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Red Moon Tide/ Lúa vermella
Red Moon Tide/ Lúa vermella
Spain, 2020, 84’
in Spanish w/ Eng./ Arm. subtitles
Director, Scriptwriter and Cinematographer: Lois Patiño
Editors: Pablo Gil Rituerto, Óscar De Gispert, Lois Patiño
Sound Designer: Juan Carlos Blancas
Art Director: Jaione Camborda
Coproducer: Iván Patiño
Executive Producer: Felipe Lage Coro
Cast: Ana Marra, Carmen Martínez, Pilar Rodlos, Rubio De Camelle
Production Company: Zeitun Films
Time seems to stand still in a village on the Galician coast. Everybody, there is paralyzed, although we can still hear their voices: they talk about ghosts, about witches, about monsters. Three women show up. They are trying to find Rubio, a sailor that has recently disappeared in the sea.
Awards
Best Cinematography, Best First Film – Special Mention, Violette d’Or, Toulouse Cinespaña, 2020; Silver Biznaga – Best Spanish Film, Málaga Spanish Film Festival, 2020; Best Director – Iberian Competition, Best Screenplay – Iberian Competition, CinEuphoria Awards. 2021.
Lois Patiño
Born in Vigo, Spain in 1983, Lois Patiño is a Spanish filmmaker, whose films have been screened in festivals like Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Ann Arbor, Viennale, Cinema du Rèel, Media City. He combined his studies in Psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid with cinema studies at the TAI School. He continued his cinema education at the New York Film Academy and the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (Master in Creative Documentary). He attended courses in video creation at UdK Berlin and different workshops with artists and filmmakers such as Joan Jonas, James Benning, Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice, José Luis Guerín, or Daniel Canogar.
His short film Mountain in Shadow was awarded at Oberhausen, Clermont-Ferrand, and Bucharest Experimental. In 2013, in Locarno, he won the prize for Best Emerging Director for his first feature film Coast of Death, which was consequently awarded in Jeonju IFF (South Korea), FICUNAM (México), Valdivia IFF (Chile), and Seville European FF (Spain). Red Moon Tide, produced by Zeitun Films, is his second feature film to date, which has been screened at the Berlinale Forum, IDFA, and several other film festivals.
Filmography
Into Vibration (2012), Mountain in Shadow (2012), Coast of Death (2013, feature-length), Night without Distance (2015), Fajr (2017), Red Moon Tide (2020, feature-length).