'Els Passos Perduts' selected for the New York Film Festival

'Els Passos Perduts', directed by Jordi Cadena and produced by Miguel Puertas, has been selected to participate in the Official Section of the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Along with the Catalan production season of oblivion, Both were released last weekend in theaters.

The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, known for serving as a platform for independent productions and emerging filmmakers, has selected the film The Lost Steps (Los pasos perdidos), directed by Jordi Cadena and produced by Miguel Puertas.

Many high-quality, low-budget films and documentaries have achieved distribution thanks to their participation in this festival.
Jordi Cadena is a renowned film director (Barcelona Sur, La Señora) and documentary and television producer. He has also been a columnist in cinematographic media and a professor at the Pompeu Fabra faculty. The lost steps It is his eighth feature film.

For his part, Miguel Puertas is the founder of Yakima Films, a young production company that already has titles such as Cinemacat.cat y The archives of c.g.Jung both nominated for the Gaudí, for best documentary and short film respectively. It is currently ending Expect a Miracle, a documentary about the widow of Vicente Ferrer.

Two unfinished projects

Els Passos perduts, commercially released in Barcelona last weekend by Sagrera Audiovisual, was born from the need to continue two unfinished projects from the 60s and is a reflection on the things we leave half done in our lives.

At the end of the 60s, the scriptwriter and director Jordi Cadena recovered these images, in black and white and in 16 millimeters, and mixed them with new recordings, in color, shot in Barcelona, ​​Granollers, Mataró and Cadaqués, with actors from the Theater Institute.

Station of oblivion

Last weekend, the production by Canónigo Films and TV3 also premiered in theaters, after having been shown at eleven festivals. Station of oblivion (Estación del olvido) by the young filmmakers Christian Molina and Sandra Serna. This production, filmed in Cadaqués in just six weeks and with a modest budget of around one and a half million euros, tells the relationship between an old sailor far from the sea and a young man with adaptation problems.

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