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\n\tCivil Jornal, based in Colombia\u2019s Barranquilla, is teaming with Bogota\u2019s Innoctum Media and Barranquilla\u2019s Estuario Cine to produce \u201cWood\u201d (\u201cMadera\u201d), a hybrid doc fiction on the cutting-edge of current Colombian film-making in its bold genre mix and approach to Colombian history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tNow in advanced development, and written-directed by Juan Heilbron and Nicol\u00e1s Palacio, \u201cWood\u201d will be brought on the market at this week\u2019s Bogota Audiovisual Market (BAM), part of a 15-title line-up of fiction feature projects.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor one thing, \u201cWood\u201d weighs in as a dazzling genre cocktail, mixing psychodrama, myth, telenovela, documentary and essay, its makers promise.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tIt also asks how can Colombians capture their past, and heal its wounds. Facts are debatable. What is instantly recognisable is a legacy mindscape, however, and it\u2019s this that \u201cWood\u201d explores.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWood\u2019s\u201d plot set-up departs from a singular set up: \u201c\u2018Wood\u2019 embodies Caribbean melancholy, presenting a hypothetical scenario where the Colombian state \u2013 by way of reparation \u2013 deploys actors to perform as absent loved ones within families affected by the country\u2019s violence,\u201d the logline runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tA 60-year-old actor who makes a living as a husband and father for several families, feels a growing attraction for one wife whose husband disappeared in Colombia\u2019s violent past. The actor comes to question his identity, the widow hesitates between sharing a fiction or remaining alone. Can historical wounds be cured by collective narrative? the directors ask.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWood\u201d stars Colombian actress Divina Blanco (\u201cOrgullo Blanco\u201d).<\/p>\n
\n\tBarranquilla, on Colombia\u2019s Atlantic seaboard, is the nearest big city to Aracateca, where Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez spent his childhood. It shows. \u201cRam\u00f3n Vinyes, the playwright, writer and inspirer of the wise Catalan bookseller character in \u2018One Hundred Years of Solitude\u2019 described Barranquilla as having an inexistent existence, only understood navigating avenues of dispersion and the labyrinths of memory,\u201d the directors note. \u201c\u2018What inhabits uninhabited places? What emotional residue survives? A place nourished by the tension of the real and imaginary, where surrealism co-exists with inevitable realism.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201c\u2019Wood\u2019 is our love letter to Barranquilla, in memory of our grandparents. A tribute to our roots, our essence, and our culture. It is a story about absences: of people, of history, of certainties. That is why this fiction is not built on facts, but rather on traversing the labyrinths of memory. Fiction fills the gaps of reality,\u201d Heilbron noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe film \u201ctranscends geographical and cultural borders, offering an emotional and reflective center on solitude, absence and grief. It seeks to authentically capture these complex emotions \u2013highly relatable to audiences \u2013 ultimately crystalizing into a time capsule that preserves part of our cultural memory,\u201d added producer Alejandra Orjuela Caicedo.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe production houses behind \u201cWood\u201d underscore the dramatic last-decade growth of Colombian filmmaking, bulwarked by stable government support and growth of local hubs outside Bogot\u00e1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tFounded in 2018 by Palacio and Heilbron, Civil Jornal produced their feature debut, \u201cLemonade, Lemonade,\u201d about Mariana, caught in the limbo between university and adulthood,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0encountering people and facing an uncertain future. \u201cTheir works are non-aligned and economical, exploring microcosms that arise from and return to Caribbean existence,\u201d they say of themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tLaunched by Orjuela Caicedo in 2022, Innoctum Media is a creative studio and production house centring on auteur cinema and experimental narratives. Exploring and experimenting through storytelling that forges an identity for Colombia\u2019s Caribbean region, Estuario Cine was established by Alberto de la Espriella and Antonio Camargo in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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