Major on Script

Since I started to study cinema I have been always looking forwards for some kind of area that could bring out the best of me and my talents. Some mates have found it on photography, sound or edition, and as myself, I think script is where I can give my best. That's why I would really like to take a major on script in the future, once I have finished the career.

I would really like to go outside Chile to do the major, maybe in Canada or England, because I feel that it's way much better to go to another place to learn about something that complex like script that needs you to know different realities and other people. I would like to learn about classic scripts, like The Godfather or even older movies like The Birds or Vertigo, and obviously study about the contemporary use of the script on actual cinema.

I think it would de nice (considering the fact that I am in a different country) do the major like a part-time course and meanwhile take something like an easy job during the day in order to get the money to survive at any place where I would be living. I think if I focus on script I could learn a lot and specialize myself to the cinema merchandising, and face way bettter the life post college life.

  

Don Cucho

When I was a kid I never liked cats because mom always told me that they were selfish and spoiled animals, so all of my childhood I was kind of Doglover. When I was 19 my mom was on holidays at the beach, and the day before she arrived home she called to my phone asking me if I would mind to have a cat in the house. "Of course I mind, we don't like cats remember?" I replied to her, and she answered "Ok I will have that on mind".

Short story: She arrived home with a very thin black cat. He was very injuried because back in the beach he was constantly hit by bigger cats, and in the moment he saw my mom falled in love with her and never stopped to follow her. But I kinda liked the cat too, he was very sweet and purred like no other cat I met before, like a sweet little motor. In the beginning I just liked him, and meanwhile he became a fat and very happy and sleepy cat, but after a month or two he really made me love him, I felt that the day that the doctor take him away for a whole day and night to cut his balls off: Gave my precious cat to someone else really made me sad.

Now he have three years living with us and it's the most loved cat in the world, it's part of the family and it's like a brother to me. He sleeps with my mom at nights and come to my bed at mornings, and that it's really cool when it's winter. We play a lot and he is always there to purr and make me smile after a long day.

We never figured out how to name him so it ended just like Cucho, or Don Cucho, Mr. Cucho, Simba, Kimba, Don Negro, etc.

Filmmaking

If you study cinema, people thinks it's quite obvious that you are going to end making movies and do jokes like "hey, when are we going to see your first porno film?" and stuff like that. But the thing is that reality (at least in this country) it's not like that, and in the end lots of cinema's students ends working in something like editing news or tv spots, because they finally found that they like more that kind of jobs and not necessarily filmmaking.

I really love what I am studying and really love filmmaking, and that's why despite of how hard it will be, I want to end my days working on films. I like the way that cinema gives you lots of different works into the same movie: you can write the script, edit the movie, work on sound or directing actors and why not, the whole film. Even when the script it's a work you do indoor, most of filmmaking it's outdoors, because even for the very first idea of a film you need to go out and discover the world, and not necessarily another countries: you must to go to another worlds that are hidden of common view and they would be on the next corner.

That's something I love of cinema: gives you another point of view of everything around you, because all the world moves on and nobody cares, but with a camera you can discover a whole reality in just one image. Yasujiro Ozu is a classic filmmaker that really influenced me to wish work as a director in the future. In his films you can feel how all the work around the movie it's like a meditation to him, a very personal way to stop and think about the world and answer questions by the cinema. I really hope to end someday doing the same.