Morelia Film Festival: ‘Wild Flowers’ Director Pablo Perez Lombardini Preps ‘El Kaiman’
MORELIA, Mexico – Pablo Perez Lombardini, whose short “Wild Flowers,” bowed at the Morelia Int’l Film Fest last year, is ready to plunge into feature filmmaking. An honors graduate in film direction from Mexico’s prominent film school CCC, Perez has written and directed seven shorts, a docu and a medium-length film, among which his short “The Enchanted Lagoon” won a clutch of awards in various film festivals.
Currently co-producing German film “Das Unverlassliche Leben” which is shooting in Mexico, he’s targeting a summer 2017 shoot for his first feature, “El Kaiman,” a coming-of-age road movie about a teen who seeks to seduce his father’s mistress in order to get back at him for cheating on his mother.
In contrast to “Wild Flowers,” “El Kaiman” is told “from the point of view of a teenager rather than a middle-aged woman, but the theme of erotic relationship remains,” said Perez Lombardini.
He sees helmer Paul Thomas Anderson as a great influence on his work. “He manages to make films with artistic merit that are also accessible to wide audiences.” “Mexico has either art house or commercial films but there are few who find the middle ground,” he added, citing Alfonso Cuaron’s “Y Tu Mama Tambien” and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Amores Perros.”
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