WHO ARE WE > WHAT IS THE DOCUMENTARY OF THE MONTH
The Documentary of the Month aims to bring the documentary cinema closer to people.
With this purpose, the premiere takes place every first Thursday of the month, with a high-quality documentary film about different subjects and origins, in around 40 cities of Catalunya, Comunitat Valenciana, Illes Balears and other Spanish cities. Nowadays, we still work in order to sum up other small, medium and large new cities to the project.
Since May 2009, The Documentary of the Month crossed the Catalan and Spanish borders and starts its incursion in Latin America. Thanks to MEDIA’s European Union project support, we already opened 3 theatres in Santiago de Chile. This is the beginning of a healthy relationship between Europe and Latin America.
The documentaries are shown in its original version subtitled in Catalan (for the audience of Catalunya, Comunitat Valenciana, and Illes Balears) and subtitled in Spanish for the rest of Spain and Chile. Documentaries selection is decided by Parallel 40.
GOALS:
- Bring the documentary genre closer and increase its audience.
- Increase the number of theatres that want to screen quality documentary cinema.
- Open the documentary to new audiences, such as teenagers, to let them discover a new way of cultural consume and quality entertainment
The Documentary of the Month is an initiative run by Parallel 40, born as a CinemaNet Europe’s project, in 2004. Since 2007, the development in Spain is led exclusively by Parallel 40.
