Amateur
written, produced, filmed and directed by Martín Gutiérrez
Festivals and Awards
- Greece Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2022 (Film Forward Competition) World premiere
- Argentina FIDBA Buenos Aires IDFF 2020 (Work in Progress Doc) FIDBA Award
- Spain ABYCINE Albacete Independent FF 2020 (Work in Progress) Abycine Prize
- Spain Málaga FF 2020 (Work in Progress) Malaga Festival Prize for best Spanish film
Synopsis
"Amateur" can be understood as a gesture of love and justice towards people and spaces that represent an idea of home for the author. From three stories, a marriage old man, the memory of a suicide who spent his last days spending and giving away what I had in the area and a huge shooting of J.Audiard's last film, "Amateur" proposes a intimate portrait of a mountain village.
Crew
editor Ana Pfaff
sound Alejandro Castillo
composer Iñaki López
co-producer Kristina Konrad
production by MartindechoFILMSWelt film
Press
“Described as an gesture of intimate love and justice towards the people and places that suggest home for the director, “Amateur” shows how time goes by at varying speeds as perceived by different people in the village Gutierrez grew up in, Echo, nestling in a deep valley in the high Pyrenees near to the border with France”