Documentary

McCurry The Pursuit of Colour

• Director: Denis Delestrac
• 2022 In distribution
• 90 min

McCurry: The Pursuit Of Color is an audiovisual production of Polar Star Films in co-production with Intrepido Films and Steamroller Media A.I.E and in association with SWR-ARTE

Synopsis

In a career spanning four decades, photographer Steve McCurry has braved hardship and personal risk to create some of the most enduring images of our time. For the first time, an intimate portrait reveals his life journey and the longing for human connection at the core of his art.
Acclaimed French director Denis Delestrac, who has known Steve McCurry for two decades, uncovers the photographer’s private universe layer by layer. Observing him while at work in places such as India and Papua New Guinea, in his New York city studio or at home with his wife and newborn child in Arizona, we will meet the man behind the images in close-up. Exploring some of McCurry’s best works with him, we discover they are all part of a quest to unite us in a single, monumental tale of human connection.

This film is Polar Star Films, Intrepido Films (Spain) and Steamroller Media, AIE (Spain) production, in collaboration with SWR (Germany) and ARTE (France), with the support of ICAA (Spain), Creative Europe (EU) and ICEC (Spain, Catalonia).

Distribution: Dogwoof

Festivals

DOC NYC 2021 – Official Selection
Glasgow Film Festival – European Première
Glasgow Film Festival – Official Selection
Salem Film Festival – Official Selection
Doclands – Official Selection
Berkshire International Film Festival – Official Selection
Shanghai International Film Festival – Official Selection
GOYA, 2023 – Best documentary film candidate
GAUDÍ, 2023 – Best documentary film candidate

Key Crew

Director: Denis Delestrac
Executive Production: Carles Brugueras, Marieke van den Bersselaar
Director of Photography: Jordi Esgleas Marroi
Music: Toni M. Mir