Trova Tanguera

Direction
Luz Balaña
Country
France, Argentina
Format
Feature film
Type
Documentary
Original title
Trova Tanguera
Film presented in Toulouse

In partnership with the Occitanie region.

Scenario
Luz Balaña

Luz Balaña

Filmography

Carroña, short film, 2015.
Selected at the Festival Yo es Otro, Carnero theatre, Buenos Aires.

Note of intent

In 2017, while living in Buenos Aires, I meet Cintia Trigo, author and composer. With a friend editorialist, we created a collective of contemporary tango composers, Trova Tanguera, who denounce institutional violence with their music. I decided to make a film about this experience that gives me hope, and about a city that I love, Buenos Aires. It is in Lasalle, where I have been living for 3 years, that I developed this project thanks to the support of AUM Films and Ateliers Varan.

Synopsis

With Trova Tanguera, I want to transmit the militant and artistic energy that I have nourished with a group of enthusiasts of “current tango”, a movement still unknown, born twenty years ago. Coming for the most part from rock culture, young artists have fought against a stoic and aging music by reappropriating it to express a committed vision of their society. Tango, which was a culture steeped in machism and patriotism, prized in bourgeois salons favorable to the dictatorship, has returned to its popular origins, to the point of becoming the appropriate expression of all subversions. Today’s tango artists have the ability to articulate music with the collective and the political in a jubilant impulse, while Argentina is a country overthrowed by tragedies.

Visual concept

In general, the writing of the film is close to direct cinema, it places the camera as near as possible to the creation, and underlines my complicity with the artists, whether I interact with them or not. I’ll be close to the camera, the artists will look at me, I’ll have the freedom to define the frame, to bounce back during a conversation. Music and cinema resonate in denouncing an oppressive system and supporting its victims.

Objectives sought in Films in Development

European producers, especially Spanish. French regional, national, and Spanish TV broadcasters. French and Spanish-speaking distributors.

Shooting planned date

Spring 2022

Planned shooting location

Buenos Aires (Argentine)

Percentage of funding in place
35
Project's development phase

Pre-production

Production
Aum Films
Coproduction
Alexis Trigo
Producer's biography

Chantal Dubois: After getting my diploma in education, I managed teams and trained myself in systemic family therapy, business management and organization, and accounting. My love for images and art, my interest in the study of man in his environment, led me to create the production company Aum Films in 2003. I participate in several Eurodoc workshop.