Synopsis

Arturo is a young actor and writer living in Mexico City, in a rented appartment over a house owned by Sandra, up to now, only his friend. The two twenty-somethings have been flirting with each other for months, but neither of them have taken that next step of crossing the line towards something more serious. Both of them waiting for the right time. But things don't happen when we want them to happen, they just happen.

Cast

Luis Gerardo Méndez Marisol Centeno María Fernanda Malo Hugo Catalán Mario Heras

Story of making the movie

The story of Synchronycity arises from the concern of the writers to tell a simple story about real people, something that revolved around themselves, their relationships and conversations. We knew that to portray that on the screen we didn’t need much, or at least we thought. But little by little, things got bigger and bigger with more people who believed in the project wanting to be involved. And so, production began work in early 2008.

To make this project a reality, Don’t Panic Films was born. A small production company founded by Ivan Morales, Adan Lerma, Samuel Sosa and Celeste North. With a short film produced at the end of 2007 (Culpa Levissima) and directed by Morales and Lerma, the team was ready to take the big step and make a feature film. Even before we had a script, we knew it would be the next step.

The script is structured around certain rules we set to for ourselves. These rules were simple: a few actors (at the end they’re only 5), one main location, and almost no costume changes. This, to ensure that production could be kept to a manageable size for a first film. After lots of rain, an almost destroyed garden, airplanes flying past the location and lots of stress, the movie was shot in 2 weeks. By the end of 2008 the first cut was seen by the happy members of this small team. It makes us really happy to be able to share it with you now.

A message from the director

About the director

Ivan was born in Mexico City in 1981, he studied filmmaking in the New York Film Academy and also majored in Communication at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, although he blames his cinematographic education in his huge love for this art and the wonderful "DVD extras". He started his professional career in the offices of Cine PREMIERE, a national film related magazine where besides writing, interviewing and reviewing content he was in charge of te editing of two special editions, one from 007: Casino Royale and other about Transformers. In 2007, his need to film ended up in him creating Don't Panic Films, an independent production company.

Besides directing the full-length feature Syncrhonycity and a couple of short films, he continues to be a collaborator of Cine PREMIERE, he has a indie filmmaking blog and teaches script writing.

Follow him on twitter as @ivanmorales