OUR MOVIE / NUESTRA PELÍCULA
OUR MOVIE / NUESTRA PELÍCULA
A film by Diana Bustamante
(Colombia/France, 2022, 73 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
Built entirely from archival footage captured from TV broadcasts in 80s and 90s Colombia, Our Movie (Nuestra película) is a re-visit to those images that were accumulated in facts and in reproductions. This collage of images, repetitions, and memories, built through the intervention of the Colombian news archive, is as much a national memory as it is a personal journey of the filmmaker’s childhood; it reconstructs a story linked to a generation that grew by normalizing violence through the images broadcast on television.
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“OUR MOVIE is perfect for the history buff.
Going through thousands of hours, filmmaker Bustamante pieces together
a cohesive yet haunting story of an entire country living in fear.””
Subjects: Latin American History and Politics, Media and Communication Studies, Visual Culture, Colombia.
About the Director: Diana Bustamante Escobar is a filmmaker and programmer. After studying cinema and fine arts at the National University of Colombia, she went on to work as a producer. As a producer, she is known for supporting authors with or without experience whose vision and voices explore new perspectives. She has produced films like Ciro Guerra’s Journey of the Wind and La Tierra y La Sombra by Cesar Acevedo. She also produced the film Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cannes 2021 Official Competition, Jury Prize. In 2020, she received the creative grant from the Ministry of Culture to create a documentary piece based on archives, with the project “El Leon”. Our Movie is her first feature documentary, supported by the Colombian Film fund and the Cinema Fund from Aquitane Region in France.
Awards and Festivals:
Official Selection, Bogotá International Film Festival 2022
Official Selection, Kaleidoscope Competition, DOC NYC 2022
Official Selection, First Film Competition, Bilbao International Film Festival (ZINEBI) 2022
Credits:
Producers: Diana Bustamante, David Hurst
Production companies: Burning, Dubling Films
Editor: Sebastián Hernandez
Sound design: Waldir Xavier
Research: Yeily Antonio, Juan Sebastián Uribe, Diana Bustamante
Sound mix: Christopher Vingtrinier
