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Dead Slow Ahead

Year
2015
Country
Spain, France
Duration
74’
Director
Mauro Herce

A freighter crosses the ocean. The hypnotic rhythm of its pace reveals the continuous movement of the machinery devouring its workers: the old sailor’s gestures disappearing under the mechanical and impersonal pulse of the 21st century. Perhaps it is a boat adrift, or maybe just the last example of an endangered species with its engines still running, unstoppable.

Production
Nanouk Films, El Viaje Films, Bocalupo Films
Sales:
Bocalupo Films, 86 rue du Fbg Saint Denis, 75010 Paris, +33659246443, [email protected], www.bocalupofilms.com
Awards
2016 - Best Film at the Las Palmas de gran Canaria Film festival; 2015 – Best World Documentary Award at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival; 2015 - Best First Film and Universities Jury Award at DocLisboa; 2015 – Special Jury Prize – Filmmakers of the Present at the Locarno International Film Festival; 2015 – Special Mention at the Seville European Film Festival;
Director
Mauro Herce

Mauro Herce was born in Barcelona in 1976.  He graduated in engineering from the Polytechnic of Catalonia and in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona before enrolling at San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and the Louis Lumière (France) Film Schools. Since then, he has been working as a director of photography and occasional screenwriter in more than twenty feature films, both fiction and documentary. Some of these works have been selected and won awards at important international festivals. Dead Slow Ahead is his first feature film as director.

Selected Filmography

Dead Slow Ahead (2015)

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Year
2015
Country
Poland
Director
Wojciech Staroń
Duration
70’
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3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets
Year
2015
Country
USA
Director
Marc Silver
Duration
98’
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