Private Project

Screaming goal

When four friends became blind and separated from their favorite sport: soccer, they started the first blind soccer team in Puebla, with the desire to win the National championship and play in the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.

  • José Rubén Hernández Torres
    Director
  • José Rubén Hernández Torres
    Writer
  • José Rubén Hernández Torres
    Producer
  • Evodia Torres
    Producer
  • Juan Hernández
    Producer
  • Laura Pino
    Associate Producers
  • Ixchel Coutiño
    Associate Producers
  • Arturo Tay
    Associate Producers
  • Jorge Lanzagorta
    Key Cast
  • Omar Otero
    Key Cast
  • Eduardo Cerezo
    Key Cast
  • Moises Cerezo
    Key Cast
  • Óscar Ávila
    Key Cast
  • Raúl Ortiz
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Hasta Grital Gol
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Sports, football, blind
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 1 minute
  • Completion Date:
    July 25, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Mexico
  • Country of Filming:
    Mexico
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Tlanchana Film Fest
    Metepec
    Mexico
    March 31, 2017
    Mexico Premiere
Director Biography - José Rubén Hernández Torres

José Rubén Hernández Torres is a Mexican director born in Puebla in December 1990. He studied a Communication major in Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla and complemented this with workshops to focus on film productions as Story by Robert McKee; 2 Day Film School by Dov Simens; and a documentary filmmaking workshop by Ambulante and Cinefábrica de redes.
While he was studying his third semester he made a documentary short called Del Más Allá (2011) that was an official selection in the Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Indígena and the Festival Ícaro: International Film Festival of Centroamerica in 2012.
After that he worked in some shorts and a feature in the production, cinematography and postproduction department, such as the short documentary La perla de Tepenene (2013); the documentary TV series Diálogos con la realidad (2013); the short fiction La española (2016) and the feature fiction Fallax that is still being postproducted.
His first documentary feature is Hasta Gritar Gol (2016) and started with this film in a course he took in fifth semester of his major, leading him to win a grant of development from the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Puebla in 2014.
He is currently studying a master in Digital Narrative and Production in Universidad Panamericana and developing a feature fiction that will be written and directed by him.

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Director Statement

Football is the sport that has more fans worldwide, I know because I’m one of them, I learnt and became who I am in the field. I never played it professionally, but I’ve always enjoyed it.
My biggest passion is filmmaking, and every drop of visual culture that I can receive from the world. That’s the reason that made blind football so important in my personal history. It forced me to discover the world with all of my other senses.
I decided to make a documentary to tell the story of Los Topos because the FIFA and the mexican sports institutions are stuck in corruption scandals meanwhile the fans keep on supporting their teams.
In this documentary I want to tell the story of how the players of Los Topos found in blind football a reason to keep on playing this sport even when they had to stop doing because of their blindness.
I think that football is just not the million-dollar business or the gigantic stadiums, but the everyday of every fan around the world, how a team can start as a reason to play, but ends up becoming the most important part of your life.
This is what happened with Los Topos, it started as a group of people that wanted to play football, but kept on growing until they became the national champions and got their chance to be a part of the national team that will compete in Rio Paralympic games 2016.
This is a story that I got to witness in first row, and I want people to feel inspired as I did when I discovered the motivation that this team put in everything they did to become who they are now.