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A full house is a dream that has found its home in the heart of Bilbao. A magical place that is gradually filling up with ideas and creative women. A physical house in which three projects coexist: the artistic residency for women filmmakers A Room of One’s Own and the working group of Basque filmmakers Elkarrekin Sortzen.
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A room of one’s own
A Full House launches the fifth call for the artistic residency A Room of One’s Own, a project inspired by Virginia Woolf. Following the steps of the previous editions, where we accompanied the artists Naiara Carmona, Estibaliz Urresola, Ainhoa Rodríguez, Mikele Landa and María Herrera this year we are reopening the call for the artistic residencies to accompany two women filmmakers in the development of their feature-length motion pictures with A Room of One’s Own.
Fourth edition 2023-2024
The residents chosen for this fourth edition of A Room of One’s Own are: the filmmaker Mikele Landa with her project ‘Senda‘ in the Basque residency; and the filmmaker María Herrera with her project ‘Desde que tú te has ido‘ in the Spanish residency.
Mikele Landa
Mikele Landa Eiguren (Bilbao, 1995) studied Audiovisual Communication at the UPV-EHU and the Film Faculty of the University of Karlstad. She then specialised in Documentary and Experimental Film at the TAI School in Madrid. During the 2021-2022 academic year she has been a student of the postgraduate course in Creation at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola.
Her first short film Heldu was presented at Zinebi (2018) and won the award for best director at the Euskal Zine Bilera (2019). She has collaborated with several associations in the creation of audio-visual pieces, such as Mali, 10 urtetan; a piece she filmed and directed in Mali (2019).
Her latest work, Noizko basoa, was recently premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival and has been screened at Zinebi and Punto de Vista. In addition to his career as a filmmaker, she has worked as a journalist for EiTB and the newspaper Berria. She is now working on her first feature film, Senda, in the Noka Mentoring, Elkarrekin Sortzen and A Room of One’s Own programmes.
María Herrera
María Herrara (Madrid, 1993) Double degree in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication with complementary training in Political Science at the Carlos III University of Madrid. María was awarded a prestigious scholarship from La Caixa to study a postgraduate degree in Film in Screenwriting and Directing (MFA) at the Public University of New York. She has also been selected for the prestigious BAFTA Newcomers international talent programme in NY.
Winner of a Goya Award for Best Fiction Short Film as producer of ARQUITECTURA EMOCIONAL 1959. Before moving to New York, she worked at Avalon production company for over five years.
She is finishing the editing of her short film THE OTHER WOMAN shot in New York with the support of La Caixa Foundation. And she has just shot her second short film as writer and director, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT STORY, starring Olivia Delcán (‘Isla Bonita’) and Nacho Sánchez (‘Mantícora’).
Previous editions
The project A Room of One’s Own was born in 2017 with the aim of offering an artist the opportunity to develop a project so that she can then start to fly. In 2017 and 2018 Naiara Carmona and Estíbaliz Urresola were the beneficiaries of this artistic residency. Estíbaliz is currently filming her debut film 20.000 species of bees, a project that began to be developed in the second edition of A Room of One’s Own.
In 2022, Ainhoa Rodríguez developed her feature film ‘Niña, no juegues‘ within the artistic residency A Room of One’s Own, with her mentor Eva Valiño and with the collaboration of Naiara Carmona.
Elkarrekin Sortzen
It is a working group of women filmmakers divides in two groups: basque and spanish. The basque group is made up of: Ainhoa Aierbe, Tessa Andonegi, Naia Arantzmendi and Mikele Landa and the spanish is integrated by Maitane Carballo, Itxaso Diaz, Itziar Lamarka, Sara Martorana y Lucía Montero.
What we offer with the Elkarrekin sortzen working group is:
- meetings between other Basque filmmakers. In these meetings, each creator will be able to share her audiovisual project and between them they will work on proposals and improvements for the piece.
- The filmmakers will have monthly sessions from October to June at A Full House.
- A place where they can work inside A Full House from October to June.
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Ainhoa Aierbe bere filma ‘Beldurra’
Born in 1974. She has known that she wants to act since she was a child. She begins her first steps in the singing school of the Orfeón Donostiarra. Later she moves to Madrid to receive training at the RESAD school, but soon she gets the opportunity to participate in the ETB series called Goenkale. she has worked in theater, television and film. Later, she begins to give acting classes, until she was called to be director of actors in the television series called Goazen, where she works for years in different projects. Working on other people’s projects, she decides to tell her own stories, and she writes two feature film scripts. One of them, together with Tessa Adonegi, receives a script development grant from the Basque Government.
Tessa Andonegui with her feature film ‘Beldurra’
After taking her first steps in performing arts in United States, She studies at the Official Theater School of Donosti. In 1991she had her first experriencia in theater with Bederen 1. From then on, she has worked in theater, television and in several fiction series as presenter and actress. After attending the Bergara writing school, She has worked as a sriptwitere, creator staging and on radio. Currrently, she works on EITB television series called Irabazi arte.
Naia Arantzmendi with her debut film ‘Koaxi’
Naia Arantzamendi Larrañaga (Ondarroa, 1994) has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country (UPV) and the Sacro Cuore University of Milan. Afterwards, she has done a master’s degree in Cinema, TV Series Scriptwriting and Theater at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, specializing in Audiovisual Production at the Universidad San Jorge. Currently, she works as a journalist in the newspaper HITZA and is involved in various creative projects, especially in writing positions, alternating them with initiatives in Loraldi. She has also written the novel Egurra with the support of the Basque Government for the creation of short novels. She is currently working on the writing of her first feature film Koaxi, which she is developing at Elkarrekin Sortzen.
Mikele Landa with her debut film ‘Senda’
Mikele Landa Eiguren (Bilbao, 1995) studies Audiovisual Communication at the UPV-EHU and the film faculty of the University of Karlstad. Then she specializes in Documentary and Experimental Film at the TAI School in Madrid. During the academic year 2021-2022 she has been a student of the postgraduate course of Creation at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. Those are some of her works: Heldu which is presented at Zinebi (2018) and wins the award for best direction at the Euskal Zine Bilera (2019), Mali, 10 urtetan and Noizko basoa, recently premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival and has passed through Zinebi and Punto de Vista. In addition to his career as a filmmaker, she has worked as a journalist for EITB and the newspaper Berria. She is now working on his first feature film, Senda, in the Noka Mentoring and Elkarrekin Sortzen programs.
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Maitane Carballo with her first documentary ”Una Casa Encantada”
Maitane Carballo Alonso (1994, Vitoria) has been working in the audiovisual field since she was 18 years old. Graduated in Cinema and specialized in sound, editing and postproduction. She has worked in several documentary, film and advertising projects. In her career she has focused on telling authentic and meaningful stories. She has worked as sound manager on projects such as Voices of Earth and Hate Songs. She also worked with Eva Valiño on 20,000 species of bees. Currently, she is immersed in the development of her production company Karapirú specialized in social documentaries.
Itxaso Diaz with her feature-length documentary ‘Cuatro Días’
Gallarta, Bizkaia, 1974. Graduated in Fine Arts and doctoral student in Art and Technology from the faculty of Fine arts from the University of the Basque Country. Itxaso Diaz is a filmmaker specialized in documentary and film curator. Her documentaries are about gender, aging and functional diversity. Since 2004, She worksas a cultural management and film curator. Currently, she directs and coordinates a festival called Working Class Film Festival (LAN).
Itziar Lamarka with her first debut film ‘Ez da lurrik’
Itziar is from Donosti and since she was a child, she has bee writing. However, cinema interested her a bit later. Despite the effort, She opted to go to Barcelona to study audiovisual communication. During that period, she felts very enriched, but now she is back and she wants to work in her project Ez da lurrik, which is connected to her home.
Sara Martorana with her first debut film ‘Ez da lurrik’
Sara is from Barcelona and since she was a child she has known that she wanted to tell stories. For that reason, she studied a degree in audiovisual communication at the University of Pompeu Fabrá. When She finish the degree, she specializes in narrative, making a master in Literature at University of Complutense in Madrid (UCM). Now, she would like to work on preserving culture, telling stories and recovering our lost memories.
Lucía Montero with her first short film ‘María, La Brava’
Lucía Montero Sánchez de las Matas (Salamanca, 1988) is an artist and filmmaker residing in Donostia. After studying visual arts, She moves to London to work with Nomad Projects, collaborating with artists such as Marcus Coates. At the same time, she has developing her artistic practice on an individual level until in 2020 she joined the postgraduate course in Cinematographic Creation at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, where she began making her first film Peter, currently in development. In 2022 she participates in the Aukera mentoring program, as well as in the development laboratories HEMENDIK#2 (Baiona), Festival Intersección (Coruña) or L’Alternativa (Barcelona). She is also part of the group Archiveras del Humo, a collective of women who work together to activate a critical memory.