Color's Notes
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Color's Notes is an independent music documentary film about a music festival
called "Mestival" which took place in Elx
(Spain
) from 17 May to 6 June 2005. Filmed at the 10th Mestival Anniversary for six days, some of musicians from the different places of the World came to Spain to take place in a Cross Culture Music Festival, like Eliades Ochoa
(Cuba
), Raimundo Amador (Spain), Ken Hensley
(Great Britain
), Sazed ul Alam (Bangladesh
), among others.
The documentary film only uses footage shot during the events, and music recorded there, and incluyes interwies with the musicians, talking about different concepts like: Peace, Music and Cross Culture. It also includes Fatma el Medhi's participation (Sahara women's) and a Benefit Concert to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund
.
The film was produced by Filmmaker Xavi Tello (Musician, and independent Producer) and Juanpe Gimeno (also Musician, and sound ingineer), and was shot with small minidv (3ccds) cameras, by fourteen kinocs from Alicante
, Elx, and Murcia
who were joined in less than two days.
, dance
, cinema
, theatre
and workshops on gastronomy
. The festival has as aim pincipal promote the peace and the brotherhood, and takes place in the natural environment of the Palm grove of Elche, declared from 2000 Heritage of the Humanity for the UNESCO
.
Eliades Ochoa and the Patria Quartet (Cuba)
28th May. Elx Streets
Muluk the Hwa (Marrakech)
29 May. Great Theatre
Francisco Contreras "The child of Elx" (Spain)
1st June. Great Theatre
Sarabanda (Spain, Uruguay, Brazil, Cuba)
3rd June. Municipal Park
Luétiga (Cantabria)
The Negress (Spain)
Aztex (Mexico / USA)
4 June. Municipal Park
Benefit concert Nelson Send Child's Fund
Fetium Kora (Senegal)
Ken Hensley (Great Britain)
Raimundo Amador (Spain)
Shiv Shankar (India)
Sazed Ul Alam (Bangladesh)
concert organizador) to film and record the concerts of the benefit Concert with new digital cameras (minidv 3cdds) that began to be accessible to the young filmmakers.
Two days befote, the beginning of the Mestival, in a small meeting in a bar, the Mestival crew offers the possibility to film all the acts, conferences, concerts, and interviews that it World take place during these days. There wasn't any Money to do it, but there was cameras and sound equipment
Inspired by the father of the Documentary Dziga Vertov
, and his texts about the Kino-Eye, Xavi Tello called some young Filmmakers and friends of the zone, and joined team up to fourteen people with their own digital camera
s, and like Vertov’s Kinocs, came out to film the Festival. With only 400 € paid in videotapes, fuel, and some food&te, 72 hours of video footage were filmed and 12 hours of live music
were recorded from the mix table. It began a long process of catalogation of all tapes, listen the concerts, and transcript the interwievs made by Producciones Ociosas. In August 2005, the first videoclip of a Song were edited to the band ‘La Negra’.
In 2006 there’s was released by a small edition of a Music Album with the concert of Sazed Ul Alam, Shiv Shankar and Raimundo Amador. (It was produced by Master&Padawan).
With any money and only time and a PC edit station, the edition process continued, selecting and editing one full song of each band. Involved in successive productions, shorts movies , and shootings during the next four years, while was working as a Filmmaker and Editor of War Documentaries, Xavi Tello got time to continue the show edition of the film. Three extra editors were hended to end all songs.
In the Autumn of 2009, all concerts were edited, and began to joing interwievs and music to do the first Script. The film began to take sense. Finally in the beginning of the 2010 the first version was ended, and it began the posproduction work and next the audio edition, mixes and masterization.
The film was filmed by Producciones Ociosas and Zenital Films and produced by Producciones Ociosas and Ninguna Parte Estudios, placed in Alicante, Spain. It's the first Spanish film produced, distributed and exhibited in digital.
June 2011. 39th FESTIVAL OF NATIONS 2011. Ebensee, Austria. Metion of the Jury
23rd April 2011. 1º Temuco International Documentary Film Fest.
South America Premiere. Chile.
16th February 2011. Local Premiere. Club Información. Alicante.Spain.
Since 7 February 2011. Atlantida Film Fest (Official Section)
1 - 6 February 2011. Docs Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival.
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
called "Mestival" which took place in Elx
Elx
Elche or Elx is a city located in the comarca of Baix Vinalopó, in the Alicante province which, in turn, is a part of the Valencian Community, Spain...
(Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
) from 17 May to 6 June 2005. Filmed at the 10th Mestival Anniversary for six days, some of musicians from the different places of the World came to Spain to take place in a Cross Culture Music Festival, like Eliades Ochoa
Eliades Ochoa
Eliades Ochoa is a Cuban guitarist and singer from Loma de la Avispa, Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago de Cuba....
(Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
), Raimundo Amador (Spain), Ken Hensley
Ken Hensley
Kenneth William David Hensley is a keyboard player , guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer best known for his work with Uriah Heep during the 1970s....
(Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
), Sazed ul Alam (Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
), among others.
The documentary film only uses footage shot during the events, and music recorded there, and incluyes interwies with the musicians, talking about different concepts like: Peace, Music and Cross Culture. It also includes Fatma el Medhi's participation (Sahara women's) and a Benefit Concert to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund
Nelson Mandela Children's Fund
The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund is a charitable organization founded by Nelson Mandela, based in South Africa. Its mission is to help individuals from birth to age 22, particularly orphans of the AIDS crisis.-History:...
.
The film was produced by Filmmaker Xavi Tello (Musician, and independent Producer) and Juanpe Gimeno (also Musician, and sound ingineer), and was shot with small minidv (3ccds) cameras, by fourteen kinocs from Alicante
Alicante
Alicante or Alacant is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacantí, in the south of the Valencian Community. It is also a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city of Alicante proper was 334,418, estimated , ranking as the second-largest...
, Elx, and Murcia
Murcia
-History:It is widely believed that Murcia's name is derived from the Latin words of Myrtea or Murtea, meaning land of Myrtle , although it may also be a derivation of the word Murtia, which would mean Murtius Village...
who were joined in less than two days.
The Festival
Mestival, or the International Festival of Music and Ethnic Culture and Miscegenation, is a festival that is realized from 1996 between the months of between May and June in the city of Elche (Spain). This festival represents a forum for the approximation and the cultural exchange between the peoples of the world. It is characterized by spectacles of musicMusic
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
, dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, cinema
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
and workshops on gastronomy
Gastronomy
Gastronomy is the art or science of food eating. Also, it can be defined as the study of food and culture, with a particular focus on gourmet cuisine...
. The festival has as aim pincipal promote the peace and the brotherhood, and takes place in the natural environment of the Palm grove of Elche, declared from 2000 Heritage of the Humanity for the UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
.
Performers
19th May. Great TheatreEliades Ochoa and the Patria Quartet (Cuba)
28th May. Elx Streets
Muluk the Hwa (Marrakech)
29 May. Great Theatre
Francisco Contreras "The child of Elx" (Spain)
1st June. Great Theatre
Sarabanda (Spain, Uruguay, Brazil, Cuba)
3rd June. Municipal Park
Luétiga (Cantabria)
The Negress (Spain)
Aztex (Mexico / USA)
4 June. Municipal Park
Benefit concert Nelson Send Child's Fund
Fetium Kora (Senegal)
Ken Hensley (Great Britain)
Raimundo Amador (Spain)
Shiv Shankar (India)
Sazed Ul Alam (Bangladesh)
Film production
In May 2005, the first events of the 10th Music Anniversary of the Mestival, began to be known in walls and press, and Xavi Tello made a propousal to Sazed Ul Alam (Master sitar, and Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...
concert organizador) to film and record the concerts of the benefit Concert with new digital cameras (minidv 3cdds) that began to be accessible to the young filmmakers.
Two days befote, the beginning of the Mestival, in a small meeting in a bar, the Mestival crew offers the possibility to film all the acts, conferences, concerts, and interviews that it World take place during these days. There wasn't any Money to do it, but there was cameras and sound equipment
Inspired by the father of the Documentary Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov
David Abelevich Kaufman , better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov , was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist...
, and his texts about the Kino-Eye, Xavi Tello called some young Filmmakers and friends of the zone, and joined team up to fourteen people with their own digital camera
Digital camera
A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...
s, and like Vertov’s Kinocs, came out to film the Festival. With only 400 € paid in videotapes, fuel, and some food&te, 72 hours of video footage were filmed and 12 hours of live music
Live Music
Live Music is a reggaeton company owned by DJ Giann.-Artists:* Jowell & Randy* Tony Lenta* Watussi* De La Ghetto* Guelo Star* Galante "El Emperador"-Producers:*DJ Blass*Dexter*Mr. Greenz*DJ Giann*Los Hitmen*Dirty Joe*ALX...
were recorded from the mix table. It began a long process of catalogation of all tapes, listen the concerts, and transcript the interwievs made by Producciones Ociosas. In August 2005, the first videoclip of a Song were edited to the band ‘La Negra’.
In 2006 there’s was released by a small edition of a Music Album with the concert of Sazed Ul Alam, Shiv Shankar and Raimundo Amador. (It was produced by Master&Padawan).
With any money and only time and a PC edit station, the edition process continued, selecting and editing one full song of each band. Involved in successive productions, shorts movies , and shootings during the next four years, while was working as a Filmmaker and Editor of War Documentaries, Xavi Tello got time to continue the show edition of the film. Three extra editors were hended to end all songs.
In the Autumn of 2009, all concerts were edited, and began to joing interwievs and music to do the first Script. The film began to take sense. Finally in the beginning of the 2010 the first version was ended, and it began the posproduction work and next the audio edition, mixes and masterization.
The film was filmed by Producciones Ociosas and Zenital Films and produced by Producciones Ociosas and Ninguna Parte Estudios, placed in Alicante, Spain. It's the first Spanish film produced, distributed and exhibited in digital.
Exhibition
28th July 2011. FESTIVAL 1000 Metros Bajo Tiera PIA. Alicante. SpainJune 2011. 39th FESTIVAL OF NATIONS 2011. Ebensee, Austria. Metion of the Jury
23rd April 2011. 1º Temuco International Documentary Film Fest.
South America Premiere. Chile.
16th February 2011. Local Premiere. Club Información. Alicante.Spain.
Since 7 February 2011. Atlantida Film Fest (Official Section)
1 - 6 February 2011. Docs Barcelona International Documentary Film Festival.