'Them in the city': a portrait of women from the peripheries promoted by Movistar Plus+

Reyes Gallegos writes and directs 'Them in the City', an original feature-length documentary Movistar Plus+ which will premiere in 2025 on Telefónica's television platform.

Produced by Movistar Plus+ in collaboration with The Outskirts Films and with the participation of Channel On, them in the city is starring women from five different neighborhoods from the outskirts of Seville with ““a richness and cultural value” that “is not yet recognized, but they are key to the history and heritage of our cities.” This project, in which the director, screenwriter and producer participates in the development of the script and executive production Rafael Cobos (The left-handed son), joins other non-fiction projects on the platform such as Flowers for Antonio, with Isaki Lacuesta and Elena Molina.

The PhD architect and urban planner Reyes Gallegos debuts in the production and direction of them in the city. As project coordinator The living city, directed the program urban camera, which produced documentaries made with the residents of the neighborhoods of El Puche and La Chanca (Almería), San Martín de Porres (Córdoba) and Polígono Sur (Seville). He has also been a member of the art and location team for the original series Movistar Plus+ The left-handed son.

This is how it transfers the own director the process of making the project: "I never imagined writing and directing a feature-length documentary. However, the process to get here has been quite organic. I started researching urban planning with a gender perspective for my doctorate, and since then, I have worked on various city construction projects from this perspective. It was doing field work in the neighborhoods of my city when I started the series of photographs #ellasenlaciudad, whose protagonists and their great - but unknown - stories were giving shape and content to this documentary. The locations They have a lot of cinematographic and narrative weight, and they invite us to ask ourselves what cities could have been like in an egalitarian country, and how neighborhoods will survive in the future.”

For its part, Rafael Cobos claims to feel “very happy” to debut as executive producer in a "so necessary and lucid" project: I grew up in a suburban neighborhood in the 80s; in those years, life in the neighborhoods was an undisputed matriarchy. Fathers worked outside almost all day and mothers, who had left their jobs to raise their children, were in charge not only of the administration and domestic affairs, but also managed most of the vital issues and silently, day by day, allowed the maintenance and the profound transformation of neighborhoods devoid of resources and created by men.”

This is the official synopsis of them in the city, whose premiere is scheduled for 2025: “them in the city It is starring a generation of women, the first settlers of the peripheral neighborhoods. Through the stories about their daily lives in five neighborhoods of Seville, we discover how they are the support of a city that turns its back on them. The stories talk about gender, care, economy, urban planning, education, political struggles, achievements and desires. We will be surprised by their testimonies, essential to know, from a gender perspective, the cultural heritage of our country and the transformation of our cities in the last 50 years.”