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Nespresso Talents Mentorship 2018 at the 16th FICM

Azul Ramírez @azulartx

As part of the alliance that the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) maintains with Nespresso, a mentorship was held at the Teatro José Rubén Romero in the company of the jury of the third edition of Nespresso Talents, composed by the director Ximena Urrutia, the filmmaker Alfredo Loaeza, the writer David Barraza, the director Jorge Michel Grau and the founder and general director of the FICM, Daniela Michel. As well as the mentors of this edition, the director Lucía Gajá and the actor Juan Manuel Bernal.

During the talk, the importance of new technologies as narrative tools for cinematographic exercises was discussed: "They allow you to practice more easily and with more immediacy. What belongs to us now is the recording of reality, this record goes on to stay in history, in many years we will see the tools that were used and all that will speak of our generation," said Jorge Michel Grau.

In this regard, Daniela Michel recalled Oso Polar, by Marcelo Tobar, the winning film of the Ojo for Mexican Feature Film at the 15th FICM: "It is a movie made with a cell phone, we are finding a new field of formats, there is a lot more accessibility, what we are living is something very democratic."

A peculiarity of the short films presented in Nespresso Talents is their presentation in vertical format 9:16; Daniela celebrated the initiative and said it was a wonderful exercise: "What I saw in Nespresso was impeccable work of great diversity, for me it was a learning process because it was a very different way of looking at things".

David Barraza said that this new accessibility to film does not translate into telling good stories: "It is a very important challenge for the current generations to tell stories that move. The excuse used to be how expensive filming was, now I think that the tools are there. In the end how to approach the stories becomes a challenge for all of us".

On the role of the actor in these times, Juan Manuel Bernal mentioned that the new platforms are a great opportunity: "The actor is a creator and has a point of view on the story that is going to be told, the great orchestrator is always the director, but I believe more than ever in teamwork and now with new technologies I feel that things are easier".

Alfredo Loaeza mentioned technology as a great responsibility: "It's like having a more efficient weapon but it does not mean that it should be worn out, it must be assumed to explore. The tool must allow that search to remain interesting and very responsible".

Lucía Gajá said that it is essential to think about how to tell the stories: "it is very different to work fiction than documentary, but I think the world of visual exploration and storytelling is the same, I even think we introduce each other to new tools".