Can Tunis Spain
2006, 86min.
Prod.: Pedro Costa, Script/Dir.: Jose Gonzales Morandi, Paco Toledo, Dir. of Phot.: Paco Toledo, Music: Martires del Compas, Sound: Jose Gonzalez Morandi, David Rodriguez, Edit.: Buster Franco, Fernando Pardo, Armand Pontous.
Juan and his eight brothers and sisters and dozens of cousins live in Can Tunis.His mother is in jail and his father tries to take care of the family as well as he can. Can Tunis is a seedy suburb of Barcelona. Since the 1980’s, it’s the place where drug addicts come to get their fix. The local authorities are determined to knock down the entire quarter. The city has already commenced demolition: half the neighbourhood is in ruins. Can Tunis is a sincere and poignanr portrait of a neighbourhood in utter disorder. How will these people ever be able to hold out in a better area of Barcelona.
Awards
FF de Málaga (Special Prize of the Jury), Festival Rec de Operas Primas Españolas en Tarragona (Prize to the Best Film), Documenta Madrid (Prize to the Best Documentary).
| Morandi, Jose Gonzales  Jose Gonzales Morandi (born 1974, Rosario, Argentina)
He lives in Barcelona since 1977. He studied cinema in Buenos Aires and in Barcelona. In 2002 he attended the Masters of Documentary of the UPF. In 2003, next to Eva Serrats, he founded Fotoleve Productora, from where they have produced video work that has been internationally exhibited in art and photography festivals. In 2004 and 2005 he worked in Twenty years is not nothing and Más allá del espejo of Joaquím Jordà.
Now he is working in the post-production of his third feature length documentary about the festival of Basant in the Pakistan city of Lahore.
Filmography
Troll (2005), Can Tunis (2006).
Toledo, Paco  Paco Toledo (born 1967, Santiago, Chile)
He has studied in the Arcis Institute of Santiago, the University Federico Santa Maria of Valparaiso, and in the School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. He has worked like camera assistant in advertising cinema for more than 15 years, for Chilean productions, and in diverse international audio-visual campaigns.As director of photography and cinematographer has worked in television, videoclips, publicity, short films, and features, both documentary and fiction. Nowadays he is working as director and cinematographer of a documentary on the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, as a producer and cinematographer of the documentary Humano Caracol and as producer in the fiction feature 199 prescriptions to be happy Spanish and Chilean co-production.
Filmography
Los Escolares se siguen amando (2000), Can Tunis (2006).
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