Happy 2009, and we raise a toast to the beginning of a new production season. We just wrapped shoots in Mexico, Colombia and Argentina (both solo and via our partners) and will be heading back to Mexico soon for another one. We're adding a few new directors to our roster and we'll reveal them shortly... Otherwise, we're battening down the hatches and preparing to face an absolutely crazy sea of work this year--and that includes more web shoots, more digital shoots and a lot more international commercials waiting to be filmed.

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The Cortez Brothers welcomes Marcos Cline-Márquez to our company as an executive producer; he'll be corralling our hottest, freshest and all-around coolest new talent. As the headcount in our Marina del Rey office expands, so too do our forays into South America. We'll be shooting in Colombia again, plus traveling to the Dominican Republic to take part in a Hollywood filmmaking conference there. The Storytelling Department is happy to lend a hand helping directors land studio-backed feature films, producers land television series deals and the one-and-only Disney reach people through the written word. At the same time, we welcome director Nelson Cabrera to our roster... Nelson has an impressive reel that includes Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Grey, BBDO, JWT, Merkley, Cole Weber, DDB, Euro NY, Zubi, La Comunidad, Dieste and COD (to name just a few). Also, a shout-out to director Ago Panini, since we've just gotten a sneak peak at the trailer for his upcoming feature film, "Waiting for the Sun."

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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.

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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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