Verònica Font Alfaro

 

A professional of sound, I began my career as a technician in 1989 in sound studios in Barcelona. Since then, I have worked in over forty film productions as a sound designer.

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At the same time, my curiosity for editing, directing, and the will to further explore the sound language, brought me to film school. The excitement and the passion I feel for this art grew with the people I met there, and the complicity that some of us share resulted in the production company Producciones Doble Banda, of which I was part. With time, in a soft but steady manner with each project, I joined a certain way of working and a certain way of looking, while developing a thrill to tell my own stories as a film director.

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As a professional of sound, I have worked, among others, with the renowned filmmaker José Luís Guerín; in all the feature films by Pablo García Pérez de Lara; in the three feature films by Meritxell Colell; as well as with Juanjo Giménez, Adán Aliaga, Alba Sotorra, Luis Miñarro –my most recent collaboration as sound designer being in Carla Simón’s short film Letter to my mother for my son (Carta a mi madre para mi hijo), which premiered in the last Venice Film Festival.

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Now, the eagerness to bring all this experience into play converges in Roberto and the puppeteers (Roberto y los Comediantes), a film that collects, on the one hand, the learning regarding midwifery in the documentary Vos, que sos mi hermana by Yolanda Olmos, where we met Socorro Chávez (Coquito), a wonderful woman and a midwife in Malpaisillo (Nicaragua); and on the other hand, my relationship with the world of puppetry, since working as a scriptwriter for the TV show Los Lunnis (TVE) gave me the chance to discover the world of puppets –an experience that brings me to introduce a group of puppeteers to the story and to think of a road movie across Colombian territory. A film of communities, jungle, cliffs, and huge rivers, filmed through the gaze of Roberto, a 7-year-old boy with a wild imagination who, in order to save his mum, undertakes a solitary journey in search of a group of puppeteers who are touring the area and whose show brings Roberto to think that a hummingbird that helps a humpback whale could help him as well.