FILMS
The Grown-Ups (2016)
A group of friends with Down Syndrome have attended to the same school for over 40 years, and they don’t want to continue complying with school obligations. Most of their parents are dead, and none of them thought their kids would outlive them. They always believed that when their parents died, they would be able to do those things they weren’t allowed to do before, like living on their own, having sex, being parents, getting married, and having a real job. But things are not changing for them, and they have to deal with the frustration of living as if they were still ten-years-olds, although they are almost fifty.
www.thegrown-ups.com
Technical Information:
- Original title: Los niños
- Film lenght: 82 min
- Director’s name: Maite Alberdi
- Cinematographer: Pablo Valdés
- Editor: Juan Eduardo Murillo, Menno Boerema
- Original score: Miguel Miranda, José Miguel Tobar
- Sound: Boris Herrera, Juan Carlos Maldonado
- Producers: Maite Alberdi, Denis Vaslin, Fleur Knopperts, Sebastián Brahm.
- General Producer: Daniela Sandoval
- Co-Production Company: Volya Films (Netherlands), Mandra Films (France)
- TV Co Producers: TVN (Chile), Señal Colombia (Colombia), EO (Holanda), POV (USA).
- Financing institutions: Fondo Audiovisual CAIA-Chile-, CORFO-Chile-, CNTV-Chile-, IDFA Bertha fund Europe, CNC, Tribeca, Sundance, Bertha UK, World View, Señal Colombia.
- International Sales: CAT&DOCS
PRESS RELEASES
International Press
National Press
Awards
Best female director IDFA, AWFJ EDA. The Netherlands 2016.
Best documentary DOCS BARCELONA. Spain 2017.
Best Latin American documentary E TUDO VERDADE. Brazil 2017.
Zeno Mountain Award, MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL. USA 2017.
Audience Award Films de femme Créteil. France 2017.
Special jury award Lima Film Festival. Perú 2017.
Special jury award Gramado Film Festival. Brazil 2017.
Spirit award EIDF. Corea 2017.
Awards for discovery of New Topics and new heroes. Flahertiana Film Festival. Rusia 2017.
FESTIVALS
Sydney Film Festival, Australia 2017
Docville/Fonk, Belgium 2017
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada 2017
Hot Docs, Canada 2017
ZagrebDox, Croatia 2017
Danish Film Institute, Denmark 2017
DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Finland 2017
Dok.Fest Münich, Germany 2017
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece 2017
Docaviv, Israel 2017
Le Voci dell’Inchiesta (The Voices of the Investigative), Italy 2017
Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Poland 2017
Valladolid Film Festival – Seminci, Spain 2017
Doc Lounge Scandinavia, Sweden 2018
Tempo Documentary Festival, Sweden 2017
Visions du Réel, Switzerland 2017
Documentá Madrid, Spain 2017
Docs Barcelona, Spain 2017
Flahertiana IDFF, Russia 2017
EIDF, South Corea 2017
IDFA, The Netherlands 2016
Edinburgh International Film Festival, United Kingdom 2017
BFI London Film Festival, United Kingdom 2017
Sheffield Doc/Fest, United Kingdom 2017
Cleveland International Film Festival, United States 2017
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, United States 2017
Latin Wave : New Films from Latin America, United States 2017
Miami Film Festival, United States 2017
Salem Film Fest, United States 2017
Sarasota Film Festival, United States 2017
True/False Film Fest, United States 2017
Ficci Festival de cine Cartagena de indias, Colombia 2017
Ficg Guadalajara International Film Festival, México 2017
Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse, France 2017
É tudo verdade / It’s all true, Brasil 2017
Bafici, Argentina 2017
Lima International Film Festival, Peru 2017
Guth Gafa Documentary Film Festival, Irland 2017
Bergen International Film Festival, Norway 2017
Moldox, Moldova 2017
Women Makes Wakes Film Festival, Taiwan 2017
Cine Vivo Latino Film Festival, Australia 2017
Human Rights Arts&Film Festival, Australia 2018
Bridges To Belonging, Canadá 2018
Guelph Film Festival, Canadá 2017
Berlin Documentary Film Club, Germany 2017
Collegium Augustinum, Germany 2017
Festival de Cine Español, Germany 2017
Terre de Femmes FrauenWelten Filmfest, Germany 2017
Chania Film Festival, Greece 2017
Reykjavik International Film Festival (Riff), Iceland 2017
Wenxford Documentary Film Festival, Ireland 2017
Front Doc, Italy 2017
Inconvenient Films Documentary Festival, Lithuania 2017
Macao International Documentary Film Festival, Macao 2017
Valleta Film Festival, Malta 2017
Films from the south, Norway 2017
Ânûû-rû âboro, Nouvelle Calédonie 2017
Encounters South African International Documentary, South Africa 2017
Centro cultural Montehermoso, Spain 2017
DocsValencia, Spain 2017
San Sebastián Human Rights Film Festival, Spain 2018
Doc Eat Doc Worls, United Kingdom 2018
Afi Docs, United States 2017
Human Rights Watch Film Festival, United States 2017
Seattle International Film Festival, United States 2017
