LA PESCA

Synopsis

‘La Pesca’ (Fishing) portrays a day in the life of a family of fishermen, los Cantillo, inhabitants of the ancestral Caribbean town of Taganga, on the Colombian Caribbean coast. With poetry and sensorial richness, the film captures the gestures of these men, weaving nets, cooking under the intense midday sun, and playing dominoes, all the while waiting for the fish to come so that they can recommence anew.

Director Biography

Born in Medellin, Colombia, Pablo Alvarez-Mesa is a filmmaker and freelance cameraperson based in Montreal, Canada. His films all touch in one way or another issues of displacement, history and collective memory and have played at international film festivals including Rotterdam, Sheffield, Hot Docs, AFI Silverdocs, Visions du réel and RIDM. Alvarez-Mesa holds a BFA in Film Production from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and MFA in Film Production from Concordia University in Montreal.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fernando López Escrivá worked several years as a production assistant until he began to create his own documentary projects and work in the post-production area. In 2004 he settled in Montreal, Canada, where he has been dedicated to editing and making documentaries independently. In 2005 he made his first documentary film “Hotel Gondolin”. He is currently making his fourth documentary about the Argentinian boxer “La Bonita” Bermúdez.