Dead Slow Ahead

Dead Slow Ahead es una coproducción española-francesa del 2015 escrita, fotografiada y dirigida por Mauro Herce, su primer largometraje. Fue rodada en idioma tagalo y subtitulada en inglés, francés, castellano, catalán.​
Un carguero atraviesa el océano. La hipnótica cadencia de sus engranajes revela el continuo movimiento de la maquinaria devorando a sus trabajadores: los últimos gestos del viejo oficio de los marineros, desapareciendo bajo el ritmo autómata del siglo XXI. Quizá se trate de una nave a la deriva, o del último ejemplar de una especie en extinción con sus motores girando, imparables.
Fue proyectada por primera vez en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno el 15 de agosto de 2015, donde ganó el premio especial del jurado.​ Fue estrenada en las salas comerciales españolas el 28 de octubre de 2016, en salas francesas 16 de noviembre de 2016.
Festival del Film Locarno 2015 - Cineasti del presente - Special Jury Award Jihlava IDFF 2015 - Best World Film Award DocLisboa IFF 2015 - Best First Feature Award Ann Arbor FF 2016 - Best International Film Award Jeonju IFF 2016 - Special Mention Premio Feroz 2017 - 2016 Best Documentary Premio Especial “Dias de cine” - 2016 Best Spanish Film Festival International de Cine de Las Palmas 2016 - Best Feature Film Award Miradas Doc 2017 - Best Canarian film Janela International de Cinema do Recife 2015 - Best Editing Award Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo 2015 - Nuevas Olas - Honor Mention DocLisboa IFF 2015 - Universities Jury Award Marfici 2016 - Honor Mention Construir Cine 2017 - Mejor documental internacional (3º premio) Som Cinema 2016 - Special Mention
Festival del Film Locarno - Cineasti del presente - WORLD PREMIERE Vancouver IFF (non-competitive) - CANADA PREMIERE DocLisboa IFF - Internacional Competition - PORTUGUESE PREMIERE Jihlava IDFF - International Competition + First Films - CZECH PREMIERE Festival International de cine de Mar de Plata (non-competitive) ARGENTINIAN PREMIERE Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo - Nuevas Olas + Resistencias - SPANISH PREMIERE Janela Intl. de Cinema do Recife - International Competition - BRAZILIAN PREMIERE Pravo Ljudski FF - International Competition - BOSNIAN PREMIERE Zinebi (non-competitive) Torino FF - International Competition - ITALIAN PREMIERE Festival Internacional de cine de Gijón (non-competitive / Jury member) Muestra de cine europeo de Lanzarote (non-competitive) Les rencontres intl. Paris / Berlin (Gaité Lyrique) (non-competitive) - FRANCE PREMIERE Göteborg FF - Visionärer (non-competitive) - NORDIC PREMIERE SWSX Austin - SXGlobal (non-competitive) - US PREMIERE Guadalajara FF - Documentary Competition - MEXICAN PREMIERE Festival Internacional de cine de Las Palmas - Competición Nacional Ann Arbor FF - International Competition Thessaloniki IFF - International Competition - GREEK PREMIERE Art of the real, Lincoln Center NY (non-competitive) FebioFest Bratislava (non-competitive) - SLOVAKIAN PREMIERE Les rencontres Intl. Berlin / Paris (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) (non-competitive) Docu Days UA ( (non-competitive) - UKRAINIAN PREMIERE Istambul FF (non-competitive) - TURKISH PREMIERE Play-Doc Tui - International competition Festival de cine de autor de Barcelona D’A San Francisco IFF - International Competition L’Europe autour de l`Europe FF (non-competitive) - HUNGARIAN Europe Jeonju IFF - International Competition - ASIAN PREMIERE L.A. OLA (Closing ceremony, non-competitive) Crossing Europe FF - International Competition - AUSTRIAN PREMIERE DOK.Fest Munich - International Competition - GERMAN PREMIERE El Festivalito La Palma (non-competitive) Seattle FF (non-competitive) Krakow FF (non-competitive) - POLISH PREMIERE Zones Portuaires, Rencontres internationales cinéma Saint-Nazaire (non-competitive) Sheffield FF (non-competitive) - UK PREMIERE Open City Documentary Festival (non-competitive) East End FF - International Competition Novos Cinemas - Festival Internacional de cine de Pontevedra Festival internacional du Film de la Rochelle (non-competitive) Lima independiente festival internacional de cine - PERUVIAN PREMIERE European FF Palic (non-competitive) - SERBIAN PREMIERE Belgrade Subversive FF (non-competitive) Revelation Perth IFF - AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Queensland FF (non-competitive) Marfici - Festival internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata Dokufest Kosovo - Green dox Competition - KOSOVO PREMIERE Lussas, Les Etats généraux du film documentaire Ciné Salé, Festival international du film de mer et de marins Cinespaña Toulouse Camden IFF - Cinematic vision competition Unsound Festival Art of the real, Museum of modern and contemporary art, Seoul (21 sept) DocsDF México Som cinema Temporada Alta Astra Film Festival - Outstandox competition - RUMANIA PREMIERE Kinobus (not just) Film Festival Stuff Film Fest - International Competition Festfreak IFF Audiovize FF Festival Ambulante Colombia (non-competitive, Colombia tour) - COLOMBIAN PREMIERE European Film Forum Scanorama - LITHUANIA PREMIERE Denver IFF IDFA - HOLLAND PREMIERE Salamindanaw Film Festival (opening ceremony) - PHILIPPINES PREMIERE Virginia FF Festival de cine de Zaragoza (opening ceremony) Singapore IFF - SINGAPORE PREMIERE Cork Film Festival - IRISH PREMIERE Pori Film Festival - FINLAND PREMIERE FIDocs (non-competitive) - CHILEAN PREMIERE Porto / Post / Doc Film & Media Festival Festival de cine de La Habana - CUBAN PREMIERE Beloit Film Festival Festival Confrontation, Perpignan T-mobile new horizons Film Festival Hong-Kong Film Festival - HONG-KONG PREMIERE Bozar & Instituto Cervantes - BELGIUM PREMIERE Encuentro del otro cine (Quito) - ECUADOR PREMIERE FidBA - Construir cine - Buenos Aires Mostra “Matters of space” - Porto Alegre Antofadocs - CHILEAN PREMIERE Cinespaña Toulouse “Panorama” 2017 Catalan Film Fest Scotland Magic Madou Festival Arica Doc Festival Taiwan Film Festival- TAIWAN PREMIERE Ficmec Nador
Acropolis cinema, Jordan Cronk, L.A. Northwest Film Forum - New Documentary series - Jay Kuehner Cinefamily, L.A. La Gaité Lyrique, Paris Haus der Kulture der Welt, Berlin Labour Film Series - George Eastman Museum The public cinema, Knoxville Museum of modern and contemporary Art, Seoul Musée de la chasse et de la nature, Benoit Hické, Paris Australian Cinematheque, Brisbaine Beursschouwburg, Brussel Musac, León Tabakalera San Sebastián Centro Niemeyer, Avilés IVAC, Valencia Cineteca, Madrid Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) Museum Contemporany Art Australia Harvard Film Archive Cinémathèque québécoise, “Topographie de la frontière”, Montreal CCA Glasgow National special screenings (with masterclass) Sala Phenomena (Barcelona) Zumzeig, Cinemes Girona, Numax, Artistic Metropol, Cines Aragó Escac (Barcelona) Lens (Madrid) Lav (Madrid) Ecib (Barcelona) Ecam (Madrid) Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona) Foco Henri Langlois (Jaén) / Escuela artes y oficios de Jaén Filmoteca de Murcia TEA Tenerife Filmoteca de Granada Filmoteca de Córdoba Cine-Club calle Mayor (Palencia) Territorios y Fronteras TYF (Bilbao) Cratère Toulouse Cines Tonalá, México city MK2 Beaubourg, Paris Reflet Medicis, Paris l’Archipel, Paris