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Pedro Vodanovich, Scriptwriter<\/p><\/div>\n

Kill The Pig\u00a0<\/strong>is a short film that i\u00a0made during my time as an exchange student at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV<\/a> (EICTV) in San Antonio de los Ba\u00f1os, Cuba 2003 \/ 2004.<\/p>\n

We joined the students of the regular course during the production phase of their “Pre-Tesis” projects\u00a0and were\u00a0lucky enough to have many talented scriptwriters, photographers, producers and sound people in our grade that worked with us.<\/p>\n

One of the most important issues for scriptwriter Pedro Vodanovich<\/a><\/strong> and me was to not step into the “foreigner” trap of\u00a0reducing cuban life to stereotypes.<\/p>\n

Still, the issue of leaving a place – for the lack of opportunities – is a prevalent issue for young people in Cuba and we chose to work on that subject.<\/p>\n

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Road to water tower<\/p><\/div>\n

The movie was shot in a place called Pueblo Textil, originally built to provide the housing for the workers of\u00a0the nearby textile factory.<\/p>\n

\"Alejandro

Alejandro Labrada, Producer<\/p><\/div>\n

Pueblo Textil is in walking distance to the filmschool, but the life couldnt be more different. While in one place students from all over latin america enjoy one of the most renowned film education of the continent, the other place is being deserted, leaving only the old in a place without work since\u00a0the factory has long closed down.<\/p>\n

While the beauty of decay is an undeniable attraction in the Pueblo Textil, it also seems like an metaphor of cuban life. Everything is on hold, waiting for better times, getting by with a minimum of everything.<\/p>\n

\"Thilo

Thilo Schmidt, Photographer<\/p><\/div>\n

We visited Pueblo Textil\u00a0several times,\u00a0so the story was specifically created with that location in mind. Photographer Thilo Schmidt<\/strong><\/a> and me had to figure out a way to convice our supervisors in the film school that we could handle the location changes in six short shooting days, so we\u00a0had to plan a very precise shooting schedule with producers Alejandro Labrada and Javier Mendoza Palomares. The cuban monsoon rains robbed us of some shooting hours every day so things where tight. Same thing with the 16mm stock that we got sponsored by Kodak Germany, we know we had to shoot in 5:1 ratio for the material to suffice. Fortunately things turned out well and “Kill The Pig” saw the light of day after editor Laura Fong<\/a> and soundmixer Shinya Kitamura<\/a>\u00a0did their magical work.<\/p>\n

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