“As director, I was loading furniture, helping the staff for the light, for many things; out of necessity we must be more guerrillas and thus be able to move forward, “he says Rafa altamira, who during these months of pandemic has filmed a couple of feature films.
When you are gone and No requiered tranlations, suspense and comedy stories, respectively, both with international and Mexican talent, are the two films by the director from Guadalajara that were made with a minimum budget.
“When it was said that it could be filmed again, we took advantage of the fact that Guadalajara was not a risk zone, we financed the movie and we gave the actors accommodation and all the protocols available ”, he details.
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Both tapes are part of the more than 10 Mexican productions, mostly from Guadalajara, which since July, and in the pandemic stage, have managed to film themselves. A figure much lower than 12 a month, between documentaries and fiction, which were carried out during 2019, as extracted from the Statistical Yearbook of Mexican Cinema that edits the Imcine.
The handful of titles, where they can also be found. Mara Escalante, and You are not alone, produced by Minnie West, are the attempt of the national cinema to come out ahead during this time of pandemic.
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“When are you gone”, Luciana and “Instantes” are some films shot since July.
After all, they agree to point out producers and workers, there are at least 30 thousand people who depend on the national audiovisual medium, detained from tajo in March 2020.
The sanitary protocols raised between 20% and 30% of the average budget of a tape. Films which were originally scheduled for the first half of last year, were months behind schedule.
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Various ribbons such as Green, Blue or Brown, Erick Blackmer, they used few filming locations. Sometimes just one was enough to make it multimodal and take advantage of spaces.
“We were practically isolated, in a house and outside the city, taking our temperature every day,” he says.
According to the Camera National of the industry Cinematographic, in the Mexican audiovisual medium and until last February, more than 50 thousand tests had been carried out to detect Covid-19, of which about 700 had been positive. Not a single outbreak had been recorded on set, until last month.
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“The cost is the least, the important thing is health,” he says. Santiago Garcia, who produced 25KM / HR with Ana Serradilla and Mauricio Ochmann.
“The point is to take care of all of us, so that this continues to advance for the good of all,” he says.
Tapes that were in post production they also underwent modifications.
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Mighty victory, film set in the 30s and starring Damien AlcazarI needed computer visual effects and that slowed the process a bit.
“The problem was that now you couldn’t have everyone working in the same place but everyone at home and to do that, you needed equipment,” he recalls Raul Ramon, film director.
Sanitary protocol
Using gel, taking temperatures and mats are part of the day.
50,000 COVID TESTS They have been made in the filming; 700 have been positive.
30,000 PEOPLE depend on the audiovisual medium in the country.
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