Experiencing Interruptions?

Let me be straight

In the gloom, a man alone opens his twisted mind to us while we are shown who he is and what does he really do for a living.

This dark character takes down what we think about life and ourselves pulling us with his perverse rhetoric.

But this lonely mad man is not what he seems to be.

  • Gabriel Jiménez-Ontiveros
    Director
  • Gabriel Jiménez-Ontiveros
    Writer
  • Fernando Scarpa
    Producer
  • Javier Sandoval
    Key Cast
    "Mr. President"
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Lo digo en serio
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 48 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 28, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Asociación de Cine Bardem
    Montalbán de Córdoba, Córdoba
    Spain
    November 5, 2019
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Gabriel Jiménez-Ontiveros

I am Gabriel Jiménez-Ontiveros. I grew up watching films, between the joy for studio classics and the taste for auteur filmmaking.

As a kid, I voraciously watched movies, and thus I instantly knew I wanted to become a filmmaker.

I acquired my HND with Distinction at CEV filmmaking academy in Madrid in 2019.

That year, my first short film as both writer and director ("Let me be straight"), was selected for the 10th short films exhibition by the Asociación de Cine Bardem together with other 30 short films from a total of almost 1.000 submitted films.

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Director Statement

We live in a time when the apparently exorcized ghosts of the 20th century are coming back. This short is trying to illustrate the paradox of a true die hard misanthropist in power of a so-called "liberal democracy".