Armando Espetia, who set off as the wretched young factory worker in Cannes’ Amat Escalante-winning film “Heli,” is starring in “Six Months in the Pink and Blue Building,” a signature project brought to the Europe and Latin American firm of San Sebastian – Production Forum for Mexico Bruno Santamaria Raso.
Also in attendance is actress – writer and producer – Sofia Espinosa, who has played all three roles in Max Zunino’s “Los Bañistas” and “Bruma” and won a Mexican Ariel Award for her role as Tearaway as Gloria Trevi in ”Gloria”.
Written and directed by Santamaria, Six Months in the Pink and Blue Building (“Seis meses en el edificio rosa con azul”) is his first feature film. It drew attention and won a Chicago Golden Hugo Golden Hugo and Golde Q Hugo Award for Best Documentary for “Things We Dare Not Do,” a feature film that intertwines its ending, production values, and narrative structures as portrayed by Toño, the eldest son and second father of a bevy of siblings, who live In a dark village on the swampy plains, they are encouraged to tell his mother that he is gay.
Autobiographical, “six months” is “an opportunity to understand an intimate and familiar event from the past,” Santamaria puts it. The story, set in 1996, follows the story of a 10-year-old boy, whose father is diagnosed with HIV. His father and mother are particularly affectionate towards Prue and his brother despite the fact that living with an HIV patient can mean physical or social death.
Six months passed and it turned out that the diagnosis was a mistake in the hospital. A few days later, Prue’s parents announced that they had separated.
“What was going on behind love? What do parents not tell each other, what do parents not tell their children, and why?”
“I want to depict the looks and conversations my parents were in silence that I couldn’t watch as a child. I want to build a fairy tale to see my parents again and find some meaning [in what happened],” he added.
I have the impression that no one knows himself. Everyone lives in a fantasy, or the idea that they can be a happy traditional family and they go to great lengths to devote so much love to living that. But they are torn inside, said Santamaria. diverse.
The film’s tone, designed with constant irony, is a “hot between comedy and drama,” the director said, coming in pain from a terrifying setting, to the tone of salsa music.
“For me, the movie is full of salsa music, and it’s close to the tone I want to achieve. The words turn on tragedies and loneliness….but it’s music people dance to, it’s festive.”
Espitia credits also include “A Nuestras Madres” and “Te Llevo Conmigo.” “Six Months” produced by Guillermo Ortiz
In the Ojo de Vaca. Santamaria won a Funca Scholarship for Young Creators to write a “Six Months” screenplay during 2020-2021, as well as the Medienboard-funded Berlin AiR residency from Festival de Guanajuato and Nipkow program 2022.
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