The Short Film with free license (under “Creative Commons”) “Zapping Life” is released
Added: (Mon Jun 07 2010)
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“Zapping Life” shows it is now possible to make films of quality and visually appealing with very little money and free license.
A family remains mesmerized by the TV that shows all sorts of absurd and alienating programming, advertisements, news, documentaries, contests, etc. The family lives imprisoned on the programming, remains a spectator to the world around them and their own lives until a dramatic series of events forces them to awaken to the grim reality.
Zapping Life is an acid and funny social criticism, a low budget project, but with great visual results thanks to more of a year of work in the postproduction and the selfless participation of media professionals.
The work has been created and directed by young filmmaker and activist Daniel Hernandez Torrado, who has stated that "Zapping Life is a critique of mass media and our relationship with them, a criticism of life as a passive spectator of his own life, the nonsense of television programming and of society itself.”
Daniel is passionate about the license "Creative Commons", and believes it has advantages that are not well appreciated in the film industry, not to mention the ethical basis of free culture. Therefore, he releases his works under a CC license (Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike ") and works to help introduce the use of these licenses in the film industry.
He defends the idea that it is possible to produce and distribute movies with free license of profitable way and tries that Zapping Life can be a referring one in this way.. For Daniel, "Creative Commons license is a tool for creative people to share their work simply because they wish to create, rather than because they want to make money."
After its premiere at the Cinema Verdi in Madrid, on 28 May, Zapping Life will soon begin its passage through national and international festivals showing that it is possible to make a different, fresh and of quality cinema without big budgets nor great stars.
About the Director
Daniel Hernandez Torrado, born in Madrid in 1982, began his studies on audiovisual production in 2003. In 2005 he wrote and directed his first film "Genova Libera,” a low-budget film about the protests in Genoa in 2001 which was broadcast on television in Madrid. In 2006 made the Masters in Editing and digital postproduction technologies CICE School and course of 3d modeling and animation at the International School of Audiovisual Media EIMA. He has worked as an operator and freelance director and producer for various TV channels, including esMADRIDtv, Channel 7, Channel 9 Tenerife, PressTV, TeleSur, Tiempo BBDO, I-Tek and Newscom. Despite the reluctance of the major studios, he always uses free license "Creative Commons"
More info
info@zappinglife.com
www.zappinglife.com
http://www.cines-verdi.com/madrid/cartelera/zapping-life-1700
www.zappinglife.blogspot.com
To contact the director:
Daniel Hernandez Torrado, daniel@zappinglife.com