Off the Road with José Permar and Daniela Silva

A conversation with the director and producer of Off the Road (2020), which is set to premiere at Visions du Réel. Off the Road  is a genre-blending documentary film set in a remote town in Baja, California, Mexico, following locals preparing for the Baja 1000 - the world's biggest off-road motorsport race that passes through their small village.José Permar, the director, was born in South Baja California, Mexico. He studied Audiovisual Arts at the University of Guadalajara and is a recipient of the Ariel, the national film prize for his short documentary Aurelia y Pedro (2016), which was also nominated for a Student Oscar Academy Award and received a special mention at the Berlin International Film Festival. His producing partner, Daniela Silva, is also from Mexico and is the co-founder and producer at the audiovisual cooperative Tardigrada. Both Jose and Daniela are currently part of DocNomads, the EU-funded master’s program in Documentary Filmmaking. In this thoughtful exchange with Docs in Orbit contributor Alexandra Yakovleva, they discuss how this film started and the journey it took to completion.For show notes, visit docsinorbit.com and be sure to follow us on social media @docsinorbit