“Man Vs. Meteorite” (Hombre Vs. Meteorito) won first prize in the documentary category at the 2010 Tandil Cortos Film Festival. The 10 minute film shows how an Argentine Knife master uses the skills his gaucho grandfather taught him to make a foot-long knife out of meteorite metal using century old techniques. The film was produced … Continue reading
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San Telmo Productions Website: Cool New Feature
Due to popular demand, we have now added unique URLs (that´s web address, for all you non-techies) to our videos in our portfolio section of our website. No more scrolling to find what you want, and you can send your favorite videos to friends and contacts. For example: http://www.santelmoproductions.com/en/#/portfolio/goals_for_girls sends you directly to our short … Continue reading
Behind the scenes video of “The Hooker & the Transvestite 2”
Behind the scenes of “The Hooker & the Transvestite” Episode 2 (La Puta y la Travesti). Actors Lola Berthet, Luis Machín and Luís Aponte, a crew of 25 and DoP Jorge Crespo braved freezing cold temperatures to film the second part of a short film for the Filmaka “Hard Times” contest. Directed by Gabriel Balanovsky … Continue reading
It´s a Wrap: The Hooker & The Transvestite
The filming on Friday night was a great success: our crew of 25, plus actors Lola Berthet, Luis Aponte and Luis Machín braved the cold to produce one really funny short for the filmaka contest: The Hooker & The Transvestite. Our Director of Photography, Jorge Crespo, lit up over 1000 square meters of park for … Continue reading
Filming Tonight, and everything is ready
There is nothing like going into a complicated production (crew of 25, night shoot, 20 lights, travelings, etc) and the day before realizing that everything is taken care of. Right now our production chief is labeling boxes, and instead of calling frantically is smiling. She was even able to sleep 8 hours last night! We … Continue reading
“The Hooker & the Transvestite” in pre-production
The clock is ticking. . . we have less than 15 days to produce, shoot, edit, score, color correct and do the final sound mix for our sequel to the award winning “The Hooker & the Transvestite” (La puta y la travesti) and upload it to the jury round of the filmaka.com “Hard times” contest. … Continue reading
“Hooker and the Transvestite” wins Filmaka contest!
“The Hooker and the Transvestite”, (La Puta y la Travesti) a short film made with almost no-budget in 5 days by San Telmo Productions, has just been named winner of the “Hard Times” contest hosted by filmaka.com It was voted one of 18 finalists by the filmaka community. Now directors Ginger Gentile and Gabriel Balanovsky … Continue reading
The Hooker & the Tranvestite: Short Film Now Published on Filmaka
Our latest short film was filmed in less than 6 hours with only 5 days of pre-production and a budget of less than $400 pesos (that´s less than 120 dollars!). “The Hooker & the Transvestite” is about a broke young woman who tries to prostitute herself in the transvestite red-light district. Comedy ensues. I´m not … Continue reading
The Hooker and the Transvestite: It´s a Wrap!
We just finished up filming “La Puta y la Travesti” a short film written, produced and (to be) edited in last than a week. The shoot was a lot of fun and remarkably tension free for a low budget shoot. We even had the cops swing by but they let us keep on shooting as … Continue reading
Back to Filming. . .
For the first time ever I´m working on a fiction film shoot where no one smokes cigarettes (I quit last August), which is quite refreshing. Just mate, coffee and streams of white paper that are filled with sketches of each scene we will film (called a story board). We start filming our short film, called … Continue reading
Filming in Argentina: The blog of San Telmo Productions 