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A Filmmaker's Tale - Welcome To New York

My story as I go through my first month in film school in New York and my struggles as I deal with the weather, homesickness and adapting to a New City and culture.

  • Daniel Bañuelos
    Director
    Fugle, Chilangoland, A Rodar
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 13 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 13, 2015
  • Production Budget:
    200 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico, United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 8mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Tilt Up Student Film Festival
    Mexico City, Mexico
    January 21, 2016
    Best Documentary & Best Director
  • Puebla Uni Film Fest
    Puebla, Mexico
    September 11, 2015
    Mexican Premier
  • Docu 2016 - Queretaro Student Documentary Film Festival
    Queretaro
    Mexico
    April 23, 2016
Director Biography - Daniel Bañuelos

Daniel Bañuelos is an audiovisual artist, cinematographer & filmmaker born in Mexico City in 1993. Since early age he showed great interest in everything audiovisual having his vocation clear, choosing to study communications & digital media in Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe. Showing great talent and passion, since 2012 he began making fiction, documentary & experimental films dealing from inter-personal relations to social issues to the experience of developing as an artist. His cinematography technique is considered as centred and very detail-oriented increasing the aesthetic value of his work. Daniel has been awarded in several videoart & film festivals like the 1st International Bienal of Puebla and the 4th edition of “Visiones del Arte” a national video art competition hosted by the University Museum of Contemporary Arts (MUAC) and the Monterrey Tech Student Film Festival.

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Director Statement

When i moved to New York in 2015 to attend film school I thought it was gonna be the experience of a lifetime. Growing up as an aspiring filmmaker in Mexico City I had a very romanticised view of film school and New York. When I got here it was nothing like I thought it would be. I started dealing with the heavy workload of an intensive program as I was still trying to adapt to completely new place for me. A lot of things were alien to me like the freezing weather and cold New Yorkers. Being a natural documentarist, I filmed a lot of what I was going through and eventually I decided to make it into a short personal film. I can just hope that young aspiring filmmakers that find themselves in similar situations can identify with the film and find comfort in knowing that they're not alone.