Alejandro Scott from. Hey, you guys.
Pleasure to meet you. How are you? Nice to.
Very well. Thank you very much. Congratulations on the film.
Thank you.
You've made some Hollywood movies recently and now you've gotten kind of back home.
What was the genesis of this one for you?
Well, I think I needed to to do it.
You know, there was a moment that I need to put some things in order together.
A very introspective journey
that came out as a very, you know, intimate
out of fiction in a way to share
and try to capture some personal memories,
some collective memories of my country
and some things that I could share through that guy that is not me.
Silverio Gama, but I know him very well and I can share those things.
I have spoke
about many of these things in other films, but this time I thought that it was
it was fair.
And I honestly, for me, needed to to really
speak to it in this way, you know?
Yeah. Well, what comes first for you? Is it there?
The writing that comes first,
the images come to you while your writing always
had kind of a combination of both in this one particular, it came
more kind of memories and emotions that come from memories.
And memories is very elusive.
You cannot trust memories because they change and change
depending on how much you are changing as a person too.
So we've like a combination.
So you cannot trust they are.
They do not.
They lack truth, they just possess emotional conviction.
And that conviction of that emotion was the first trigger point to start
putting together some possibilities how to express that emotion.
You've had some fantastic ensembles in your time.
This one did.
This one felt particularly special given, you know, its set where it sat
and the people are from the area.
Does this feel extra special for cast? Yeah. And the casting?
Yeah, I think it was very beautiful because in Mexico
there's a lot of talented people.
I knew the work of of of Daniel Giménez Cacho
always said one of the best actors in Mexico, but then we have this dinner
and I found him that he was in the same journey of my mind.
He belonged to the same generation,
the same age, the same circumstances in many things.
So we shared that vision that I knew.
And then Griselda, you know, was a big cast that I did.
And I there's
there's ones that you can read or things, but there's people that you just met him
and I look his eyes and I know that the energy is, is beyond
the talent is what the character needs to project naturally.
And if the person is that, then my work is much more easier.
So in this case, all the cast were, in a way, has to be instinct, you know?
Yeah.
Just finally
I spoke to a few filmmakers
at the festival so far about coming back after the pandemic,
the changing of cinema and streaming, and the industry as a whole.
How are you feeling about everything now in terms of cinema experience?
Don't know how much you love cinema
and the experience, the community of of cinema.
I think people I'm very happy to know that there's a lot of people
coming to the festival and the director was telling me how crowded it is.
Generally a thing is not happening the same in the world in the theaters
I think the people is still
you're navigating between the avenue of staying home because the long period
that we stay home and is still some of them going to the cinemas.
I think it's a very honest, stable moment now where pieces will have to get to
the moment that we will have to reinvent how to do that
in order to have much more diverse cinema films in the cinemas
that the cinemas that the theaters, the commercial theaters does
not only have projected the classic usual suspects
and that they can do it around from the 8 a.m.
to 2 a.m.
of the very diverse main menu
and offers of a new film making works.
You know, I think that's important.
And then the streamers will have to cooperate with that
and find a way with exhibitors that forgot about the old rules
and darkness about one year or 90 days before, I think,
I think has to become to a new formula in order to benefit the film.
The filmmakers and the people that they can have more access
and they can choose in a much more diverse worry
that so but that is in the way I think I think still is not there.
So it's a little scary, I have to say. Yeah, absolutely.
Well, listen, have a fantastic evening. Pleasure talking to you.
Thanks so much for your time.