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Hi. My name is Diogo Coelho and I'm the Director of this short film.
And my name is Diogo Trindade and I'm the Sound Director and
Producer of this indie short film intitled...
7 BULLETS
The story.
On the run after an ambush,
four members of a criminal organization
take refuge in a house in Alentejo (Portugal), owned by one of them.
Isolated from the surrunding world and forced to live with each other,
they colapse to the trauma caused by the paranoia
and awake acts of violance that are again their nature
and that can put in jeopardy their survival.
The ideia.
The ideia for this film came to light from myself
when I gave to Diogo the log line to this short film.
And since then we began working on the script and creating the characters
something that we always had into account to the creation of cinema narratives
And since then we confirmed that we had something that could be produced
according with the resources we have.
I don't know. Do you want to say something else?
About the project since the beginning we always want to do a...
Just as anybody who likes or works in film, television or fiction in general
was always references and we also have it and we would like to do a film like Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
An ideia almost encapsulated, with few characters, in which all work would been done just in two or three sets
and where the characters give life to the film.
With the reference of Reservoir Dog we want to produce a story also about criminals
but a little different, that explores other perspectives of them, like the trauma, the paranoia
and the felling of almost complete isolation from the world and brings to certains acts and behaviors
that the characters wouldn't have if they were in other situation.
We created four criminals, which one with their own personality
and with names we picked up from several elements, namely cinematographic, historical, literary...
Liturgical, too. Exactly.
And based on the characters we didn't want to be cartoons, but that have enough depth to be interesting to the audience
and through the characters create exciting narrative elements, not being this a action film, but a character exploration
but also with certain tipical moments of the gender - treason, violence, distrust, every mental games involved in a criminal drama of mafia groups.
As my colleague was saying, this ideia appeared long time ago, we are working on this script for about a year or more.
It had already suffered many changes, but based on this last version of the script we are confident that the project is finished and we are close to produce it visualy.
Our objectives.
With this film we have as one big objective assert the cinema practice, I mean, a film shooting, independently of being a feature or short film,
to something indispensable to the development and maturity of a national cinema, that unfortunately has been quite jeopardized with the recent conditions,
plus we want to do something that goes against to what we take as the tipical portuguese cinema, to create something more contemporary, focused on the characters and on the story development.
We also think this is an excelent opportunity to make known to the audience - despite small - new national actors who are now forming and will certainly bring something quite good to the area.
What we need.
In this stage we have already ensured many of the technical equipments, like camera, tripod, field sound recorder, that are essential to a shooting.
That we have need are logistic resources - transportations, catering, to both team and cast.
And it's to those stuffs this financing we ask for is going to be channeled.
What we have invested.
In addition to the script completion we have also ensured interior and exterior locations and we did the casting.
It's decided the film screening in the Barreiro Cineclube and we will send it to national and international competitions and festivals.
We have the support from Faro do Alentejo Junta and Cuba City Hall for the production.
Support and follow our project. Go to massivemov.com/7balas. Or to facebook.com/7Balas7Bullets.
Thanks.