CAST
Vicky................Gabriela Flaquer
David................Rafael Antonio Flores
Papa.................Ricardo Enrique Alvarez
Margarita..........Virginia Velazquez
El Asesino.........Roberto Fernandez
El Asesino.........Ganivet Fernandez
CREW
Directed by...........................Ricardo Luis Alvarez & Ricardo Enrique Alvarez
Screenplay by.......................Ricardo Luis Alvarez & Ricardo Enrique Alvarez
Story by................................Ricardo Enrique Alvarez
Director of Photography........Ricardo Luis Alvarez
Film & Sound Editing...........Julio Frias F.
Art-Set Decoration...............Virginia Velazquez
Costume Design....................May Ling Joa & Sarah Saladin
Music by................................The Beatles, Peter Gabriel & Carmine Coppola
* The film is dedicated to Jimmy Joel Threan, a close friend of the filmmakers. He passed away during the film's production.
* The film's running length is 16 minutes, 13 minutes without the closing credits.
* The film was inspired by The Beatles's song "Im Only Sleeping".
* Originally conceived as a 3 minute film.
* The story took 5 years to develop. Many changes were made, and the final version differs drastically to the very original story.
* The film was shot with a Sony CCD-TRV43, HI8 Video Handycam.
* The film was shot on 5 days, over the course of 2 months.
* Close to 4 hours of footage was shot.
* The first scene filmed was the buildings sequence, the last scene filmed was the knife attack.
* The editing took 8 hours over the course of 2 days.
* The film had 1 day of rehearsals.
* Sound Effects from films The Shining (1980) and "Three Colors: Red" were used.
* The film's major themes are "Non Communication" and "Humans V.S. Nature".
* Vicky's relationship with the 3 men in the film end with a negative reaction.
* The film's visuals are inspired by the work of Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Yasujiro Ozu and Brian de Palma.
*Originally the film contained scenes in color, black and white and sepia. The final version only has scenes in color and black and white.
* Ganivet Fernandez was the original killer on the film, he later couldnt come back to finish the role. Robert Fernandez was then called up to finish the part since you couldnt see the killer's face in the shots remaining.
* The dialogue scene in the park with Vicky and David took 16 takes, The long take with The Maid and Vicky took 11 takes, and the dialogue breakfast scene with Vicky an her Dad took 25 takes.
* The least amount of takes for a scene was 3 takes.
* The long shot in the breakfast scene where Vicky sits down and starts talking with her dad took 2 days to shoot. The final take was used.
* The day the park scenes were filmed the day was awfully cloudy, which fitted the film perfectly. 5 minutes after the final take was done, the sun came out.
* Gabriela Flaquer had to watch Blow Out (1981), Body Double (1984) and Mulholland Drive (2001) in order to get in the right mood for the film.
* The film was first screened in Casa de Teatro - Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. On August 10, 2005.
* The script used for shooting can be found here
