Published by Vanessa McMahon

Jul 16, 2010

An interviewer for the premier online filmfestival circuit news outlet (www.filmfestivals.com), Vanessa is a novel writer, screenwriter, documentary director and a film producer.

Working Day, Borghi

Meet Andres Borghi, Argentina's up and coming new director who is sure
to become the film world's next Peter Jackson! Here he talks about his
soon to be released short film (we hope he'll make it a feature as well)
Working Day (2010/11)

me: "Can you speak to us about Working Day? What is it
about and what inspired you

to make this film? And please elaborate on your passion and talent for
awesome naturalastic visiual effects!"

Andres: "Working Day tells the story of a giant worker who builds the
land of new

Zealand with his own hands. I made this film within the "your big

break" contest put together by Tourism new Zealand and Barrie Osborne

(producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy) in which I was the winner

selected by Peter Jackson. The idea of the contest was to make a 3

minutes short film which shows the idea that new Zealand is the youngest

country on earth. So I thought that it would be a good idea to show the

creator of New Zealand being suprised by the arrival of the Maorie (the

first human inhabitants of New Zealand).

This whole idea of the

giant worker came from "The Black Heart", an earlier work of mine. The

Black Heart is a videogame I made in 2009 which tells the story of a

paralel world that is scorched and corrupted. Within the story of the

game there is the concept that our world was constructed by giant wooden

men who used their strength and magic to shape earth. So, I first

thought about linking both works and show New Zealand being created by

these same wooden men. It was pretty obvious at a point that the giant

wooden men visual effects were far too complex for the kind of work the

contest was asking. Then Lucila Las Heras (a friend of mine and a film

director too) suggested the idea of making it funny and less epic and so

the wooden men were transformed into a giant and humble working man.

To

take part in the contest you had to probe that, as a director, you were

able to put together the script you wrote as a real film. My script had

lots of visual effects so I also sent a video showing that I, as a

visual effects compositor myself, was able to generate all the effects

the script demanded. So, in the last stage of the production, I was sent

to Park Road postproduction in Wellington, New Zealand to finish the

editing and put together the VFX. There I was given a special station to

work in the effects and was aided by the great people in Park Road to

make it all in time. It was a very rewarding experience."

me: "Fantastic! Can you tell us about the journey you have been on while
making this film? And where did you come up with such an innovative
concept?"

Andres: "It wasn't hard at all to make the film. The crew was so
professional that

it all went perfect. Something I found funny is how my English accent

went changing thourgh the production. At first it was kinda hard to

comunicate with everyone. My native tongue is Spanish and I speak

english very well, but never had the oportunity to test it with native

english speaking people. So, at first it was ok but by the end of the

day my head ached after trying so hard to understand what everyone told

me. In time I started to get used to it and at the end of the journey my

english was pretty good. It had even been transformed into New Zealand

english!!! By now that accent is almost gone but I still have some

little things left like pronouncing "actualeeeii" instead of
"actually"."

me: "And what's in store for you next? Please tell me you will make Working
Day into a feature? I beg you. It is just a ground breaking
concept."

Andres: "Right now I'm trying to make a horror feature film here in
Argentina. The script is finished and I'm searching for producers who
are

interested in the project. It is about a man that loses his son in a car

accident. Some time later he starts having nightmares where some

creepy creatures tell him that his son is with them and that he can

recover him but not without a price. It's the same kind of story as the

movie "Jacob's ladder" or "Don't look now". I hope it's made soon and I

think it will be he first Horror argentinian film to really scare the

audience like "The Sixth sense" or "The Ring" do. Well! I

can't think of anything else right now..."

me: "Thanks so much Andres... Cant wait to see this! And your upcoming
movies. This is just the beginning!"

Interview by, Vanessa McMahon