The Film
The Sound of Ill
Days is a humorous drama
that follows Teresina, a performance artist who supports herself teaching
Spanish at a pre-school, and Patrick, a delusional writer and Twitter addict
who works at a bookstore. Over the course of seven ill days, “ill” both in the
sense of disturbed and its slang connotation of cool or exciting, their
marriage is challenged when new love interests enter the picture. Teresina
falls for charming streetwise Camilo, while Patrick pursues a digital
love-fueled romance with a girl named after iconic actress Monica Vitti. New
sensual appetites are released and notions of internal and external stability
are turned upside down.
Inspired by
Rojo Robles’ 2007 stage play El sonido de los días perdidos, the film is a re-telling of that play’s
absurdist love story with characters living in Brooklyn and experiencing the
struggles and joys of city life.
Beyond the love story, the
film confronts preconceptions about Puerto Rican and American identity,
inter-racial relationships, culture mingling and online addiction. This film is
an honest but playful look at the lives of New York artists and outcasts as we
have experienced it.
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The film was written and will
be directed by Rojo Robles and will feature cast members from Caborca and
collaborations from emerging musical and visual artists from New York, San
Francisco and Puerto Rico.
With: Veraalba Santa,
Michael Barringer, Modesto Lacén, Rachael Fox, Marcos Toledo, Libby Osler,
Javier Antonio González, Tania Molina, Pedro Leopoldo Sánchez Tormes, George
Stavropoulos, Timothy French, Kira Davies, Susannah Hoffman, Laura Butler
Rivera, David Skeist and Noah Lethbridge.
Your Contribution
The funding will be destined
to finance the shoot in Brooklyn during August 2014. Much of the budget will cover
the cost and/or rent of equipment, wardrobe/make-up, catering as well as making
sure that every department has the support it needs.
Inspired by the tenets of
Dogme 95 and the style of now classic New Wave cinema, we will be shooting only
in real or public locations- using natural or minimal lighting. We will embrace
improvisation and happy accidents in order to bring realism to the story. Rather
than cutting corners, we feel this will only add to the film.
Budget Layout
$10, 000/ 33.3 % Equipment
$10,000/ 33.3% Cast and crew
$7,000/ 23.3% Miscellaneous
expenses (art, wardrobe, rent locations, catering)
$3,000/ 10% Post-production
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The People Behind
Founded by
Rojo Robles and Veraalba Santa, El
kibutz del deseo is a multidisciplinary artistic company that began in 2004
in San Juan, Puerto Rico and has been based in Brooklyn since 2010. Over the
last decade we have produced plays, performances, short films, musical events
and recently started to publish fiction. In 2013, we created a division, This Wave, dedicated to filmmaking.
Can we kick it? Yes, we can!
We have a track record of
staged productions, screenings, publications, reviews and successful events
both in Puerto Rico and New York and we are very confident in the potential of The Sound of Ill Days to be an
exciting film that will participate in film festivals and be distributed.
Your contribution at any level
will grant motion to the filmmaking machine. It will brighten up our set and
keep us rolling.
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Get Involved!
. Boca a boca
Share it! Tell your friends. You
can find us on all of your favorite social media outlets.
. Be a team player
Are you a filmmaker in New
York and interested in joining the production team, a musician with a cinematic
sound, or maybe you want to join the scene as a terrific extra? Write to us at kibutzdeldeseo.thiswave@gmail.com. There might be a spot for you.
