Cineastes contra magnats

Filmmakers VS Tycoons
Director
Carles Benpar
Country
Spain
Year
2005
Genre
Documentary
Scriptwriters
Ferran Alberich / Carles Benpar
Cast
Daniel Medran / Víctor Jerez / Marta Belmonte / Juliet Vila / Toni Regueiro
Production
Produccions Kilimanjaro
www.filmmakersinactionvstycoons.com

Storyline

A film essay in defence of the Moral Rights of film-makers versus the manipulations suffered by films from the origins of the cinema to the total domination of the audiovisual world. "Filmmakers vs. Tycoons" combines distinct types of film language: archive material, fundamental fragments of films and fictional scenes such as that set in the Court of Felipe II when the Monarch cuts down a cinemascope picture by Titian on both sides because it doesn’t fit into the space he had kept for it in El Escorial. With this action the King of Spain became the inventor of panning-scanning which alters the original format of films in our time.

Releases

Spain (17 of July 2005)