A short film made by students of the Audiovisual Media Degree at TecnoCampus has been screened at the recent Sitges Festival. This is the film titled Los Frustrado, directed by Martí Rovira with the support of students from the subject of Filmmaking Techniques from the second year of the degree.
This work is one of the practices of the subject, which consisted of creating a short film following the style of filmmaker Wes Anderson. It was done in just two weeks and on a very small budget. “We spent 46 years to pay for fake blood and things like that,” explains Martí Rovira, who highlights that these limitations encouraged them to look for creative solutions for the short.
The film stars largely non-professional actors and friends of the students. “Everything was done in a very naïve and naïve way,” says Rovira.
The plot of Los Frustrado introduces us to Juan, the last living member of the Frustrado family. Next to the tree where great-grandfather Román is buried, he reviews the peculiar and violent history of his family. It is a short short film with a lot of humor, despite its somewhat macabre theme.
Before arriving in Sitges, the short had been seen at the Mataró Film Market.
The opportunity to participate in the Sitges Festival came through the initiative of a professor from the Audiovisual Media Degree at TecnoCampus, who contacted the authors of the short to tell them that he wanted to present it to the festival. Then, they retouched some technical aspects of the short to improve the finish of the film.
The short has participated in the SGAE New Authorship Awards organized by SGAE and the SGAE Foundation, through the Territorial Council of SGAE in Catalonia. These awards recognize the three author categories of the audiovisual productions of the students of the film schools and universities of Catalonia. This year it has had the participation of some 18 universities and schools, which have presented 39 works. Of these, ten have been chosen to screen at the Sitges festival.
Martí Rovira is pleased to have presented his short in this section in which other shorts from film schools such as the ESCAC were also seen. “It was very nice to see our short projected in a room full of people, the Prado, with people laughing at the gags and having a good time,” he explains. The director also had the opportunity to meet the director Jaume Balagueró and the composer Alfonso de Vilallonga, members of the jury.
As TecnoCampus professor Andrea Fernández states, “it is an honor that a second year project has made it to this festival.”
