Bio

Cristina Rubio is a writer, editor and researcher. She has worked in print and audiovisual media, as well as in the management of institutional, academic and artistic projects. She studied Hispanic Philology (University of Barcelona), Journalism (Pompeu Fabra University), and holds a master’s degree in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University. She earned a PhD in Communication from Pompeu Fabra University with her thesis “Més enllà del mirall. Dispositius de dissidència a l'obra de Joaquim Jordà: documentals que no són (sols) documentals” (Beyond the Mirror: Devices of Dissent in the Work of Joaquim Jordà: Documentaries that Are Not (Only) Documentaries), which received one of the 2019 SGAE Foundation Research Awards. She has worked at the Creative Content Unit of Doctors Without Borders and at the production companies Minoria Absoluta, Aguacate & Calabaza Films and Producciones del Barrio. She is responsible for the projects La guerra (en minúscules) (War (in lowercase)) and La repressió franquista de postguerra pel Banc Audiovisual del Memorial Democràtic (The Francoist repression of the post-war period for the Audiovisual Bank of the Democratic Memory). She also curated the exhibition “L'arxiu Jordà. El fons documental del cineasta” (The Jordà Archive: The Documentary Collection of the Filmmaker) at the Selva Regional Archive.

Le passeur, le passage was selected to participate in RAW: Residencies Arché→Work, a training and creative development programme supported by the DocLisboa and Márgenes film festivals. The project also received one of the Barcelona Crea Grants awarded by the ICUB (Barcelona Institute of Culture).

Project

At Faberllull, she will write the script for Le passeur, le passage.

The film follows a filmmaker who manages to direct his first solo fiction film after the age of 60. The impact of the film is modest, and on top of that, he suffers a stroke that leaves him with lasting effects. Then, against all odds, just when it seemed he had been cast aside by the film industry, Joaquim Jordà embarks on the most prolific, brilliant and influential phase of his career.

This is the story of someone who shone when he was expected to fade away, who saw more clearly when his sight was failing, and who, moreover, taught us how to look.