CROWD-FUNDING CAMPAIGN FOR THE DOCUMENTARY FILM "FRANCO'S SETTLERS" REACHES 156% OF 10.000€ GOAL
DANIEL RICHTER AND FILMMAKERS PRESENT FRANCO SILKSCREEN PRINTS ON JUNE 30TH AT WOWSVILLE BAR IN BERLIN
Hello everybody,
after only 74 days of campaign we have reached 156% of the minimum goal of 10,000 Euros. This is a great success and we would like to thank all our supporters. Nevertheless were are still far from the 50,000 Euros we need to be able to complete the film and would like to reach now in a final effort 20,000 Euros before the campaign ends on July 12th, 2012.
To celebrate the termination of the campaign and to express our most sincere gratitude we would like to invite you to our FUNDRAISER party.
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FUNDRAISER PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE TERMINATION OF THE CAMPAIGN
The program for the event couldn't be more diverse. Daniel Richter who created the wonderful collages and the filmmakers will be present and people will be able to see the large silkscreen prints for real. And there will be food (famous Paella by Alberto - don't miss it), drinks and some bands that in the past have collaborated with play loud!.
WHERE: Wowsville, Ohlauer Straße 33, Berlin-Kreuzberg
WHEN: 30th of June, 2012 at 19 hours
FOOD: Paella by Alberto
BANDS:
FLOATING DI MOREL http://www.playloud.org/floatingdimorel.html (presenting their new LP GOAL LESS PLAY, pre-orders are welcome)
DOC SCHOKO http://www.playloud.org/docschoko.html
Please come by, watch part of the film, grab a drink, eat Spanish paella, touch the silkscreens, donate more money or just have fun and experiment.
Love to all of you,
Lucia & Dietmar
Please go here to the crowd-funding campaign:
http://www.lanzanos.com/proyectos/loscolonosdelcaudillo/eng/
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MEDIA REACTION
Several museums and private collectors have acquired the magnificent silkscreen prints by Daniel Richter. The international media has taken notice:
PRESS
GERMAN
http://www.taz.de/!94968/
http://www.tip-berlin.de/kultur-und-freizeit-kunst-und-museen/daniel-richter-unterstutzt-filmprojekt
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/die-siedler/6701604.html
ENGLISH
http://www.eyesin.com/film/2012/investigative-documentary-francos-settlers
http://www.soundsandcolours.com/news/film-news/high-plains-fascist-crowdfunding-campaign-for-francos-settlers-documentary
SPANISH
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/05/26/actualidad/1338046116_332195.html
http://www.publico.es/espana/434301/un-documental-recuerda-la-vigencia-de-las-colonias-franquistas
http://www.lanzadigital.com/cultura/juan_diego_botto_y_daniel_richter_colaboran_con_el_film__los_colonos_del_caudillo_-34358.html
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/06/04/cultura/1338801454.html
http://www.encastillalamancha.es/noticia/7951/wwwencastillalamanchaes
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FRANCO'S SETTLERS (LOS COLONOS DEL CAUDILLO)
2012 | 110 min | Germany, Spain | HD
Directed & produced by: Lucía Palacios & Dietmar Post
Narrated by: Juan Diego Botto
Protagonists: former minister under Franco José Utrera Molina, former president of Spain Felipe González, the inhabitants of Llanos del Caudillo Santiago Sánchez, Juan Aranda, Eugenio Bascuñana, Wenceslao Chamero, Ana Romano, Antonio Rubio and Joaquín Romano, and the experts Cristóbal Gómez, Isidro Sánchez and Esther Almarcha.
And the collaboration with painter Daniel Richter
Somewhere on the high plains of La Mancha in Spain resides a village that carries the name of its creator, Francisco Franco. The translation for the village’s name Llanos del Caudillo is The High Plains of the Caudillo. Caudillo is the equivalent to the German Fuehrer (Hitler) or the Italian Duce (Mussolini).
Llanos del Caudillo was one of over 300 settlement villages built during the dictatorship of General Franco between 1939 and 1975. The ideological goal of these communities was to create the new fascist man.
The film portraits this unordinary small town as if we were looking through a magnifying glass, reviewing the Spanish history since Franco took power until the present days, when judge Baltasar Garzón, famous for having prosecuted Augusto Pinochet, has been convicted by the Spanish Supreme Court and banned from office for 11 years because of his attempt to investigate the crimes committed during Franco´s dictatorship.
Franco’s Settlers is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past.
Walter Haubrich (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
Franco´s Settlers is an important and highly recommendable film.
Sergi Doladé (director of the MEDIMED DocsMarket)
Last night I watched Franco's Settlers and I have to congratulate you on a rigorous and emotional film, not only because of the story but also because of how this story is told. In Spain this revision of history never has been made and like someone states in the movie "maybe it is already too late". Even if some people might think that, I believe it is never too late to revise history. It is you as filmmakers who do it from the ground up, from life itself, from reality. What happens here is that this place called Spain we as people keep ignoring what really occurred. And that is the best achievement of the film how you unveil this ignorance, an ignorance we Spaniards have fully accepted and take for granted. You unveil the big truth! Spanish public TV has to broadcast this film so that people know about it. And the film should be nominated for a GOYA (Spain's Oscar).
Dominik Wessely (filmmaker & professor of documentary filmmaking at Cologne Film School)
Franco's Settlers is a fabulous film. I saw it last night and had to watch it until the very end. To me it was an eye opener and a first class history lesson. The little I had learned in school and the little I knew from the media (the military coup in 1981 was on German TV) gave me only a small glimpse of Spanish history. The film brilliantly fills this lack of information. And it is absolutely amazing how the film at the end takes us right to the current political situation in Spain. Very creepy.
Andreas Fanizadeh (TAZ - Die Tageszeitung)
Palacios and Post have closely inspected a huge amount of old photographs and films and included them in their film, interviewed former high-ranking cadres of the fascist Falange and met with the Social Democratic prime minister during the transition years. Their film doesn't comment too much, instead the protagonists and the material get to talk. A convincing method. Franco's Settlers could be an important contribution to how Spaniards deal with their dictatorship.
Óscar Rodríguez (Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory)
A magnificent work, serious and objective. This is the kind of film which truly democratic citizens need to watch. Thank you for your effort.
APIMED (Association of Independent Mediterranean Producers)
We proudly announce that Franco's Settlers is nominated to the V Ahmed Attia Award for the Dialogue of Cultures given by the to the best documentary pitched at MEDIMED Pitching Forum. Result: A MUST SEE DOCUMENTARY.
Juan Diego Botto (actor)
I really enjoyed the film. It will be an honour to be the narrator of this fascinating documentary.
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