Creating Film Projects from Scratch
Influences
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Next, I will tell you about some of the influences that have accompanied me on the path of cinema and photography. I hope they inspire you!”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: Influences, 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
“Influences Now i will tell you who have been the influential authors in my career and I would also like to tell you that, more than influences, I also speak of those authors that have changed the way I see the world, the way of seeing cinema, as a cinephile more than as a director. Somehow, we are more spectators than authors. The cinema is built based on what we have seen, much more than we do or have done. One of the authors, who has influenced me and that has motivated me to do what I do, is the English director Alfred Hitchcock, who worked for a long time in England and then jumped to t...”
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Course summary for: Creating Film Projects from Scratch
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Areas
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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