03-08-2007, 09:08 PM
Here's a press release for this up and coming horror/sci-fi flick from Spanish director Elio Quiroga for the Brussel's Film Festival!
["THE DARK HOUR" ("LA HORA FRIA") IN OFFICIAL SELECTION IN 25TH BIFFF
The spanish sci-fi/horror "La Hora Fria" has been selected in the
Official Selection of Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.
The film has also a new international trailer in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRVs7vIyoso
"The Dark Hour", also selected in Sitges 2006 and Fantasporto 2007,
where was nominated to the Méliès D'Argent, was presented in the
European Film Market last february and has been sold to 6 countries in
two weeks.
Short Synopsis
A group of eight people live isolated in crumbling installations. They
cannot abandon the complex and they live in a constant state of
vigilance. The food supplies are running out and they urgently need
medicines and ammunitions, but in order to find them they must abandon
the secure area. What lurks outside the small area they inhabit,
however, is so menacing that they dare not even speak of it.
VISUAL EFFECTS
"La Hora Fria" was shot digitally. The producers chose this format
because they needed to be able to retouch the film during
post-production in order to add the digital visual effects. Over the
last few years the creation of this type of effect has advanced
greatly, thanks especially to the increase in power of reasonably
priced computers and to an improvement in the programmes designed for
this purpose.
The visual effects work was carried out by La Huella FX, a company
specialized in creating computerized visual effects. They have worked
on films like "Obaba" directed by Montxo Armendáriz; the company has
a digital infrastructure which means they can achieve very high
quality visual effects, absolutely essential to any genre movie.
VISUAL EFFECTS IN A DIGITAL FILM
La Huella Efectos Digitales were in charge of the visual effects in
the film with Jérôme Debève and Juan A. Ruiz acting as supervisors.
Over the last few years La Huella has specialized in spectacular
computer generated effects. They worked on "Obaba" by Moncho
Armendáriz, for example. They have also made very successful
television spots for Coca-Cola, Digital Plus, Metro de Madrid and
Cheetos, amongst others. Debève, a self-taught professional trained in
ArtBit and having worked with Digital Domain, is one of the most
important supervisors of visual effects in the country. Juan A.
Ruiz, who was co-founder of La Huella together with Debève, began his
career in the world of synthesized images working with Félix Bergés,
the grand old man of visual effects in Spain. Bergés carried out the
effects in "Fotos", Quiroga's first film.
Debève and Ruiz have surrounded themselves with the best experts in
synthesized images like Antonio Lado, who brought to life the lizards
in "Obaba", David González, Gerardo Martínez, Santiago Verdugo and
César Leal.
One of the scenes in the film required us to to create a scene with
traditional animation, using the same techniques as the primitive
animators in the first few years of talking films. Here we worked
with Sopa de Sobre CB, a company specialized in traditional animation.
Quiroga had already had an excellent experience with them working on
his very successful animated short film "Home Delivery", adapted from
a Stephen King short story, and which went on to win Fantasporto
2006. The animators working in Sopa de Sobre, directed by Miguel
Martínez, and co-ordinated by César Leal and David Escribano have
created animation inspired by early animated films, such as the
works of the Fleischer Brothers or the first Walt Disney film which
was undoubtedly the most anarchic and wild. " We live with a lot of
old film-making, lots of Sillly Symphonies, and Fleischer's short
films", says Martínez "In those times animation was very different
from modern animation in technical terms. Even though the resources
were similar many of the techniques we use now and take for granted
either had not even been invented or were on the way to being. This
means that primitive animation has a flavour which to a certain extent
obliges you to unlearn something already learnt in order to achieve
the nearest possible copy of that style."
["THE DARK HOUR" ("LA HORA FRIA") IN OFFICIAL SELECTION IN 25TH BIFFF
The spanish sci-fi/horror "La Hora Fria" has been selected in the
Official Selection of Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film.
The film has also a new international trailer in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRVs7vIyoso
"The Dark Hour", also selected in Sitges 2006 and Fantasporto 2007,
where was nominated to the Méliès D'Argent, was presented in the
European Film Market last february and has been sold to 6 countries in
two weeks.
Short Synopsis
A group of eight people live isolated in crumbling installations. They
cannot abandon the complex and they live in a constant state of
vigilance. The food supplies are running out and they urgently need
medicines and ammunitions, but in order to find them they must abandon
the secure area. What lurks outside the small area they inhabit,
however, is so menacing that they dare not even speak of it.
VISUAL EFFECTS
"La Hora Fria" was shot digitally. The producers chose this format
because they needed to be able to retouch the film during
post-production in order to add the digital visual effects. Over the
last few years the creation of this type of effect has advanced
greatly, thanks especially to the increase in power of reasonably
priced computers and to an improvement in the programmes designed for
this purpose.
The visual effects work was carried out by La Huella FX, a company
specialized in creating computerized visual effects. They have worked
on films like "Obaba" directed by Montxo Armendáriz; the company has
a digital infrastructure which means they can achieve very high
quality visual effects, absolutely essential to any genre movie.
VISUAL EFFECTS IN A DIGITAL FILM
La Huella Efectos Digitales were in charge of the visual effects in
the film with Jérôme Debève and Juan A. Ruiz acting as supervisors.
Over the last few years La Huella has specialized in spectacular
computer generated effects. They worked on "Obaba" by Moncho
Armendáriz, for example. They have also made very successful
television spots for Coca-Cola, Digital Plus, Metro de Madrid and
Cheetos, amongst others. Debève, a self-taught professional trained in
ArtBit and having worked with Digital Domain, is one of the most
important supervisors of visual effects in the country. Juan A.
Ruiz, who was co-founder of La Huella together with Debève, began his
career in the world of synthesized images working with Félix Bergés,
the grand old man of visual effects in Spain. Bergés carried out the
effects in "Fotos", Quiroga's first film.
Debève and Ruiz have surrounded themselves with the best experts in
synthesized images like Antonio Lado, who brought to life the lizards
in "Obaba", David González, Gerardo Martínez, Santiago Verdugo and
César Leal.
One of the scenes in the film required us to to create a scene with
traditional animation, using the same techniques as the primitive
animators in the first few years of talking films. Here we worked
with Sopa de Sobre CB, a company specialized in traditional animation.
Quiroga had already had an excellent experience with them working on
his very successful animated short film "Home Delivery", adapted from
a Stephen King short story, and which went on to win Fantasporto
2006. The animators working in Sopa de Sobre, directed by Miguel
Martínez, and co-ordinated by César Leal and David Escribano have
created animation inspired by early animated films, such as the
works of the Fleischer Brothers or the first Walt Disney film which
was undoubtedly the most anarchic and wild. " We live with a lot of
old film-making, lots of Sillly Symphonies, and Fleischer's short
films", says Martínez "In those times animation was very different
from modern animation in technical terms. Even though the resources
were similar many of the techniques we use now and take for granted
either had not even been invented or were on the way to being. This
means that primitive animation has a flavour which to a certain extent
obliges you to unlearn something already learnt in order to achieve
the nearest possible copy of that style."
