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Canción sin Nombre (Song without a Name) |
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Year: 2011
Format: 35mm
Writter-Director: Melina León y Michael White
Produced by: Rene Bastian, Jonathan Mason, Cordelia Stephens
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El Paraíso de Lili (Lili's Paradise) |
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Year: 2009
Format: super 16mm (color and black & white)
Writter-Director: Melina León
Produced by: Nené Herrera, Iris Otero, Silvia Del Aguila
Director of photography: Inti Briones
Cast: Natalia Roca, Tommy Párraga, Magaly Bolivar |
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Director's statement:
“El Paraíso de Lili” is a group of episodes in the life of Lili Jiménez, a precocious Peruvian girl that questions everything, from god’s existence to her maid’s working status. Ernesto, her only brother is 18 and is a sort of ideological master for her. Lili’s days go by playing basketball -while her friends do the first communion-, or playing in her dollhouse. One day Ernesto decides to leave home, to become a guerrilla, leaving Lili alone to figure things out by herself. The story is set in 1988, in the context of Peru’s worst financial crisis and political upheaval.
I decided to shoot in black and white because it matches my memory of those violent days. This choice also contributes to achieve a certain distance towards childhood, to look at it with nostalgia but without sentimentalism. The scenes in Lili’s dollhouse were shot in color because they represent a sort of escape to a more beautiful world where she can control what happens and the things that people say. A sort of escape from reality but a mirror too. |
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Fund raising party for "Lili's Paradise"
Very soon we will be doing a fund raising party in New York...
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"Girl with a walkman" on TV
Girl with a walkman to be broadcast by KTEH Public Television of California (USA). Monday, Mar. 24th at 11pm.
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"Child song" gets "Faculty Selects"
Melina's first feature film, co-written with Michael White is one of the 6 "Faculty selects" screenplays at this year's Columbia University Film Festival
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