La Selva. Ecosistema Creatiu, S.C.C.L.

Independent filmmaking and shared perspectives

La Selva. Ecosistema Creatiu, S.C.C.L. is a filmmakers' cooperative based in Barcelona that produces films and organizes training programs. It aims to make historically silenced perspectives visible and to encourage more diverse ways of seeing the world, including feminist, antiracist, decolonial, and libertarian approaches. Its work uses auteur storytelling and collaborative, horizontal creative processes.

Films

The cooperative has produced or developed the following titles:

• Disonar: explores the relationship with Barcelona through displacement, embodiment, and the tension between staying and returning to one's place of origin.
• Estela: a social drama directed by Liliana Díaz Castillo about a Latin American immigrant mother confronting illegality and precarious conditions after arriving in Europe.
• On eres quan hi eres: a documentary in which Jana Montllor sets out on a film journey to reconstruct the personal memory of her father, Ovidi Montllor, 28 years after his death.
• O silencio herdado: follows a woman's search to recover family memories silenced around the Spanish Civil War.
• Xiao Qiang had a daydream.

Training and filmmaking programs

La Selva organizes film education and creative programs:

• Aceleradora: intensive creative sessions bringing established and emerging filmmakers together. The first edition featured Lucrecia Martel; the second, Werner Herzog.
• Horagai: an immersive film workshop for young people; its 2024 edition had an open call.
• Vivim el barri: a filmmaking workshop for young people learning through technical experimentation, with a community focus.

The team

The cooperative includes worker-members, employees, and collaborators. Worker-members include Liliana Díaz Castillo (director, screenwriter, and editor), Lu Dapena González (director, screenwriter, and documentarian), Jana Montllor Blanes (director, screenwriter, and cultural manager), and Marc Vila Bosch (production director and cultural manager). Employees include Paulina Martínez (executive producer and screenwriter) and Victòria Martínez (financial management and organizational design). Other collaborators work in youth film education, communications, and co-production.

Contact

• Address: 63–69 Carrer Llull, 1st floor, apartment 2, 08005 Barcelona
• Email: info@laselva.coop
• Website: laselva.coop
• Social media: Instagram (@laselvacoop), X (@Laselvacoop), and YouTube (@laselvacoop)