My name is Leyre, and I'm some kind of a fashion designer from Spain who loves movies. I entered University Rey Juan Carlos in 2003 to
study Audiovisual Communication, and during this period I worked as a
costume designer and production assistant in several audiovisual
productions. After graduating in 2008, I entered the Instituto Europeo
di Design to study Fashion Design. With my final project I was included in VOGUE
ITALY TALENTS supplement as one of the 180 emergent talents of 2011. I worked as an intern in
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN in London, and LOEWE in Madrid, and I was selected by the EGO platform to show my first two
collections at the MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK MADRID with great public
and press reviews. To see my work visit www.leyrevaliente.com or www.facebook.com/LeyreValiente
My first fashion film for the collection Chimaera was nominated to an award in the Berlin Fashion Film Festival.
For my second collection, Alberto Díaz from Mordisco Films joined me and directed this beautiful piece which was exhibited at Cortopolis (Kinepolis cinemas short films festival) ; Malleus Maleficarum.
Alberto has just now started the distribution of his shortfilm Stringless to film festivals around the world and it has already been nominated and selected twelve times, and has won three awards (best experimental short film, best photography and best music). Stringless teaser:
Now we'd like to go back to work together on a project much more fun and less fashion, in which in addition to build neat images and sounds we want to do a fun and crazy piece that you can happily enjoy.
Amphibia is a B-movie inspired short film (specially in The Creature from the Black Lagoon) where two handsome -Mad Men like- guys spend a sunny day in the lake... when suddenly,
five beautiful creatures arise from the lake... to mate, and eat.
We need your help so we can make a great piece, with cinema quality, so we can show it worldwide in festivals.
The team (so far).
- Gillgirls: Ines Baquera, Araya Frasquet, Isabella Ching, Celiha Vallespir and Maya Pixelskaya
- Mad Men like boys: we are casting them
- Direction: Alberto Díaz
- Photo: Miguel Ángel Viñas
- Production: Tomás Fernández
- Set photo: Sergio Lardiez
- Make-up and hair: Naomí Gayoso
- Fx Make-up: yet to confirm
- Costumes: Leyre Valiente
What we need
We need money for equipment like camera, optics, fx material... We would also accept people who would like to colaborate with material they have or with their own work.
In exchange we give Leyre Valiente merchandising, original drawings, signed copies of the dvd, tote bags, t-shirts, credits... and even the opportunity of visiting the design studio and have dinner with Leyre and Alberto.
If we don't reach the final goal, we will use the amount we have to do it the best way we can.
Please, if you like the project but can't collaborate, help us spreading the word ;)
Thank you for reading!