"2006 marked seventy years since the murder of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca by a right-wing militia (Franquists) during the Spanish civil war. Two years ago his works became available to the Public Domain.
Lorca left behind many prominent and important works, however his book the "Poet of New York" written in 1929 is less known and possibly the most radical, as much for its theme as for its language, and was sited by many as a "phase" while he was away from Spain.
Born in a quixotic Spain, Lorca arrives in a metropolis (New York) in the middle of an eminent collapse and observes a world that lost its center, its identity and origin. Almost 80 years after writing, it's a current picture of global megalopolis that still follows a chaotic and non-stop growth model, creating a stressed and schizophrenic society."
"LORCA - Grito a Roma -Trilogia da Cidade" is being developed by 27 year-old multi-media artist and Director, Dado Motta and his creative team at Mandala : art and technology located in San Paulo, Brazil. Dado says the idea of this audiovisual trilogy was inspired by Lorca's poems “Cry to Rome”, “Return to the City'' and "Sleepless City", as they relate to each phase of the New York piece described above. The plan is that each poem will be the basis for a 20 minute short film, and then all three together will compose, in their final cut, a 75 minute feature movie.
Currently in pre-production, Dado and his team are looking for new partnerships that will help make the project a reality. Research for the first short, “Cry to Rome” started in 2006, followed by another year of developing the script . Great examples of some of the research details can be seen in the character, wardrobe and locations forms. And to pre-visualize the look and feel of Grita A Roma, view the storyboard with PC's slideshow player and you'll get an immediate sense of how the fiilm's introduction and subsequent scenes will unfold on screen.
Shooting for Grito a Roma will begin in May in São Paulo, Brazil and will include a complete crew and a cast of 3 principals and about 40 supporting characters. Using HDV and Super-8 cams, the team will combine both video and animation techniques, and polish off their audio with Dolby Surround 5.1. If all goes well post production is scheduled to run from June/08 until Jan./09.
If you'd like to learn more about this fascinating project see details below, and for a sneak preview be sure to check out this TEASER.
In the meantime, Dado told me "...Celtx has been a great support to ourselves in the war to develop Independent Movie, and I imagine that to many others."
Well we're delighted we could help and sincerely wish you and your team all the best, Dado. I think you have a smashing success on your hands! - Cheers!
Sheila and The C-Team
PS - Many, many thanks to Dado and Google Translate for translation assistance :)
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CREW
- Research & Roadmap - Dado Motta, Leo Baga, Thiago
Navas, Pablo T. Sola and Luis Felipe Volpe; Director - Dado Motta; Assistance Direction - Baga Defente; Production - Ladislau Kardos; Direction of Art - Thiago Navas and Marina Previato; Direction of Photography - Igor Sales; Assistance Photography - Luis Felipe Volpe; Costume - Camilla S. Bologna; Music - Flavio De Cápua; Direction of Sound - Gui Simonsen;
Operators of Audio - Diego Disorder; Camera - Baga Defente
DIRECTOR
A graduate of the Fine Arts University of Sao Paulo, Dado Motta worked as Art Director for various advertising agencies ,then taught "Digital Art" at Senac University of São Paulo. In 2002 he founded the Mandala studio where he developed experimental and multimedia projects such as animation "Virus Inertia", an Animamundi finalist of 2003, which was also invited to the International Festival of Cinema and Technology 2004/2005 based in Australia, England and USA. In addition, part of the Resfest 2005, Fluxus 2005 (with Randomiz project) and was invited to join the FILE editions in 2004, 2005 and 2006 with videos as Iroco.
PARTNERSHIP
- iDch
- Transmit
- Núcleo Experimental de Cinema
- Pirex
- NaLaje Filmes
PRODUCTION:
Mandala
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