10 · 24 · 16 Official Selection 14th FICM: Pacífico Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard José Guadalupe Rodríguez (@jose_rdz88 ) Pacífico (2016), the debut of Mexican filmmaker Fernanda Romandía, is part of the Mexican Feature Film Official Selection of the 14th FICM. The press conference was held this morning and was attended by the director Fernanda Romandía, producer Jaime Romandía, sound designer Martin Delgado and actor Ricardo Cruz. The film follows a group of individuals who live in a village by the sea, where a monumental house is getting built. The day-to-day construction leads to this diverse group to share hopes and memories. Fernanda Romandía on her approach to the project which was initially planned as documentary "It all started because I was doing a documentary on the registry of the construction work and started getting to know these characters, so we began to turn it into fiction, to make them act. The script came last... When I started making the documentary I was looking for characters to feed it and as the construction went on, it was fictionalized gradually, they started acting, the idea that it was no longer a documentary made things complicated. I was no longer talking about the construction, I was talking about the lives of these characters. That's how it began changing". Jaime Romandía, Ricardo Cruz, Fernanda Romandía, Martín Delgado. Ricardo Cruz, the Michoacan actor, talked about his experience on the big screen "I felt really good, it's a very beautiful experience, I have not seen myself yet but we'll see how it goes. Fernanda was leading me here, I learned the script quickly and improvised."
