Associate Producer
Colaboración entre la veterana directora Agnès Varda y el artista gráfico urbano y fotógrafo JR, un joven francés conocido por sus impactantes obras visuales que consisten en enormes intervenciones gráficas en calles y tejados de diversas ciudades de todo el mundo.
Executive Producer
Art and social uproar interweave in this film based on the ballet Les Bosquets of New York City Ballet, inspired by the 2005 French suburb riots. A continuation of JR's Portrait of a Generation, it recalls his experience in the ghetto of Montfermeil using various means of expression and narration: video archives, choreography, and testimony.
Producer
Este documental nos descubre el proyecto de street art global diseñado por el artista francés JR, que ha conseguido la implicación de una larga comunidad de artistas de todo el mundo. Estas comunidades se han encargado de retratar mediante la fotografía los problemas y las causas más relevantes de su comunidad.
Producer
In 2012, the french artist JR collaborates with Cuban-American artist Jose Parla in Cuba for the Havana Biennale. Through JR's pasting and Jose's painting they created murals to tell the stories of 25 senior citizens who have lived through the Cuban revolution.
Writer
In his film "Women Are Heroes", photographer JR takes his audience into some exceptional women’s lives. Because there are, most of the time, the first victims in war-time and left to their own during peace-time, JR pays tribute to those women who, in spite of the hurdles, keep smiling, keep fighting and keep hoping a better life. From Rio’s shantytowns to Kenyan slums, passing by Indian and Cambodian streets, he offers a fresh look at their struggles and expectations. Displaying their portraits via huge montages on their neighborhood’s walls, JR sublimates those extraordinary destinies and sheds the lights on those strong and moving personalities, too rarely recognized enough.
At 35 years old, photographer JR is a street art worldwide star. Discovered after the Paris’ suburb riots of 2005 for his portraits of young people, his collages have adorned the galleries of the Louvre, the Pompidou Center, the Pantheon, the National Assembly ever since … From New York to Shanghai, and the Israeli-Palestinian wall to the US-Mexico border, he has stuck or exhibited giant photos on the walls of dozens of countries and associated hundreds of thousands of unknown artists with his projects. With the active collaboration of the artist himself, the documentary “# JR” tells the extraordinary adventure of this art activist whose spectacular interventions are all clear expressions of humanism, pacifism or remembrance relayed by his very strong involvement in social networks. For JR, art can help change the world.
