Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival 2008 : El Productor: Elias Querejeta, Spain’s Greatest Producer

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El Productor: Elias Querejeta, Spain’s Greatest Producer

Mendez Leite 2006

Categories: Arts In Film

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Run time: 90 min. | Spain | Language: Spanish

A Conspiritor? A man with his own ideas set on making them come true? A fighter? The greatist evader of Franco’s censors? Someone determined to change the world by holding a mirror up. An intreguer? The most important name in the history of Spanish cinema. For some people Ellis Querejeta is the prototype producer, responsible for the existence of many excellent films and the discopvery of directors such as Erice, Saura, Chavarri, Gutierrez Aragon, Armendariz, Ricardo Franco, Martinez Lazaro, Gracia Querejeta, Fernando Leon......... For other people he is the origen of some of the most passionate controversy in our cinema.

A filmmaker by devotion and a producer by a desire for rigor, a scriptwriter by vocation and a craftsman jealous of his professionalism, Elías Querejeta is a free, reflective intellectual who has made cinema into that closed dream from which there is no escape, as he himself puts it. His concept of production springs from an overall concept of the cinematic act, and his work in that field derives from a permanent search which for him can never be relinquished: a job well done and an ethical sense.

The Querejeta Factory has been and is an important battering ram for opening up free spaces on our screens and for the development of original proposals, capable of imposing their own aesthetic and narrative demands on the basic outlines of a commerciality which most of the film production in this country has so often understood in a base or, at least, a selfishly reductionist way. In short, a career which is literally indispensable in order to trace the democratic fight against dictatorship, historical memory and civil conscience in the Spanish culture of his time.

Carlos F. Heredero

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