Premios Invi

Today was a very special date for me that I will remember for a long long time, before deciding to move back to Mexico, and before Cannes there was this little idea that later evolved to a big project called FOR LESS OR FREE, this project was screened in the last Cannes Film Fest Out of Competition and nothing really came out from that screening except from good compliments from my friends, family and the people that helped me out with the short film. The time passed and I was not very comfortable with the idea of just keeping the short film saved in my hard drive and later I found this great event from RTVE (spanish television) called the INVI awards which stand for Internet Audio-Visuals Innovation Awards, I hurried up to gather all the information needed for the entry because I actually found them just by coincidence a day before the deadline! hehe and some time after that, exactly 3 days ago I received an email asking for my confirmation of assistance for the event, I just thought they were inviting ever contestant but no! I later found that in the website there were the finalists, and FOR LESS OR FREE was one of them in the category of NON-FICTION DOCUMENTARY, I was so so happy that at least the film would be one of the finalists, so I immediately asked Grace Montoya, which is the editor and the responsible of some editing and the coolest intro titles ever =), that maybe our friend Camila Escat (which helped us in the documentary and is one of the coolest girls from Spain that I’ve met), would be interested in coming to the awards ceremony, she accepted! but today i received another e-mail from the organizers that she needed to say a speech ” in case we won”, hehe so I thought “this is very suspicious” hehe later that day the ceremony was live on the internet at RTVE’s website and the moment was ready.

First the nominees, then a very important executive from France came to the stage to call the winner but first he says: “I’m going to call the winner in English” and I was shocked because our short film was the only one with English Name in the title!! the time freezed for a second, and the next thing I remember was hearing “the winner is…. FOR LESS OR FREE” hooolly ssss….moke! I shouted so hard that my cat (TOBY) got scared! hehe, I was so happy and Grace which was also watching the ceremony live, called me and I couldn’t hang correctly my cellphone in my hand!,, Camila came to the stage to collect the trophy and the big check hehe and she did a killer speech in behalf of me! seriously!

The making of the video was possible thanks to Reel Ideas Studio (Claire Erwin, Bun Lee, Jim Kenney and Sebastien De Castell) for the microgrant they gave us, the people from all over the world interested in participating, the musicians involved Asevatu – Fernando Perez and Jonah, and of course the team that helped me with the footage, interviews etc.. etc.. you know who you are =), Thank you so much to all of you!

One of the happiest days in my life! NOVEMBER 19 2009

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