MERCENARY OF THE STORYBOARD

A film is the realization of someone's dream. That dream must inspire the team that will work on the project. Drawing for film projects has made me aware of my relationship with cinema. I am not a scholar of the seventh art. I don't know films, directors, or the anecdotes that shaped this medium by heart. But I can say that I have devoured hours and hours of cinema, absorbing its visual language into my subconscious.

Working as an illustrator for film and advertising has made me feel that I could contribute something of my own, that I was the right person for the job—it made me feel useful. Movies have perhaps been my main source of inspiration. Ideas I've built upon without fully knowing where they come from. Cinema is a medium that enhances and projects my creativity, but for me it is the starting point toward something more.

However, whenever I've gone to see a film I've worked on, I've felt enormous gratitude and admiration for everyone who made that dream possible. Gratitude for having had the opportunity to take part in it… and also a certain sadness… sadness for not having fully immersed myself in this fantastic world, for not having discovered what more I could have contributed, for not having become part of the film "family" with greater intensity and awareness.