Journey
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Valencia, My Home
While I was in Spain for the 33rd Valencia International Film Festival, I had a chance to take a quick trip to Gandia, and to visit my old University Campus of Politécnica de Valencia, and old memories came flooding.
My first award as a filmmaker was given to me right here in this city as a part of Valencia Crea 09′ Design Awards as the Best Video Art Project. In my acceptance speech I told word for word the following:
”This is the very first award of my film career. I can promise that I will remember this, and the city of Valencia forever in my life.” And true enough, it has been almost ten years and still it’s as special as it was the first day. Being in Valencia was very emotional and made me realize that this place was truly a home away from home for me.
First Award in Miami!
I honesty came here without expectation, only to be among the very talented creators of these amazing series. But during the festival our work The Elevator has created an amazing buzz among the jury and in the end was awarded with the Best Trailer Award.
During the 4 days of the festival we have been in truly interesting panels, including TV director Bobby Roth, actor Keith David and many other executives, legal representatives of the industry. I also had the opportunity to pitch The Elevator, for the first time, to the producers of Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures and Electus Digital. And event hough I think I did a mediocre job at pitching it, they loved my vision and my comedy style!
Lastly, I want to say something about the location of the festival, South Beach, Miami! Wow! What a beautiful place with the most amazing beach, all around bars and gorgeous people!
Thank you Bryan Thompson and Miami Web Fest for a one of a kind experience and the award. Totally worth the trip!
Check out our now newly renowned Award Winning Trailer.
First Official Selection in LA!
I am so excited to announce the first Official Selection of our series The Elevator to the biggest Web Festival in Los Angeles, The Hollyweb Festival. I still can’t believe that this has happened. It’s surreal!
The Hollyweb Festival is the world’s premiere digital content festival, as seen on TLC, and sponsored by AMC Independent. It’s named by Raindance Festival as one of the Top 12 Must Attend Events for Web Series Creators.
HollyWeb aims to honor those who create work for the digital space-whether it be a series, pilot, or short. Projects previously screened at HollyWeb have gone on to receive Emmy nominations, feature film deals, and TV deals.
Thank you so much for this recognition and we will hopefully see you in Los Angeles, soon.