{"id":6139,"date":"2012-12-07T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2018-07-17T18:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T00:59:37","slug":"a-talented-filmmaker-from-spain-wins-sfff-international-trailer-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/a-talented-filmmaker-from-spain-wins-sfff-international-trailer-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Talented Filmmaker from Spain Wins SFFF Trailer Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

In celebration of the 13th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival, filmmakers from around the world were invited to create a 30-second trailer based on the festival\u2019s 2012 theme, \u201cDream Awake\u201d through Talent House\u2014a community of artists and collaborators who hang out and make stuff for famous people, or for themselves at talenthouse.com<\/a>. Over 30 trailers of 30 seconds each were entered, watched and voted on.<\/p>\n

The winner\u2014who receives PR and movie-making software\u2014is Galo Tob\u00edas<\/strong> from Barcelona, Spain. Tob\u00edas is a cinematographer, graphic artist, film producer, screenwriter, still photographer\u2014an all-around talented guy! You can view his company reels at\u00a0www.GaloTobias.com\/videoarte<\/a>. Here are some stills from his trailer for our Festival:<\/p>\n

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Tob\u00edas\u2019 trailer is a retro exploration of film with richly-hued images of a typewriter, film running through a reel, and the sounds and music that accompany creating film. His trailer will show in front of 10 films at the festival this year.<\/p>\n

“The piece I submitted,” Tob\u00edas said in an email interview, “is the result of a technical-aesthetic experimentation I went through about two years ago, the intention is to get a very accurate visual result and close to what might be an abstract thought.”<\/p>\n

The trailer took three days to create: one day to brainstorm and write the idea, one to film in his studio and collect films from Barcelona, and the last day to edit the video and sound. He used an old typewriter from his grandparents and a second-hand projector as props.<\/p>\n

The resulting trailer he made for the Santa Fe Film Festival, “highlights and brings the feeling of the creator of a poetic, nostalgic yet strong force…and shows what the filmmaker and dreamer desperately want to capture on celluloid.”<\/p>\n

Although the filmmaker has created exemplary work for his clients, including Nimbo Solutions,\u00a0Pirelli,\u00a0Sol Meli\u00e1, and even editing, color-grading and producing effects on the latest\u00a0Kayle video, “Sex Addiction<\/a>“,\u00a0the dreamy, impermanence in his SFFF trailer, is closer to what Tob\u00edas’ own dream of true filmmaking is:<\/p>\n

“For me, daydreaming, is the way of life that drives me every day to make films: to watch the little details that we want to show in life, torn between reality and dreams, crossing the line that separates the two; to understand the meaning of the whole; to decipher those little signs that present themselves; and to then write in a journal\u2014a diary\u2014with light and sound.”<\/p>\n

Felicidades, Galo!<\/em><\/p>\n

You can watch Galo Tob\u00edas’ trailer at TalentHouse.com, or click this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n