Creating Film Projects from Scratch
About Me
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: About Me
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you who I am, what my studies, influences and inspirations are, and how I came to work in film.”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Film Projects from Scratch. Develop an original movie idea and put together a director’s folder for a fiction film, documentary, short film, or TV series.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, my name is Sergio Castro San Martin and I welcome you to my Domestika course. I want to leave by telling you that I come from a family of three sisters. together with my parents, and I grew up in a city called Potrerillos, a city in the north of Chile, in the middle of the desert. I was born in El Salvador, which is a very big city, near Potrerillos, where there was neither a hospital nor a midwife, therefore my mother went to have me in El Salvador. I tell you all this because it is very important to understand our family history and our birth history or our childhood, ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Film Projects from Scratch
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Creative Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script
Sergio Castro San Martin
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin
Sergio Castro San Martín is a photographer and filmmaker. He graduated as a director from the Escuela de Cine de Chile with his thesis film Paseo, which won Best Chilean Film at the 2009 Sanfic.
His next major breakthrough came on the heels of his 2015 feature-length film La Mujer de Barro, which propelled him to the international stage at Berlinale and the San Sebastián International Film Festival. In 2019, he directed the full-length documentary El Negro and joined forces with Lucía Puenzo to codirect his first fiction drama series La Jauría, featured on Amazon Prime. In 2022, he codirected the first Chilean TV show for Disney alongside Pepa San Martín and directed the fiction film El Gol Más Triste, as well as his first international film Il Cileno.
He's been a member of the Chilean Film Academy since 2020 and is also a film professor at several universities where he teaches film production, editing, scriptwriting, and title design.
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