BELIEF BELIEF AND UNBELIEF BY Fellow Stranger

BELIEF BELIEF AND UNBELIEF BY Fellow Stranger

Video clip from Rooms The Movie

Starring Dominika Van Santen

(Top Model of the World 2005 / Venezuela)

With Caroline Pey (NinaDJ / Brasil)

Directed by Mateo Manaure A
Annie Banks - Global Executive Producer

MMI Production, London 2012

@Rede Record Studios, Seven Sisters

Three rooms, three people, three lives.

Dominika Van Santen and David Taplin. Photo by ©Bruno Figueiredo

Rooms is the first Latin American feature film to be shot in London. Bridging the divide between Latin American and London cultures the film follows a Venezuelan model, a Brazilian singer and a Bolivian rapper as they struggle against the odds to make it in one of the biggest, toughest cities in the world.

Dominika Van Santen. Photo by ©Bruno Figueiredo

Rooms The Movie Facebook Page

Rooms The Movie - Still Photography Slideshow by Bruno Figueiredo

Video recorded in the film's wrap up party @ Roots Brasil - Barrio Central - Room The Movies - Still Photography Slideshow by Bruno Figueiredo - 13.09.2011 - Soho - London - UK

EL PARADOR ROJO

We would like to thank EL PARADOR ROJO for supporting ROOMS The Movie. They sponsored the film during the production providing catering to the crew and casting and the food was delicious!

You are all invited to visit our sponsor in the South American Market in Seven Sisters to have a taste of the traditional food they offer :D Yummy!

EL PARADOR ROJO

Pueblito Paisa

231 High Road

London

N15 5BT

Just outside Seven Sisters Tube Station 

(exit 4) on the Victoria Line

 

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David Taplin

David Taplin as The Watcher

David Taplin has written the script of Rooms The Movie and played "The Watcher" - the main character of the film.

Recently I've had a chat with David about the film,  the script, the watcher and the production...

David Taplin and the script

"Well, it all started with this very unusual gentleman called Mateo, who used to be my neighbour in Venezuela, we talked a lot about films, writing, television and stuff...he moved to London, I didn't really see much of him and then early this year he phoned me up to say that he had a great idea for a film, would I be interested in writing it? I haven't seen Mateo in a long time so I thought: I'll go and have a drink with him anyway! We sat there in a bar, he pitched me the idea and I thought it was fantastic: 3 South Americans living in rooms in the same building in London!"

Kimberly Barrios, Mateo Manaure and David Taplin

David also said that Mateo wanted an English character to bind everybody's story together:  "..we  talked about Hitchcock's film Real Window - which is a favourite of mine, it is about a guy that has a telescope, a broken leg and nothing to do so he just spies his neighbours..." then the story of The Watcher came around, but what he was not expecting was that Mateo wanted him to play it in the film...the bad man but the hero as well!

David Taplin and Angelita Jimenez

"...during the filming, a couple of times, I stopped, I thought, this is weird, this all came out of my head, these interesting, amazing, beautiful people speaking my words..." said David Taplin.

Lights, camera, action!

This article about Rooms The Movie, including pictures of actor Indio Lyrico, actress Kimberly Barrios and photograpy director Rafael Marin, appeared in Romford Recorder newspaper . 

"They came and covered a shoot we did at Hotel Harefield Manor" said Natalie Daniels-Browne, the producer of the film.

Quechua ritual by Sofia Buchuck

Yesterday, Sofia Buchuck has done the Quechua ritual in one of the scenes of Rooms The Movie. We've asked her: what is a Quechua ritual?

"The Quechua Ritual to Pachamama comes from the Inka culture in Peru. This ritual is to pay respect to mother earth as she is the provider of everything in this world: life, food and future. We thank her but also we reconnect with her to know more about the misteries of life, she will answer our worries and help us to find solutions."

Sofia Buchuck is a poet and singer born in Cusco- Peru. Her work, both musically and literary, reflects issues of Diaspora, memory and celebrates the popular and ancestral culture of Latin America. She has travelled across Latin America learning the culture and traditions of that continent. She also speaks Quechua which she has learnt from her indigenous grand mother.
 
With a BA in Spanish and Latin American studies, Sofia Cuchuck has just finished an MA in Hispanics and cultural studies, and an MA in oral history. She has studied singing at the national music school of Mexico UNAM and completed a research in ethnomusicology during 2003. In London, Sofia has completed a diploma in Latin American poetry at the Birbeck University College. 

The Room's Dolls

Big thanks to Vanessa of Rosedolls who is allowing MMI productions to use her beautiful dolls in Rooms The Movie, they are a fantastic addition.

  

http://www.rosedolls.com/