10 · 06 · 08 The short: A platform for starting to film Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Doris Morales/Translated by Caroline MacKinnon [imagen]One of the advantages of making a short film is that it allows one to tell stories in a brief period of time and can be an excellent platform for starting to film a feature. However, when being shown, as the format is short, programs of three or six films are shown at once, and people watching often forget the separate films when the screening is over, losing the thread of the stories they have seen. But the short film is also very enjoyable, filmmaker Ramón Orozco said during a press conference, because shooting time is shorter, and filmmakers have more control over the development of the production. Orozco is the director of de La curiosa conquista del ampere e Isi Sarfati, and the cinematographer of Tierra y pan, short films that are in Program 3 of the Morelia International Film Festival’s competition. Marie Benito’s El deseo, and David Pablos’ La canción de los niños muertos, are also part of the program. Pablos shares his experience filming the story of a family in which the mother has died, they end up deteriorating to the point of humiliation. He said that he chose the child actors during a round of auditions he did in elementary schools, as he didn’t want to work with professional actors.
