• TITLE ATLAS OCULTO
• LOGLINE The hidden history of the submerged villages of Spain, where the past emerges from the water and the collective memory is revived.
• FORMATO Feature film
• GENRE Documentary
• SYNOPSIS In Spain, many villages were submerged in the lakes of the hydraulic dams after the war, a massive phenomenon like in no other country in Europe. Atlas Oculto is a film that explores the imaginary of this water town, erased from all maps and collective memory. Wandering between various places and various worlds, the past and the present, the people of yesteryear and what remains of them today. In this film I am the one who reveals the Hidden Atlas by walking through the transformed spaces, and who gathers the memory of the scattered inhabitants in a symbolic place that will be created: a mud village.
• DIRECTED BY Anne Laure Boyer
• PRODUCTION COMPANIES 601 Producciones Audiovisuales, l’atelier documentaire, Azaroa Films
• TRACK RECORD IN LABORATORIES OR MENTORING Founded in 2002, 601 is a well-established company with extensive experience in producing content and television programmes for RTVE, ETB, ESPN and HBO. In the field of documentaries, it has produced works on a wide range of topics, such as ‘Ainarak’, about the emigration of women from Navarre and Aragon to the Basque Country and France between 1880 and 1936, ‘Anwar’, which combines mountaineering, solidarity and renewable energy with mountaineer Alex Txikon, ‘Awards Beyond the Limits of Hairdressing’, about cutting-edge hairdressing around the world, ‘Sal&dean, tras los pasos de kerouac’ (Sal&dean, in the footsteps of Kerouac), a road documentary that is a portrait of American society, ‘Kantauri’, a feature-length documentary about life on the Cantabrian coast in a poetic tone, “Ceditas”, about loneliness in old age, and ‘El que no ve’ (He who cannot see), a short documentary about social exclusion told in the first person. Other projects are currently in production, such as Loraldia, a co-production with Álava about the music scene in Iruña; Lilit, el sexo bien entendido, about female education and sexuality; ‘Migrantes’, a documentary reflection on human and animal migration, and ‘Atlas oculto’, a co-production with France about the territories flooded by the construction of reservoirs. In development is ‘Tocaré hasta que mis dedos sangren’, a biography about the artist Aurora Beltrán, a pioneering frontwoman in Spanish rock.
• PRODUCTION PHASE Distribution
• CONTACT Rosa Garcia Loire; rosa@601.es / Juan San Martin; juan@601.es