Guillermo del Toro, one of my favorite filmmakers and one of the most inspiring, has just made his own film studio called Mirada,a company intended to be a workspace for filmmakers in which they can conceive, develop and launch their own projects. He’s not doing this alone — also on the team are cinematographer and frequent GDT collaborator Guillermo Navarro, Mathew Cullen and Javier Jimenez. Continue reading for more.
Mirada is a 25,000 square foot studio space in Marina del Ray, and houses facilities for animation, post-production, visual effects and ” features an art department, a soundstage to facilitate traditional and virtual productions and a full camera shop.” The space has a film legacy, as miniature effects work has been done there in the past for Blade Runner and other films. Here’s what Del Toro had to say.
“I hate to use this word, but it’s a boutique operation. We want to attract filmmakers and help them develop their ideas from the ground up. Not in a pipeline of production and not with a marketing view, but simply, how to build a story the best. That could be a short film, a feature film, a commercial, proof of concept — whatever it may be, you get all of us.”
Seems to good to be true for us inspiring directors! Like a asylum for storytellers where they can create stories with others who share the same passion. I don’t know about you but that sounds a lot like this place I call heaven(Yes it’s a joke..).
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