Private Project

Isla Margarita

Mother and son meet after being estranged for some time. They walk through different landscapes, sharing a first and final moment before bidding each other farewell.

  • Carlos Fernández Mielgo
    Director
  • Carlos Fernández Mielgo
    Writer
  • Gabriel García Rivas
    Writer
  • Carlos Fernández Mielgo
    Producer
  • Gabriel García Rivas
    Producer
  • Carlos Jiménez Mata
    Producer
  • Pere MArtí Farré
    Key Cast
    "Matías"
  • Mariona Ibáñez Balletbó
    Key Cast
    "Beatriz"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Isla Margarita
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    27 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    6,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    16 mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    5:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Carlos Fernández Mielgo

Studies a Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Communication in the University of Sevilla and University of Barcelona. After, he attends the Foundation Course at the Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisual de Catalunya (ESCAC) with a full scholarship, which is renewed the following year to study the Bachelor’s Degree in Cinematography. He takes part in numerous projects as screenwriter, director and in different technical positions, specializing in the sound department. Isla Margarita is his thesis film.
He now studies a Postgraduate program in FIlm Editing at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and is currently in the editing stage of his first feature length film, a project he combines with his job as editor and post production supervisor assistant at Guspira Films and Boogaloo Films.

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Director Statement

Conceived as the end point of a cycle, Isla Margarita is a film that began its existence as a four-handed project, which soon added many more pairs of hands. Accompanied by Gabo, the cinematographer of the film, and starting from concerns and ideas we shared during our studies together, the original idea for a video essay eventually turned into a more traditional fiction, formally speaking, but one which maintained the oddities and intuitions that we agreed on following from the beginning.
It is a short film I now find hard to put in a box. Much in the same way as what happened to us during the process of creation, both the films characters and the film itself lose and find themselves as the minutes pass, and even though its tone is cryptic and perhaps at moments opaque, I can see in it sparks of truth and poetry that make me proud and thankful for the job we completed as a team. We conceived this project as the end of something, but Isla is also, as is everything, the beginning of something else.