Carolina Paiz Guatemalan filmmaker, co-writer and co-producer of "Zero hour " feature Venezuela / Guatemala is premiering in theaters May 27th Circuit Alba, tells us a little about your life in the world of cinema and his experience as director and screenwriter.
Where you study film?
never studied film as such ... In the Univseridad studied Literature and History. I always knew I wanted to make movies, but wished first to have a solid foundation for learning to tell stories. I thought (and still think) that the best way to learn filmmaking is filmmaking.
I started as an intern at companies like Newline and Televisa , then as a production assistant in films and commercials. At
LA, take a couple of courses UCLA script, and these if I served a lot. But the biggest learning experience was "Grey's Anatomy." was there that I learned as a dramatic story structure.
other projects in film or TV series have you participated?
I've been a scriptwriter for television series "Grey's Anatomy," "Lipstick Jungle," and "The Defenders." also I have produced short films, music videos and several commercials.
How was your experience of participating in the Venezuelan film "The Zero Hour" as co-writer and co-producer?
was a great learning experience. I had never made a film ... I think I was very naive at the beginning of the process. I knew it would be difficult, but I never imagined how hard it would get financing, filming in a country like Venezuela, and lead a great team.
The script was sent to the studios on a Thursday ... and Friday, the stock fell in the U.S., the world entered the financial crisis. We cut the budget, but still it took us more than a year to find grants, co-producers and private investors we needed. Then we came to Caracas, where we find a country in chaos ... we had full abduction, assault and even murder in the shooting. It was almost impossible to shoot because of political problems, congestion and overcrowding. But thank God we had an excellent team and in the end we succeeded.
Now we come to the reality that the hardest part is not making films, but distribute ...
Finally, it is a struggle. I noticed bumps, but ultimately I think the experience was overwhelmingly positive. The public seems to connect to the story, and it is rewarding.
that making films is never be easy. But I faced the monster once, and I can do it again. Hopefully less and less fear. Still, whether or not difficult, it is what I will do for the rest of my life, because that's what I love most.
other projects have been conducting or participating later?
It is safest to continue to work on television a couple of years while developing my own film projects. And I'm making a music video and I'm executive producing a documentary that I like it a lot.
I started as an intern at companies like Newline and Televisa , then as a production assistant in films and commercials. At
LA, take a couple of courses UCLA script, and these if I served a lot. But the biggest learning experience was "Grey's Anatomy." was there that I learned as a dramatic story structure.
other projects in film or TV series have you participated?
I've been a scriptwriter for television series "Grey's Anatomy," "Lipstick Jungle," and "The Defenders." also I have produced short films, music videos and several commercials.
How was your experience of participating in the Venezuelan film "The Zero Hour" as co-writer and co-producer?
was a great learning experience. I had never made a film ... I think I was very naive at the beginning of the process. I knew it would be difficult, but I never imagined how hard it would get financing, filming in a country like Venezuela, and lead a great team.
The script was sent to the studios on a Thursday ... and Friday, the stock fell in the U.S., the world entered the financial crisis. We cut the budget, but still it took us more than a year to find grants, co-producers and private investors we needed. Then we came to Caracas, where we find a country in chaos ... we had full abduction, assault and even murder in the shooting. It was almost impossible to shoot because of political problems, congestion and overcrowding. But thank God we had an excellent team and in the end we succeeded.
Now we come to the reality that the hardest part is not making films, but distribute ...
Finally, it is a struggle. I noticed bumps, but ultimately I think the experience was overwhelmingly positive. The public seems to connect to the story, and it is rewarding.
that making films is never be easy. But I faced the monster once, and I can do it again. Hopefully less and less fear. Still, whether or not difficult, it is what I will do for the rest of my life, because that's what I love most.
other projects have been conducting or participating later?
It is safest to continue to work on television a couple of years while developing my own film projects. And I'm making a music video and I'm executive producing a documentary that I like it a lot.
Made a film project of your authorship here in Guatemala in a future?
was developing a feature film to shoot in Guatemala in early 2012, but things got complicated and now if we do not shoot. For me it was very difficult, the truth that was in love with the project and the idea of \u200b\u200bfilming in my country. I thought it was a film that also achieve an impact at the country ... but hey, I guess I have others. But I'm just like ...
Sympathy For there I have a script I wrote years ago, Wanted, on a college student who travels the country looking for his missing sister. The film is set in 82, and I love the idea of \u200b\u200bfilming a period movie also shows the beauty of people and landscapes Guatemalans. So who knows, maybe and he encouraged me to film this ...
How time this growth of filmmaking in Guatemala in recent years?
The truth I'm excited to see how cinema has evolved over the past nine years. When I left Guatemala, I felt that we were few and we were working in isolation ... now back and see a community of filmmakers struggling to create an industry. I'm excited to know that last year 18 feature films were shot. I love that genre are so varied, from the most festival-goers and art films, comedies and family, in the case of Zero Hour , action films and thrillers.
I think filmmaking is a shared experience ... It is a difficult process, and I think that if, as Guatemalans filmmakers created an atmosphere of collaboration rather than competition, we will go far.
Scenes from "La Hora Cero"
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