Ivan Noel - An interview

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Ivan Noel is known as a controversial writer/director whose work is finally gaining wider recognition, the rights to his film Limbo having recently been purchased by Sony Pictures. Five years ago, in June 2011, we published an exclusive interview with Ivan Noel. Recently, British freelance writer and journalist Will Emslie contacted Ivan on behalf of TheSkyKid.com and we have the pleasure to publish yet another insightful and far ranging interview with a prominent filmmaker for the fans of the Coming-of-Age genre. [...]

[Noel:] I was in Spain for about 15 years, so I guess that people started identifying me as Spanish. So if you ask me… I could have said I was pretty much European (oops, sorry again!) but I've been, for six or seven years now, in Argentina so that's kind of taken the European out of me. So I really don't know how to answer as far as my roots are or what nationality you might call me.

[Interviewer:] What are you doing in Argentina? Can you fill us in on what your present mission is?

[Noel:] Sure. It's not much different from what I was doing in Spain. That was fine so long as I was living in the countryside and doing my own little thing, making the most of being, you know, in almost a third-world country within Europe. But when I started getting involved with films and getting involved with professionals and high-level artists, that's when I realized that the Spanish have the cultural level of a dead fish. And I was hitting my head against a wall constantly. A good example is that none of the films that I've made in Spain have ever been shown in Spain. Not a festival, not on television - nothing. A complete blockade of my films.

[Interviewer:] Why is that?

[Noel:] It's the nepotistic system in place in Spain. The system is such that it shuts everyone out that isn't part of that little cinema clique. There's no independent cinema in Spain. It's all run and funded by the government.

source: 'Ivan Noel - An Interview' by Will Emslie; theskykid.com/ivan-noel-an-interview/; TheSkyKid.com; 2 July? 2016