From knee to heart

From knee to heart (2018) is a documentary about the dancer Sol Picó. From the dancer under the spotlight to her reality behind the scenes, the documentary approaches Sol Pico’s daily life at a crucial moment in her career after winning the National Dance Award.
The strength of her movement, but also the fineness of the rhythmic changes of her dance, forms a very personal language which links contemporary dance with elements of other worlds, creating, in this way, an own and particular iconography with sense of humour always in mind. The documentary will also go across Sol Picó’s artistic career, from the beginning of her performance, to the street theatre and, finally, her artistic consolidation and the creation of her own company. Her work is characterized by showing a strong and brave woman but who is not afraid of showing her weaknesses without taboos. The project also brings the artist’s more personal side closer: the difficulties of growing up as a dancer, the difficulties of creation and how to face her career after turning 50

Co-produced by Televisió de Catalunya and À punt Mèdia.

Worldwide premiered in Warsaw on 12th october of 2018 at Warsaw International Film Festival. Participation at DOK.fest in Munchen on 12th may of 2019, opening night at the Dance on Camera Festival in New York on July 12, 2019, opening of the Choreoscope (International Festival of Cinema and Dance) on October 15, 2019 at the Filmoteca de Catalunya, opening of the Festival Memorimage of Reus on November 6, 2019, participation in Dance Film Festival of San Francisco on November 6, 2019, at the Dance Film Jacob Burns Film Center in New York on October 24, 2019 and at the Mostra in Valencia on October 27, 2019. Premiere in cinemas: from June 7 to 9, 2019 at La Sala Berlanga in Madrid in “Cine y Danza” series organized by Fundación SGAE , November 8 to 15, 2019 at the Cines Texas in Barcelona and on November 9, 2019 at IVAM Center d’Art in Alcoi.

Award: Millor Retrat d’una Generació 2019 (Choreoscope Festival).

Directed by:
Susanna Barranco
Written by:
Susanna Barranco
Operators camera:
Susanna Barranco
Christian Guiriguet
Lisandro Fernández
Violeta Barca-Fontana
Music:
Mireia Tejero
Mariona Sagarra
Executive production:
La Barranco Films
Executive producer:
Susanna Barranco
Executive production of À Punt Mèdia:
Míriam Civera
Executive production of TVC:
Jordi Ambrós
Associate producer:
Mousiké
Head of production
Susanna Barranco
Production assistants:
Dolors Galí
Sílvia Girmé
Offline editors:
Juan Morales Calvo
Susanna Barranco
Online editor:
Juan Morales Calvo
Sound recordist:
Jordi Rossinyol
Blai Barba
Gerard Tàrrega
Cristian Mira
Post-production & grafing:
Mezzo Post, Amsterdam
Sound editing:
HeadQ Post Production and Sound Design
English subtitles:
Marta Montblant
Simâo Chambel