“We are happy to see the fruits of the collective effort, of how the girls are helping to make our productions concrete. There is a truly sorority atmosphere ”, is what the musician and feminist Rocío Robledo affirmed at the launch of Sorora Filma, a project that begins with the production of three video clips for emerging women in music.
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February 04, 2021 – 01:00
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The presentation of the Sorora Filma project was held last Tuesday with an event attended by the press and those who are part of Sorora, a collective that promotes women artists and which now focuses on musical creation and workers in the audiovisual industry.
For the realization of this project, which was carried out with funds from the National Secretariat of Culture, last year a call was made for emerging composers to record a video clip. Out of 24 proposals, three were selected: Magalí Benítez with his instrumental work “Before the light”, Sol Gómez with “Telón” and the hip hop duo Las Hijas de la Alquimia, with “Salsurri”. Each video clip was assigned to a female director: Ximena Pérez, Ximena Zarratea and Tais Estrada, respectively.
Rocío Robledo and audiovisual artist Ximena Zarratea, who are part of Sorora’s team, spoke at the presentation. The director said that since she became involved with Sorora Música “she also dreamed of a space in which, obviously, we can contribute to what the audiovisual industry is”. She also affirmed that “in all industries, unfortunately, we girls have to do this work of visibility”, so with Sorora they were able to show “the work of directors, editors, gaffers, technicians” in a “very natural” process. Likewise, he underlined the opportunity to have the Culture funds to be able to pay what the work of each member of the audiovisual team is worth.
For his part, Robledo recalled that Sorora was born as a space that was translated into a music festival in February 2019, a place “where basically we girls get together to say: women in music exist and we need spaces.” Over time, more and more women were added and that is how they began to think of other types of projects that “contribute to everything that has to do with the professionalization of women in music.” It also serves to give place not only to the artists who are on stage, but also to “women who are behind the scenes” involved in what it means to “produce a festival or launch a material,” he added.
“We want, in addition to contributing to the professionalization of women musicians, also do these small rehearsals where the girls take control, the girls direct, and so this project called Sorora Filma was born,” emphasized Robledo, who also highlighted the “great” atmosphere that was experienced during the first shootings of the video clips.
The first video to be released on February 12 is that of the singer-songwriter Sol Gómez, who also performed live “Telón” and other songs of her own. The artist took advantage of the event to remember that her experience during the filming of the video was “very exciting.” “I cried a lot when I found out that“ Telón ”was selected to make a video because it is such a political song, that it healed me a lot, and I felt that releasing that song was going to be able to help many people, and make one more video clip. again for the representation it has ”, he remarked.
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