Closing Thoughts / Carmela
This is the end of STL... but it's the beggining of the hardest part for our project!
Carmela, a life of freedom
Belinmoros
Paula Bonaval
Clara Vior
"Carmela, a life of freedom" is a feature documentary film about our mom's story and our journey to tell it. She suffered from a rare variant of Alzheimer's called PCA (Posterior Cortical Atrophy), which starts affecting your capacity to process and understand what you are seeing. It robs you of your independence and, to our mom, independence meant freedom. After the diagnosis, she tried to kill herself and was locked up on a psychiatric hospital. As painful as it was, we decided to help her die, because we understood how important Freedom was for her. The film will follow this narrative, but also our journey of making this movie, including the research and process of creating VFX to depict the symptoms that our mom had. We want to get ad close as we can to what she was seeing and feeling and we think this would be of great help to people in her situation, families and healthcare workers. We also hope to raise awareness on the right to die with dignity and the end of psychiatric violence. We will interview activists for these social issues, her neurologist and her family and friends. We want to send a message of hope and strenght in spite of the suffering. This is a powerful story. A story about love, life and death, and above all, freedom.
Project diary
Week 10 Highlight / Carmela
And after all this long journey, our last highlight goes to...
Week 10 Goals / Carmela
Final week goals! Let's do this!!
Week 9 Recap / Carmela
Well, well, well... STL is almost finnished. Do you wanna know how were the last days before the final delivery? Don't miss our video!
Week 9 Highlight / Carmela
We did it! Highlight of Week 9 is simple: we did it! We delivered the final video pitch AND teaser!
Week 9 Goals / Carmela
Last week of work before the final delivery!!! These were our goals!
My city - Clara / Carmela
Welcome to Clara's city: London! Follow her in this tour to discover some of her favourite places and shops!
Week 8 Recap / Carmela
Week 8 was a pretty crazy week… We had our weekly meeting with Maria instead of Susana (missed her though!) and we had our last mentorship with Shiho.
My city - Paula / Carmela
Welcome to Paula's current city: Paris. Follow her in this tour to discover her neighborhood and, hopefully, some new places you might not know!
Learning with Carmela / B-Roll
We've been learning a lot these last few weeks, and we wouldn't want you to miss out on some very interesting concepts that we've been learning or revising with our mentors! :)
Learning with Carmela / Story Beat
We've been learning a lot these last few weeks, and we wouldn't want you to miss out on some very interesting concepts that we've been learning or revising with our mentors! :)
Learning with Carmela / Character Arc
We've been learning a lot these last few weeks, and we wouldn't want you to miss out on some very interesting concepts that we've been learning or revising with our mentors! :)
Week 8 Highlight / Carmela
This week's highlight is, without a doubt, the help we got from the two amazing human beings that are working on the music for the Teaser and the Final Pitch Video.
Week 8 Goals / carmela
WE’RE ALMOST THERE! LET’S DO THIS!!
Week 7 Highlight / Carmela
This last week we finally finished the script for the Teaser and the Final Pitch thanks all our mentors and we want to give a very special thanks to...
Week 7 Recap / Carmela
Mentorships with David, Shiho and Kris...and more! Don't miss our Q&A! :)
Week 7 Goals / carmela
These are the goals for this 7th week! Final pitch, final pitch and final pitch.
Week 6 Recap / Carmela
This week we focused mainly on the progress of the documentary teaser and the final pitch. And we even did some praying...
Learning with Carmela #3 / LOGLINE
We decided to do a small series of special posts explaining in a short and easy way some concepts. In entry #3: the logline! What is it?
Learning with Carmela #2 / PITCH GUIDELINE
We decided to do a small series of special posts explaining in a short and easy way some concepts. In entry #2: our pitch guideline!
Learning with Carmela #1 / PITCH
We decided to do a small series of special posts explaining in a short and easy way some concepts. In entry #1: the pitch! What is it?
The "Frustration" Week / Carmela
This will be remembered as the “Frustration” week. It all started with a little domestic accident where Clara cut her cornea…
Week 6 Highlight / Carmela
Big news! We have not only one, but 4 initial versions of our prototype: a teaser!
Quick tip for editing a documentary timeline / Carmela
Are you planning on edit a loooong documentary timeline with lots and lots of clips that need to be organized? We have a tip that may help you!
Week 6 Goals / Carmela
These are the goals for this 6th week! Last week we completed for the first time all of our goals! Let's see how this week goes...
Week 5 Highlight / Carmela
This week’s highlight was meeting Shiho for the first time. We are so happy to have also her on our mentor’s group.
The "5-days-8 meetings" WEEK / Carmela
This week we scheduled 3 MORE extra meetings with Kris Pearn and 2 experts from outside STL. Wanna know who they are?
Week 5 Recap / Carmela
What an incredible and intense week we had! We worked on VFX, music, structure, general tone and pitch… All that in just five days!
Music that inspire us / Carmela
Are you prepared for the most varied music mix ever?
Week 5 Goals / Carmela
These are the goals for this 5th week! We can't believe it's been already a month!
Paula's Workspace Update! / carmela
Paula's PC arrived from Spain, finally!
Week 4 Recap / Carmela
This week we finnished a structure! And we have lots of homework to do... Take a look!
Week 4 Highlight / Carmela
A quote from Kris Pearn.
Week 4 Goals / Carmela
Well, well, well... we were a bit too optimistic with our goals for week 3, so we will try to be more realistic and keep the list shorter for this week.
Weeks 2-3 Recap / Carmela
Where to start with all the information our brains have been absorbing for the past 2 weeks? The mentorships were completely focused on our project and current needs!
Week 3 Highlight / Carmela
This week we finally got to start talking about VFX! Do you wanna see some doodles?
About Us - Part 2 / Carmela
Different and complementary. When did it all really start? Once upon a time...
Social Media / Carmela
This is the Instagram reel we did to ask our friends and followers to vote for the project and...it worked!
Week 3 Goals / Carmela
Lots of work to do this week! Here is our goals list!
Week 2 Highlight / Carmela
Eureka! We know, we know. That screenshot looks chaotic. But trust us, there's some order in it and we may have found the ultimate structure!
Week 2 Goals / Carmela
This is getting serious... Here are our goals for this week:
Paula's Workspace / Carmela
And here is Paula's workspace! A small but cozy Parisian apartment on a sixth floor without a lift...
Clara's Workspace / Carmela
Welcome to Clara's London workspace! Plants, messiness and lot's of art are awaiting...
Week 1 Highlight / Carmela
This week’s coolest moments were without a doubt, the Kick Off pitch and the Tribe pitch, and hearing everyone express how touched or connected they felt to our project...
Kick-off Meeting / Carmela
Well, now that you’ve read all the theory… Want a little insight on how we dealt with it personally? We had a little bit of a meltdown on Tuesday...
Week 1 Recap / Carmela
This week was A-MA-ZING! On Monday we had our first meeting with Saraswathi Vani Balgam. Vani’s ideas were sooooo interesting and useful. To maintain the level of “wow-that-was-so-cool-my-head-is-about-to-explode”, we finally met David Prescott yuhuu! He gave us some amazing tips and vital pieces of information for a pitch.
Week 1 Goals / Carmela
Let's go! These are our goals for the first week.
Week 1 Initial Thoughts / Carmela
These are some of our initial thoughts on the project and the Sony Talent League right before the first week starts. We cannot wait for the kick-off meeting with our mentors and the Tribe!
About Us / Carmela
Hi! We are Paula and Clara, the sisters behind this project. Meet us and let us know in the comments if you are curious about something else or if you have any questions. We will be happy to answer in the next video! :)
Week 0 Highlight / Carmela
Let your ego shine! Clara is a Campaigner and Paula is a Logician, and you? Tell us in the comments below what's your 16's personalities type!
Week 0 Recap / Carmela
Wow! What a first week! We are SOOO excited for next week, but, we’re not gonna lie, we’re also exhausted...The mentorships were GREAT. Our brains are kind of processing all the information, because it was A LOT, but we’ll get there eventually (hopefully… XD).