BALSEROS
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Original title BALSEROS
English title BALSEROS
Produced by Bausan Films S.L. and Televisió de Catalunya.
Genre Feature length documentary
Duration 120min '
Original Version Spanish and English
Format 35mm
B&W/Colour Colour
Sound Dolby Digital
Country Spain
Filming dates 2002
Scriptwriter David Trueba and Carles Bosch
Director Carles Bosch and Josep Mª Domènech
Editing Ernest Blasi
Producer Loris Omedes
Productores ejecutivos Tom Roca, Mª José Solera
Director de producción Tono Folguera
Director de fotografía Josep Mª Domènech
Music Lucrecia
Sound design Juan Sánchez

Nominated at the OSCARS® 2004. Best Feature Length Documentary.

PRIZES :

-8º Rencontres Internationales de Cinéma à Paris. Nov 02.

- Public Prize

-32nd Edition, Alcalá de Henares Film Festival. Nov 02.

-Public Prize.

-Ajijic International Film Festival 2002, Mexico. Nov 02.

-Jury Prize: Best Spanish Documentary

-24th Edition, International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana. Dec 02

-Prize for Best Foreign Documentary

- Santo Domingo International Film Festival. 2003.

-Special Jury Prize.

-2003 Miami International Film Festival. Feb - Mar 2003

-Public Prize.

-Docaviv – Tel Aviv Documentary Film Festival. April 2003

-Prize for Best International Film.

-Premio Cartelera Turia 2003 Best Documentary.

-Premio Jose Maria Forqué. 2003

- Best Spanish Documentary.

-Premio Nacional a la Cinematografía, Generalitat de Catalunya. Sep 03

-CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. Nov 03.

-Special mention Amnesty Award.

-International Documentary Association Awards (IDA Awards) Dec 03

-IDA Distinguished Feature Documentary Award.

-Dirk Vandersypen Award

-First Prize. Belgium. Jan 04

-64th Annual Peabody Award

-Best in electronic media for 2004. April 2005. USA

-26th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards: Best Cinematography. Sept 05 USA
Balseros is a unique film. In the summer of 1994 a team of television reporters filmed and interviewed seven Cubans and their families during the run up to their risky journey across the sea to reach the United States coast. They were fleeing the economic difficulties which were destroying their country. Some time later they managed to locate those who had been rescued at sea in the refugee camp on the North American naval base of Guantanamo. Their families remained in Cuba without any news of them, except in the case of one woman who was shipwrecked and forced to return to the island. Seven years have passed, and the developments in the lives of the various characters are portrayed here in detail and with sensitivity. We observe their lives in America, and the lives of those still in Cuba. This is the story of some of the real survivors of our time. It is a very human adventure of a group of castaways living between two worlds.