Introducing Featured Filmmaker and 7th Z-Kudos Award Winner ~ Nuno Rocha. In choosing the 7th Z-KUDOS Award winner, it only took a few seconds from watching his soon to be released short film, “Vicky and Sam” (Premiering on October 21, 2010) to realize that Nuno Rocha has moved up the ranks to become one of my two finest filmmakers on the Internet. Thus, joining ranks with master storyteller, Ted Chung.
To put it bluntly, I f***ing loved this piece! While one of the biggest pieces of advice I can give to any young filmmaker is don’t make a film about making films, Nuno Rocha has done it with “Vicky and Sam,” and most importantly, he’s done it in the most innovative and incredible of ways. What a great conversational piece of story telling and a modern view of young screenwriters and filmmakers today. It is rare to come across such a well developed storyline in short film on the web. From the dreamlike Hollywood opening, to the sweet ingenious story of young love and chance meetings, this short film has set the bar so high…everything else is going to be compared to this.
We will also be showcasing and critiquing his film on our web series [ critics ] in season 3 in the first webisode of the season on October 21st. Watch the “Vicky & Sam” trailer here and look for the release of his short film which will premiere on October 21, 2010 on Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/nunorocha.
Congratulations to Nuno Rocha for his outstanding work. You've done what I've been begging fimmakers to do on the internet, create emotion. You are a real filmmaker. ~ Steve
"Vicky and Sam" ~ Trailer by Nuno Rocha. To watch the full short film, visit http://vimeo.com/nunorocha.
Behind the Scenes Images of the making of "Vicky and Sam." Shot on location in Austin, Texas.
Nuno Rocha Bio In English:
Nuno Rocha is a promising emerging producer and director from Portugal. For 5 years, he attended the prestigious Instituto Politécnico do Porto and graduated with a BA in TCAV and where he wrote and directed his first short entitled “Berco de Pedra” (Stone Crib). This short film won various awards on the Portuguese film festival circuit. He then released a new short film entitled "3×3" which won the prestigious 1ST place award at the Zon Multimedia Contest and went on to win prizes at several other national and international festivals.
As a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, he studied Advanced Directing (RTF) in 2009 and created yet another short entitled "Vicky and Sam" which was filmed completely on location in Austin, Texas. In 2010, Nuno became a partner with the FilmesDaMente production company and created the first short film for LG entitled "Momentos." Recently, he has been working as a Director of "The Institute" a Scott Gardenhour and Michael Bay Production company (www.theinstitute.tv).
To learn more about Nuno, visit his IMDB page at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3838134/ or his website at: http://www.filmesdamente.com/#/home
Nuno Rocha Bio In Portuguese:
Nuno Rocha é um promissor e emergente produtor e realizador português. Licenciado em Tecnologia da Comunicação Ausiovisual, pelo Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Nuno Rocha escreveu e dirigiu a sua primeira curta metragem intitulada “Berço de Pedra.” Esta curta metragem recebeu diversos prémios no circuito de festivais de cinema português. Lançou em seguida um novo filme intitulado “3×3″ que foi o vencedor do prémio Zon criatividade em Multimédia e de vários prémios em outros festivais nacionais e internacionais. Em 2009 frequentou a Universidade do Texas onde realizou “Vicky and Sam”, totalmente rodado em Austin nos Estados-Unidos. Em 2010 tornou-se sócio da produtora FilmesDaMente e criou o primeiro curta-metragem da LG intitulado “Momentos.” Para obter mais informações sobre o Nuno visite a página IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3838134/ ou o seu site na Internet: http://www.filmesdamente.com.
.jpg)
.jpg)
