Sinopsis
El palacio follows the daily life of seventeen women that live in a house for economic and emotional reasons. They support eachother by doing eachothers chores and they acquire various skills in order to find a job. Most of these women will become babysitters, house workers and private geriatric nurses. A film that confronts us with topics such as how we treat servility nowadays.
Director / Nicolás Pereda
Screenplay / Nicolás Pereda
Cinematography / Pedro Gómez Millán
Editing / Nicolás Pereda
Sound / José Miguel Enríquez
Production / Sandra Gómez Velásquez, Maximiliano Cruz, Nicolás Pereda, Teresa Sánchez
Cast / Geli Ramírez, Elizabeth Tinoco, Eli Cerna, Araceli Pedraza, Alicia Dominguez, Citlali Dominguez Ramírez, Rosa Estela Juárez, Ale Acosta, Flora Gallegos, Jessica Vélez Landín, Karina Itzel León Mora, Gloria Alejandré Ramírez, Laura Ramírez, Rosa María Lara, Teresa Sánchez, Agustina León Calvillo, Alejandra Cruz, Soledad Ramírez
Canadá, México. 2013
Documentaries, 36 min.
Nicolás Pereda
Mexico City, 1982. Pereda did his masters degree in film directing at York University. He has filmed six feature films and one short hilm that have awarded him many prized at different festivals worldwide. He has made several films and vidios for interdisciplinary montages, operas and dance pieces that have been presented in Mexico, Asia and Europe. Gabino Rodríguez and Teresa Sánchez are his main stars, but he has considered working with other actors an to hire Gabino as his asistant. He lives between Canada and Mexico, and is married to Andrea Bussmann. They have two children.
Pereda's films have been shown at many film festivals, such as: Cannes, Venecia, Rotterdam, FIDMarseille, Viena y Edinburgo, and has won several prizes at their competitions. His first film retrospecctivos took place at Cine de las Américas in Austin, Texas, in 2010. This one was followed by others: in Jeonju, Anthology Film Archives, Paris Cinema, Cartagena IFF, UCLA, Valdivia FF and Harvard Film Archive, among many others in Madris, Seattle, San Francisco, Belo Horizonte and the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto.
Filmografia
- Fauna - 2020
- Mi piel, luminosa / My Skin, Luminous - 2019
- Historias de dos que soñaron / Tales of Two Who Dreamt - 2016 * Co-directed w/ Andrea Bussmann
- Minotauro / Minotaur - 2015
- Los ausentes - 2014
- El palacio / The Palace - 2013
- Matar extraños / Killing Strangers * Co-directed w/ Jacob Schulsinger - 2013
- Los mejores temas / Greatest Hits - 2012
- Verano de Goliat / Summer of Goliath - 2010
- Todo, en fin, el silencio lo ocupaba / All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence - 2010
- Perpetuum Mobile - 2009
- Entrevista con la tierra / Interview with the Earth - 2009
- Juntos - 2009
- ¿Dónde están sus historias? / Where Are Their Stories? – 2007
Festivales y Premios
- Festival Internazionale del Film di Roma 2014
Cinema XX I Premier Mundial
- Puma Award
Mejor Película Mexicana
FICUNAM 2014
- Premio al Mejor Documental
Curtas Vila do Conde 2014
- Premio al Mejor Documental Mexicano
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2014
- Guggenheim Museum
"TROPICAL UNCANNY: LATIN AMERICAN TROPES AND MYTHOLOGIES" — 2014
- Vancouver Latin American Film Festival 2014
CANADA LOOKS SOUTH
LATIN-CANADIAN FILMMAKERS
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia 2014
Disidencias
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia 2014
Competencia Documental Mexicano
- Pravo Ljudski Film Festival 2014
Sarajevo
- Regent Park Film Festival 2014
Toronto
- Ambulante Gira de Documentales 2015
