Starting from Scratch: Ucronía

Upon my return to Spain and after having received several Acting and Film classes in the States, I started working on a plan for me to move a closer to my goal... It was going to be difficult to be a Martial Arts actor in a place where there were no stories or projects that satisfied my needs of self expression and personal growth... 
     

How to solve the lack of opportunities?... The answer was very simple: Creating them. It was then when I decided to work and produce my own projects and stories, creating my own characters and selecting my own team and actors. After many classes on Acting, Self Expression, Filmmaking, Screenwritting… It was time to test in real life everything I had been learned. "It was time to get out there and do it!". It was time to learn working on an audiovisual production: pre-production of Ucronía began.

    

Starting from 0 and with no contacts whatsoever I started writing the screenplay, scouting locations, looking for Technical Equipment, Contributors, Actors, Camera, Lightning... The process was tough, but eventually and after many many many meetings and hard work, I managed to gather a group of young people willing to work in an original and interesting project. The amount of effort was bigger than any of us could have ever expected. Filming Ucronía was difficult and very stressful many times... but it was what I wanted to do, every failure was a lesson, every failure leaded to an extremely valuable revelation, I learned something important every day I worked on the movie... After many more arguments and months I never imagined, Ucronia was finished.

My first film was very different from what I had originally visualized... It was not as good as what I imagined at first... It was not the masterpiece I had envisioned every night while I was writing in my room...

   

Despite of this, I did not feel like accepting the idea that something I had worked so hard on and with so much enthusiasm did not have the quality I expected... It was the first time I had worked so long and so hard on something that afterwards didn´t turn out as good as it should have been!... Too many errors, too many mistakes... It was then when someone close to me told me:
    
-Alberto, now it's the time for you to do something great. Take advantage of all that knowledge and experience and make the best Martial Arts Action Short film that has never been made in Spain... RFF was just about to be borned...