Official Selection DIABLA Music Videos: Cultural Impact

PRODUCTION COMPANYILLMATIC FILM GROUP

DIRECTOR(S)FRANCESCO CALABRESE

PRODUCER(S)JACOPO PICA, FRANCESCO CALABRESE, MANEL SERRAT, ATZAR VILANOVA

DOPALESSANDRO UBALDI

EDITOR FILIPPO PATELLI

VISUAL EFFECTS HOGARTH MILANO

COLOUR GRADING DANIEL PALLUCCA

COSTUME DESIGN NEREA TORRIJOS

INSTAGRAM TAG @FFCCFFCCFFCC @ILLMATIC_FILM_GROUP_COMPANY @SITABELLAN

SOUND DESIGN ALBERTO LADDUCA

SHORT SYNOPSIS SITA ABELLÁN RELEASES A NEW SHORT OCCULT HORROR SHORT FILM, WHICH COMES IN THE FORM OF A MUSIC VIDEO FOR HER RECENTLY RELEASED TRACK “DIABLA.” THE FILM COMES AS A COLLABORATION WITH FILMMAKER FRANCESCO CALABRESE, KNOWN FOR HIS STORY-DRIVEN, VISUALLY STRIKING WORK IN BOTH THE NARRATIVE AND COMMERCIAL FIELDS.

THE FILM, WHICH JUXTAPOSES THE FAMED 90’S SPANISH CLUBBING MOVEMENT RUTA DEL BAKALAO WITH A PERIOD PIECE SET IN THE 1600S, IS A STORY OF RESILIENCE AND SURVIVAL IN A WORLD WHERE ALL ASPECTS OF SOCIETY ARE HELL-BENT ON CONFORMING THOSE WHO DEVIATE FROM THE NORM. IN THE VIDEO, SITA AND OTHERS LIKE HER ARE CONDEMNED AS WITCHES DUE TO THEIR “ABNORMAL APPEARANCES" (FEATURING SITA’S ICONIC BLUE HAIR) AND HUNTED BY THE TOWNSFOLK.

EXTRA CREDIT 1 ART DIRECTORS: SANDRA PRAT, SARA FERRAN

EXTRA CREDIT 2 SPAIN PRODUCTION: L’UPUNTVUIT

EXTRA CREDIT 3 FEATURING: SITA ABELLAN, LOLA RODRÍGUEZ, BRAYS EFE, LEÏTI SENE, ANA STING, ARIADNA CHILLIDA, CRIS BIEDMA, ISA ABELLAN, ENRICO DE CANDIA, ELENA MANCHADO DEL REY