Carmen Bellas

Some of the images and sounds that make up “Maybe One Day” were recorded in April 2021.

Sinopsis
The main characters are three women who are pushing forty. They met years ago in Mexico and then each went their own way (although they talk to each other every day on WhatsApp). Although they are very different, they share a certain existential disorder. It had been 7 years since they had lived together and they wanted to force this experiment and record it as a filmed diary.

When a year had gone by, in order to achieve a certain emotional distance, the creator began to work on the project from a theoretical and aesthetic perspective and to consider what form it should take. For her, the Matadero residency is a space for research, editing and reflection; it will be the place where she will transform this domestic material into a celebration of female friendship.

Bio
Carmen Bellas graduated in Film Directing from the ECAM (Madrid Film and Audiovisual School) and studied film editing at the San Pablo CEU University.  She has directed the short film “The Visit” (La Visita) (2014), the feature film “Once We Were Wild” (Una vez fuimos salvajes) (2017) - (winner of the Best Documentary Award at Alcances and the Numax Award at Novos Cinemas) - and the medium-length film using archival material “Memories of Overseas” (Memorias de Ultramar) (2021) for Filmoteca Española (Spanish Film Archive).

In 2021, she was selected to take part in Netflix’s Female Director Shadowing Program, where she spent 7 months training in the development, shooting and post-production of fiction series.

Together with the producers Cristina Hergueta (Garde) and Tasio, she is one of the promoters of the project “This is not Poetry” (Esto no es una poesía), in which they curate, produce and distribute films made in collaboration with writers and filmmakers they admire.

Residencia
Carmen is one of the four recipients of the Residencies for Audiovisual Projects in the Development Phase of the joint call by the Cineteca (Film Archive) and the Centre for Artists in Residence at Matadero Madrid. This opportunity is intended to facilitate access to spaces and resources for independent audiovisual creators whose work focuses on the development of independent and experimental cinema, as well as cinéma vérité and its numerous variations.