Private Project

AQUARIUM

A short film that shows the sea-life ecosystem and how it survives the different human interventions and the damaging ecological impact that it generates. It aims to develop a critical approach for children audiences, showing the contamination problems and some of the more common industrial disasters, such as oil spills, overfishing and eutrophication, problems that are treated in a tragic-comic way through the adventures of a very special orange fish.

  • Diego L. Yáñez Guzmán
    Director
  • Diego L. Yáñez Guzmán
    Writer
  • Diego L. Yáñez Guzmán
    Producer
  • Tomás Almuna
    Camera and photography
  • Diego L. Yáñez Guzmán
    Animation
  • Tomás Alumna
    Animation
  • Diego L. Yáñez Guzmán
    Color grading / VFX
  • Ana Mandelbaum
    audio post
  • Alberto Guerra
    musical design
  • Diego L. Yáñez Guzmán
    musical design
  • Diego L. Yáñez Guzmán, "Tita" Espiñeria Fuenzalidas, Nicolas Bascuñan
    Key Cast
    Art Team
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    ACUARIO
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 23, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    Chile
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Ganador de Muestra de Cortos 2016, Universidad del Cine, FUC
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    April 22, 2016
    april 27
    Muestra de cortos 2016, FUC
  • Ganador del GREEN FILM FEST, AR 2016. Sección "Semillero"
    Buenos Aires, capital federal
    Argentina
    August 18, 2016
    Nacional
    Primer Premio, Green Film Fest, Sección "Semillero".
  • Official Selection CTLPDX International Environmental Film Festival 2016
    Portland
    United States
    North American Premiere
  • Official Selection Anima!Arte 2017
    San Pablo, Rio de Janeiro, San Luis
    Brazil
  • Safe Community International Film festival 2017, for the Competition Section.
    Mashhad
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
    February 12, 2017
  • Official Selection Ekotopfilm Envirofilm 2017.
    Bratislava
    Slovakia
    February 24, 2017
    Slovakia premiere
  • Official Selection The Earth Day Film Fest 2017.
    San Francisco, California
    United States
    April 21, 2017
    California Premiere
Distribution Information
  • Universidad del Cine, FUC / Saturno estudio
    Country: Argentina
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Diego L. Yáñez Guzmán

Diego Yáñez Guzmán is an audiovisual director, Post-producer, illustrator, animator, video editor, colorist and Vj. Between 2006 - 2008 he graduated from his studies of a "Bachelor´s degree in audiovisual techniques", Faculty of Arts, University Mayor. Work on TVN (National Television of Chile) in the miniseries "Gen Mishima" (2008) in the director assistance team. In "Women's Prison", second season (2008), as an assistant editor in filming. 2009 travels to Argentina, continuing his studies at the Film University, FUC, in "Filmmaking Animation and Multimedia", graduating in 2016 University degree, Bachelor of arts. He has worked as post-producer, post-colorist and VFX in different projects with filmmakers like: Nicolas Acuña(Chi), Celina Murga(Arg), Juan Vallejos(Arg), Santiago Giralt(Arg), Lucia Ferreyra(Arg). He works as a supervisor and technical Assistance in the Dept. of Edition of the University of the Cinema, FUC, directed by Miguel G. Massenio. He teaches with Marcelo Rondinone and teaches the subject “Production in new media and digital formats” at the University of Cinema, FUC (Bs. As.). He teaches at the Da Vinci School of Multimedia Art, where he teaches “Animation Techniques”. He Works together with Alejandro Delgado as Vj and is part of the Collective of Performance Video Artists “Submerged”, Founded by the musical producer Diego Cid in diverse recreational and cultural spaces of Buenos Aires, Arg.

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Director Statement

"(...) "The doctrine" is, thus, as follows: the objects of perception are not "pure state" objects, nor private objects. They are the social objects "constructed" by our activites and that serves us in our reality in one way or another. Aesthetics have to be an exploration of analysis and protection of our environment.