ibermedia and Global Film Initiative. The box office in Ecuador had 41,000 spectators. The film was sold in the United States, Brazil, France, and is distributed by Outsider Pictures. Our second film, the documentary La bisabuela tiene Alzheimer (2012), won the DOCTV award in 2012 and is shown on public television channels in 14 countries. We are currently working on the projects: Yellow Glasses (in distribution), Silverfish, documentary debut feature in co-production with SaNoSi Productions (in post-production). La playa de los enchaquirados (in post-production), Fiebre de Motocicleta, a debut documentary in production and Mariposas en el estómago (in writing).