Duende Film
Emelia Lute
Our mission is to provide the highest possible quality sound/music tools to those who seek to create beautiful and professional sound design and music for a film. At Duende Sounds we not only want to provide great quality sound products for filmmakers and music producers, but we also want to provide the best quality tools at affordable prices.
By purchasing any of the products from Duende Sounds you not only gain access to great music and sound effects but also help a small, yet, very dedicated team of music producers to support their families by working full-time in their dream jobs.
The following is an interview with Michael Brandon Wright regarding the recent inclusion of his short film, Duendes, in the 2024 GeekFest Film Festival. In this interview, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief Barbra Dillon chats with Wright about his shared creative process in bringing the film to life on the screen, his upcoming work on a Halloween fan film, and more!
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief: Congratulations on the recent inclusion of Duendes in the GeekFest Film Festival! For our readers who may be unfamiliar, what can you tell us about the premise of the film?
BD: The film also took home the award for the best horror film! What can you tell us about your experience in sharing the film with audiences at the festival and in taking home the Best Horror award?
BD: In addition to your work on Duendes, you are also finalizing your work on the Halloween fan film, Mask of Evil. What can you share with us the inspiration behind the film and your approach to playing with the Halloween sandbox?
MBW: First of all, thank you for your interest! Duendes will be screening at a number of Comic Cons so to see it in person follow me or Geekfest for info. Mask of Evil will also be screening at select Film Festivals. You can also check them both out on my MBW Films Channel on YouTube, as well as my main channel MBW Videos for my Movie Explorations/VLOGS, for up to date information, follow @mbwvideos for all my social media, X, IG, Facebook. Thank you and stay tuned!
ABOLITION tells the story of two friends, Frederick Douglass and John Brown, during the tumultuous decade leading up to the Civil War. Produced as an acclaimed two-man stage play in Sonora and Sacramento, Duende is now in production of a broadcast quality film adaptation.
Having brought the project this far is an extraordinary achievement. The idea of a film version of ABOLITION for distribution on PBS was born after successful stage runs in Sonora (2018) and Sacramento (2019). Rick Foster began the arduous process of adapting the work to a screenplay and John C. Brown was brought in as the consulting cinematographer. Due to the pandemic, the project was stopped and restarted twice before everything finally came together in the Fall of 2021.
Starting on October 1, 2022, ABOLITION will be available to PBS member stations for broadcast. The film is now available on PBS.org. NETA is working to create scheduling hooks (Black History Month, Juneteenth, Civil War, etc) and will market the film directly to PBS programming directors.
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Last week I was in New Zealand casting for a commercial. I met a 17 year old girl who had the word 'Duende' freshly tattooed on her arm. Later, I googled the word and found it's meaning fascinating. A wonderful word which goes some way towards describing the indescribable. The elusive, beautiful darkness we are drawn to in music and film and all art in general. I never knew it even had a word to describe it.
In his brilliant lecture entitled "The Theory and Function of Duende" Federico Garca Lorca attempts to shed some light on the eerie and inexplicable sadness that lives in the heart of certain works of art. "All that has dark sound has duende", he says, "that mysterious power that everyone feels but no philosopher can explain." In contemporary rock music, the area in which I operate, music seems less inclined to have its soul, restless and quivering, the sadness that Lorca talks about. Excitement, often; anger, sometimes: but true sadness, rarely, Bob Dylan has always had it. Leonard Cohen deals specifically in it. It pursues Van Morrison like a black dog and though he tries to he cannot escape it.Tom Waits and Neil Young can summon it. It haunts Polly Harvey. My friends the Dirty Three have it by the bucket load. The band Spiritualized are excited by it. Tindersticks desperately want it, but all in all it would appear that duende is too fragile to survive the brutality of technology and the ever increasing acceleration of the music industry. Perhaps there is just no money in sadness, no dollars in duende. Sadness or duende needs space to breathe. Melancholy hates haste and floats in silence. It must be handled with care."
All love songs must contain duende. For the love song is never truly happy. It must first embrace the potential for pain. Those songs that speak of love without having within in their lines an ache or a sigh are not love songs at all but rather Hate Songs disguised as love songs, and are not to be trusted. These songs deny us our humanness and our God-given right to be sad and the air-waves are littered with them. The love song must resonate with the susurration of sorrow, the tintinnabulation of grief. The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil - the enduring metaphor of Christ crucified between two criminals comes to mind here - so within the fabric of the love song, within its melody, its lyric, one must sense an acknowledgement of its capacity for suffering. [via wiki]
The Phantom Lady (Spanish: La Dama duende) is a 1945 Argentine film directed by Luis Saslavsky. At the 1946 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards the film won Silver Condor Awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Music.[1] It is based on a seventeenth-century comedy with the same name by Pedro Caldern de la Barca, translated as The Phantom Lady. However, the film alters the play considerably - the plot is heavily rewritten, and the style of dialogue is completely changed. Calderon's comedy is written in verse, while the screenplay of the film is in prose and contains scenes not found in the play. The final scene includes a fierce storm from which the hero rescues the heroine and declares his love for her, a scene added to the film.
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