NARRATIVE -

 

ROADS TO OLYMPIA

Feature Film

CO-EDITOR

Three young athletes face cultural oppression, intolerance and poverty, as they pursue a shared dream of competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. In Russia, Roma embodies the ideal Olympic decathlete. He fights to keep a double life hidden from his father, a politician supporting the anti-gay law, and a nation seeped in homophobia. A tragic event reveals his secret and forces Roma to make the hardest decision of his life. Muna, a Saudi student with a desire to play football, lives in an Islamic country where some consider women to be indecent for participating in sports. She risks shaming her family and puts her life on the line in pursuit of her passion. Manuel, a Brazilian wrestler living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, struggles to get his mother out of poverty by making it to the Games. Socio-economic conditions and his criminal past threaten to tear him from his family and ultimately destroy his Olympic Dream. Three lives. Three Dreams. Three Roads To Olympia.

A BEACON REVOLT Production (2021)

Three young athletes face cultural oppression, intolerance and poverty, as they pursue a shared dream of competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.


Premiered at the 40th Durban International Film Festival, 2021
Best Feature - Bronze Lens Film Festival (Atlanta, US) 2021





PEQUEÑO

Short Film

WRITER + DIRECTOR + PRODUCER

Official Trailer 

Lucia lives in a world on her own, keeping her loneliness at bay with her own makeshift pastimes. Wandering around the forest where she lives, she begins collecting all manner of insects in a glass jar. Her innocent hobby turns dark when she realizes the power she holds over the little creatures in her jar.

A Kind of Voyeuristic Dependency & DeVerbena production
Starring - Lucía Fragueiro
Writer, Director, Producer - Beatriz M Calleja
Director of Photography - Luis Ángel Pérez
Editor - Carmen Alonso
Colorist _ Fran Cóndor
Graphics and VFX - Tasio
Sound design and Mix - Miguel ‘Maiki’ Calvo
Music - Ann Deveria

Premiered at London Short Film Festival (2015)

 
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DOCUMENTARY -

RICHARD ESTES : REFLECTIONS

Documentary Short Film

DIRECTOR + EDITOR + PRODUCER

 
 

Documentary short produced on the occasion of Richard Estes’s exhibition at Menconi + Schoelkopf.

Richard Estes is the standard-bearer of photorealist painting and its most devoted and accomplished practitioner. Estes's unique ability to synthesize the experience of travel and observation have secured his legacy as one of the leading painters of the 20th century. His body of work includes interpretations of timeless, pristine images of New York City as well as his many adventures in travel spanning the globe.

From the quiet, towering glaciers in Antarctica, to the glittering waters of Maine, to the energetic streets of New York and vast plains of Africa, the exhibition brings us an intimate experience of Estes's places and moments through the artist's eyes.


Executive Producers - Andrew Schoelkopf and Alana Ricca
Producers - Susan Ainsworth and David Glenn Armstrong
Director,Editor,Producer - Beatriz M Calleja
Director of Photography - Ashton Harrewyn
AC/Grip - Ricardo Acioli
Sound - Oscar Pedraza
Sound Mixer - Blake Henderson

 

IN THE KNOW

Docu-Style Series

EDITOR + COLORIST

 
 

DIE THE GOOD DEATH

Feature Documentary

CO-DIRECTOR + EDITOR + CAMERA OPERATOR

 
Feature length documentary shot in Varanasi, India. 51 min. 2011 How is death perceived and experienced in India? Are Indians truly prepared to accept their own mortality? What can Westerners learn from Indian attitudes toward death? Directed by: Silvia Fernández Campos & Beatriz M. Calleja Executive producer: Luis Fernández Sousa Produced by: Silvia Fernández Campos Cinematography: Autumn Eakin Film editors:Beatriz M.Calleja & Silvia Fernández Campos Narrated by: Michael Morris Production Manager: Vinay Sharman Sound editing and mixing: Miguel Calvo "Maiki" & Erik T. Jensen Color Grading: Fran Cóndor Demarquet Title design and motion: Javier Gómez "Tasio"
 

Feature-length documentary based on Existential Psychological Theory about death acceptance shot in Varanasi, India. How is death perceived and experienced in India? Are Indians truly prepared to accept their own mortality? What can Westerners learn from Indian attitudes toward death?

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CORPORATE -



VÉA

‘J.VIEWS’

EDITOR

 
 

Vayner Media |  NBTV Studios 

 

 

MARC JACOBS

‘DECADENCE’

 

EDITOR + COLORIST

HIGHLIGHTS

 

BEHIND THE SCENES

 

 GIADA

 EDITOR + COLORIST

 

  DIESEL BLACK GOLD

 EDITOR + COLORIST

 

MUSIC VIDEO -

 

CORÉON DÚ

‘NE ME QUITTE PAS’

EDITOR + COLORIST

Music Video Directed by Gilad Sasporta Creative Direction : Coréon Dú & Gilad Sasporta Performers : Addison Ector & Candy Tong Music & Lyrics : Jacques Brel Production : Jerry Charbonnier / Coréon Dú Editor & Colorist: Beatriz M Calleja

     Directed by Gilad Sasporta
Creative Direction - Coréon Dú & Gilad Sasporta
DOP - Joseph Hirsch
Performers- Addison Ector & Candy Tong
Music & Lyrics - Jacques Brel
Production - Jerry Charbonnier / Coréon Dú


 

YES ALEXANDER

'FEVER'

DIRECTOR + EDITOR + PRODUCER

From Yes Alexander's album, Kyanite. Available for download direct from http://www.yesalexander.com/store/ iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/kyanite/id1072803337?mt=1&app=music Directed by - Beatriz M Calleja Cinematography by - Autumn Eakin Featuring - Yes Alexander and Nellie Rose Davis Produced by - Yes Alexander, Autumn Eakin, Beatriz M Calleja Edited by - Beatriz M Calleja Colorist - Daniel Silverman Production Designer - Nathan Baker Prop Master - Josh Styer Hair/Make up - Meagan Wallace Production Assistant - Melissa Tauscher Grips - Charles Richard, Emanuel Huffman

     Director + Editor - Beatriz M Calleja
Cinematographer - Autumn Eakin
Featuring - Yes Alexander and Nellie Rose Davis
Produced by - Yes Alexander, Autumn Eakin, Beatriz M Calleja
Colorist - Daniel Silverman
Production Designer - Nathan Baker
Prop Master - Josh Styer
Hair/Make up - Meagan Wallace
Production Assistant - Melissa Tauscher
Grips - Charles Richard, Emanuel Huffman

 

ISOLA

Dance Film | Fashion Film



DIRECTOR + EDITOR + PRODUCER

ISOLA is a collaboration between dancer-choreographer Sonia Franco and filmmaker Beatriz M Calleja. Its concept emerged from the desire to combine their different disciplines. Using the backdrop of urban surroundings, natural and man-made, Isola speaks to the ideas of duplicity, inner fight, and isolation.

Ann Deveria’s track ‘Narvaé’, creates an atmospheric and sensorial experience in concert with the dancer’s movements and emotions.

Director + Editor - Beatriz M Calleja
Dancer + Choreographer - Sonia Franco
Cinematographer - Olga Vazquez Puertas
Produced by - Rarekey Pictures
Music - Ann Deveria
Production Manager - Carmen Simon Rubio
Costume Designer - Nikita Nipone Designs
Hair/Make up - Steph Gomez

 

UNDERWATERS

'CEMENT TRAY'

DIRECTOR + EDITOR + COLORIST + VFX 

First single from the Youth album, composed, produced, mixed and mastered by underwaters, 2016 ©.

  Directed by - Beatriz M Calleja
Cinematography by - Autumn Eakin
Featuring - Irene Menéndez , Pedro Aijón
Produced by - Underwaters
Editor/ Colorist / VFX - Beatriz M Calleja
Production Manager - Shula Melamed
Production Designer - Nathalie Cahuzac , Beatriz M Calleja
Costume Designer + Hair/Make up - Alex Llana

 
 
 

about

Beatriz M Calleja is a versatile visual storyteller based in New York City, who combines soundscape with visual narrative to tell compelling, intimate and powerful stories. Her work as a director and editor includes corporate as well as documentary and narrative projects. She began her career by shooting, directing, and editing BTS of advertisements for companies such as McCann-Erickson, and videos for talent agencies.

In 2011, she completed the feature-length documentary Die the Good Death shot in India, as co-director, camera operator, and editor that screened at multiple international festivals. In New York, she has worked as an editor of varied commercials, corporate videos, and fashion films for clients such as SKII, Giada, Diesel, Marc Jacobs, Viacom or Nissan.

Her narrative short film Pequeño, has been an Official Selection at BAFTA-Qualifying festivals such as London Short Film Festival, legendary Cork Film Festival, and Canadian Screen Award Qualifying Vancouver International Women in Film Festival in North America. Most recently, she co-edited the feature film Roads to Olympia, shot in three different languages that is currently in distribution with MediaPro, and won Best Feature at the 12th annual BronzeLens Film Festival (Atlanta, USA). She is currently working on the post production of the feature documentary 999 and the pre-production of her new narrative short Artifacts.

  

 
 
 
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