COUNTRY
Spain
PRODUCTION
Rtve
YEAR2024
DURATION60 min
WRITING Bárbara Mateos, Jesús Jiménez
CINEMATOGRAPHY Antonio Urrea, Pascual Barraca, Ángel Pérez, Felipe Romero, Mario Gómez, Francisco Javier Ginés, Tania Arrilliaga, Alberto Novo, José Antonio Gómez, David Santiago, Sergio Rodríguez
MUSIC
Sergio de la Puente
EDITION Javier Díaz Canales
DISTRIBUTION Rtve
INTERNATIONAL SALES Rtve
CONTACT barbara.mateos@rtve.es
SYNOPSIS Ouka Leele was known as the photographer of the Movida Madrileña. A groundbreaking artist who brought color to the Spain emerging from the dictatorship with her unique way of creating and painting photographs. Rebellious and a fighter, marked by the pulse between life and death, she overcame cancer at the age of 20 and managed to raise her daughter alone, while her career achieved international recognition. An essential figure in Spanish photography, she was a pioneer in opening new paths in art.
Bárbara Mateos
Filmmaker and colorist, trained in Fine Arts, UCM, and has a master in Film at ECAM, debuted with her first documentary:
Ad Ventum in 2017. Selected for the Film Academy Residencies in 2021 with her next documentary
Sin embargo, te quiero. She combines her work as a filmmaker with television. As a filmmaker for rtve.es she has made
Nosotrxs somos in 2019 and
Ouka Leele: viaje de una estrella in 2024.
FILMOGRAPHY
Ouka Leele. El viaje de una estrella (documentary, 2024),
Nosotrxs somos (documentary, 2019),
Ad ventum. Hacia el viento (documentary, 2017)
Jesús Jiménez
In 2024, he works as co-director and co-writer of the documentary
Ouka Leele. El viaje de una estrella. Writer of the
Inocente, Inocente gala in 2009. In 2004 he wrote the short film
El banco and in 1994 director and co-writer of the short film
Por la mano. Since 2009 editor of the cultural section of RTVE.es.
FILMOGRAPHY
Ouka Leele. El viaje de una estrella (documentary, 2024)
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