Creating Film Projects from Scratch
Environment and World
A course by Sergio Castro San Martin , Filmmaker and Photographer
Joined April 2021
About the video: Environment and World
Overview
“Next, I'll show you how to select the worlds and environments that come together in your story.”
In this video lesson Sergio Castro San Martin addresses the topic: Environment and World, 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
“environment and world In this lesson we will know the environment and world that surround the characters. The world and the environment of the characters are important because it is the stage where they move, develop, interact, is the place and locations where our drama takes place, our dramaturgy, our dramatic action. In "Caracol" the environment and the world become very relevant because they are the place where our characters live. Miguel is a man who becomes a hermit, who makes nature his home, who makes his cave his refuge, who moves with his house, who lives with the fauna, that coexi...”
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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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