/ Instructions for a New Life

/ A long feature directed by Jordal le fou

Runtime: 90 minutes
Date: 2008
MPAA: General Audiences
Genre: Indie, Comedy, Drama, Social
Format: Digital video
Original languaje: Spanish
Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Spanish

/ Synopsis

Seymour, an about-to-retire porn movies dubbing specialist, decides to set out to a farm to start a new life. In doing so, he publishes an ad in the newspaper requesting volunteers to work in the farm, posing the question “Do you wanna change your life?

“I was dubbing John Wayne when you were still jerking off to Jane Fonda.”

— Seymour

/ About the film

As director I co-wrote and shoot "Instructions for a New Life", a low budget long feature , screened at Spain, Chile, Italy, Cuba, Argentina and Brasil Festivals and showed on cable Tv at USA and CANADA.

Main actors: Francisco Vidal , Fernanda Mistral, Inés Castaño and Rubén Árias.
Original music from: Watch Tv and Luis Antonio Muñóz.

You can find all the info at the press area.

/ Cast

Francisco Vidal ....……………………………. Seymour
Fernanda Mistral …………………………………..... July
Inés Castaño.……………………………………..... Marta
Rubén Árias.………………………………………..... Antón

/ Crew

Direction .……………….……………..... Jordal le Fou
Script .……………………….... Jordal & Héctor Caño
Photography …………………….…… Miguel Tejerina
Art …………………………………….……………………. Ángela
Edition ………………………………….……..…. Jose Fontes
Sound …………………………………..………... Iru & David
Sound Design.…………………………...... Ramón Rico
Production … Carla Arrieta & Cristina Ramírez

/ Film Festivals

XIII Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de Trieste, Italia, nov. 2008

Festival de Cine de Tarapacá, Chile, marzo 2009

VII Festival de Cine Pobre, Cuba, abril 2009

XVI Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Cinesul, Río de J. , Brasil, jun 2009

XVIII Festival de Cine de Madrid - PNR, sept 2009

VII Festival Latino de Cine y Video de Buenos Aires, Argentina, sept 2009

Festival Cinematográfico Internacional El Ojo Cojo, oct 2009

Festival de Cine Otro, Valparaiso, enero 2009

/ B.S.O.

Based on a music proposal from Luis, we conceived the movie music as two clearly differentiated blocks. On the one hand, the Watchtv and the Primetimes’s electronic music represent the cosmopolitan rhythm of the first part and reinforce the city characters’ evading feeling. Luis A. Muñoz’s piano, accordion and strings compositions provide a more classical approach, giving sense to the rural location where the second part of the movie takes place.