Ecuador
So the local people: open, simple and above all concerned. The bus driver can see a movie of Ecuador, a pirated copy in Montecristi obtained from a street vendor. Although Manta also they can get. Some circulating in all the video stores near Flavio Reyes and many more in the center of the city.
The film is projected onto the bus, 'Trafficking and kidnapping the President' is one of dozens of tapes Ecuadorian commercial movie theaters have been excluded from their regular programming, but that street to get USD 1 50.
The lady in the red dress immediately recognized the actor who jumps off his motorcycle on television, just a moment before it explodes. I recognized not so much because he knows his sister is a hairdresser at the center of Chone, but he has seen films Chalacamá Nixon, as planned or 'Greed' and 'The invisible destroyer' blockbusters in Chone.
In his village, he is a celebrity, but also recognize when traveling to Manta and Guayaquil. He began his film with Fernando Cedeño, another put a milestone in the national cinema lost, who says his film "Assassins Manabi 'has sold over a million pirated copies. When
began more than a decade ago, karate and motorcycles have inspired them to tell their first stories. Claim that their film is based on reality. "Maybe so, says Fernando-people have become so identified with us." In his productions and real bullets are used in fights you see on screen is actually hit. "We thought that was the only way to make it credible."
Their productions are made from the imagination and the 'acolyte' of friends and neighbors. Also lending their work for free, actors and one or two enthusiastic that ends up participating in the film as another character.
Nixon
even remembers how he asked his brother to lend him his bike "for a while, just to do an errand. "Then I give it back," he said. Half an hour later returned with the bike exploited and smoke still coming from the engine. "It we had to shoot a scene where the motorcycle exploded," recalls Nixon about the shooting of the film 'Traffic and kidnapping the President. " "I had no choice."
Thus, a craft, this pair of choneños exposes her imagination. They show his unique insights on assassins, vigilantes and Avengers stories that supplanted the successes that were exhibited Chone in more than 10 years as 'The girl in the blue bag' and 'King Kong'.
Your creativity reaches unbelievable levels. The film 'The invisible destroyer' was made from scraps left over from other films. Nixon has accumulated more scenes that did not fit in his previous films. "At one point I realized I could complete another film." Only several scenes filmed in a few days was able to finish this film about a karate expert with superhuman powers.
In Manta, it is difficult to find the movie "Assassins Manabi 'by Fernando Cedeño. However, its director is not located in the city. This day is in Puerto López, flowing with another filmmaker, Carlos Quinto Cedeño. They make the producer Sacha (jungle Quichua). At the time of filming being completed in that coastal town, a police video of the brigades.
The Cedeño (although they are not related) share the quality of being a man of simple and direct speech. Far from any pose of an artist, passionately recount the process of filming and distributing their films.
Fernando recalls that began in film with Nixon in 1994, Chone, a test film which was then filled and Oriflama, a cinema with a capacity for 1 500 people for five days. Years later came 'brouhaha in the mountain' by Charles V. Cedeño, then a professor of theater Fernando.
This trio of filmmakers have to fight against piracy, against the lack of state support, against commercial cinemas that do not project your films and against the lack of budget ... yet they continue filming.
His films are made with little more than USD 10 000, but say they should cost more than half a million. The recovery is also traditional and imaginative. Carlos Quinto
toured Latin America by bus, asking drivers to allow put your movie on the tour. "People loved to be the actor who sells the DVD. So I bought it up to $ 10. " For these filmmakers, people should not reach the theater, but the film must reach the people.