Emma Fariñas

Birth : , Toulouse, France

History

Born in 1982 in Toulouse, Emma Fariñas graduated with a degree in cinema from Paris 8 and FAMU in Prague, a BTS Audiovisual option Image and a degree in Spanish literature from the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaures. Since 2006, she alternates between the profession of producer and that of director of documentaries. She accompanies authors in the writing and production of their films through various structures and collectives (Courte Echelle Prod, Les Zooms Verts, for example). She also tries to find in her own creations the fairest way to tell the real "The mechanographs of Mexico" in 2006, "The value of objects" in 2013 and "Instants seized" in 2015. Following the workshop of documentary writing that she followed at the Ateliers Varan in 2014, she directed "Who remembers the olive trees?". In 2020 she became known for "Aquí y allí".

Movies

Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
Writer
While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she discovers the story of a secretly kept love, lived during the turbulent years of the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War.
Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
Archival Footage Research
While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she discovers the story of a secretly kept love, lived during the turbulent years of the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War.
Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
Anna
While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she discovers the story of a secretly kept love, lived during the turbulent years of the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War.
Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
Aquí y allí: journal d'une exilée
Director
While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she discovers the story of a secretly kept love, lived during the turbulent years of the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War.
Gagarine
Gagarine
Production Director
Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarin Towers, a vast red-brick housing project on the outskirts of Paris. He dreams of becoming an astronaut. When plans to demolish Gagarin Towers leak out, Yuri joins the resistance. With his friends Diana and Houssam, he embarks on a mission to save their home, which has become his “starship.”
Two of Us
Two of Us
Production Secretary
Nina and Madeleine have been sharing their lives and the landing between their two apartments for decades. After more than 20 years of loving in the shadows, Madeleine promises Nina she will tell her family the truth. It takes an unexpected event to show her the importance of living your truth.
Cuando se fueron los olivos
Cuando se fueron los olivos
Writer
Three little ladies have lived for more than eighty years in the heart of a patio. In this modest theatre, daily rituals go hand in hand with the lapping of the fountain and nothing escapes María, the turtle. This place frozen in time is disturbed by the metamorphoses of the outside world...
Cuando se fueron los olivos
Cuando se fueron los olivos
Director
Three little ladies have lived for more than eighty years in the heart of a patio. In this modest theatre, daily rituals go hand in hand with the lapping of the fountain and nothing escapes María, the turtle. This place frozen in time is disturbed by the metamorphoses of the outside world...
Instants saisis
Instants saisis
Director
Through the exploration of the Trutat collection, this documentary questions the premises of photography. What are the possibilities offered by fixing an instant on a glass plate?