Documentary feature film (Nanouk films, Glia films) | In development

Original title: Un fogal
English title: Homefire
Director, writer: Neus Pagès i Selga
Producer: Ventura Durall, Maria Colomer
Creative and executive producer: Laura Alvarez
Film editor: Edu V. Romero
Script doctor: Nila Núñez
Direction of photography: Neus Pagès i Selga
Sound recordist: Júlia Guash
Art director: Víctor Garcia

WORKSHOPS, MARKETS AND LABS
- Festival L’Alternativa 2023 / LABED award
- LABED, UPF-BSM (Editing lab) 2024
- Acció Viver, Dones Visuals (Scriptwriting lab) 2024
- Acció Producció, Dones Visuals (Production lab) 2024
- DocsBarcelona Public Pitch 2024
- Another Way Film Festival Pitching Forum 2024 / Award to best project in development
- Ji.hlava New Visions Forum Europe 2024 / EURODOC award

Documentary short film | In development

Title: Hamza
Director: Laura Alvarez
Writers: Laura Alvarez, Alberto Dexeus
Film editor: Alberto Dexeus
Direction of photography: André Robert, Laura Alvarez
Sound recordist: Ronen Geva
Additional camera: Hamza El Aabedy

WORKSHOPS, MARKETS AND LABS
- Emergente! Cine Lab 2024

Documentary feature film | In development

Title: Metanoia
Director, writer: Laura Alvarez, Natalia Morcillo
Creative and executive producer: Laura Alvarez
Film editor: Ariadna Ribas

WORKSHOPS, MARKETS AND LABS
- 9 mesos, La Bonne (Scriptwriting lab)

Theatre show | 2024

Title: Desconnecta
Director: Marta Oliu
Producer: Laura Alvarez
Choreography: Toni Mira
Performance consultant: Mercè Menaguerra
In collaboration with: Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu & Dau al Sec Arts Escèniques
Project beneficiari of an ‘Art for change’ grant by Fundació La Caixa

Cinema workshop for Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu | 2023

Title: La pròpia mirada
Producer and mentor: Laura Alvarez
Film editor: Alberto Dexeus
Participant artists: Laia Manresa, Alba Bresolí, Enric Ribes, Alberto Dexeus
With the support of: ICEC (Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals), Filmoteca de Catalunya and Brain Film Festival

Summary: Conceptualisation, production and mentorship in this nine month cinema workshop with twelve patients of Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, a leading institution within the field of mental health in Spain. During this time I tutored three groups of participants in their process of making a short documentary film. Click here to see the films.

Episode of a documentary TV series (3cat, Un Capricho de Producciones) | 2022

Director, writer: Laura Alvarez
Producer: Patricia Fombella
Film editor: Aimar Galdos
Script consultant: Laia Manresa
Image: Alba Bresoli, Anna Taratiel, Mei Galmacci, Laura Alvarez
Sound recordist: Pau López
Colour postproduction: Jaume Ponsa (Artic Pospo)
Sound designer: Juan Carlos Pérez Prado
Project sponsor: Montana Colors

Short film commissioned by DocsBarcelona festival during the lockdown caused by Covid-19 | 2020

Image and editing: Laura Alvarez
Sound recording: Ronen Geva
Colour postproduction: Jordi Fernández

Videoclip for ‘Nothing But Heart’ (Sweden) | 2020

Music by: Nothing But Heart
Video edit: Laura Alvarez
Footage: Original footage taken from the film 'A man with a movie camera' (1929) by Dziga Vertov

Documentary feature film (Bausan Films) | 2019

Title: City for sale
Director, writer: Laura Alvarez
Executive producer: Loris Omedes
Director of photography: Jordi Fernández, Cristhian Bonet
Film editor: Áurea Castosa
Script consultant: Laia Manresa
Sound recordist: Ronen Geva, Luís Sánchez
Original music composer: Eloi Manen
Sound designer: Víctor Cuadros
Post-production: Lastcrit
Art designer: Benja Villegas
Financial manager: Íngrid Fernández

FESTIVALS
- XII Gaudí Awards Nomination for best documentary film
- XXVI Festival de Málaga (Spain)
- XXII DocsBarcelona (Spain)
- XVI Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival (Spain)
- XII Mittelmeer Filmtage (Germany)
- X Ethnofest (Greece)
- IX MICGénero (Mexico)
- IX Festiver (Colombia)
- EPOS International Art Film Festival (Israel)

FILM WEBSITE
www.cityforsalefilm.com

SINOPSIS
A portrait of the day-to-day lives of four Barcelona families that have to live with the dramatic effects of mass tourism. Through them, we get an idea of the great transformation that the city is undergoing, and we come to the realisation that this creeping yet irreversible process of “touristification” is expelling residents from their homes and neighbourhoods, and that the city’s identity will be forever changed by it.