10 · 23 · 23 Rodrigo Prieto Unveils Armchair Before Special Screening of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON at the 21st FICM Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Gustavo R. Gallardo The 21st edition of the Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) recognized Mexican cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto with an armchair embroidered with his name, prior to the special screening of Killers of the Flower Moon, by film director extraordinaire Martin Scorsese. Rodrigo Prieto Rodrigo Prieto photographed the filmmaker's new film, the fourth time the Mexican has worked with the American director. "How proud we are to have Rodrigo, who photographed the film, here!" said FICM founder and general director Daniela Michel, who recognized the cinematographer along with the festival's vice president, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel. Later, Rodrigo Prieto unveiled his armchair to the applause of the audience, which packed the Cinépolis Morelia Centro's Room 4. "It is truly very special to present this film here. It is a work of enormous dedication, with a lot of sweat, a lot of time; complicated to make," said the cinematographer, and warned the audience that he couldn't just tell them to enjoy it, "because it will move you, it's complicated, it's a film that has guts." Daniela Michel, Rodrigo Prieto, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Batel Regarding Scorsese, he said that he is a filmmaker who still has a lot to say and that in all the projects he has worked on with him (The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013; Silence, 2016; and The Irishman, 2019) he has turned his fictions into personal exploration. Killers of the Flower Moon is set in the early 20th century when the discovery of oil deposits enriched the Osage nation. The prosperity of these Native Americans immediately attracted white intruders, who manipulated, extorted and stole as much money as they could from them before resorting to murder in a series of brutal crimes that would later become known as "The Reign of Terror."
