About Us
Pimpi&Nella Films
Pimpi & Nella Films is an artistic and research collective that emerged from the collaboration between Iratxe Fresneda, Saioa Etxebarria and Txelu Medina.
With a short but fruitful career, we've been developing different projects and shooting all over Europe for nearly seven years. We're seduced by the idea of discovering small, forgotten but, at the same time, universal stories.
The film archive and research into the form and methods of storytelling are part of the creative drive of this independent production company created in 2004 by Txelu Medina (CEO) and Iratxe Fresneda (Director).
We are interested in the B side of the stories, showing other ways of seeing and looking for other ways of telling.
Tetuan (2021) 80'
At this moment we are working with enthusiasm to finish "La trilogia del registro", the last of the films is Tetuán, Tiṭṭawin, Los ojos (2021). Pimpinella Films has managed to consolidate a curriculum of feature film production and development of creative proposals either for its own work or for commissions from external clients or directors, and this helps to trust in the capacity of the production company to make a project like "Tetuán" a reality.
Tetuán has been selected in:
- ABYCINE Lanza pitching 2019
- 60 Zinebi International Film Festival Bilbao pitching 2019
- FIPA- Europa Media Pitching 2020
- Europa Creativa Desk MEDIA Euskadi Project selected for co-production workshop in collaboration with the San Sebastian Film Festival 2020
- 10 Promising Spanish Projects in Development Speed Meeting Session organized by the ICAA as part of its activities at the Marché du Film Cannes 2020
Cold Lands ─ Lurralde Hotzak (2018) 67'
Co-produced by ETB, premiered at the 56th Gijón International Film Festival in International Competition (Llendes). The film was made possible with the collaboration of ZENTROPA Denmark, the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, Fundación Otxoa de Barandika, Museo Vasco de Bilbao, UPV/EHU, Photomuseum Zarautz, Castillo de Loarre, Brandts Museum, Forstadsmuseet, Fundación Azkue.
The film was edited by GOYA winner Raúl López and received the award for best international documentary at the International Festival PORTO FEMME 2019. Cold Lands has been selected at the Nantes Film Festival, 25 FIJR Granada (official selection of the competition), at the Riga Pasaules Film Festival in Latvia, at the 10 D'A Film Festival Barcelona (official selection of the competition), at the 19 NeMAF Seoul (official section), at the Madrid Film Festival (competition) and at the 25 Eco Seia International Film Festival (official section) among many others.
The film has theatrical and VOD distribution in Mexico and has been distributed in VOD by Filmin in Spain and Portugal.
Echoing Calls Irrintziaren Oihartzunak (2016) 54'
The cinema, the archive as a heritage and the visibility of women converged in their first production with a remarkable success of public and critics.
Irrintziaren Oihartzunak (2016), was selected for 64 San Sebastian Film Festival, 27 Spanish Film Festival of Nantes, 48 International Film Festival Nyon Doc Outlook International Market, 25 Mostra International Film Festival of Barcelona, 5 Move Cine Arte de Sao Paulo and the 9th International Festival of Invisible Film of Bilbao (Award for the best Basque production) among many other festivals.
it has also been screened in more than twenty cultural venues and film libraries such as the Arsenal in Berlin, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, the Filmoteca Navarra, Tabakalera, etc.
The film is part of the FILMIN VOD catalogue.