Creating Film Projects from Scratch
Your Own Story
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Your Own Story
Overview
“Now, you will learn to prioritize and take ownership of your story with the original idea that will help you complete the necessary resources for your dossier.”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: Your Own Story, 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
“Your own story In this lesson we will work on a new document, what is the motivation of the director, letter of motivation, statement of the director or director statement, whatever you want to call it. This document is essential. to appropriate our own history. The cinema is full of stories already told everywhere, all types of genres, plots and scripts. In the world of cinema we are going to face and you are going to face possible investors, sales agents, producers and distributors who will ask you what is the specificity of your story, Why do you want to tell this story? The important qu...”
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Course summary for: Creating Film Projects from Scratch
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Category
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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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