Rocio Mesa

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Rocio Mesa is a Spanish filmmaker, programmer and producer based in California. Mesa’s debut feature as a director, ORENSANZ, premiered at SEFF (Festival de Sevilla) in 2013. Her upcoming feature project as a writer-director, TOBACCO BARNS, has been selected in some of the most prestigious screenwriting workshops, like Sundance Faliro House 2017 or Sources2 2018, among others. Rocio Mesa is the founder of the production company MY DEER films, she has produced titles Mbah Jhiwo by Álvaro Gurrea, premiered at Berlinale Forum 2021. Mesa is the director of "LA OLA - Independent Films from Spain", an organization focused on the promotion of the Avant-guard Spanish cinema in North America.

参加作品

Tobacco Barns
Tobacco Barns
Writer
Seven-year-old Vera lives in the big city but adores spending the holidays in her grandparent’s town and particularly in their deserted tobacco barn. Nieves, a teenager native from there whose father forces her to help out at the family’s land, can’t avoid but feeling caged. The two girls, driven by the sense of adventure and the need to find oneself respectively, will be connected to a magical creature that will change the way they see their own reality.
Tobacco Barns
Tobacco Barns
Director
Seven-year-old Vera lives in the big city but adores spending the holidays in her grandparent’s town and particularly in their deserted tobacco barn. Nieves, a teenager native from there whose father forces her to help out at the family’s land, can’t avoid but feeling caged. The two girls, driven by the sense of adventure and the need to find oneself respectively, will be connected to a magical creature that will change the way they see their own reality.
Ancient Soul
Ancient Soul
Producer
A Kawa Ijen sulfur miner finds his routine radically altered the moment his wife goes away. He enters then a time loop that transforms his reality as his beliefs move from animism to Islam and capitalism. In a hybridization between ethnofiction and documentary, the film questions the myth of progress and explores the relationship with the otherness in the neocolonial reality of the South Seas
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Dear Friend
Dear Friend
Director
This film was created as a gift for our loved ones while we were all in isolation. The sole utility of the piece is to brighten up your day and to bring you back to the little pleasures of childhood. Filmed and in-camera edited in Super 8mm by Rocio Mesa with an original soundtrack by Landon Caldwell. Spring 2020.
Tobacco Barns Light Studies
Tobacco Barns Light Studies
Director
The tobacco plant was introduced to Granada (Southern Spain) in 1923. It became a monoculture in the region until the end of the century. When the tobacco production stopped being profitable, the farmers switched to new crops like wheat, corn or asparagus. However, the lands of Granada are still replete with tobacco barns: large empty houses where the leaves used to be hanged to dry. They inhabit the landscape like architectural ghosts.
Vega
Vega
Director
The land gives. The land traps. The land calls. VEGA (*Spanish): flat, low and fertile land. VEGA: It is the fifth brightest star in the night sky, and the second-brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus.
Orensanz
Orensanz
Director