• TITLE HIDDEN ATLAS
• 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 601 is a production company with over 20 years of experience producing content for organizations, television, visitor centers, and museums. In the field of documentary filmmaking, it has produced works on a wide range of topics, such as *AINARAK*, about female emigration from Navarre and Aragon to the French Basque Country between 1880 and 1936, ANWAR, which combines mountaineering, solidarity, and renewable energy through the lens of mountaineer Alex Txikon; AWARDS BEYOND THE LIMITS OF HAIRDRESSING, about cutting-edge hairdressing worldwide; SAL&DEAN, IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF KEROUAC, a road documentary that portrays American society; KANTAURI, a feature-length documentary on life along the Cantabrian coast in a poetic tone, LILIT, SEX WELL UNDERSTOOD, about education and female sexuality, and ATLAS OCULTO, a co-production with France on territories flooded by the construction of reservoirs. He has also produced the documentary short films CEDITAS, about loneliness among the elderly; MIGRANTES, a documentary reflection on human and animal migration; and EL QUE NO VE, about social exclusion told from a first-person perspective. Other projects currently in production include LORALDIA, a co-production with Álava about the music scene in Iruña, CAÍDOS DEL ZIELO, a co-production with Aragón about theater as a healing tool for people at risk of social exclusion; and the short films ENCUENTROS CON XABIER, about the artist Xabier Morrás and his participation in the 1972 Pamplona Encounters, and EL HOMBRE DEL OESTE, which explores the use of new technologies in therapies for Alzheimer’s patients. Currently in development are the projects TOCARÉ HASTA QUE MIS DEDOS SANGREN, a biography of the artist Aurora Beltrán, a pioneering frontwoman in Spanish rock, and A TALE OF SPERM WHALE, about cetacean conservation in the Azores.
• PRODUCTION PHASE Distribution
• CONTACT Rosa Garcia Loire; rosa@601.es / Juan San Martin; juan@601.es