Lizardi Saucedo

  To those who never give up, to those who write. by  Israel Pintor Morales Essentially, we are all capable of telling stories. We humans like to describe reality (to communicate with others, to understand and be understood, to spark discussion), but we like it even more when stories are told to us because through them we learn how to live. Although everyone is capable of telling stories, not everyone knows how to narrate them, so their ideas, anecdotes, and emotions succumb to a lack of clarity and often get lost in the infinite universe of confusion, self-indulgent writing, vain rhetoric, or deceptive techniques meant to surprise. This text does not seek to lecture anyone, much less pose as one of those ingenious decalogues that great writers have created as guides for the novice who wishes to write fiction. If anything, it can be read as a list of suggestions that might guide those who wish to practice creative writing to tell a story without becoming frustrated in the pro...

 by LARGO ¿Es usted productor o director de cine e intenta presentar su próximo proyecto a una productora o distribuidora? Si ya lo has hecho antes, sabrás que la presentación de una película es una de las partes más difíciles del negocio. Presentar una película de cualquier tipo no sólo es una experiencia desalentadora, sino que a menudo implica intentar presentar el proyecto a personas que no conoces. Aunque conozcas los puntos fuertes de tu proyecto y, sin duda, te apasione su potencial, es muy difícil saber qué buscan las personas a las que te diriges. A menudo, basta una sola respuesta poco apasionada, o no responder a la pregunta de forma exhaustiva, para que la reunión fracase. Pregunte a cualquier productor y le contará un sinfín de historias de lanzamientos fallidos en los que, o bien se equivocaron, o bien les tocó el productor o distribuidor del infierno. El problema de la presentación de una película es que se basa en gran medida en abstracciones, al menos por lo que re...

 (Extracts from an interview realized on FICM 2018 ) […] FICM: You have made several films based on novels. How is your adaptation process? BÉLA TARR : My first encounter with literature was Shakespeare's Macbeth . I did it in film school. It was my first movie, and then after that, I became a film student, and somehow I ignored the school and they allowed me to do what I wanted… My teacher told me: “You have to do some kind of adaptation, from another way, we will have to say goodbye to you, because this is a school ”. And I said, "Ok, let's do Macbeth, from Shakespeare ." And you know, when you read the text and understand the meaning, and of course, you have your own relationship with the work, and afterwards it was very easy because I only chose what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to leave out. And I focused only on one part of the drama, and then I used the text as in normal life, and somehow the actors spoke in a normal language. Later, when I read László Kr...