VENCEJOS / SWIFTS
RAÚL RIEBENBAUER
Between March and April 2020 almost all of humanity have been confined to their homes due to the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. This confinement, with its uncertain end, has revealed to many the incalculable value of a window. But, does everybody have one?
Raúl Riebenbauer (Valencia, Spain, 1969) is a documentary filmmaker, writer and journalist. During the last years he has directed several short films and a midlength, all documentaries. Vencejos (Swifts) is the second part of the trilogy Raíz (Root) about his family origins, that began last year with Yo fui Anderssen (I was Anderssen) winner of an honorable mention in Family Film Project 2019. He will continue and close it with the short film Carbón (Coal), now in preproduction.