Viva Mexico!

[Sanjin Jukic]

2006-2007 is a very good year for the Mexican film directors. To mention just the two of them like Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel) and Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men). By the way one of my favourite directors Luis Buñuel was living and making films there for years. ¡Que viva Mexico! by Sergei M. Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov...

[Pol Turrents]

viva mexico!
they have a nice cinematography, but not very well known...

I meet two Dop's who worked with buñuel long time ago: Gabriel Figueroa and Jose Aguayo
I have a clapperboard signed by them and Freddie Young!

[Erik Rangel]

Guillermo del Torro's Pan's Labryinth comes out here on friday and I hear it's Great!

[Joe Carney]

Guillermo del Torro's Pan's Labryinth comes out here on friday and I hear it's Great!

I think just about every critic and most viewers are saying it's a great movie.

[Steve Gibby]

Two RED One cameras are reserved by Luis Bustamante of Hermosillo. I talked with Luis and his business partner a few months ago in Los Angeles, at the RED 4k screening. Great guys, with some excellent demo material, and some good ideas. Narrative cinema isn't the core of their business, but they're headed that way. Their documentary, tourism, and business media production is excellent.

I'd imagine that there were a few other RED One cameras reserved in Mexico, and that some more will be reserved next week.

[luis bustamante]

Two RED One cameras are reserved by Luis Bustamante of Hermosillo. I talked with Luis and his business partner a few months ago in Los Angeles, at the RED 4k screening. Great guys, with some excellent demo material, and some good ideas. Narrative cinema isn't the core of their business, but they're headed that way. Their documentary, tourism, and business media production is excellent.

I'd imagine that there were a few other RED One cameras reserved in Mexico, and that some more will be reserved next week.

Thanks for the kind words, Gibby! Believe me narrative cinema is our only goal as individuals and as a business, everything else is only means to that end. It seems the RED 01 will be a key asset for us entering that realm no longer than this year! If everything goes according to plan in december we'll be starting production of our first feature film (thanks Jim Jannard!).

The success of Innarritu, Del Toro, Cuaron & Lubezki (specially their work in Children Of Men) is a huge motivation for us as they come from our country. Their's is an example of how hard work and dedication can overcome any of our (most often self-imposed) limitations. They make it clear that it's really only a matter of doing it to eventually succeed.

All this for us is also a remainder that Mexico has a great tradition of excellence in filmmaking and a very mature and professional film industry (films like Apocalypto also attest to that to some extent). We intend to honour this tradition and help bring our industry closer to the technology that will take it to a new level of financial possibilities (talking from a place where the expense of shooting 35mm can represent close to half of the complete budget of a feature film).

We know of 2 cameras that went to Mexico City and another one here in Hermosillo besides our own 2, I'm sure there's more in the rest of the country.

By the way if anyone is interested on seeing our actual narrative work, our latest short it is online here: http://homepage.mac.com/luisbustamante/interrupcionh264.mov (5 min. long and english subtitled), please check it out and let us know what you think of it (it screened at the LA shorts Fest and Kinotavr in Sochi, Russia).

cheers!