I was just told that Parque vía won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. That’s a huge deal, actually, congratulations to Enrique, Paola, and everyone else involved, ourselves included, this time.

As you can see, Enrique got an enormous gilded (I assume that’s not solid gold) feline to take home with him. Locarno is one of the larger and more respected international festivals, especially for auteur and experimental cinema, and this should be a boost for the movie, both in terms of distribution and for consideration for the Ariels, the Mexican academy awards.

It’s worth mentioning, by the way, that the movie got a new poster just in time for the festival, and it’s pretty awesome.

I thought the old poster was quite ok, but the photo on the new one is great, and really works for what the movie is about. I don’t know who took it, but I know Macias at Raya en medio is responsible for the poster, and he did a wonderful job.

Oh, and it has our logo on it, second from the left.

Parque vía, the movie directed by Enrique Rivero that we did post supervision on, has its international premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland during the first weeks of August, according to The Hollywood Reporter and others. I’ve known about this for a while, but not been allowed to tell anyone. Congratulations to Enrique, Paola, and everyone else involved. I’m sure it’ll do very well, it’s a good movie.

The short we did post on for Atole Metafilms a few months back is now on YouTube, after being shown at parties and other improvised screening locations around Mexico. The sound is sadly not great, but apart from that, it turned out fairly ok.

Sorry about the long delays, I’m hoping I’ll get more time to write soon. In the meantime, we’ve been doing some good work. Latest news: We did postproduction supervision on the only Mexican movie this year to go to Cannes, in the Un Certain Regard section. It’s called Los Bastardos, and we finished just on time to get it to the festival, where’s it’s been getting mixed, but generally relatively positive reviews. Apart from the supervision, we also did some VFX previsualization for it, which was fun, and very in tune with genres I like, but I guess I shouldn’t spoil that part of the movie, it’s kind of crucial. Here’s Screen Daily’s review, there’s also Variety’s review, and here’s the Hollywood Reporter.

Oh, and the actual illegal Mexican immigrant to the US who plays an illegal Mexican immigrant to the US in the movie got treated rather badly by French border police when entering the country to attend the festival. Life imitates art, minus the shotgun.

My IMDB page is looking a bit less pathetic too, as a result of all this work, although it’s got a way to go before it matches my partner Øyvind’s page, now that he’s gotten in some of the stuff he’s worked on before.

What few readers I have might have noticed that I’ve not been writing much here lately. I’d like to, but I’ve been insanely busy. I’ve hinted at this before, and not said why, since I’ve been trying to establish a few things. But well, here it is. I co-founded a postproduction company (preliminary website) with my good friend Øyvind Stiauren, another Norwegian living in Mexico. We’ve been at it for about 8 months now, and results are starting to show, specifically, the first movie we’ve worked on to show up in IMDB, Ana Laura Calderón’s “La Isla de la Juventud“, a documentary shot on Cuba. That’s not the first movie we’ve worked on, though, the first was a feature film that was shot mostly during April-May. They’re doing pickups now, and post starts in November. There’s also a couple of other documentaries we’re working on right now, as well as several large feature films coming at the end of the year/beginning of next. We’re doing very well, and I’m quite happy.

This also means my IMDB page got updated. There’ll be much more there very soon.