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February 2010
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EL EMPLEO by SANTIAGO 'BOU' GRASSO
YASHINAIGUSA by CHIKAKO TOMITA
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EL EMPLEO by SANTIAGO 'BOU' GRASSO
 
El Empleo We are really glad to know that the screenplay of our film "El Empleo" has been awarded at the San Francisco Short Film Festival.
Together with the screenplay writer, Patricio Plaza, we've tried to focus on a subject that is rarely valued in animation: the idea.
This way, we've decided to develop the narration and the esthetics to express the idea in the clearest possible way.
El Empleo is a film about the use of the man by the man.
The objectualization of the human being in the
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YASHINAIGUSA by CHIKAKO TOMITA
  YASHINAIGUSA
Mr. Kei and Mrs. Sumino Yamazaki family are engaging in agriculture on Koka Abrahi which being in the southeast from lake Biwa, the greatist lake in Japan. Mrs. Sumino immigrates to this ground where the grass doesn't grow with parents at 12 years old it either, and has spent the life that the trouble was filled with the farmer line since then.To trace her stout life as a movie, I had frequently been visiting the Yamazaki family since the autumn of the year before last. And, it was started though sericulture that had continued over many years reduced the scale this year. The silkworm that incubated from the egg that doesn't come up to as much as 1mm single-mindedly eats the mulberry, it sleeps, it sloughs off old skin, it eats the mulberry again, silk will...
 
 
Congratulations to Jimena Puente-Trevino for her film Andante Ma Non Troppo, winner of the Special Prize to the Best Fiction Film at the 2010 Festival du Film de Strasbourg.
 

Sincerely,
Director
Carlos Martinez
Annual Program Without Frontiers