The Miami Film Festival presents “Guaco – Semblanza”. This documentary feature film, directed by Alberto Arvelo, portraits and follows the musical journey of the Venezuelan super-band with interviews, rehearsals, and brimming concert performances. Reel-Music, the music-themed section of the Film Festival selected five works for screening: Guaco – Semblanza; Yo soy así; I Tita, a life of Tango; Indestructible: The Soul of salsa; Me, my Father and the Cariocas – 70 years of Music in Brazil and A night of […]
Last month I had the opportunity to be part of the jury of the International Short Film competition of The Santander Independent International Film Festival. The Festival is organized by Pablo Enciso – Art Director, Eleanor Vallaza -General Director, Mario Durrieu – Curator and renowned Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina special guest for this edition. Twelve Feature films took part in the Festival that combined the documentary and fiction genres, creating a unique category of awards. A Woman (Colombia), Tiger (Argentina), […]
This short film by Anselmo Portillo tells is about “a father and his son travelling with an old car that breaks down on the roadside in the middle of nowhere. They must join efforts to continue their journey.” We were associate producers and worked in the coloring and mastering. For more information visit: 2018 Guadalajara International Film Festival – FICG at: FICG
We received the news that our dear director Héctor Silva -International School of Cinema and television of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba – was chosen for Talents Guadalajara. He had taken part in Cannes Cinéfondation with his short film “Anfibio”. We had just finished the postproduction – coloring/mastering – of his new short film “El Destetado” (An unweaned man). He is now writing the script for a feature film. “Talents Guadalajara” is celebrating its 10-year anniversary at the Guadalajara […]
March 2018 – Guadalajara 9-16 / Miami 9-18. We are very pleased to have been selected in the official competition of the Guadalajara and Miami Festivals. Carlos Saura, Ventura Pons, José Carlos Ruiz and Guillermo del Toro are the Guests of Honor of this year’s edition of the Guadalajara Film Festival. The Oldies Cuba, Venezuela, Reino Unido · 2018 · Color · 93’ In the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, three elderly musicians drift between present and memory to relate […]
For the documentary film “Los Viejos” by director Rosana Matecki, the photographer Nicolás Villegas wanted to match the look of the SONY FS7 camera to an ALEXA, and then prepare a Luts to make greens in the low lights and oranges on the high lights. This complementary combination made a soft contrast that emotionally bonded the narrative of the film and the way of telling the story of three Cuban musicians fallen on hard times because of their old age. […]
This film came to the color station with some clear ideas. All the film monitoring was performed in color; however, the idea was that the final image would be in black and white. Diego Rísquez, the film director, had asked me that at times the singer’s jacket and his car – a display of luxury and wealth- appeared completely in color. This created a caricature image of very specific moments, tarnishing the narrative. We tried many paths until we found […]
