Introduction to Video Testimonials
Influences
A course by David R. Romay , Director, producer and writer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Here I will tell you what are the things that motivate me and I like them. I will recommend some directors whose works have had some influence on my projects. ”
In this video lesson David R. Romay addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Video Testimonials. Discover how to find great characters in true stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] Since I was a kid I always liked the stories, I always liked going to the movies, and it has always attracted my attention human behavior, it's something that, that always, has always caused curiosity, I like read a bit of philosophy, of psychology in fact ever I wanted to be a psychologist before being a filmmaker, and that's one of my main motivations before talking about my influences, that's why I have the two aspects, both the fiction and the documentary, I think from two ways you can explore the human behavior of a good way and so interesting. Speaking of the documentary speci...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Video Testimonials
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Audiovisual Production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Script, Storytelling, TV, Video, Video Editing
David R. Romay
A course by David R. Romay
His work as a scriptwriter and director, which he has been developing for more than a decade, has led him to work for commercial brands such as Coca-Cola, HSBC, Procter & Gamble, Motorola, Pfizer, Volkswagen or Televisa, among others. However, it is in the documentary field in which David R. Romay moves with greater ease. In 2005, he produced the documentary Toro Negro , which won numerous awards at international film festivals such as San Sebastian, Toronto, Rotterdam, Havana and Cannes.
In addition, he has directed and written documentaries for Clio TV (the producer of the historian Enrique Krauze) and, in 2010, he wrote and directed several chapters of the documentary series Heroes de Carne y Hueso , premiered on the occasion of the bicentennial of the independence. In 2012 he co-directed and co-wrote the documentary Oro, the day that everything changed , a film that tells the story of the Olympic football team, which won the gold medal in London 2012 and, it has become one of the most watched sports documentaries in Mexico.
In the field of fiction, he highlights A solas , a short film premiered at the 2009 Morelia Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award at Short Shorts México. And the recent premiere, at the Shanghai Film Festival 2018, of his first feature film: Behind the Mountain .
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