Director REDEMPTION

       Well, I chose an article in The Guardian webpage that was related to the next film from Cloverfield's director Matt Reeves.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/oct/02/dawn-planet-apes-director-matt-reeves

        The next film is the second part of "Rise of The Planet of the Apes" (2011). In the beginning Rupert Wyatt directed this movie, but problems came up. Wyatt was very upset for the decisions of the production company 20th Century Fox because they wanted to première the second part in 2014. The director thought that was very ambitious challenge. So, he quit the project. 

       But there was other director with a sucessful movie like "Cloverfield" (2008) who accepted it. I'm talking about Matt Reeves. He could beat Guillermo del Toro, J Blakeson, Juan Carlos Fresnalillo, Jeff Nichols and Juan Antonio Bayone and their films.

         I chose the article because it reflects a common problem in the film production. The production and the director of the movie always take part in a fight because the first one wants to make a movie very fast to gain money, but the second one wants to have time to think the movie, to produce it with calm. It's a great chance to him that people knows his work and his point of view of the world and the cinema and he wants to do his best.

Producers of the world have mercy with directors please!

"Pies, para qué los quiero si puedo volar"

Well, I'm going to write about one of my favourite painters. 

She is Frida Kahlo. 

Frida Kahlo was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, in 1907. When she was 18 she had an accident in a bus transport. It was a very important event because it influenced her to do amazing paintings with a significant meanings. She met famous people about arts and politics like André Breton, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Marcel Duchamp, etc. Even the  Kahlo story says that she had an affair with a very important russian politician: León Trotsky. She stayed in the muralist world of that time all her life. That's why she knew Diego Rivera and married with him. Also, many of the rumors say that she was bisexual. No one of this information has been refused. 

I knew her in a big exhibition that came to Chile. I got there when I was in the highschool for an art class. I couldn't understand her in that moment because I didn't know the meanings of her paintings. In fact I was boring all the time in that place.

But the last week I watched a movie about her and her life. It was Frida (2002), from Julie Taymor. In this film Frida was played by Salma Hayek. I can understand now what's about this painter at the last.

Well, from this movie and the exhibition I love one of her paintings: Las dos Fridas (1939). I think this image (and all her work) has a strong and painful meaning. It has a big connection with all her life in fact.

A normal life (I think...)

The first term of 2012 was a cool term. I couldn't remember all the stuff that I did, but I can try.

This is my 3rd year of my career, Cine & Television. I filmed four (4) fiction short films. I directed one. Then I wrote the script of one of them and then I was the cinematographer of the third one. I was the producer in the last short film. I sent many of them to cinema festivals to have a chance to win a price.

My mom got a work in the first term and she was very happy about that, but now she's very tired. She has to do a lot of things because her work is about the social help of the chilean government. As you know, Chile has a lot of poverty and we will have to do a lot of things to make it disappear.

I met a lot of friends in the first term. One of my best friends got a girlfriend and that was the opportunity to get time to know other people. I knew cool dudes.

Well, I have to admit that my blogging experiencie was very good. I really liked it.

I prefer to write in English than to spell it. I can share with my classmates the experiencies of my life and hobbies but writting it in a different language. Sometimes I don't know some English words because I'm not a native from that language. In fact I love talking in Spanish, I love writting short stories and poems in Spanish. I think the Spanish language is very beautiful and complex. That's the reason why people from other countries have a lot of difficulties to learn it.

However, I like the English language and this kind of activities (like the English Blog) makes me improve all the stuff that I learnt on the school and highschool. I can know new words, new kind of expressions, I can improve my grammar skills, etc. I have to confess that I love the English past time. I studied a lot of time the difficult rules about the past tense on the school. I'm very grateful with my teacher in those times. I still remember her name. I read a lot of English books on highschool too. That helped me to know new words and a new kind of English, a new level.

Blogging in class is a very good activity to learn a new way to communicate with others. In fact I had the chance to do it when I had to resolve a copyright stuff with an england music band. I used its music for a short film and I had to warn them.

An ICEI Party

Well, I don't like to go to parties. OK NOT.

We have a lot of parties in the ICEI in a year. We do it in a place called "El hoyo" (the hole). There we put HI FI speakers to play music loudly all night. In those parties there are a lot kinds of music like reggaeton, pop, rock, salsa, tropical, etc. People love dancing inside "the hole", to feel any kind of body beside of you, to feel the heat in a cold night.

However, people get drunk in parties all the time. There are a lot of drinks like beer, ron, pisco, terremotos, etc. People drink to much. It's a cool situation. All people inside "the hole" are friends in that night. There are not fights or problems.

I like these parties because I can share time with my classmates. I talk with them about life and love, the most important things in the world. We laugh a lot.

When you come to our parties in ICEI to avoid problems the only thing you can do is NOT COME TO THE PARTY :)

Camila meets a transvestite

Well, I met Camila Alexis Rivera Moyano in a freezing classroom on a raining day in the Campus Juan Gómez Millas. She wore a black montgomery and a violet scarf. She looked very nice. I started to talk with her about her hobbies and what she did in her freetime. She was polite.

She started to talk me about her skill to cook in her house. She told me that she cook a lot of sweet things like pies, sopaipillas pasadas, cakes and tarts. I felt very hungry. She just smiled.

After a black coffee she told me that she loved photography. I felt very surprised about that because I like to take photos too. She had a camera that she uses to take photos to her family, friends and some stuff.

Then a very weird anecdote came from her: "Yesterdey I met a transvestite" she told.

We laugh a lot. I've never heard that. Then she told me that she went to record with friends a transvestite person. She did a video with the material from her camera.

"I felt very good. She/He was very nice" said Camila. They talked about what happens in a normal street night.

I thought that my interview finished, but the most weird thing came:

"The transvestite studies Social Work in the Academia de Humanismo Cristiano" she told.

Maybe the Church will want to get a meeting with that guy/girl.

Future Shorts

[click on the image on the top to get to the website]

Well, today I'm writing on the blog about my favorite cinema website.
This is Future Shorts website. Future Shorts is a new kind of Cinema Film Festival. This is a planetary event with locations in Australia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Japan, Romania, Russia and Sweden.

The special thing about this festival is that the platform of distribution is online (by internet). That creates a big audience with people who like short films but not any kind of films, just the good ones. The Future Shorts Agency is working with experimental films and videoclips too at this moment. Sometimes It does Future Shorts parties around the world to celebrate with the global audience and to show some new short films.

Well, the webpage has a very nice interface. On the left has all the sections about the Festival with locations, dates, prices, contacts, "about us" information, awards, the festival blog, etc. At the bottom are all the links to know Future Shorts on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

I don't visit this website very often because I really like the Future Shorts YouTube Channel. There are a lot of short films and videoclips. There are Future Short parties videos too. I visit all the time that channel. It inspires me to do a good work when I'm filming.