NON DAGO MIKEL?
80' Documentary (2020)
CO-PRODUCER
The disappearance of a young Basque bus driver called Mikel Zabalza after he was arrested by the police, mistaken for an ETA member.
35 years after his death his family are still demanding the truth.
Producers: IZAR Films | Mintza Komunikazio Elkartea
Featuring: Ion Arretxe, Idoia Aierbe, Lohizune Amatria Zabalza, Garazi Iribarren Zabalza, Mirari Zabalza Barberena, Garbiñe Garate, Patxi Zabalza.
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS & AWARDS
World Premiere at the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival (22nd September 2020) IRIZAR Award Jury's Special Mention:
" In recognition of the horrific and systematic human rights violations through the necessary archive image work, we give the Jury's Special Mention to Amaia Merino and Miguel Angel Llamas' film Non Dago Mikel?"
Lauaxeta Award for Best Basque Film (2020)
CO-PRODUCER
The disappearance of a young Basque bus driver called Mikel Zabalza after he was arrested by the police, mistaken for an ETA member.
35 years after his death his family are still demanding the truth.
Producers: IZAR Films | Mintza Komunikazio Elkartea
Featuring: Ion Arretxe, Idoia Aierbe, Lohizune Amatria Zabalza, Garazi Iribarren Zabalza, Mirari Zabalza Barberena, Garbiñe Garate, Patxi Zabalza.
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS & AWARDS
World Premiere at the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival (22nd September 2020) IRIZAR Award Jury's Special Mention:
" In recognition of the horrific and systematic human rights violations through the necessary archive image work, we give the Jury's Special Mention to Amaia Merino and Miguel Angel Llamas' film Non Dago Mikel?"
Lauaxeta Award for Best Basque Film (2020)
MY WAY OUT
75' Documentary (2020)
PRODUCER
A documentary by Izaskun Arandia about the legendary transgender club The Way Out in London and its owner, Vicky Lee. The club celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018 and we look back at the last 3 decades in the London trans scene, discovering the club's impact on the transgender community through revealing interviews and archive footage.
Producer: IZAR Films | AltContent
* Selected for the 2016 European Women’s Audiovisual Network Multiple Revenue Stream Training for Future Films programme * Selected for the Meta!Kultura programme by Goteo * Selected for the Working Zinema pitching and networking competition *
PRODUCER
A documentary by Izaskun Arandia about the legendary transgender club The Way Out in London and its owner, Vicky Lee. The club celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018 and we look back at the last 3 decades in the London trans scene, discovering the club's impact on the transgender community through revealing interviews and archive footage.
Producer: IZAR Films | AltContent
* Selected for the 2016 European Women’s Audiovisual Network Multiple Revenue Stream Training for Future Films programme * Selected for the Meta!Kultura programme by Goteo * Selected for the Working Zinema pitching and networking competition *
2 URTE 4 HILABETE ETA EGUN BAT
90' Documentary (2020)
CO-PRODUCER
TRAILER
What would you sacrifice 2 years of your life for?2 Years, 4 Months and 1 Day tells the story of 6 men who fought against compulsory military service in Spain. They all have one thing in common: They were imprisoned for their refusal to conform to the military service and they all chose to go to jail rather than to be part of the military.
There were many reasons for their fight: pacifism, anarchism, nationalism or religious believes. All different, but they all demonstrated great courage and determination, so much so that they won the fight against the State.
Thanks to their fight, entire generations of men after them didn't have to comply with the compulsory military service ever again.
Producers: IZAR Films | Labrit Multimedia
Premiere on 24th June at the San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival
MUGA DEITZEN DA PAUSOA
79' Documentary (2018)
CO-PRODUCER
TRAILER
Stepping into the Boundary on IMDB
Two women will met at an apartment in San Sebastian, one is alive and she is the filmmaker, the other one is called Elvira Zipitria Irastorza, and she died in 1982.
The filmmaker finds out that Elvira run the first Basque clandestine school in that same apartment, for 30 years, under the harsh Franco dictatorship. She was a politician, a teacher and an advocate of Basque language. And despite her pioneering work, she is not much known in the Basque Country or elsewhere.
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
Premiered at the Xixon International Film Festival (2018) * Selected at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (2019) * Selected at the Muestra de Cine Vasco (Uruguay, 2019) * Winner Azkue Award, Best Documentary (Zinemaldia.cat, Barcelona 2019) * Selected at the Play Doc Festival (Tiu, 2019) * Selected at Espanoramas (Buenos Aires 2019) * Semi-finalist a the FESTPRO Film Festival (Moscow, 2019) * Selected at Rome Independent Prisma Award (Rome, 2019) * Winner Indie Visions Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary (USA, 2019) * Winner, Eurasia International Film Festival, Best Documentary (Russia, 2019) * Selected at the Cinespaña Film Festival (Toulouse, 2019) * Selected at the Muestra de Cine en Primera Persona (Madrid, 2019) * Selected at SGAE Documental (Madrid, 2019) * Selected at DOCMA (Madrid, 2020) * Selected at Loraldia (Bilbo, 2020) * Selected at Ibiza International Independent Film Festival (Ibiza, 2020) * Semi-finalist at the Realtime International Film Festival (Lagos, 2020)
|EUS|
Maider Oleagaren dokumental bat. Elbira Zipitria politikari, hizlari, irakasle, euskalzale eta besteak beste NOR-NORI-NORK paradigmaren asmatzailea nor izan zen aurkitzeko saiakera bat. Proiektuak Ikusmira Berriak laguntza jaso zuen, Eusko Jaurlaritzaren Gidoien Garapenerako laguntza eta Sortze Dokumentalen Produkziorako laguntza ere.
Ekoizleak: IZAR Films | REC Grabaketa Estudioa | Gariza Films | Maider Oleaga
CO-PRODUCER
TRAILER
Stepping into the Boundary on IMDB
Two women will met at an apartment in San Sebastian, one is alive and she is the filmmaker, the other one is called Elvira Zipitria Irastorza, and she died in 1982.
The filmmaker finds out that Elvira run the first Basque clandestine school in that same apartment, for 30 years, under the harsh Franco dictatorship. She was a politician, a teacher and an advocate of Basque language. And despite her pioneering work, she is not much known in the Basque Country or elsewhere.
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
Premiered at the Xixon International Film Festival (2018) * Selected at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (2019) * Selected at the Muestra de Cine Vasco (Uruguay, 2019) * Winner Azkue Award, Best Documentary (Zinemaldia.cat, Barcelona 2019) * Selected at the Play Doc Festival (Tiu, 2019) * Selected at Espanoramas (Buenos Aires 2019) * Semi-finalist a the FESTPRO Film Festival (Moscow, 2019) * Selected at Rome Independent Prisma Award (Rome, 2019) * Winner Indie Visions Film Festival, Best Feature Documentary (USA, 2019) * Winner, Eurasia International Film Festival, Best Documentary (Russia, 2019) * Selected at the Cinespaña Film Festival (Toulouse, 2019) * Selected at the Muestra de Cine en Primera Persona (Madrid, 2019) * Selected at SGAE Documental (Madrid, 2019) * Selected at DOCMA (Madrid, 2020) * Selected at Loraldia (Bilbo, 2020) * Selected at Ibiza International Independent Film Festival (Ibiza, 2020) * Semi-finalist at the Realtime International Film Festival (Lagos, 2020)
|EUS|
Maider Oleagaren dokumental bat. Elbira Zipitria politikari, hizlari, irakasle, euskalzale eta besteak beste NOR-NORI-NORK paradigmaren asmatzailea nor izan zen aurkitzeko saiakera bat. Proiektuak Ikusmira Berriak laguntza jaso zuen, Eusko Jaurlaritzaren Gidoien Garapenerako laguntza eta Sortze Dokumentalen Produkziorako laguntza ere.
Ekoizleak: IZAR Films | REC Grabaketa Estudioa | Gariza Films | Maider Oleaga
BIHAR DOK AMAIRU
73´Documentary (2018)
WRITER | CO-PRODUCER
TRAILER
At the Basque Culinary Center, 5 young talented students of cutting-edge gastronomy from all over the world will go back to the past to create the menu Bihar dok 13. They will travel to 1966 to discover the decade that would change everything in Basque culture. With five special events, we will discover the movements Gaur, Ez dok amairu and the spiritual father of the BCC, the Basque Nouvelle Cuisine. The “Bihar dok amairu” menu prepared by the young chefs will be served during a special meal and enjoyed by the most relevant personalities in Basque culture today, uniting new artists and musicians. The old generation will symbolically open the door to the new.
A documentary film by Ander Iriarte and Aitor Bereziartua.
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
Premiered at the 66th San Sebastian International Film Festival (2018) * Selected at the Cine Culinario Medellin (Colombia) * Selected at the Master of Art Film Festival (Bulgaria) * Selected at the Food Film Festival (Polonia) * Selected at the Seoul Int Food Film festival (Corea) * Selected at the Asha Int Film festival (India) * Selected at the Festival de Lugo (Spain) * Selected at the Semana de Cine Vasco (Basque Country) * Selected at the Festival de Cine Tolima "Ve y se Ve"(Colombia) * Selected at the Huatulco Film & Food Festival (Mexico)
Producers: Mirokutana | REC Grabaketa Estudioa | IZAR Films
Watch the film on FILMIN
DSS 1813 - 2013
70' Documentary (2013)
WRITER
The history of the city of Donostia (San Sebastian) from the British siege and arson in 1813 and consequent reconstruction of the city, to 2013.
Producers: ORIO Produkzioak Associate Producers: ETB | RTVE
Premiered at the 61st San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 2013)
WRITER
The history of the city of Donostia (San Sebastian) from the British siege and arson in 1813 and consequent reconstruction of the city, to 2013.
Producers: ORIO Produkzioak Associate Producers: ETB | RTVE
Premiered at the 61st San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 2013)
TO SAY GOODBYE
75' Animated Documentary (2012)
PRODUCER | CO-WRITER
To Say Goodbye on IMDB
A compelling, revealing and dramatic animated feature-length documentary that tells the emotional story of the 1937 evacuation of 4,000 Basque Children to England through the voices of those who experienced it first-hand.
Producers: IZAR Films | REC Grabaketa Estudioa | ETB (Associate Producer)
Nominated for 'Best Basque Film' - Serbitzu Award, 60th San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 2012)
Distributed theatrically in the Basque Country in 2013-14 and selected in film festivals world-wide.
"Both the style and treatment are courageous, saturated and ghostly, on landscapes that are scorched, forgotten, frozen." Begoña del Teso, DIARIO VASCO
Watch the film here (52' TV version)
PRODUCER | CO-WRITER
To Say Goodbye on IMDB
A compelling, revealing and dramatic animated feature-length documentary that tells the emotional story of the 1937 evacuation of 4,000 Basque Children to England through the voices of those who experienced it first-hand.
Producers: IZAR Films | REC Grabaketa Estudioa | ETB (Associate Producer)
Nominated for 'Best Basque Film' - Serbitzu Award, 60th San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 2012)
Distributed theatrically in the Basque Country in 2013-14 and selected in film festivals world-wide.
"Both the style and treatment are courageous, saturated and ghostly, on landscapes that are scorched, forgotten, frozen." Begoña del Teso, DIARIO VASCO
Watch the film here (52' TV version)