CHORRILLANA

Well, today we talk about your favourite food.  I love to eat. A lot. I love all kind of dishes except Garbanzos, but that's not the theme. I love Chilean food, a lot! but when I go out in the night and I want to eat something I couldn't to eat Pastel de choclo or Cazuela... I could prefer a dish what you could to share with your friends with beers. Do you know the Chorrillanas?

All the people know about Chorrillana, It's a very delicious meal. It consist in a bed of french fries, scrambled eggs with onion fried and minced beef over them. Trought the years, It had been modified adding longanizas, pork, cheese, sausage or other things depending of the place. And the name is know by the drip ("chorreo") of onion, eggs and meat that is produced over the french fries.

Story or mith about the birth of Chorrillana tells about a club founded on Valparaiso twenty years ago in honor to Jose Cruz Martines for delight to retired suboficials of carabineros where delicius meals where cook to them. Today the "Jota Cruz" is a very popular and picturesque restaurant decorated with a lot of antiques and people write on the walls when visit it on Valparaíso where still Chorrillana is sold.

I took this photo when I visited the "Jota Cruz". It's very very VERY DELICIOUS meal in all the place where it is cooked... :)

Gonzalo Maruri

We were in a very cold day sit in a very cold room with Gonzalo Maruri, but his kind warm up the atmosphere. He is a very important writter of cinema scripts in Chile. He was born in the centre of Santiago in a big house. He wrotte the most success scripts: "Se acabó la fiesta" and "Sin Compromisos" what have won a lot of prizes in the world.

It was very important to me meet him because I need a inspiration to write my scripts and he knows how to do a good one. He keeps fresh his mind writting a lot, every day. He likes in his free time to write short stories about the city, people who go by the life very fast, modern human how I say with my words.

He discovered his talent in the highscool writing a play about a guy who found a suitcase full of money and the protagonist had contradictory emotions like visions what try to convince him to return the money, give it to the poors, buy a lot of pleasure things, etc.  The play was act in the "School Week" and won!!

To the finish of conversation he gave me a lot of tips and I have got the inspiration now :)

Filmmaker IQ.

Well I want to tak about FilmmakerIQ a website created for filmmakers, there is the origin of the name of page. In this site you can learn tips and some help about  the craft, process to make a film, share works, participate in forum, etc. There is a site specially to share information about filmmaking.

I found this site when I saw a friend sharing some photos of the page in Facebook (this is the page http://www.facebook.com/FilmmakerIQ ) and I clicked “Like”. The page has  photos of shots of films, cinema actors reviews, videos, etc. Then I was very interested because images liked and teach me about films I still haven’t seen and then I decided to visit the page. 

This is in english so I can’t uderstand many things or participate in forums but it have a very important section (I consider) what helps me to make my filmaking works.This had links of articles from another sites.  For example there is a link from an article what have 12 keys traits of the indie friendly director and other where is lessons from Terry Williams.