February 2008
SOLITARY FRAGMENTS winner of BEST PICTURE GOYA AWARDS. On screen again at spanish cinemas...March 2008
DVD available of La línea recta (edited by Versus Entertainment).August 2008
BULLET IN THE HEAD, Official Selection at the San Sebastian 2008 Film Festivalfresdevalfilms
FRESDEVAL FILMS is a Spanish production company for the creation of documentaries and feature films, with a determined vocation for high-artistic-quality projects of up-coming talents, which involve a honest point of view on human, social and cultural matters.
Created in 2000 at Barcelona by Jaime Rosales and José Mª de Orbe, the company started its activities in 2001 with the incorporation of María José Díez Álvarez, as Head of the Production Office in Madrid. Also from 2001, FRESDEVAL FILMS has entered the Independent Catalonian Producers Association (A.P.I.C) and the Spanish Federation of Audiovisual Producers (F.A.P.A.E.) in order to consolidate itself as an independent production company into the national and international film industry.
Since that time, FRESDEVAL FILMS has developed an unusual career into the Spanish film production landscape, getting a place as a young company created by filmmakers with new ideas, a solid education and proved training and talent.
Jaime Rosales
director and script-writer
After beginning his career as a screenwriter for film and television, Jaime Rosales received a grant to attend the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. From there, he went on to study at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney.
After his acclaimed features LAS HORAS DEL DÍA and SOLITARY FRAGMENTS, he is currently working on TIRO EN LA CABEZA, his last project.
filmography
FEATURE LENGHT
Tiro en la Cabeza (2008)
Solitary Fragments (La Soledad) (2007)
The Hours of the Day (Las horas del día) (2003)
SHORT FILMS
La pecera (8’ / 35mm) (1999)
(Prize)
Festivales de Kiev (Ucrania)
Figueira da Foz (Portugal)
Yo tuve un cerdo llamado rubiel (11’ / 35mm) (1998)
(Prize)
Festivales de Huesca (España)
La Habana (Cuba)
Santa Fe (Argentina)
Episodio (11’ / 35mm) (1998)
(Prize)
Muestra audiovisual de Cuba
Virginia no dice mentiras (13’ / Betacam) (1997)
(Prize)
Festivales de Paza (Cuba)
Camagüey (Cuba)
José María de Orbe Klingenberg
scriptwriter and director
He starts his film labour as director assistant and making some S-8 and 16mm short-films. In 1982, he co-produces the feature film Héctor, directed by Carlos Pérez-Ferre and with the actor Ovidi Montllor playing the main character, selected in IFF Berlin 1982 and awarded with several internationals prizes. In 1984, José Mª de Orbe gets a Full Bright grant to study Filmmaking in the American Film Institute (AFI) in Los Angeles, Ca., being the first Spanish student in the Speciality of Film Direction in this institution. Back to Spain in 1986, he works as director of commercials, winning some international prizes in Cannes, New York, San Sebastian, FIAP, etc. At the same time, he was dedicated to the writing of scripts and the documentary project De Chillida a Hokusai, creación de una obra. In 2000, he meets Jaime Rosales and they decide to create, all together with María José Díez Álvarez, the film production company FRESDEVAL FILMS, with the intention of producing their own feature film projects, based in renewed criteria for independent filmmaking. So, in 2006, José María de Orbe makes his first feature film, La línea recta, written in collaboration with the critic and scriptwriter Daniel Vázquez Villamediana.filmography
FEATURE LENGHT
La línea recta (2006)
SHORT FILMS
Lifeguard, 17 min, B/N, Video.
Jonathan what the hell, 21min, B/N, video.
Neon, 14 min, Color, video.
María José Díez Alvarez
Executive Producer and Production Manager
Graduated in Communication at the UCM in Madrid, she studied Film & TV Production in the International Film and Television School (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, from 1996 to 1998. There she met Jaime Rosales and they worked together in their final film thesis, Episodio (Episode). Back in Spain, she enters Tornasol Films, one of the most active and relevant Spanish production companies, as Production Coordinator in the International Co-production Department and participates in more than ten international films as No news from God, El hijo de la novia, Bear´s Kiss, Plata Quemada or The Waiting List. In 2001, she creates together with Jaime Rosales and José Mª de Orbe the independent film production company Fresdeval Films, based in Madrid and Barcelona, being in charge of the Executive Production and Production Management. At the same time, she collaborates as Production Consultant in the Latin-American Development Project Workshop annually organized by Casa de América and Fundación Carolina and attended as a teacher of Production to the regular course in the EICTV.filmography
As Executive Producer and Production Manager:
LA SOLEDAD by Jaime Rosales
Fresdeval Films/Wanda Vision/In Vitro Films.
LAS HORAS DEL DÍA by Jaime Rosales
Fresdeval Films/In Vitro Films. 2003.
LA LINEA RECTA by José María de Orbe
Fresdeval Films/In Vitro Films, 2006
As Associated Producer:
UN INSTANTE EN LA VIDA AJENA by José Luis López-Linares
Fresdeval Films/Cero en conducta, 2003.
Bárbara Díez Jiménez
Production Coordinator
Born in Venezuela, she moves to Spain, her father natural-born country, when she is twelve-years-old. Very keen on cinema from her youth, she decides to point her career towards this field, studying a Graduate Course of Audiovisuals and a Postgraduate Course in Film Production in the film school TAI in Madrid. In 2004, she gets a grant from the Youth Institute (INJUVE) to study Film Production in the International Film&TV School in San Antonio de Los Baños (EICTV), Cuba, where she produces as thesis of graduation the short-feature film El espino, directed by Théo Court and nominated as Best Short-feature film by the Cinefoundation of the Cannes Festival 2005. Before and after her studies in Cuba, she worked as assistant of postproduction, materials and festivals in Morena Films, an important Spanish production company, participating in several documentaries and feature films. In October of 2005, she starts a new professional challenge entering to the staff of the production film company FRESDEVAL FILMS as production coordinator.filmography
Tiro en La Cabeza by Jaime Rosales (In postproduction). Fresdeval Films-Wanda Vision
El Árbol, by Carlos Serrano Azcona (In postproduction). Estar Ahí Cinema-Mantarraya-Fresdeval Films
La Soledad, by Jaime Rosales. Fresdeval Films-Wanda Vision-In Vitro Film
La Línea Recta, by José Mª de Orbe. Fresdeval Films-In Vitro Films
As Postproduction Coordinator:
Cargo, by Clive Gordon (2006).Morena Films
Fin de Curso, by Miguel Marti (2006).Morena Films
As Post-production Assistant:
Slam, by Miguel Marti (2004).Morena Films
DOCUMENTARY
Iberia, by Carlos Saura Morena Films, 2006 Best Director of Photography Goya Award 2006. Three Goya Awards Nominations 2006.
Caballé, más allá de la música; by Antonio Farré Morena Films, 2004
SHORT-FEATURE FILMS
As Production Student in the EICTV:
El Espino, by Théo Court.
EICTV, 2005. 35mm, colour, 18 min; produced and shoot in Talca, Chile.
Best Short-feature film nomination by the Cinefoundation of the Cannes Festival 2005.
Ritos, by Víctor Mares.
EICTV, 2004. Doc. Video, B/N, 26 min.