CORRALÓN
– Technical Info / Información Técnica:
(2017) / 01:35:00 / ARRI ALEXA 2K / 24 FPS / ratio 2.35:1 / B&W / SOUND 5.1 / Moreno, Buenos Aires, Argentina / Suspense – Thriller – drama – friendship
– Synopsis / Sinopsis:
Juan and Ismael are great friends who work at an impound lot in Moreno. In their truck, they go through winter and coexist with the roughness of their work. Their friendship is a wall that’s hard to break. But one day they meet a different customer.
Juan e Ismael son grandes amigos que trabajan en un corralón de Moreno. Montados al camión, atraviesan el invierno y conviven con las asperezas de su tarea. La amistad entre ellos es un muro difícil de romper. Pero un día se encuentran con un cliente diferente.
– Long Synopsis / Sinopsis Larga:
Juan and Ismael are big friends; they work at a builder’s yard in Moreno, Buenos Aires. They pass the winter on the truck and live with work issues, using sense of humor and alcohol to make it through. Friendship it’s a hard wall to break between them. Juan drives the truck and lives surrounded by dogs. Ismael loads the truck with merchandise and dreams about being rich. They deliver bricks, cement and sand at different construction places. Poor and rich people receive their merchandise and sympathy. But one day, they meet a different customer. When you are humiliated, you can get lost in the most twisted mazes of your mind. Sometimes, people can have a breakdown in an unfair society that crunches as a wall and falls to pieces. These are times where respect between humans is blurry. Unconditional friendship is not only a human thing but also a dog thing. Free dogs wander around the Great Buenos Aires streets. Trapped humans rest in their corrals. Corralón (builder’s yard) is not only construction supplier business. Corralón it’s a metaphor of our own society. Corralón is the perimeter that surrounds each human. Is it possible for us to get liberated? Is it possible for us to get re-educated?
Juan e Ismael son grandes amigos, trabajan en un corralón de Moreno, una ciudad en la provincia de Buenos Aires. Montados al camión atraviesan el invierno y conviven con las asperezas del trabajo, lo hacen con humor, a veces ayudados por el alcohol. La amistad es un muro difícil de romper entre ellos. Juan, maneja el camión y vive rodeado de perros. Ismael, carga el camión y sueña con tener dinero. Reparten cemento, arena y ladrillos en distintas obras de construcción. Ricos y pobres reciben sus materiales y sus simpatías. Pero un día se encuentran con un cliente diferente. Cuando una persona es humillada puede perderse en los laberintos más complejos de su mente. En una sociedad injusta, a veces los hombres se quiebran. La sociedad, como una pared, cruje y se quiebra en partes; son tiempos donde el respeto entre los hombres se desdibuja. La amistad incondicional no es solo cuestión de hombres, también es cuestión de perros. Los perros libres deambulan por las calles de tierra del gran buenos aires. Los hombres atrapados descansan en sus corrales. Corralón, no es solo un negocio de materiales de la construcción. Corralón es una metáfora de nuestra sociedad. Corralón es el perímetro que rodea a cada hombre. ¿Será posible liberarnos, será possible reeducarnos?
– Director´s Biography / Biografía del Director:
EDUARDO PINTO
Web: http://www.eusebiaenlahiguera.com/
An Argentine-Portuguese, he was born in Moreno, Buenos Aires. He started his career as a film technician and cinematographer. He directed more than 150 music videos, the medium-length “Negro” (2001) and the feature-length “Palermo Hollywood”, “Dora, la jugadora” (2007), “Caño dorado” (2010) and “Buen día, día” (Bafici ‘10).
Argentino-portugués nacido en Moreno, Buenos Aires. Comenzó su carrera como técnico de cine y director de fotografía. Dirigió más de 150 videoclips, el mediometraje “Negro” (2001), y los largometrajes “Palermo Hollywood”, “Dora, la jugadora” (2007), “Caño dorado” (2010) y “Buen día, día” (Bafici ‘10).
Eduardo Pinto, Argentinian-Portuguese, was born in Moreno, Buenos Aires. He’s a movie director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He started his career as a gaffer and cinematographer in different films such as Gustavo Fontan’s “Donde cae el sol” or Pablo Nisenson’s “Angel, la Diva y yo”. He’s well-known as an advertising and music video director for Latin America. Award to ‘Best Color Photography’ Bienal Buenos Aires in 1990. Award to ‘Best Cinematography’ at Latin American Festival in Trieste, Italy, for “Angel, la Diva y yo”. He directed more than fifty music videos for national and foreign artists. Winner of the MTV Awards for Diego Torres “Color Esperanza” music video. He made the short films: “Juan, la caja”, “Oeste” and “20 de junio”. He directed the medium-lenght “Negro” based on Abelardo Castillo’s tale. It was selected at the Latin American Festival of Trieste, among others. He directed “Palermo Hollywood” movie, Official Selection Sundance 2005. He wrote and directed experimental film “Dora, la jugadora”, award to ‘Best Actress’ Mar del Plata Festival 2007. He wrote and directed “Caño Dorado”, Official Selection Mannheim 2009/Mar del Plata 2010, ‘Best Director Award’ Feisal, La Habana 2010, among others. He directed ‘Buen día, día’, a documentary about Miguel Abuelo’s life, Bafici 2010. He made short advertisings for MTV. He directed for Disney Channel, Paka Paka and Canal Encuentro where he made the documentary ‘Carnaval Fiesta Popular’ . He directed seven episodes for ‘Tiempo de pensar’, a fiction for TV Publica. He directed the experimental short film ‘Cirulo’, Mar del Plata 2015 Selection. He’s a co-founder of the film-producer ‘Eusebia en la Higuera’. He directed ‘Cinefilo’, a web-series for UN3TV (Universidad de 3 de Febrero). He wrote and directed ‘Corralón’, his last movie. Nowadays, he’s working on different film projects like ‘La sabiduría’, among others.
– Director’s Statement / Declaraciones del Director:
The movie it’s about human relationships, friendship and discrimination. About the space that each human occupies in this society, a demarcated space, a corral. Corralón represents discrimination between social classes, the human respect loss. In a society where ‘having’ is more important than ‘being’. Limits order us, control us, but when they vanish, liberating movements are generated. The owner reacts when his corral, his private property is invaded. When a spiritual property is invaded or humiliated, a humiliated person reacts. In an era of bricks, wire fences and closed borders, Corralón breaks the coherence limits. Corralón talks about the limits we can break. The movie was filmed in nine days at Moreno, without a definitive script but using a 20 pages’ movie structure that was in constant change, based on actor’s improvisation and space research for reality documentation. It’s a different way of film production in Argentina, a spontaneity pursuit and time portrait.
– Overview / Ficha técnica:
Script / Guión: Eduardo Pinto
Producer / Producción: Omar Aguilera, Luciano Cáceres, Eduardo Pinto, Pablo Pinto
Executive Productor / Productor Ejecutivo: Nicolás Batlle
Production Design / Diseño de Produción: Marcelo Cadi Martin
Production Manager / Jede de Producción: María Celia Vélez
Director / Director: Eduardo Pinto
Director of Photography and Camera / Dirección de Fotografía y Cámara: Eduardo Pinto
Film Editor / Edición: Joaquín Mustafá Torres, Leo Rosales
Art Director / Dirección de Arte: Jorge Daffunchio
Costume Designer / Vestuario: Cintia Español
Make Up Artist / Maquillaje: Cintia Español
Sound design / Diseño de sonido: Omar Jadur
Música / Music: Axel Krygier
Cast / Elenco: Luciano Cáceres, Pablo Pinto, Joaquin Berthold, Brenda Gandini, Carlos Portaluppi, Nai Awada
Production: Eusebia en la Higuera
Productoras Asociadas: No Problem, Alta Definición Argentina
– Festivals, Awards and Nominations / Festivales, Premios y Nominaciones:
– BAFICI – Special Nights; 04/2017; Argentina.
– Links:
Web: https://corralonlapelicula.wordpress.com/
Trailer English Subtitles: https://youtu.be/qfzcqdJLrEk
Info:
– Contact / Contacto:
Gisela Chicolino
FilmsToFestivals
Connecting Films with Festivals
Magoya Films
Nicolás Batlle
http://www.magoyafilms.com.ar/