Ancha es Castilla / N'importe quoi

Film

After making “La Distancia”, a film that has taken 4 years from its first ideas until finishing, I fancied making a cool project, something quick, with minimal equipment and with a punk attitude in the film-direction .

The whole project was developed in three months and with a total of 9 days of filming. We started from the idea of creating a series of characters made from food that were the stars of a classic theme within Horror Movies: “The Exorcism”. I wanted the actors closer to Goya’s black paintings than typical animated cartoons. Once we had the main family roles, we made a human-sized version of them to play with throughout the shooting between sets and reality .

As with my other films, I had no prior script and we started with situations or spaces to improvise scenes. It was in the editing room where the history was created, the dialogues were recorded with an iPhone, the music chosen as the scenes was created ...

I really wanted everything to be very dirty, raw and without any formal problems whatsoever. A movie in which the beauty of errors and the sickly humour were their main assets .


Synopsis

Ancha es Castilla / N’importe quoi” is a horror movie and sick comedy which tells the story of a child possesed by the Devil and the exorcisms she practices with her family in order to evict the evil. An explosive mix between “The Exorcist”, “Jaws” and “God Save the Queen” .

Artistical and technical team

Direction and Screenplay: Sergio Caballero
Principal Cast: Lolo & Sosaku, Rita Caballero
Cinematography: Claudia Mallart & Marc Gómez del Moral
Film Editing: Martí Roca
Production Design: Lolo & Sosaku, Sergio Caballero
Character Design: Lolo & Sosaku
Music: EVOL
Sound Design Supervisor: Pedro Alcalde
Production: AM Films / Sónar Festival

Festivals
2014
January
Netherlands
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
April
Denmark
CPH PIX
July
France
FID Marseille
July
Czech Republic
49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
July
Portugal
Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival
July
Israel
Jerusalem International Film Festival
July
Greece
Syros Intl FF
September
France
L'Étrange Festival
September
Brazil
Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival
September
Croatia
25 FPS Festival
September
China
Beijing Design Week
October
Spain
Sitges - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya
October
Italy
Lucca Film Festival
October
Switzerland
Clair Obscur Film Festival
October
France
FIAC International Contemporary Art Fair
November
Switzerland
Internationale Kurzfiltage Winterthur
November
Colombia
Zinema Zombie Fest – Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico y de Terror - Colombia

2015
January
Czech Republic
Prague Short Film Festival
April
Netherlands
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
April
Romania
Next IFFF (Best Sound Direction Award)

2016
January
USA
Black Box Series - Hirshhorn Museum Smithsonian Institution
May
Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
Media

Press dossier, releases, images and trailer available for download.
Please contact:

Geo Taglietti
AM Films Publicist
amfilms@sonar.es