Feature Films: three films made with Carolina Rivas
The Colour of Olives (remastered trailer)
Creadores Contemporáneos, 2006 (Mexico/Palestine)
Dir. Carolina Rivas
Duration: 97 min.
Credits: Producer, Photographer, Editor, Sound Designer
A feature documentary filmed in the West Bank of Palestine in 2004 and released in 2006. This film was a big success all over the world, and won seven prizes. In 2024, the film was acquired for redistribution by Watermelon Pictures.
Lessons for Zafirah (trailer)
Creadores Contemporáneos, 2011 (Mexico)
Dir. Carolina Rivas, Daoud Sarhandi
Duration: 75 min.
Credits: Producer, Co-director, Photographer, Editor, Sound Designer
Shot between 2009-10 principally in Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. The film was finished in 2011 and went on to win eight prizes.
One for One (trailer)
Creadores Contemporáneos, 2013 (Mexico/Spain)
Dir. Carolina Rivas, Daoud Sarhandi
Duration: 77 min.
Credits: Producer, Co-director, Co-writer, Photographer, Art Director, Editor, Sound Designer
The result of many years of acting and script development workshops in Mexico City. The film ran for three months in the Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City.
Videovalores: nine personal films I made under this concept banner as producer, director, and of course editor. I edited another 41 of these short films by multiple directors (see below)
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
The Sisters
2.58 min.
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
The Alarm Clock
2.19 min.
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
The Death of R. Walser
2.58 min.
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
The Centre of the Universe
2.12 min.
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
Flowers
2.58 min.
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
Free at last
2.00 min.
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
Lockdown
2.15 min.
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
Haiku for my Mother
2.56 min.
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
For Becha
2.13 min.
Watch many more Videovalores films by other directors here. All these films are also currently streaming in Spain and Mexico
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
Videovalores: Trailer
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
Videovalores: Making of, Berlin 2017
BBC: two TV documentaries I edited from the 1990s
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
Sound on Film:
Albion
Dir. Peter West, Steve Martland
BBC2, 1988
Duration: 45 min.
16mm, Video
Credit: Editor
One of the best documentaries ever made about Margaret Thatcher and her retarded vision for Britain while she was still in power. This film was hated by the Conservative party and received a record number of complaints to the BBC.
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
From Wimps to Warriors:
Mother, Father & Me
Prod. Paul Watson
BBC2, 1992
Duration: 44 min.
16mm, Video
Credit: Editor
One episode of a series of six films on masculinity. Directed by a group of students at the National Film School, the material was purchased by producer Paul Watson, and edited by me for him. Interviews with Maurice were added later.
Early years: probably the first film I edited after leaving film school in 1985
Content from Youtube can't be displayed due to your current cookie settings. To show this content, please click "Consent & Show" to confirm that necessary data will be transferred to Youtube to enable this service. Further information can be found in our Privacy Policy. Changed your mind? You can revoke your consent at any time via your cookie settings.
England's Glory
Dir. Martin Turner
1986
Duration: 29 min.
16mm
Credit: Editor
Commissioned and produced by Alex Cox and Eric Fellner to accompany the punk feature film Sid & Nancy, starring Gary Oldman. This version—but with all Sex Pistols music strangely covered up for legal reasons—is included as a DVD/Blu-ray extra in the Criterion Collection edition of Cox's cult feature film.