Nicolás Pereda Workshop
This workshop, spread over two 4-hour sessions, will give participants the chance to design and make a short epistolary film (2 to 5 minutes long). In the first session, they will write a screenplay or draft for a short film and then discuss it as a group, as well as looking at examples of epistolary films and exploring the history of this genre and examining its relationship with essay films and literary essays. Participants will then have four days to shoot their film, before presenting it in the second session, where they will also share their experiences and give and receive feedback.
Nicolás Pereda (Mexico City, 1982), who holds an MFA in Film Directing from York University in Toronto, is a filmmaker who explores the intricate details of everyday life by weaving fractured, elliptical narratives through fiction and documentary. When casting, he often works with Lagartijas tiradas al sol theatre group and actor Teresita Sánchez. Since 2020 he has taught filmmaking classes at UC Berkeley. His films have been screened at festivals in cities across the world, including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno and Toronto. Over the years, l’Alternativa has screened almost all his work, from his debut feature, ¿Dónde están sus historias? (2007), to subsequent films such as Entrevista con la tierra (2008), Perpetuum Mobile (2009), Verano de Goliat (Special Mention at l’Alternativa 2010), Los mejores temas (2012), Mi piel luminosa (2019), Fauna (2020), Querida Chantal (2021) and Flora (2022).
This year he is the subject of a parallel section.
He is also giving a talk on his approach to representation in film.