Singing on the rooftops

2022 I Hybrid-Drama I 74min I Colour I HD

SYNOPSIS

Gilda Love / Eduardo, the last “transformist” from Barcelona’s Chinatown, survives with a miserable pension while trying to continue acting on stage. His priorities are turned upside down with the arrival in his life of Chloe and her mother, Hanna, with whom he will have the chance to have the family he has never had.

DATA SHEET

Direction:  Enric Ribes
Script:  Enric Ribes, Xenia Puiggros with the collaboration of Isa Campo and Marta Vivet
Direction of cinematography: Anna Franquesa
Art Direction: Mónica Bernuy
Sound Direction: Federico  Dissandro
Editing: Guillermo Irriguible, Sofi Escudé, Queralt González
Executive Producer: Valérie Delpierre
Production Company: Inicia Films S.L With the financing of ICAA, ICEC and TV3. With the participation of Institut Ramon Llull
Distribution: Bteam Pictures

Casting

Edudardo Rondón, Chloe Romero

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

Gaudí Awards 2023 (Spain)
Nomination for Best Documentary

Feroz Awards 2023 (Spain)
Nomination for Feroz Arrebato de no ficción

Sheffield DocFest 2022 (United Kingdom)

D’A Film Festival 2022 (Spain)

At Inicia Films we understand that production is a way to influence society and connect emotionally with the audience. Since 2006 we have been working to promote new generations of filmmakers and thus give them a voice in today’s audiovisual world.

Through the eyes of our creators, the sensitivity of our authors, we accompany the development of international projects and multicultural talent, building bridges between their experiences abroad and their roots. We deal with topics that respond to current concerns and we believe that by connecting people and emotions we can help draw new narrative and visual horizons.

The films produced by Inicia Films have been selected and awarded at numerous festivals, including “Schoolgirls” by Pilar Palomero with four 2021 Goya Awards, including Best Film; “Summer 1993” by Carla Simón, Best First Film at the Berlinale 2017; “La Maternal” also by Pilar Palomero, winner of the Silver Shell for Best Performance, “20,000 species of bees” by Estibaliz Urresola, winner of the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance, two Forque Awards including Best Film, two Feroz Awards including Best dramatic film and 3 Goya Awards 2024; “Foremost by night” by Víctor Iriarte, premiered at Giornate degli autori in Venice and winner of the Feroz Arrebato de Ficcion Prize; “Unicorns” by Àlex Lora, with Premiere in the Official Section of the Malaga Festival and “Teresa” by Paula Ortiz, premiered in this edition of the Seminci in Valladolid. For documentaries such as “Singing on the Rooftops” by Enric Ribes, with Premiere at Sheffield DocFest. Also for shorts such as “Los desheredados” by Laura Ferrés, Best Short Film at the Semaine de la Critique de Cannes, “El bus” by Sandra Reina, premiered at SXSW, Nominated for the Goya Awards and winner of the Gaudí Prize.

Contact

Paseo Sant Joan, 146, entresuelo 1 08037 Barcelona, Spain Tel. (34) 93 008 06 18 info@iniciafilms.com Follow our news at social media

Legal warning   Privacy Policy