Elisa Cepedal
Editing
Biography
Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country and later in Cinema from The London Film School. His work La playa (2010) has been shown at international festivals, including BAFICI in Buenos Aires, Raindance and The London Spanish Film Festival in London, Guadalajara Film Festival in Mexico and Spanish Cinema Now in New York. In 2010, she was awarded the First Prize for New Directors of the Principality of Asturias at the Gijón International Film Festival. His latest work, Ay pena (2011), has been selected in the Official Section of said festival in 2011, at the Valencia Film Festival, Cinemajove, as well as at the prestigious New Directors/New Films organized by MoMA and the Film Society. of the Lincoln Center in New York. Both works have been nominated for Best Short Film and Best Cinematography at the 2011 and 2012 Fuji Film Awards in the UK. He combines his directing work with editing. He lives and works in London.
Known For
HOLE_AID presents Up the Catalogue, an ambitiously small film set in a fictional shopping channel by the name of 4QTV. Tasked with flogging a seemingly endless cycle of questionable products, star presenter, Hailey Cartin, is starting to fear she might be trapped in live television. When a rival product demonstrator eventually forces Hailey to confront her own quest-defying reality, will she ever be able to climb out of the hole she’s now in? Maybe. But maybe not. (And certainly not without the generous help of the film’s sponsors, HOLE_AID.) A story for the ages, Up the Catalogue boldly takes the shopping channel film genre away from cult classic territory and straight into the mainstream.
Up the Catalogue
The story of Sigga, a 17 year-old girl trying to leave home in Iceland, and make her way to California.
Iceland is Best
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Ay pena
Ana lives in a remote village on the Spanish plateau, and spends her summers selling underwear in her uncle's shop. An unexpected encounter with two youths from a neighbouring village awakens in Ana hope of an escape from this monotony.
La playa
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Llar
Children at recess are witnesses to the conflict between riot police and strikers. The neighborhood of a mining town is transformed into a battlefield for the last time. After the failure of the strike, calm returns to the streets and workers to work, with the certainty of knowing that the closure of the wells can no longer be stopped.
Work (or To Whom Does the World Belong)
The film unfolds the life of an enclosed monastery over the course of one day. It invites the audience into a world of enclosure which is rarely seen from the inside. It is a portrait of both the interior of the building and of Jennifer, a Carmelite nun.
Jennifer
After the recent closure of the Carrio well, a symbol of the end of an industry that has marked the character of a town, Barredos faces depopulation and oblivion. However, the testimonies of those who are still alive and the photographic material from the mid-20th century by Corsino García Alonso, a local photographer and grandfather of the author, manage to show that the memory still endures. The stories of its heyday told orally and visually and its characters intertwine and contrast with a current declining, empty post-industrial landscape.
El cine, 5
After more than a decade working in England, the filmmaker Elisa Cepedal returns to Cuencas to shoot a film about the end of the two centuries of history of coal mining: around her other remains of her land's past are dying.
El pasado presente
Nine Asturian filmmakers reflect aloud, alone in a hotel room, on the existence, the main characteristics, and the current situation of the cinema made in Asturias.