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Press conference: I Hate Love by Humberto Hinojosa

"After finishing Oveja Negra (2009), I already had the first draft of the film," he said. "I wanted to write a story about my first teenage love. You can fall in love several times, but this first love is always something special. I wanted (to show) that what prevented this love was the lack of communication between a deaf boy and a young girl from the United States. And I liked the idea that love can heal you. "

Hinojosa said that his process of directing was similar to that in his previous feature: recording rehearsals, analyzing and discovering what worked. "It was very helpful to be with the actors, doing this project together," he said. "We were able to establish a good friendship, a relationship that functioned very well between them for the film. We followed the story I wrote very closely, but we began to put together many of the sequences with them, giving them a touch of reality, and above all, a naturalness to the love story."

The director said that the fact that the main character loses his hearing, that he allows himself to fall in love and suffers a terrible loss, makes him mature, and become an adult. "It's a little about valuing everything we have and when we lose it, we realize how important it is. How much do we have to lose to value what we have? We have to realize that life has a limit and that it ends. At the end of the film, my character learns how not to lose again."

In relation to the reception of the film, Hinojosa said, "Many people have approached us, but we want to wait a bit so that more people see it at festivals. And the advantage of it (the film) being in two languages helps us distribute it. We hope to have its premiere next year."

I Hate Love will be screened today, November 8, at 4:15 pm at Cinépolis Centro and on Friday, November 9, at 6:30 pm at Cinépolis Las Américas.

If you want to read more about I Hate Love, check out our previous interview with the director: here.