Quick (and much deserved) congratulations to our director Carlos V. Gutierrez. Proving we've got him listed as promising New Talent for a reason, his script "Black and Blue" has just been named as a Thriller finalist in the Fade In Screenplay Contest.

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It's one of those seasons where we're so busy working that we haven't had time for proper updates, but this is the gist of it... We've shot a LOT of stuff, analyzed a LOT of scripts, worked with a LOT of directors and DPs and producers and agencies and writers and creatives and other sundry (yet fascinating) characters. We've been in, shot in, and/or colluded with North America, South America, Europe and the Middle East on products that you wear, drive, eat, read and/or see. We've consulted on feature film campaigns, things written in Spanish and English, scripts, treatments, pitches and documentary projects. When we have a break in the craziness we'll certainly go into detail about those projects, but mostly we've just got our fingers crossed that we'll never HAVE a break at all...

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Revit Rendering Fundamentals

Here is a link to the other presentation I did:

Apologies this file is rather large due to all the embedded images (37MB approx.)

Again, I love to hear feedback both good and bad. It gives me incentive to keep updating this page...

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Families the Basics - including management

Well its about time I updated my blog. For those that couldn't attend the recent Revit Technology Conference I thought I would post links to my powerpoints should you wish to check them out.



This is the talk I did about Families.



Generally it investigates how to setup standards in your office in order to maintain control of your library and develop consistency as well as maximum functionality.

Unfortunately our webserver no longer allows me to post these large files. Please use this link to PDF.



It then looks at some of the basics of family creation of which I then did some live demo's. If enough people post interest, I'll upload a video screen capture of this... :-)

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In a quck nutshell, here goes: In creative and professional news, director Ted Melfi's spot for the Los Angeles Film Festival was short-listed at Cannes; Quim Lorente took a Gran LAUS award from a prestigious art fund in Spain for a high-def video presentation. Martin Romanella won a silver at San Sebastian for his quirky and much-beloved "Juicio" spot for Film Suez. Cortez Brother Ricardo de Montreuil's film MÁNCORA had its Cannes debut, too -- it's the followup to his film LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO.

The Storytelling Department took one step closer to two different studios this month, doing creative work on both independent and wide-release feature films. We're consulting on a handful of film scripts in various stages of development and, more importantly, doing everything short of multiple backflips to ensure that our Cortez Brothers' pet projects and screenplays get a proper reception here in Hollywood.

Fernando Arrioja shot an AT&T job in Mexico City while Simón Bross filmed Tecate Light in the very same Greatest, Most Amazingly Complex Urban Center in the World (in our own humble opinion). Our production partners in Chile came north to Los Angeles to shoot a Paris perfume spot with lovely model/actress Milla Jovovich and Simón kicked another ball through the goalposts with a Home Depot spot featuring players from the Mexican National Soccer Team.

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Revit Technology Conference 2008

Its that time of year again!

Revit Technology Conference 2008 is on in June. I will be speaking as well as a host of other people. I strongly recommend you attend as its going to be 3 full on days of intensive training.

Hope you can make it.

Info can be found here http://www.rugsyd.com.au/rtc2008/rtc2008_events.htm

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The last few weeks have been exceptionally busy (as in, what does “weekend” mean?) for us... Director Fernando Arrioja shot five Budweiser spots for LatinWorks in Los Angeles, proving that cold beer and L.A. weather are a perfect mix. The Cortez Brothers' family friend LuÍs Gerard shot a Banco Popular spot for Group Films in Long Beach, bringing Spanish flags, Los Angeles Lakers center Pau Gasol and basketball fans together in suprising ways. Meanwhile, our own Magaby GarcÍa shot both Splenda and Lactaid spots for La Agencia de Orci in Mexico City - and this is one of the few times we can say a spot was "sww---eet!" and mean it.

The Storytelling Department lent creative consulting expertise to the upcoming trailer campaign for IRON MAN, our absolutely favorite feature film of the summer. We landed another new gig with some good old friends across town, and we'll be helping Spanish- AND English-speaking fans get a fix of the Disney magic. We provided analysis and notes on two international and two domestic feature film scripts and have three more on the way, all of them Latin-tinged and awfully fun to write.

Also on the creative side, director Martin Romanella just solidified co-production on his feature CIUDADES DORMITORIO, via Propeller Films in Germany, Ginga Eleven in Brazil and Lita Stantic Producciones in his native Argentina. The script was a Hubert Bals award-winner at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and scooped up awards by the Argentinean Film Council as well. He's currently at work developing a feature script entitled KEEMA that we're all exceptionally excited to see brought to life...

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