A voix basse
- Direction
- Patricia Pérez & Heidi Hassan
- Country
- Switzerland, France, Spain, Cuba
- Format
- Feature film
- Type
- Documentary
- Original title
- A voix basse
- Film presented in Toulouse
Otra Isla
- Scenario
- Patricia Pérez & Heidi Hassan
Patricia Pérez & Heidi Hassan
Filmography
Patricia Pérez
Piscina municipal
Documentary / 38 min / 2013
Special Mention of documentary at Alucine Latin Film Festival, Toronto, Canada / Muestra de Jóvenes Realizadores de La Habana, Cuba / Muestra de Cine Independiente de Buenos Aires, Argentina / Festival Primavera do Cine, Vigo, España. Hay que saltar del lecho…
Fiction / 10 min / 2002
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana, Cuba / Best Cinematographer at Festival de Cine Plaza, Cuba / Festival de Curats-metrages. Sao Pablo / Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris.
Heidi Hassan
Les Touristes
Experimental / 15′ / 2015
Zinebi, Spain / Muestra Joven ICAIC, Cuba. Otra Isla
Documentary / 70′ / 2014
Best documentary at HFFNY, New York, USA/ Lasa award at Festival de Cinéma de Lasa, Porto Rico / Best documentary at Muestra de Jóvenes Realizadores, Cuba / Seattle Latino Film Festival. Orages d’été
Doc-fiction / 25′ /2008
Festival Visions du Réel, Switzerland / Rencontres Cinémas d’Amerique de Toulouse, France / Best sound design at Muestra de Jóvenes Realizadores, Cuba / Alucine Film & Media Arts Festival, Canada. Tierra roja
Doc-fiction / 25′ / 2008
Carabela de Plata to the Best Short Film at Zinebi, Spain / Prize International Amnesty at Festival Internazionale Corto Helvético al Femminile. Lugano, Switzerland / Sauve qui peut le court-métrage, Clermont Ferrand, France / New Filmmakers Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA.
Note of intent
Most immigrants prefer to be invisible. But the characters of this film want their voices to be publicly heard resound on all those who have been forced to leave their homeland. Our documentary will directly refer to the problems faced by emigrants and mainly the women of the diaspora on the Global North. Women and migrants are two particularly vulnerable groups, which try to find spaces in new settlements. With our documentary we suggest a serious rethinking of construction and acceptance of differences.
Synopsis
This is an auto-ethnographic documentary created through the audiovisual correspondence between two emigrated Cuban filmmakers. Two childhood friends in their forties who, facing the challenges of emigration, try to rebuild themselves away from Cuba. An intimate and revealing film on friendship and exile.
Visual concept
The filmic device of the documentary will be the video-letters exchanged between the filmmakers. Two stories that overlap and are mutually influenced will emerge from this audiovisual correspondence. There will be three main spaces. A lonely and turbulent town of the Galician coast, where a character intends to explain what made her go there. Geneva, a city as perfect as a Swiss watch and where a Cuban woman tries by all means to fit. And third, Cuba, which will have a recurring incidence on the present time of the characters.
- Planned shooting location
Cuba, Spain, Switzerland.
- Percentage of funding in place
- 90 %
- Project's development phase
Last steps of the development and financing process of the film.
- Production
- Perspective Films
- Coproduction
- PCT Cinema Television
- Producer's biography
Delphine Schmit has produced more than ten short films (including one with a nomination at the Oscars 2013), six documentaries (selected in more than 100 festivals) and two feature films (released on July 2015 by Jour2Fête, and by Pyramide in 2019). She has attend EAVE PUENTES Producers workshop in 2017.