Rosa Taboada
Film | Direction | Director
Surname of "Martelo" family but in female gender. The men of the family are known for their artistic relevance but the women never had the same opportunity and their nickname was "Martela's". With "MARTELA FILMS" its founder Rosa Taboada created a own creative space as claimed by Virginia Woolf in "A Room of One's Own" After winning several awards for her photography and audiovisual films, in 2021 Rosa Taboada founded the company to realize singular and universal projects but also a deep intimate stories. Her poetic vision of the world made that her works has great atmospheres, from documentary to fiction. Actually she is working on the post-production of a documentary about the painter "Quintana Martelo" on a journey within the creative process of his great exhibition "Containers" and finishing the short film "Barxacova" filmed in natural locations of the Ribeira Sacra, (Galicia).
Biografía
Rosa Taboada
Born in Santiago de Compostela (Spain), she begin to takes pictures during her Philosophy university studies. In July 99 she travels for the first time to Paris staying in “Colegio de España”. Camera on hand she crosses all galleries and exhibitions in “the city of lights” in order to learn about light and artist photography. In 2006 she decides to work full time as a photographer and she learns the platinotipia technic from Isabel Muñoz. On the following year she attends Carlos Cánovas workshop in which she learns the managing of plates camera and in September of the same year she travels to Vancouver to attend a workshop with master photographer Ralph Gibson.
In 2006 she created his own company dedicated to produced editorial and advertising campaigns. Her work under "Noire et Blanche" label has been published during 15 years in different magazines such as VOGUE, TELVA, VANITY FAIR.
In 2015 she has been selected by Christian Caujoulle to participate in a workshop in Arlés where she exhibited his work. She has been with master photographers as Paolo Roversi, Antoine d'Agata and Ellen Kooi. Her aproach to the cinematographic languages start with a workshop with Víctor Erice, which was followed by other workshops with him focused on the relationship between cinema, literature and painting.