Singing on the rooftops

2022 I Documental I Drama I 74min I Colour

Synopsis

Gilda Love / Eduardo, the last “transformist” from Barcelona’s Chinatown, survives with a miserable pension while trying to continue acting on stage. His priorities are turned upside down with the arrival in his life of Chloe and her mother, Hanna, with whom he will have the chance to have the family he has never had.

DATA SHEET

Direction: Enric Ribes
Script: Enric Ribes, Xenia Puiggros with the collaboration of Isa Campo and Marta Vivet
Direction of cinematography: Anna Franquesa
Art Direction: Mónica Bernuy
Sound Direction: Federico Dissandro
Editing: Guillermo Irriguible, Sofi Escudé, Queralt González
Executive Producer: Valérie Delpierre
Production Company: Inicia Films S.L With the financing of ICAA, ICEC and TV3. With the participation of Institut Ramon Llull
Distribution: Bteam Pictures

Casting

Edudardo Rondón, Chloe Romero

AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

Gaudí Awards 2023 (SPAIN)
Nomination for Best Documentary

Feroz Awards 2023 (SPAIN)
Nomination for Feroz Arrebato de No Ficción

Sheffield DocFest 2022 (UNITED KINGDOM)

D’A Film Festival 2022 (SPAIN)

In Inicia Films we understand that production is a way to influence society and connect emotionally with the audience. Since 2006 we have been working to promote new generations of filmmakers and give them a voice in today’s audiovisual world.

Through the eyes of our creators and the sensitivity of our authors, we accompany the development of international projects and multicultural talent, building bridges between their experiences abroad and their roots. We deal with themes that respond to current concerns and we believe that by connecting people and emotions we can help to draw new narrative and visual horizons.

Films produced by Inicia Films have been selected and awarded at numerous festivals including “Queens” by Klaudia Reynicke in co-production with Switzerland and Peru, which premiered at Sundance 2024 and won the Grand Prix at Berlin Generation; “20.000 species of bees” by Estibaliz Urresola winner of the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance, two Forque Awards including Best Film, two Feroz Awards including Best Dramatic Film and three Goya Awards 2024; “Foremost by night by Víctor Iriarte, premiered at Giornate degli autori in Venice and winner of the Feroz Arrebato Award for Fiction; “Schoolgirls by Pilar Palomero with four Goya Awards 2021, including Best Film; “Summer 1993” by Carla Simón, Best Opera Prima at the Berlinale 2017; “La Maternal” also by Pilar Palomero, winner of the Silver Shell for Best Acting in San Sebastian 2022, “Unicorns” by Àlex Lora, with Premiere in the Official Selection of the Malaga Festival and “Teresa” by Paula Ortiz, premiered in this edition of Tallinn.

For documentaries such as “The west Indies fleet“ by Antonio Pérez Molero produced in collaboration with RTVE, Canal Sur and Telemadrid or “Singing on the rooftops” by Enric Ribes, with Premiere at Sheffield DocFest.

Also, for short films such as “The disinherited” by Laura Ferrés, Best Short Film at the Semaine de la Critique de Cannes, “The bus” by Sandra Reina, premiered at SXSW, nominated for the Goya Awards and winner of the Gaudí Award.