The Baby Cries Teaser Trailer

This is a teaser of my short film The Baby Cries. The Baby Cries is being developed for a feature, web-series and multi-media production. We hope you enjoy the teaser.

PRE-PRODUCTION | Table Reading for The Baby Cries

A talented cast and crew embarked on a table reading for The Baby Cries. The Baby Cries is a short film comedy based on a stage play I wrote for CASA 0101's The Brown and Out Theater Festival this year. It is a story of a gay couple raising their newborn daughter and the chaos that ensues when the traditional Catholic Salvadoran grandparents show up. The talented Cast includes: Martin Morales, Miriam Peniche, Matt Pascua and MJ Silva.

As the writer/producer/director of the film, it is a proud moment to see the "baby" come alive. The play version generated a lot interest and praise from the audience, and it was great to hear how well people connected to the story. Time and time again people would tell me how they identified with each character - people from all walks of life: gay, straight, male and female. When writing the piece, there was a part of me that wanted the characters to be identifiable with anyone and people did indeed connect to the story of family, tradition and the insecurities of raising a family.

At the table read we discussed story, character motivation, speech and dialogue. The cast is invested in portraying their character with a finite sense of honesty, and as a director I could't be happier. Martin, Miriam, Matt and MJ came into the reading wanting to know more and how best to emote for camera. When you have a cast engaged in the process you realize how deep their own motivations are as actors. How could a director not love working with actors?

In the next few weeks we'll undertake on make up and camera tests that will lead us to our day of production. For now, the actors will have to prepare for their roles for the camera, awaiting the day "action" is called.

Los Gritos de Bebé: Pre-Producción

Tomando Los Gritos del bebé del escenario a la pantalla tiene algunos retos fantásticos. Anoche tuve una gran sesión con Diseño de Producción y Actor Martin Morales con respecto a la mirada de los gritos del bebé. Durante dos semanas he estado discutiendo lentes y cámaras con el director de fotografía Dan Cotreau y tratando de encontrar una mirada para la película. Esta es la primera vez como director que me he acercado a una película desde una perspectiva de diseño de producción y Martin tenido algunas grandes ideas. Escuché con atención y lo imaginé las ideas significarían en el ámbito de un marco de película.





Escuché por el medio ambiente de la habitación, el color en el ámbito de la emoción y el uso de la luz para transmitir un paso del tiempo. Entre el diseño de producción y la cinematografía, hay elementos, ideas y diseño que se superponen. Como director Trato de escuchar lo que la gente está trayendo a la mesa para que yo pueda dejar a crear dentro de la visión que tengo. Mi enfoque principal es siempre acerca de la actuación frente a la cámara, así que espero que todos los elementos que estamos creando ahora están bien definidos antes de entrar en producción. A medida que más colaboradores saltar a bordo, tengo ganas de orquestar una historia sincera sobre la familia y el amor.