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Color Thief
Spain / USA
Director: Violeta BARCA-FONTANA
13 min. 2013,
with dialogue, English
Distributor: LINE UP Shorts - Short Film Distribution
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Producer: Violeta Barca-Fontana
Screenplay: Violeta Barca-Fontana
Cinematographer: Igor Kropotov
Music: Zé Luis
Editor: Violeta Barca-Fontana
Cast:
Robin Martin (Lily)
Lily, an old artist, while she paints what is probably her last and best picture, reflects on what it means to be an artist. When she realizes that she is missing a color to finish her work, and seeing that she has no money, she makes a drastic decision…
Major screenings, presentations:
- WOMEN MEDIA ARTS AND FILM FESTIVAL (Australia)
- FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE INDEPENDIENTE DE LA PLATA FESTIFREAK (Argentina)
- ATLANTA PHILOSOPHY FILM FESTIVAL (USA)
Prizes:
- CERTAMEN DE CORTOS AUTOPRODUCIDOS ANGELIKA (Spain) Finalist to Jury Awards
- 22º FESTIVAL DE CINE DE MADRID – PNR (Spain) Best Short Film – PNR Partners
- FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE GÁLDAR (Spain) Architecture and Landscape Jury Award
Violeta BARCA-FONTANA
Violeta was born in Barcelona in 1978 and has been working in the film industry since 1997. She studied filmmaking and production in Barcelona (IDEP), New York (NYFA) and Madrid (TAI). She worked on Spanish productions with great masters as Carlos Saura, José Luis García Sanchez and Andrés Vicente Gómez. Violeta also worked on several British and German productions with personalities as Paul McGann and Paul Copley. In 2003 she produced a very successful feature film La Fiesta distributed by Walt Disney Company (Spain). As a director she has directed documentaries and several short films, including: Loft, Where´s Woody, Entre Raíles, Marquinhos, that have been selected in several film festivals. As a screenwriter she has written three feature films: Atrévete, Entre Raíles and Myths- which is in pre-production
- Color Thief 2013 (short)
- Romantic Hideaway 2012 (short)
- Entre Raíles 2012 (short)
- Marquinhos 2011 (short)
- Where´s Woody 2010 (short)
- Loft 2008 (short)
- Inspiration 2007 (short)
- The City 2007 (short)
- El encuentro 2006 (short)
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