A salute to everyone reading this interview. I had the honor to talk with JOANTHAN CUARTAS; american filmmaker with colombian roots; director and writer of the Vampirism - Drama - Horror movie MY HEART CAN'T BEAT UNLESS YOU TELL IT TO making it his directorial debut. This indie - low budget movie talks about the family solidarity, the sacrifices of anyone can do for a son, brother or mother in this case a brotherhood bond that goes beyond the normality and shapes all that in a fiction world of vampirism and solitude. The movie follows "...a family of three siblings living in a claustrophobic house, the older siblings finding themselves at odds over care for their ailing younger brother. To stay alive, he must consume human blood, but he's too weak to get the blood on his own. His siblings have to find victims and drain them of their blood to keep him fed. This is a vampire film, but also a film about the dynamics of a family when thrown into dire circumstances.." (Jonathan Cuartas).
As you will read below, JONATHAN based his directorial feature movie upon his short film called "KURU" and personal situations he will explain us in this interview which lines the same story roots but on cannibalism... He highlights in this a well-established frame and low movements categorizing the pace of the movie and pointing us the path of what is the tone and theme of the film. The movie ran at Tribeca Film Festival with claps on its side, it has its vod, digital and limited theaters relese on June 25, 2021 and then its DVD - Bluray release on August 10, 2021, in Rotten Tomatoes has an amazing 98% (Rottentomatoes)
Without further ado, you, indie filmmaker, newbie filmmaker with lots of questions and interrogates about how to shoot your first horror movie, scroll down and read this usable interview, JONATHAN will tell us about his writing method, the obstacles he faced up, the setbacks during shooting, his thoughts that sure will helps us to understand a little more the sinuous world of indie filmmaking.
