Corto Fajal
Between 1986 and 1999, I worked in several different fields. After ten years in entertainment and supervising holidays for children and adults, and obtaining a DEFA qualification, I became director of a community centre. Between 1994 and 1999 I worked as events director for major summer festivals in Foix, Bayonne, Carcassonne and Hennebont.
At the same time, I began working as assistant director on both feature films (M. Poirier, JF Richet, A. Desrosières, A. Douchet, etc.) and commercials (Partizan, Midi Minuit, Movie Box, Direct et Différé, etc.).
I made my first short film in 1992, El Orgullo del Gitan, in the Caló language, which was screened at about twenty national and international festivals. Since then, I have directed several films, including short fiction, documentaries, commissioned films, music videos and commercials, of which several have been awarded prizes at festivals.
I helped set up Arwestud Films (1999). The company supports my projects in production or co-production and rents out filming and lighting equipment.
I tend towards making films with an emphasis on our natural environment and wide open spaces, which bring about enriching encounters and experiences. Not only do I develop my own projects I also use my expertise on the projects of others through films, training, conferences and study missions.
E-thic
Cross Channel Film Lab 2015
Balanced between the unsafe real world and the virtual universe where she feels protected, Lydie, an “ethical hacker,” is recruited by an environmental NGO to protect its data and operations from a cyber-criminal organization called the “Walden Group.”
Is ethics a matter of legality, or legitimacy?
Nous, Tikopia
Breizh Film Fund 2016
On the island of Tikopia, the young king Ti Namo bears the responsibility of preserving his people’s customs and practices and passing them on from generation to generation. He and his community are now facing the challenges that are disrupting the relationship they have maintained with their island for over 3000 years. To meet this challenge, Ti Namo draws on an ancestral legacy, founded on a system which has always considered the island as their main partner. With its organic soundscape and musical atmosphere, the film mirrors our own world, illustrating the choices which can determine the survival of our civilization. It relates a small yet profound chapter of humanity’s bigger story, played out on this miniature Earth.
