Agatha - The film
I am very excited to share with you, that this morning, I received 2 big news. The first one, it was that my first film project I directed Agatha has been “Officially Selected” by the BFFF (Berlin Flash Film Festival). And the second one, only received a few minutes later, is that the film won the “Urban Art — best soundtrack 2020" award at the BUFF (Berlin Underground Film Festival).
I can only say that this has been possible thanks to the collaboration of Augusto Guzmán, who gave life to the film’s protagonist (Próspero), the immaculate photography of Junting Zhou. (Btw, if you do not know his work, see the doc he made about Cov-19 and that was published by New York Times recently. (https://nyti.ms/3aC2hKm)and the production of Irreverence Group Music.
I would also like to thank filmmaker Aulio Ivan Ortiz Perez and his mother, Altagracia Mencía Pérez for playing the role of Francisca, the Mother, and also to John Garcia for his sound design.
I take this opportunity, to also thank my filmmakers, artists, photographers and writers friends for having been there always with good advice. My dear Badr Farha, Ana Paula Feier and Vlad Feier, Susan Campos Fonseca and her poetry and Sophy and her support in translation. Amigos de siempre Ilona Miller, el primer publico Carlos Del Risco Jaramillo, Rodrigo Fajardo, Jaime Davila, JP Wright and of course to Miguel and Gabi for always being there supporting my ideas.
Agata is a visual experiment that is based on my story Voyeuristic Images, which is also part of my piano cycle Op. 10 and that I premiered in Dec 2019 at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music. The story tells a experience that I lived 11 years ago when I moved to NY, and that still, I remember very well.
