On October 10, the new film of the Chilean director Nicolás López, Santos, with a spectacular Elsa Pataky in the cast.
So, we take the opportunity to leave you with a interview to the director of the movie made by me in The Spanish Cinema Blog:
JFP - You made your debut in cinema, directing when you were only 20 years old, with great success as Average RedHow do you get to make movies when you are so young?
NL - Well, knocking on many doors and being unbearable. Verbiage works. People decide to finance your projects simply to shut your mouth.
JFP - Besides being a director, you are a screenwriter, actor and producer, with which we could consider you the Chilean Santiago Segura, right?
NL - Well, today I have much more hair than Segura. I admire Santiago a lot, in addition, he was one of the producers of my first feature film, but I think my path is different. I've explored my acting streak a lot less. I mean, I'm a lot less Renaissance than him. Writing and directing seems enough to me.
JFP - It shows that you handle the ins and outs of the Internet and that it can be a perfect and cheap means of promotion because you have a blog, www.doubleverse.com, and you even promote your films on Facebook.
NL - Since 2000, when we copied the campaign from Blair Witch Project to promote the first movie I co-produced, a horror film called Black Angel, directed by my colleague Jorge Olguín, the Internet has been a fundamental means of promoting everything I do. Since 1999 I have my movie site called leftovers.com (We are going for the 10 years) and in that each film that I have been involved as much as producer, director or head of the marketing campaign (I dedicated myself to that for a long time) the web has been a fundamental medium.
JFP - If I don't ask you this question, my outgoing visitors would kill me, what is it like to work with Elsa Pataky?
NL - Although it sounds like the typical American making of shit, Elsa is incredible, she is very funny and gave humanity to a character who on paper was just a pretty girl.
JFP - What will viewers be able to see with “Santos”, your new film that opens on October 10th?
JFP - What is your new project that you are preparing to debut in Hollywood about?
NL - It is a project that I wrote for Ventanazul, the production company of Salma HayekIt's called 178 Jack Johnsons and it's a romantic comedy… loosely based on the Terminator. Science fiction and romantic comedy. Now their mission is to sell it to a studio ... since MGM passed from us. See what happens. Meanwhile, so as not to be looking at the roof of my house, I wrote a new project for Spain. A musical comedy called Providence that I intend to shoot in Chile in the first quarter of 2009.
JFP - Finally, you will invite www.elblogdecineespanol.com to the premiere of your film in Spain? To take a picture together and put it on our respective blogs, heh, heh.
NL - Of course, talk to Boomerang Cinema to whom I have told to pay special attention to blogs in terms of the press.