I started to write the script of this short film during the autumn of 2005. My short film isn't a professional film, it's only an old dream of mine which was brought to reality by myself using very little means. I sent it to some film festivals.
The short film, with English subtitles:
I shot the film between April 2006 and July 2008. I only had a little camera, a microphone and my own enthusiasm and the help of some friends. It was difficult to find dates of filming with the rest of the crew: some friends and some actors were helping and supporting me in that trip, but of course they have their own jobs and lives. For example, the main actress abandoned the project and I had to find another actress to play the role, it was an important delay, it wasnt an easy task to find the right actress again, but at last I did it. The same happened in the case of other roles.
The filming was so slow and desperating that sometimes I thought about surrendering, but finally I could resist and finish it. Afterwards I faced the editing and post-production process with my very slow laptop computer.
I dont know if my film will achieve any commercial success, but I enjoyed making it. And I learned many, many things as well. But let's go step by step...
Here I'm giving some information about the cast and crew of the film:
Mateo is a man about thirty-something who always knew that he was empty inside himself, disturbed by that emptiness that scares him. He is distressed and tries to find a solution desperately through several ways, several failures at last. That's one of the sources for the title, horror vacui, fear of emptiness. The other one is his obsession with number 56.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I-WvkZanQY
© jorge mangas peña, 2003-2011