I will obviously update this page when I have the final product.
One of my courses at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City is in cinematography. The extraordinary characteristic of this particular course is that it is “project-based learning.” In other words, the entire semester is spent going through the complete process of professionally developing a short film. We pitch ideas, write scripts, cast actors, direct them, shoot on location, adjust filming and sound, add creative effects, and eventually publish and send to actual big-name producers and actors for input. Plenty of this professor’s students have had their work shown in international film festivals, and some have even gotten high profile jobs with this in their portfolio.
Yesterday, the 23rd of August 2017, the class voted my pitch as one of the three to be produced over the course of the semester (and the professor suggested that during the publishing stage, I submit it to Guillermo del Toro). I will serve primarily in the role of director, but obviously much more as well such as writing the script and helping with every other part of the process. I am excited to begin this journey and feel sure enough about the quality of the final product after a semester’s worth of work to publish this short page about it now.
Fast forward to my return to the US. Unfortunately, the national crisis there that destroyed my host university has destroyed this project as well. I will see if my previous teammates made any progress after my evacuation, but I think the curriculum changed. As such, I’ll attach my only deliverable to date: the script I wrote then had critiqued and approved. Here it is.