As banks in Spain continue to evict people who could not deliver on their mortgage payments in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, redfish obtained exclusive access to Enric Duran, the Catalan Robin Hood of the Banks, who took nearly half a million Euros in loans from Spanish banks in 2008, redistributed them to anti-capitalist cooperatives and institutions instead of paying them back, and has been in hiding for almost a decade. One in five people live under the poverty line in Spain, and 29,406 evictions took place in 2020 while people struggled to make ends meet as COVID took over their lives. Simultaneously, 3.4 million apartments remain empty in Spain, which are often owned by banks and investment funds. Our team investigated how following the 2008 economic crisis in Spain, banks robbed people to the level that the long-lasting consequences of the crisis have become a permanent reality. An eviction plague is being felt by some of the most disadvantaged communities today. The documentary also introduces various activists who took it upon themselves to create an alternative to the capitalist system as we know it. Nearly half of Europe's coronavirus deaths happened in care homes. Facing the dire needs of the elderly, the Spanish NGO Open Arms is sending volunteers to the frontline to test and care for the most vulnerable. Underknown-project Migrants who arrived in Catalonia coming from Sub-saharan African countries -mostly from Senegal- and that normally work in the street selling products to tourists are working hard these days to manufacture masks, caps and gowns for hospitals. The collective has also set up a food collection campaign. https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/31/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-meet-the-ngo-giving-children-a-summer-from-the-still-present-po TV hit series Chernobyl may have revived interest in the 1986 nuclear disaster, but for one Spanish NGO, it’s never gone away. Vallès Obert has helped organise summer holidays in Spain for around 2,000 children from the Chernobyl region since 1995. It does this by finding families willing to host them. The time away from the area helps their bodies recover from exposure to the toxic radioactive materials still present in the atmosphere around the diaster site. Mientras en el Valle de los Caídos se exhuma el cuerpo del dictador Francisco Franco, las familias de caídos republicanos cuyos cuerpos fueron robados en los 50 y 60 por el Gobierno franquista para llenar la cripta hacen todo lo posible por sacarlos de ahí.
Núria V.
Barcelona, Spain7 reviews
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News Shooter / Video Journalist
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- Full HD video camera
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- Shotgun mic
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- Lighting kit
About Núria
Núria Vilcom (b. 1992) is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Barcelona whose work focuses mainly on topics related with resilience, conflicts, inequalities and human rights, especially linked with the Middle East region. Soon after finishing her university studies in Journalism she started working in 2015 as a freelance correspondent in Turkey, Jordan, Palestine-Israel, Kurdistan, Bulgaria, Greece, Morocco and the Turkish-Syrian border. During these years, she has covered the rise of ISIS and its origins, the aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, the ongoing violence in West Bank territories or the spread of COVID-19 pandemic from Spain, among other issues. She works mainly as a videojournalist with international media, such as Al Jazeera, China Plus News, Euronews, TRT World or the news agency Ruptly. Also she has collaborated with La Vanguardia, El Confidencial, Zenger News, Betevé, ABC, ARA newspaper, GARA, CTXT, El Salto Diario, El Punt Avui, Mediterráneo Sur (M'Sur), Crític, La Directa, Luzes Magazine, Infobae and Brecha Magazine. Nowadays she is based in Barcelona, where she splits her time between making video reports for international media and developing her own documentary film projects, often with the association of journalism Fora de Quadre. She focuses mostly on the direction, production and scriptwriting, but is used also to work on the cinematography and edition. She owns a full video professional equipment and uses Adobe Premiere Pro for editing. She speaks fluently Catalan, Spanish and English while improves her French and Arabic level. So far she has created the documentary 'Amazics: una diàspora forçada' with Fora de Quadre, and directed two others called 'SKY. The Weird Syrian Kid' and 'Chari'. Also she has developed a project about civil disobedience and how is considered by media. If you are interested, follow me on Twitter (twitter.com/nurivilcom).
Top Projects
Open Arms: from the Mediterranean sea to coronavirus outbreak helping the most vulnerable
- Video Editor - News
- On-Air Reporter / Host
- Reporter / Journalist
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
- Field Producer
- TV News Producer
Nearly half of Europe's coronavirus deaths happened in care homes. Facing the dire needs of the elderly, the Spanish NGO Open Arms is sending volunteers to the frontline to test and care for the most vulnerable.
Produced for Underknown on Storyhunter
May 2020
'Manteros' (street vendors) against coronavirus
- On-Air Reporter / Host
- Reporter / Journalist
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
- Field Producer
- TV News Producer
Underknown-project Migrants who arrived in Catalonia coming from Sub-saharan African countries -mostly from Senegal- and that normally work in the street selling products to tourists are working hard these days to manufacture masks, caps and gowns for hospitals. The collective has also set up a food collection campaign.
Produced for Underknown on Storyhunter
April 2020
Spain’s Housing Crisis: Banks, Scams And Evictions
- Reporter / Journalist
- Creative Director
- Field Producer
- Senior Producer / Project Manager
As banks in Spain continue to evict people who could not deliver on their mortgage payments in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, redfish obtained exclusive access to Enric Duran, the Catalan Robin Hood of the Banks, who took nearly half a million Euros in loans from Spanish banks in 2008, redistributed them to anti-capitalist cooperatives and institutions instead of paying them back, and has been in hiding for almost a decade. One in five people live under the poverty line in Spain, and 29,406 evictions took place in 2020 while people struggled to make ends meet as COVID took over their lives. Simultaneously, 3.4 million apartments remain empty in Spain, which are often owned by banks and investment funds. Our team investigated how following the 2008 economic crisis in Spain, banks robbed people to the level that the long-lasting consequences of the crisis have become a permanent reality. An eviction plague is being felt by some of the most disadvantaged communities today. The documentary also introduces various activists who took it upon themselves to create an alternative to the capitalist system as we know it.
Chernobyl nuclear disaster: Meet the NGO giving children a summer from the still present pollution (EURONEWS)
- Video Editor - News
- Reporter / Journalist
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/31/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-meet-the-ngo-giving-children-a-summer-from-the-still-present-po TV hit series Chernobyl may have revived interest in the 1986 nuclear disaster, but for one Spanish NGO, it’s never gone away. Vallès Obert has helped organise summer holidays in Spain for around 2,000 children from the Chernobyl region since 1995. It does this by finding families willing to host them. The time away from the area helps their bodies recover from exposure to the toxic radioactive materials still present in the atmosphere around the diaster site.
'We are suffering greatly' – Spain's health workers (TRT World)
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
"We are in the initial phase of the whole process. The worst is yet to come." – Xavi, Spanish nurse. A video I filmed for TRT World during the first days of coronavirus outbreak from Barcelona talking with a nurse at Hospital del Mar. Health workers are fighting on the frontline against the virus.
Produced for TRT World Digital on Storyhunter
March 2020
All Services
Pre-Production
- Creative Director
- Fixer
- Production Coordinator / Crewing
- Senior Producer / Project Manager
- Series Producer / Show Runner
- Translator
Production Support
- 360 Documentary Video
- 360 News Video
- Non-Fiction Film Director
- Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
- Event Photographer
- Landscape Photographer
- Portrait Photographer
- Product Photographer
- Field Producer
- Line Producer / On-Location
- TV News Producer
- Production Assistant
- On-Air Reporter / Host
- Corporate Videographer
- Documentary DP
- Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
- News Shooter / Video Journalist
- Reporter / Journalist
Post-Production
- Video Editor - Documentary
- Video Editor - News
- Transcriber
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