Paying the Ferryman
Before the terminal boat ride, an old punk rocker travels back in space and time to try to make his life count.
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Alfonso MorenoDirector
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Alfonso MorenoWriter
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Alfonso MorenoProducer
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Pablo SantanaProducer
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Robert DicksonProducer
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Pepe RonceroProducer
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José SacrisProducer
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Javier "ElPasmo" MorenoProducer
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Laila Bensaad-JohnsonKey Cast"Elena""An A.A.cronym for Nothing"(Writer/Director); "The Looking Glass." (Writer/Director)
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Elena MorenoKey Cast"Elena"
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Will StockKey Cast"The Ferryman""Fixed Melodies, Filmic Melodies" (Writer/Director)
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Scotty TownKey Cast"The Ferryman"
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Ryan BockenhauerKey Cast"The Ferryman"
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Pepe RonceroKey Cast"The Fourth Rider"
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Shawn SheelyKey Cast"The Fourth Rider"
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Teotl Cuauhtli Miranda-MorenoKey Cast"Alfonso (boy)"
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J’abi Balam Miranda-MorenoKey Cast"Alfonso (boy)"
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SamiKey Cast"Alfonso (young)"
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Alfonso CronopioKey Cast"Alfonso (old)"
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Pablo SantanaCinematography
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Will StockCinematography"Fixed Melodies, Filmic Melodies" (Writer/Director)
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Pepe RonceroMadrid Crew
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José SacrisMadrid Crew
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Pablo MoreoMadrid Crew
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Isabel MorenoMadrid Crew
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Javier "ElPasmo" MorenoMadrid Crew
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Chuck "Monk" AlfonsoMadrid Crew
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Robert DicksonMinneapolis Crew
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Lainey MorenoMinneapolis Crew
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CC DeKillMinneapolis Crew
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ThaloMinneapolis Crew
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Scotty TownMinneapolis Crew
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Lee Ti SpaudeMinneapolis Crew
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Barb KruegerMinneapolis Crew
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David Walker-LecicMinneapolis Crew
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Clyde CarverBayfield, Wi Crew
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Ryan BockenhauerBayfield, Wi Crew
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Laila Bensaad-JohnsonBayfield, Wi Crew
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Robert DicksonBayfield, Wi Crew
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FELL Types digitally reproduced by Igino MariniTypography
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Paula Cánovas MarcosCamera Operator
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Pablo SantanaCamera Operator
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James LindsayCamera Operator
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Will StockCamera Operator
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A. CamachoCamera Operator
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Alfonso MorenoCamera Operator
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Lucas Gracia GómezCamera Operator
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Project Title (Original Language):Pagando al Barquero
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Project Type:Music Video
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Runtime:4 minutes 2 seconds
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Completion Date:June 23, 2019
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:Spain, United States
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Language:Spanish
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
"I write my own songs so that I don't have to worry about copyright infringement."
Although Alfonso has directed many photo and video shoots for online rich media projects, this is his first time writing and directing an actual story for film.
A Minneapolis resident for over 20 years, Alfonso Moreno, born and raised in Spain, studied Audiovisual Media & Information Sciences at the UCM University of Madrid in the late 1980s.
Having attended while homeless during his punk rock years, he fronted the cult proto-hardcore band TdeK as Alfonso Cronopio with which he cut the two seminal spanish punk albums “Esto es una empresa capitalista,” (1985) and “Carnevisión,” (1986.)
Still homeless, he applied and obtained two scholarships from the EU to continue his studies in video and film, transitioning almost immediately to computer graphics (“I don’t have to yell and argue with the lighting crew to light the shot the way I need it, I just place the lights with the bloody mouse now.”)
After short stints as a storyboard artist and working in CGI, Alfonso moved to the US in the late 1990s where he started taking work as a digital art director to better support his family.
Always passionate about non-sequential communication, he quickly evolved from the passive field of advertising/marketing to the more audience-involved realm of experience design, in which he has built a career for the last 12 years of his life.
What better subject than death to approach the story of an aging rocker? I’ve always been fascinated by the many ways with which humanity copes with the notion of its own expiration date. “Paying the Ferryman” is a story of life, death, the passing of time, and the relativity of human value.