Odysseus Gambit

2011 | Documentary | Drama | 12min | Color

Synopsis

Gambit is a chess opening movent in which you sacrifice a pawn to get an advantage. Saravuth, like Ulises, does a daily sacrifice, hoping to get an advantage at the game of life.

DATA SHEET

Direction: Alex Lora
Script: Alex Lora
Direction of photography: Alex Lora
Original music: Saravuth Inn
Location: Nueva York, USA
Edition: Alex Lora
Production management: Carlota Royuela
Direct sound: Carlota Royuela
Production companies: Inicia Films, with the support of ICAA, Fulbright and CUNY
Executive production: Valérie Delpierre

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

Sundance Film Festival (UNITED STATES)
Best Documentary

Metropolitan Film Festival of New York (UNITED STATES)
Best Documentary Short Film

VAD Girona (SPAIN)
RTVE Award

Intermon-Oxfam Actua 
Festival (SPAIN – LATIN AMERICA)
Jury’s Special Mention

Tacoma Film Festival (UNITED STATES)
Best Documentary

Signes de Nuit Film Festival (FRANCE)
Best Documentary

Madrid-PNR Film Festival (SPAIN)
Best Documentary

FIBABC Film Festival (SPAIN)
Best Documentary

Sardinia Film Festival (ITALY)
Best Documentary

SediciCorto International Film Festival of Forli (ITALY)
Best Documentary

Dieciminuti International Film Festival (ITALY)
Best Documentary

U.frame International Film Festival de Porto (PORTUGAL)
Best Documentary

Visual Sound Barcelona Film Festival (SPAIN)
Best Documentary

52º Film Festival of Cracovia (POLAND)
Golden Dragon for Best Short Film

IV Gaudí Awards (SPAIN)
Nomination for Best Documentary Short Film

Vimeo Awards (UNITED STATES)
Nomination for Best Documentary Short Film

L’Alternativa, Barcelona Independent Film Festival (SPAIN)

Big Apple Film Festival in New York (UNITED STATES)

Flyway Film Festival (UNITED STATES)

Harlem International Film Festival (UNITED STATES)

Cabbagetown Short Fim & Video Festival in Toronto (CANADA)

Shnit International Film Festival (SWITZERLAND)

Festival Baumann Terrassa (SPAIN)

Milano Film Festival (ITALY)

35th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt (GERMANY)

Readymade Film Festival (UNITED STATES)

Metropolitan Film Festival of New York (UNTED STATES)

Bronx International Film Festival (UNITED STATES)

Wallabout Film Festival BAM (UNITED STATES)

Gimli International Film Festival (CANADA)

Collecchio Film Festival (ITALY) 

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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,Unicornsby 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.