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1 JBeyond Flamenco a film by CARLOS SAURA

2 J: BEYOND FLAMENCO MUSICAL / Spain / Spanish / 90 min. Directed by CARLOS SAURA Release: AUTUMN 2016 JDomestic distributor: A CONTRACORRIENTE

3 The new musical from the legendary Spanish director Carlos Saura allows us to experience the joy and strength of the dance and music of la Jota. As in Flamenco, Tango or Fados, Jota has evolved from a millennial traditional music and dance, to new artistic dimensions. With his own personal style, Saura continues to distill the magic and explore the boundaries of art in its purest state.

Director & Screenplay: Carlos Saura Production companies: Telefónica Studios Aragón TV Tresmonstruos Producers: Leslie Calvo Carlos Saura Medrano Gabriel Arias-Salgado Ruiz-Jimenez Axel Kuschevatzky

4 Director & Screenplay: Carlos Saura Production companies: Telefónica Studios Aragón TV Tresmonstruos Producers: Leslie Calvo Carlos Saura Medrano Gabriel Arias-Salgado Ruiz-Jimenez Axel Kuschevatzky Executive producers: Gabriel Arias-Salgado Carlos Saura Medrano Leslie Calvo Director of photography: Paco Belda Editor: Carlos Saura Medrano Sound: Kike Cruz Jesús Espada Music: Alberto Artigas Coreographer: Miguel Ángel Berna

DIRECTOR S NOTES Some years ago, I wanted to make a musical about la Jota, the music and the dance of my homeland. My friends kept asking me when are you going to make it?

5 DIRECTOR S NOTES Some years ago, I wanted to make a musical about la Jota, the music and the dance of my homeland. My friends kept asking me when are you going to make it?. Well, the time is now and I am actually about to start the project to direct a music documentary about it. I think that all my previous experience in musical films such as Bodas de Sangre, Carmen, El Amor Brujo, Tango, Sevillanas, Flamenco, Fados and finally Argentina in 2015, which dealed on the folk music of the northwest of Argentina, allows me to approach this new goalfrom the respect and with dedication and love towards this music originary from Aragon. La Jota is folk music and dancing so powerful that has been able to attract renowned musical composers such as Listz, Saen Saens, Massenet, Falla, Granados, Albéniz, Tárrega o Bretón, among others great ones. Its influence is evident in most part of the Spanish geography: Castilla, Navarra, Valencia, Murcia, Extremadura and Andalucía. It is also still very present in Philippines and Latin America, especially in Mexico. It is said that, and it seems to me very graphical, that Jota comes from the Arabian Chotar, that means to jump. La Jota is much more than mere jumping, is an unique rhythm, cheerful and contagious that has kept improving and perfectioning over the years. Nowadays, many dance academies are devoted to teach how to dance and how to sing it, but how is la Jota evolving? To us, this is the biggest challenge: to discover new possibilities for rhythm, to dive in the recovery of similar rhythms, both in the past and present. My intention is to make a musical film that gathers the best existing material on this subject, leaving a visual document of exceptional value, about artists of today and others who are missing; orthodoxy and heterodoxy; songs and rhythms already considered classicals or that are still to come must be worthily represented in our work.

WITH THE STELLAR CONTRIBUTION OF: Amador Castilla Dancer & Coreographer Francesco Loccisano Manuela Adamo Dancer Miguel Ángel Berna Dancer Valeriano Paños Dancer & Coreographer Giovanni Sollima

6 WITH THE STELLAR CONTRIBUTION OF: Amador Castilla Dancer & Coreographer Francesco Loccisano Manuela Adamo Dancer Miguel Ángel Berna Dancer Valeriano Paños Dancer & Coreographer Giovanni Sollima Cellist & Composer Miguel Ángel Remiro Cuarteto & Composer Carlos Nuñez Enrike Solinís Nacho Del Río Singer Sara Baras Dancer & Coreographer Vincenzo Gagliani CARLOS SAURA One of Spain s most renown filmmakers with Buñuel and Almodovar, was born in Huesca, Aragón, where the music Jota has its origins. At the age of 23 he directed his first documentary, and since then has never stop directing films, documentaries, theater, writing novels or photo exhibitions. Director of more than 50 films, he has won all possible awards in Cannes ( except the Palm d Or), in Berlin, (including the Golden Bear) and has been 3 times nominated for the Oscar awards among other innumerable awards. His series of musical films are regarded as one of the most important creative achievements in recent wold cinema. With La Jota he closes a circle that he started with Sevillanas in Carlos Saura is Comendateur of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, Grand Oficial of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Order of Isabel the Catholic in Spain, EFA award for Film Contribution and holds several Honoris Causa from universities all over the world.

www.latidofilms.com Antonio Saura Managing Director Mobile: +34 671 380 750 asaura@latidofilms.com Juan Torres Sales & Acquisitions Mobile: +34 635 431 270 juan@latidofilms.

7 Antonio Saura Managing Director Mobile: Juan Torres Sales & Acquisitions Mobile: Fabrizia Palazzo International Sales Mobile: Óscar Alonso Festivals Mobile: Giannina Antola TV Consultant Mobile:

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