Letter Of Recommendation Abroad

(Martín Cuenca and the ritual of signing)
Today was a day to think, to stay with a series of ideas and think much about them. Manuel Martín Cuenca, director of The Weakness of the Bolshevik and Half Oscar, is not an easy man to forget. Well, your ideas and challenges spear. On this basis, where the general trend is that of pessimism, of which the future of cinema is very black, in this Base where all participants warn that things have changed and are changing rapidly, listen to the words of Martin Basin suggest that all is not lost. It was a class debate, discussion, controversy. A wealthy class. Obviously, with Martin Cuenca one of the toughest critics of illegal downloading on the Internet, it was clear that this would be an issue. And it was. But not in the sense of "against" or "favor" of the Internet, but in the sense that the Internet is a useful tool to continue making films. That is to say that the Internet is paid. But not telephone operators, not the groups that live to hack, but those who make the products. And why. Because we appreciate the work. If you pay, if only one euro, 50 cents, you value what you buy. If you take it for free, just underrated. And if you pay one euro fifty cents than for which it has not for that lets you use a channel. Or at least that is dealt. Well. Another important thing
. When you finish the film career and when you face your first film, you have no obligation to make a masterpiece. Citizen Kane, there are very few in the history of cinema. Martín Cuenca put a very illustrative example. In an architect's career just is not asked to build the Guggenheim in its first project. What we ask is that the house is okay and if it is pretty great, but nothing else. So why would a filmmaker has to do a work Mestre?. Well
Another thing. Film making is learned. Great obvious, but a reality does not apply all that is needed. You have to stain your hands, as Walter Benjamin said. You have to go through the process, knowing the functions, knowledge sharing and understanding. One must know how to command and to send you tiens to enforce and to earn respect you have to know what you mean. Well.
Another thing. The work has to pay. You have to make the product as you can with the money you have. Do not pretend to make a sci-fi film with a budget of three characters. Make a great film of three characters and above all, everyone pays. You can not exploit the people abusing their enthusiasm. Well
There are three key things for Martin Cuenca at the time of making films: Legal, Character, Talent. All three are equally necessary. When one of the three fails, the product fails.
Finally a note of optimism in a conference that was excited: It is a failure to call to 99 doors that close in your face, is a successful call to one and you open it, look for and appreciate. Do not waste ..
Not bad. I believe that students who attended that class will remember a long time.