Mauricio Valdebenito first blog

I would like to work as an editor for a film in the future, or any audiovisual content like advertising, television, etc (but mostly film, because national televison in general pay less for the editor's work and his job is very underrated). I realized while working in a short film, since I study Cine y televisión in ICEI, the work I enjoyed the most in the filmmaking process was the editing of the material in the comfort of my room with a cup of tea. It sounds a bit out of touch and lonely but it really isn’t.  Ultimately, I depend on the work of several people for the realization of the short, and my work consist in taking all that effort to create the film everyone intended to make and more.  Although post-production is the most time consuming part of the whole process (the shooting of a film might take thee weeks to two months, while post-production can take over a year), I find it to be the less stressful. After the pre-production and the shooting, in post-p...

I really like this movie more than The Wind that Shakes the Barley, from the same director. Jimmy Gralton's hall unexpectedly (for me at least, since I'm very ignorant of Ireland history and political state) brought many conflicts with the Catholic church, and the side who won Irish civil war. Father Sheridan in particular, was bother because of what people was learning in Jimmy's hall, either that be painting, reading, etc since the church had the monopoly on what could be taught to the people. In no time, Jimmy was force to leave Ireland, labeled a communist, and only returned ten years later, which is were the movie takes off. Jimmy's hall is back on bussiness again, figuratively speaking, since it was free and it was run by a comitee, and he's deported again for life this time as an ilegal alien. I personally like Oonagh and Jimmy's mother because I never doubt how much they love him. This characters felt very honest and sympathetic altough I found st...