In Como Preparar Patitas de Cerdo (2013), pigs’ feet serve as a link within the tight-knit community of Los Sures. The camera follows the feet around the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Starting at the local butcher and passing through the homes, kitchens and streets of the neighborhood, we discover the community’s relationship to each other, history and work.
Team
Tamer Hassan
With an appreciation for the intimacy necessary to produce compelling documentary work, Tamer Hassan has spent the last five years integrating himself into the countercultures of rural autonomous communities throughout the United States. His work from this practice has screened internationally at venues ranging from the Princeton Environmental Film Festival to the Tinai EcoFilm Festival in Goa, India. He has received grants and awards from The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, The Davis Foundation, and the Goldfarb Center for Civic Engagement. Hassan was a 2012-13 UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow, where he worked as an editor and cinematographer on several documentaries, screening at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and winning best short documentary at the 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival.
Maria Rosa Badia
Maria Rosa Badia is a storyteller and filmmaker from Barcelona, where she graduated in Journalism with a minor in international politics and cultural communication. She has been based in New York City since 2008, where she freelances as an editor and multimedia producer. She was a 2012-13 UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow. She is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, a community of professional filmmakers in Brooklyn who are dedicated to innovative approaches to filmmaking.
Constanza Mirré
Constanza Mirré is a photographer and independent documentary producer. She is the author of Bares de Buenos Aires, a photo book published by Ediciones Lariviére in Buenos Aires Argentina and by Le Passage in Paris. She produced Argentina in the UK, a book published in 2008 by the Argentine Embassy in the UK. Published in print magazines internationally, Mirré has worked as a travel, film still and fashion photographer in New York City.
Sebastian Diaz Aguirre
Sebastian Diaz is a Mexican filmmaker and artist based in New York. He directed Toñita’s while a fellow at UnionDocs, which premiered at the MoMA Documentary Fortnight in 2014. He was co-director of Brilliant Soil (2011), which was awarded Material Culture & Archeology Film Prize at 13th RAI Ethnographic Film Festival. Diaz photographed and edited Tijuaneados Anonymous, which premiered at the Ambulante Festival in 2010, and was awarded best local film at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. Diaz co-founded the Bulbo Art Collective, which produced a documentary show broadcast internationally about life in the Mexico-US border. His work has been exhibited at ARCO (Madrid), MAK (Vienna), InSite_05 (Tijuana-San Diego). He is currently working on the a feature-length documentary, The Caribbean.
Tamer Hassan
With an appreciation for the intimacy necessary to produce compelling documentary work, Tamer Hassan has spent the last five years integrating himself into the countercultures of rural autonomous communities throughout the United States. His work from this practice has screened internationally at venues ranging from the Princeton Environmental Film Festival to the Tinai EcoFilm Festival in Goa, India. He has received grants and awards from The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, The Davis Foundation, and the Goldfarb Center for Civic Engagement. Hassan was a 2012-13 UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow, where he worked as an editor and cinematographer on several documentaries, screening at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and winning best short documentary at the 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival.
Maria Rosa Badia
Maria Rosa Badia is a storyteller and filmmaker from Barcelona, where she graduated in Journalism with a minor in international politics and cultural communication. She has been based in New York City since 2008, where she freelances as an editor and multimedia producer. She was a 2012-13 UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow. She is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, a community of professional filmmakers in Brooklyn who are dedicated to innovative approaches to filmmaking.
Constanza Mirré
Constanza Mirré is a photographer and independent documentary producer. She is the author of Bares de Buenos Aires, a photo book published by Ediciones Lariviére in Buenos Aires Argentina and by Le Passage in Paris. She produced Argentina in the UK, a book published in 2008 by the Argentine Embassy in the UK. Published in print magazines internationally, Mirré has worked as a travel, film still and fashion photographer in New York City.
Sebastian Diaz Aguirre
Sebastian Diaz is a Mexican filmmaker and artist based in New York. He directed Toñita’s while a fellow at UnionDocs, which premiered at the MoMA Documentary Fortnight in 2014. He was co-director of Brilliant Soil (2011), which was awarded Material Culture & Archeology Film Prize at 13th RAI Ethnographic Film Festival. Diaz photographed and edited Tijuaneados Anonymous, which premiered at the Ambulante Festival in 2010, and was awarded best local film at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. Diaz co-founded the Bulbo Art Collective, which produced a documentary show broadcast internationally about life in the Mexico-US border. His work has been exhibited at ARCO (Madrid), MAK (Vienna), InSite_05 (Tijuana-San Diego). He is currently working on the a feature-length documentary, The Caribbean.