When discussing issues as grave as homelessness, domestic violence, drug addiction and social exclusion, it’s not so typical to also find yourself discussing yoga, massage, reiki, music, art and laughter therapy,
but then ADAMA is not such a typical charity. ADAMA is an organisation of over 200 people, made up not only of therapists and tutors, but also co-ordinators, fundraisers, accountants, and lawyers, and every one of them gives their time entirely for free. Their
goal is to improve the quality of life of their participants by offering all the previously mentioned activities and therapies in 25 centres to nearly 1000 participants in Barcelona. They believe that by providing these people with a little emotional support,
a chance to ease their stress, an opportunity for expression and a bit of physical contact, rather than just sterile, functional assistance, there will be more chance of really solving their problems.
OTOXO Productions is going to make a documentary about the work of ADAMA, the people who do it, and the people whose lives are changed by it. The film will give the issue of social exclusion a human voice. It will
turn numb statistics into real people. Skin and bones, aches and pains, hopes and fears, breaths and heartbeats. It will follow a small group of people, men and women, young and old, who have suffered in many different ways, but who have now been brought together
by the chance of a new beginning, with the helping hands of ADAMA.
OTOXO Productions is a documentary production company based in Barcelona which was founded in 2008. Their first film, “Me Migrant”, was part of the official selection at the 2009 OffiCinena festival in Bologna,
the 20/20 Film Festival in Copenhagen, and was also screened by Miscelenea in Barcelona. On the 24th January 2011, their most recent full length film – “La Lliga” was screened on Canal 33 as part of the “Taller” series, and on Saturday 30th of April it was
screened on BTV and across the XTVL network on the Doc’s series. It won Best Documentary at the “In The Mind´s Eye 2011” film festival in Toronto. It was short listed for best documentary at the 2011 Beiruit Documentary Film Festival, and was also part of
the official selection at the 2010 SomCinema film festival. Their most recent short documentary, “El Afilador” won the Director’s Choice award at the 2011 Yourindiefilm festival and was nominated for best short at the 2011 Loch Ness Film Festival. It has also
been selected to be screened by Plataforma Indoc. OTOXO productions are currently working on two new films. There most recent film "The Basic Ingredients" will be screened on BTV on the 16th of February 2013.
