Teresa Marcos
Directing
Biography
Born in Cangas de Onís, she has a degree in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she also took courses in Ancient Philosophy and Spanish Literature. He has taught courses in audiovisual workshops and organized film dissemination activities such as a retrospective of Asturian short films for the Filmoteca de Asturias (Bajo mínimos. Asturian short film exhibition of the last decade), the international seminar Text and author in an unnoticed literature: El Cine, for the University of Oviedo, as well as a script workshop that led to the production of the short film entitled Module 10 and a film series made in Asturias given in the women's module of the Villabona Penitentiary Center in Asturias. He has been a member of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain since 1995. He is currently a member, as an independent professional, of the Film and Audiovisual Sector Committee that collaborates with the Ministry of Culture of the Principality of Asturias.
Known For
Patología mamaria is an intimate portrait that brings us closer to the relationship of women with their breasts. Throughout several years of recording, Olgha Montero Arce, painter and actress, recalls her adolescence trying to hide the total absence of breasts, her happiness thanks to some implants and, again, the suffering of hiding a disfigured breast after being damaged in a mammogram.
Patología mamaria
Two women travel to the sea with the ashes of a loved one. Perhaps they should have clung to silence, especially when entering that tunnel.
Efecto túnel
At the entrance of a jazz club, one rainy night, a teenage drug dealer awaits the arrival of his best client: the club's singer. But what he believes to be a routine deal turns into a final farewell. She tells him that she is leaving the next day. Despite the ban on him not to enter the club, he decides to take a risk and go in to listen to it for the last time.
Danny's Blues
Speculative fantasy around self-destruction
Nada de mí
Manolo, a miner by family tradition, pensioner at 50, is addicted to gambling. Long since divorced, he has a smouldering love affair with his neighbor Carmen, wife of policeman, Paco. The only person Manolo really loves, although he rarely sees him, is his teenage son Álvaro, who lives with his mother, Manolo´s ex wife, Cova. Cova and Manolo maintain an amicable relationship for the sake of their son. Always on the brink of the abyss, everything suggests things could get even worse for him when Paco takes an ‘interest’ in him.
On Silent Mode
A celebration of big-breasted women. A shy, young lesbian (while shopping for a bra) discovers the one thing she has really been looking for since she was a child.
Bargain Lingerie
Meeting between a mentally handicapped man and a transexual in El Raval in Barcelona
Por estar contigo
Barcelona, Chinatown, the 50s. A story of revenge in the gray ambivalence of a nightclub. The hook-girl must lead the guy with unfinished business to the alley where a thug is waiting.
Se paga al acto
The friendship that is forged in prison is forever. Or at least that's what Conchi and Yenni believe, who have been sharing a sentence and a cell in Villabona. But when the latter is released on bail, the affection between them ends up turning into hatred due to the gossip and the misunderstandings it generates.
Módulo 10
Testimonies of wives and daughters of workers at the La Camocha Mine.
Vivencias de mujer en torno a la mina de Camocha
Olga, a middle-aged woman, hires the services of a rent boy, David. It is the first time for both of them and neither knows very well what to do or how to behave. They soon discover that they both share a past of abuse. The way in which David resolved that situation makes Olga end up seeing him as the solution to all her problems.