Only Paco Roca is capable of transmitting the deepest emotions with such clarity. He’s now an essential part of Valencian, Spanish and world culture.
Paco Roca has become a leading light as the author who has revamped comics for the 21st century and transformed them into graphic novels. Now he’s become an undisputed presence in Valencian, Spanish and world culture.
Famous artists and friends of his, such as the musician José Manuel Casañ, the actor Joaquin Reyes and the film director Alejandro Amenábar, tell us about their collaborations with Paco and reveal his creativity, humour and genius.
The participation of family members and people who know him well, will also allow us to get a closer understanding of his personality and origins.
We accompany the author in the creative process of his latest work: "Return to Eden" the plot of which is based on his own family story and which provides the narrative thread of the documentary.
Following the daily life of this humble, affable man, we will become first-hand witnesses to the creation of large murals and film productions, see him receive the most prestigious awards and admire his impressive international recognition. We will get an in-depth understanding of an author who is always on the lookout for new challenges, an artist at the height of his career.
Title Paco Roca, a draughtsman of life
Documentary
Genre Art, culture, comic.
Running time 57 / 70 minutes.
Language Spanish.
Year 2023
Production company Docu Producciones S.L. and RTVE
Format Video digital 4K DCI 4096x2160
Direction Batiste Miguel Gil
Screenplay Batiste Miguel Gil and Xavier Mata Badenas
Protagonist Paco Roca
Executive production Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Photography Manuel Pascual
Music Christian Molina
Production Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Post production Yago Muñiz
Sound Víctor Orozco
Interviewees Paco Roca, José Manuel Casañ, Joaquín Reyes, Alejandro Amenabar, Carlos Areces, MacDiego, Carlos de Diego and Martín Forés.
Discover the secrets of one of the world’s most popular and enigmatic creatures: the flamingo, the bird of fire.
The flamingo has protagonized myths and legends throughout the ages, especially the story of the phoenix, the mythological bird that is reborn from its ashes. It is also one of the animals with the greatest presence in our creations, an icon for the world of fashion. However, it is a little-known, curious bird whose way of life is very different from that of other birds. We enter the world of the flamingo and discover it through its own eyes.
Title Bird Of Fire
TV documentary
Genre WildLife
Running time 52 minutos.
Language English.
Year 2021
Production company UKE DOCU U.T.E. (Temporary union of companies of Ukemotion and Docu Producciones S.L.)
Distribution company Off The Fence
Format Video digital 4K DCI 4096x2160
Direction Batiste Miguel Gil
Screenplay Batiste Miguel Gil and Pablo Vera
Narration Tom Stutter
Executive production Álvaro Olavarría and Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Photography Manuel Pascual
Music Christian Molina
Production Álvaro Olavarría and Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Post production Javier Sánchez
Sound Batiste Miguel Gil
This is the story of Patches, the last hope for one of Europe's most endangered species.
The last wetland marbled duck dies during its migratory journey, in the dunes of the Sahara, leaving only 30 couples alive in the whole of Europe. The marbled duckling Patches is now one of the most endangered water birds. So begins the story of Patches, the last of her kind. The success of her epic tale will determine survival of a creature unique in the whole of nature.
Title Patches
TV documentary
Genre WildLife
Running time 52 minutes.
Language English.
Año de producción 2021
Production company UKE DOCU U.T.E. (Temporary union of companies of Ukemotion and Docu Producciones S.L.)
Distribution company Artico Distribution
Format Video digital 4K DCI 4096x2160
Direction Batiste Miguel Gil
Guion Batiste Miguel Gil y Pablo Vera
Narration Tom Stutter
Executive production Álvaro Olavarría y Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Photography Manuel Pascual
Music Christian Molina
Production Álvaro Olavarría y Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Post production Javier Sánchez
Sound Batiste Miguel Gil
Okuda, the graffiti artist, world famous for his amazing urban art. The Fallas of Valencia, the most iconic and spectacular popular festival in the world.. What happens when the avant-garde comes face to face with tradition?
Every year in March, Valencia, a city in the southern Mediterranean, devotes itself to the festival of fire; a spectacular rite of Spring which attracts millions of people from all corners of the globe .
The main effigy of the celebrations will be designed by an avant-garde artist at the height of his career.
Okuda San Miguel, with his colourful surrealistic style is one of the most outstanding figures in the world of street art and his work is frequently on show at the most important art fairs and galleries around the world.
His challenge is to create a gigantic sculpture, which will then go up in flames, along with the hundreds of others dotted around the city.
The Fallas of Valencia, heir to a centuries-old tradition and recently declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, is faced with the eternal question: Can tradition be renewed?
History and innovation once more confront each other in the search for equilibrium
Title Equilibri By Okuda
Documentary
Genre Art, street art, culture, tradition
Running time 70 minutes.
Language Spanish.
Year2019
Production company Docu Producciones S.L., Ink And Movement, À Punt Mèdia.
Distribution company Onza Distribution
Format Video digital 4K DCI 4096x2160
Direction Batiste Miguel Gil
Screenplay Batiste Miguel Gil and Pablo Vera
Protagonist Okuda San Miguel
Executive production Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz, Óscar Sanz and Ana Alemany
Photography Guillermo Polo
Music Ed Is Dead
Production Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Post production Yago Muñiz and Javier Sánchez
Sound José Serrador Villanueva
Interviewees Okuda San Miguel, Óscar Sanz, José Latorre, Gabriel Sanz, Reyes Martí, Martha Cooper, Ivan Escrich.
Can you imagine a movie blockbuster transferred to the setting of a theatrical stage? This is the story of Enrique Rambal, one of the most influential theatre directors of the early 20th century.
Today it is hard to imagine a movie blockbuster, with its huge cast and special effects, acted out on a theatrical stage. But this is exactly what Enrique Rambal, a Valencian actor and theater director from the early 20th century, achieved. Influenced by the first Hollywood movies, he managed to create a totally different way of doing theater that amazed audiences. An internationally recognized genius whose works left nobody indifferent ,but who has now sadly fallen into oblivion. Among those in charge of commemorating him, are the actors, José Sacristán and Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.
Title Enrique Rambal
TV Documentary
Genre Theater, history, art.
Running time 52 minutes.
Language Valencian and Spanish.
Year 2018
Production company Docu Producciones S.L. and À Punt Mèdia.
Distribution company Docu Producciones S.L.
Format Video digital 4K DCI 4096x2160
Direction Batiste Miguel Gil
Screenplay Batiste Miguel Gil and Francisca Ferrer
Protagonist Enrique Rambal (interpreted by Diego Braguinsky)
Executive production Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz and Ana Alemany
Photography Guillermo Polo
Music Christian Molina
Production Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Post production Tomás Muñoz
Sound Batiste Miguel Gil
Art Ana Antón
Interviewees José Sacristán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Rodolf Sirera, Francisco Ferrer, Jaume Lloret and Anaclet Pons
Joaquin Sorolla, an artist whose light filled canvases have touched the hearts of millions, despite the ever-changing fashions and movements in the world of art.
Sorolla’s generation represented the pinnacle of centuries of artistic development. Among all of his contemporaries Sorolla was probably the most gifted, which explains his fabulous success. However, artistic trends changed at breakneck speed and the art world soon forgot about him. Nevertheless, the general public never turned their backs on him because his paintings, brimming with sparkling light, speak directly to the heart of the spectator . Soprolla’s continued popularity with ordinary art museum goers has once again attracted the attention of critics and historians to his art. Sorolla’s trajectory refutes all the clichés about the history of art.
Title Sorolla, the triumph of light
TV Documentary
Genre Art, history, culture.
Running time 52 minutes.
Language Castellano
Year 2015
Production company Docu Producciones S.L.
Distribution company Onza Distribution
Format Video digital HD
Direction Batiste Miguel Gil
Screenplay Clara Sanz Alonso, Enrique Errando Mariscal and Batiste Miguel Gil
Protagonist Joaquín Sorolla
Photography Ximo Fernández
Production Clara Sanz Alonso
Post production Batiste Miguel Gil
Sound Batiste Miguel Gil
Interviewees María López, Edmund Peel, Blanca Pons Sorolla, Tomás Llorens. Felipe Garín, María del Mar Villafranca, Consuelo Luca de Tena.
The only desert in Europe, surrounded by the ancient Mediterranean Sea, has become the home of art.
Cabo de Gata, located in the southeast of Spain, is the coastline that best preserves the essence of the Mediterranean. That is why in the last 40 years it has become the home of artists of many disparate nationalities. Here, seven of them, from different countries and areas of art, have found freedom. Here, they work, create and find inspiration and enjoyment, on the shores of a sea of crystalline waters with seabeds of great beauty. By day, the extraordinary light reveals this unique desert in all its rawness and by night the duende of music and flamenco dance wakes up with all its energy. This place is its inspiration.
Title Cabo de Gata, mediterranean inspiration
TV Documentary
Genre Art, culture, travel.
Running time 52 minutes.
Language Spanish.
Year 2014
Production company Docu Producciones S.L.
Distribution company Docu Producciones S.L.
Format Video digital HD
Direction Batiste Miguel Gil
Screenplay Batiste Miguel Gil
Protagonists Jeanne Chèvalier, Ana Alonso, Jorge Pardo, Matthew Weir, A. Campschulte, Mario Alonso, Sophie Cuendet.
Executive production Clara Sanz Alonso
Photography Ximo Fernández
Production Clara Sanz Alonso
Post production Batiste Miguel Gil
Music Jorge Pardo
Sonido Batiste Miguel Gil
Science and indigenous wisdom, two cosmologies work together to preserve the largest jungle in the world.
The long-standing friendship between Javier Lobón, a CSIC researcher, and the great curaca Uitoto Ama Hitoma, has made it possible to hold a conference on the dialogue between science and indigenous culture. Through spectacular images of the most extensive jungle on the planet, representatives of different indigenous ethnic groups, convey in their own voice the current conflicts, their joyful vitality, and their concern for the future of their children. Little by little, we perceive the freshness of indigenous wisdom, deeply connected, as always to the conservation of the Amazon.
Title Voices of the Amazon
TV Documentary
Genre Science, ethnography, nature.
Running time 52 minutes.
Language Spanish.
Year 2013
Production company Docu Producciones S.L.
Distribution company Docu Producciones S.L.
Format Video digital HD
Direction Batiste Miguel Gil
Screenplay Batiste Miguel Gil
Protagonists Hitoma Safiama, Javier Lobón, Hernando Castro, Absalon Arango, Teodoro Dámaso.
Executive production Clara Sanz Alonso
Photography Ximo Fernández
Production Clara Sanz Alonso
Post production Batiste Miguel Gil
Sound Batiste Miguel Gil
Just like us, birds also need service areas to take a break in the middle of their long journeys.
Down they flock from the sky. They stay for a while in their service stations located halfway between the North Pole and the equator. Some stay for only a few hours to rest and then continue on their long journey. Others come here to have their young, or to spend the cold months of winter.
Millions of birds whose homeland extends from northern Europe to sub-Saharan Africa need these wetlands to survive. Throughout the year we discover an incredible variety of stories- scenes of quarreling, tenderness and fun and games. The species may change, with different behaviour patterns and life cycles, but there ́s always something happening in the wetlands of the Mediterranean; real service stations for birds.
Title Service station for birds
TV Documentary
Genre Wildlife.
Running time 52 minutos.
Language Spanish and english.
Year 2022
Production company Docu Producciones S.L.
Distribution company Docu Producciones S.L.
Format Full HD 1920x1080
Direction Batiste Miguel Gil
Screenplay Batiste Miguel Gil
Narration Aneta Fernández and Tom Stutter
Executive production Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Photography Ximo Fernández
Music Carlos Marquina and Salvador Xirivella
Production Joan Baptista Miguel Sanz
Postproducción Batiste Miguel Gil
Post production JBatiste Miguel Gil
Sound Batiste Miguel Gil