A dark comedy staring Lola Berthet and Luis Machin. First Place in the Filmaka “Hard Times Contest”.
Directors: Gabriel Balanovsky & Ginger Gentile
Producer: Gabriel Balanovsky
Director of Photography: Jorge Crespo
Cast: Lola Berthet, Luis Machin, Luis Aponte
Specs: 3 minutes/HD/2010
Winner of First Prize in Filmaka’s “Hard Times” Contest, selected by Jury of:
-Werner Herzog (Writer / Director / Producer, Fitzcarraldo, Green Cobra)
– Wim Wenders (Writer / Director / Producer, Paris Texas, Wings of Desire, Buena Vista Social Club)
– Paul Schrader (Writer / Director, Taxi Driver, Wild Bull, Affliction)
– Zak Penn (Writer / Director Last Action Hero, Behind Enemy Lines, X2, The Incredible Hulk, X-
Men: The Last Stand)
– Laura Bickford (Producer, Traffic, Guerrilla, Che)
– Colin Firth (Actor, The English Patient, Bridget Jones’s Diary)
– Bill Pullman (Actor, Tune of Love, Independence Day)
– Deepak Nayar (Producer, Lost Highway, Buena Vista Social Club)
– John Madden (Director, Mrs. Brown, Shakespeare In Love)
– Neil LaBute (Writer / Director. Nurse Betty, Possession, The Wicker Man)
– Thomas Augsberger (Producer of Eden Rock Media, Judas Kiss, Strange Bedfellows, Incident at Loch Ness, Waiting, Mr. Brooks)
– Dr. Herbert Kloiber (Producer / Distributor, Group President of Tele Muenchen)
– Tim Delaney (Founder of Leagas Delaney Ad Agency and distinguished innovator in the advertising environment of London and the world)
After winning the popular vote in Filmaka’s “Hardtimes Contest” with part one of this story, we pulled out all the stops for the follow up because we knew it would be judged by Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Colin Firth and Zack Penn. We had only 20 days to script, cast, shoot, edit and compose music. Now after winning First Place we are developing this webisode into a television series and a feature film (in both English and Spanish).