Giving voice and support to the community
There are plenty of people out there with ideas, creativity and talent that help and inspire the community. Colectivo Piloto meets with them and voice their stories.
Since 2004, Colectivo Piloto has been designing and implementing cultural initiatives to promote new film practitioners, advance community participation and champion culturally diverse perspectives.
ELECTROFILMIKA
Film, Digital Art & Advanced Music
Electrofilmika was first born in Barcelona, Spain, as a music, film and digital art festival created to experience the collaborative work between filmmakers, digital artists and electronic musicians.
In 2013, under the direction of Pablo Herrera, Electrofilmika hosted events in New York City and expanded its work as a media production company and an independent electronic music record label, producing music videos and digital content with local NYC labels such as New York Trax, Halcyon and Fourth World.
Join Electrofilmika on Instagram to enjoy the last film and tracks releases and watch more videos and documentaries produced by Electrofilmika on Vimeo.
Metropolis (1929) Fritz Lang. Full movie with live score by Pablo Herrera, featuring songs of Moderat, Paul kalkbrenner, DJ Koze and many more.
NYC Five Boroughs
Documentary - Digital Archive
New York is the most populous city in the United States, and its population is one of the most diverse. People from all over the world gather in this metropolis and scatter all over its five boroughs.
NYC Five Boroughs is a photo and video archive of the incredibly diverse NYC population.
Manhattan skyline from Bushwick, Brooklyn. Photo: Pablo Herrera.
The Brooklyn Music Scene
Film Documentary
New York City, particularly the Lower East Side, has been for a long time a tremendous location for independent music production.Today, the Brooklyn music scene is also getting world widely known with record labels such as DFA, Captured Tracks and Partisan Records based in the borough. This tendency is constantly growing with music venues opening all over Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick and musicians from all over the world gathering there in search of gigs and fame.
What are the secrets of the Brooklyn music scene success? Is this movement genuine or rather the product of accelerated gentrification? How is it changing neighborhoods and how does it affect its communities?
The Brooklyn Music Scene documentary aims to answer these questions by following the links between the Brooklyn community and the record labels, emerging artists and music venues established in the borough.
Cutters performing at Jacobus Lounge. This video was shot as a part of the BMS documentary production. Filmed in a single shot by Pablo Herrera in 2015.
The Building of a Community
Film Documentary
In the summer of 2012, Colectivo Piloto produced a short documentary to service the mission of the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, in broadcasting the historical memory of activist movements of the Manhattan Lower East Side.
“The building of a Community'' examined the social transformation of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where activists, artists, historians and political representatives describe the neighborhood, the squatters, the community gardens and explain the struggle to save them.
With its long and continuing history as a haven for immigrants, artists, musicians, poets, and political activists, the Lower East Side has been a cultural incubator since its earliest days. Ideas, movements, trends and customs that derive from either old or new world cultures, or both, emerged and radiated from here.
The Building of a Community. Film documentary teaser (2012).
More Info: Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.
miniFILM Festival
Film Festival. Barcelona, Spain
The miniFILM Festival was the first internationally recognized film festival to promote mobile devices and digital cameras for film productions.
The goal of this unique festival was to give filmmakers a chance to use their mobile phones and digital cameras to create their own 3 minute film. The initiative has achieved significant and scalable community participation involving community members, film directors and producers to tell stories about their communities. The festival celebrated diversity and experimentation while rewarding creative and ingenious pieces.
From 2006 to 2010, the miniFILM Festival was received with great publicity throughout Spain and Latin America. This innovative and creative event helped solidify Colectivo Piloto's reputation as a cultural promoter.
miniMETRAJES 2006: Retrovisión by Amanda Baqué & Ferran Capo, Spain.
Watch more miniFILMS on: Vimeo.
EMPOWER UNDERREPRESENTED YOUTH VOICES IN MULTIMEDIA
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Colectivo Piloto encourages youth to gather in a multicultural environment to grow their skills as inclusive multimedia content creators and responsible consumers by creating and broadcasting video and podcast stories which voice culturally diverse perspectives.
Your contribution will help us foster an inclusive and collaborative environment where underrepresented teens from diverse backgrounds and neurodivergent teens gather to create and share their stories and have a say in shaping global challenges.
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