Interesting short film: “The Raven”

The trend of high-quality short films featuring superior post effects continues. There was “Panic Attack”:

Then “The Gift”:

Now there’s “The Raven”:

Director : Ricardo de Montreuil
Producers: Ricardo de Montreuil & Eliz Eskeranli
Writers: Ricardo de Montreuil & Antonio Perez
Cinematographer: Andres Sanchez
Music by: Angelo Milli
Special Effects Supervisor: Aaron Burns
3D Modeling and Animation: Juan Somarriba and Francisco Concha
Visual Effects and Compositing: Ricardo de Montreuil
Editing: Ricardo de Montreuil
Color Correction: Santiago Padilla
Sound Design and Mixing: Martin Seltzer
Budget: $5k
Format: RED 1920×1080
Special thanks: Filmosonido, CO3 and Converse

From Montreuil’s Wikipedia page, there’s this:

His newest work, “The Raven”- shortmovie was developed on April, 21st 2010. Story: “Chris Black possesses a power that could lead to the destruction of the current regime, and they will stop at nothing to destroy him.”

The short film is essentially one long chase sequence. Narrative elements reminiscent of Blade Runner, Star Wars (the Raven’s use of the ‘force’), Robocop. Am I missing some?

I think there are several elements at play here re potential Hollywood interest: (1) ‘Shiny object disease’ where studio execs enjoy watching post effects; (2) Mythology of $5,000 budget: Visual FX for next to no money is even more enticing to a studio, however clearly Montreuil, like Alvarez with “Panic Attack” didn’t include in their PR in-house costs at post facilities; (3) Alvarez, Rinsch (“The Gift”), and Montreuil all hail from countries outside the U.S., and that adds a ‘fresh’ factor to the narrative surrounding their projects; (4) Science fiction is hot.

Ricardo de Montreuil’s IMDB page here.

Go here to the movie’s Facebook site.

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