36 years ago who did here in málaga
And ten years ago I went to live in San
francisco where I earn my living doing
cinema and advertising
I remember when I went to my grandmother
He told me but fran and that he is lost
and so far in the United States that I
was going to tell me that the answer more
Interesting question was coming
ten years later and that what I got
had lost there was a story that
It changed my life
that story came from a shock
tremendous cultural and that’s what I
would like to share here with everyone today
you the inspiring force that has
the cultural shock for those of us
we dedicate to tell stories
but who live these shocks
cultural
good those that moves around the world
today we call immigrants or emigrants
depending on which side you look at but in
reality the human being has always been
movement 70,000 years ago that our
Ancestors came out of East Africa
to begin your exploration by the
world make 70 thousand years
These are our homo ancestors
sapiens literally leaving the east
of Africa and beginning its exploration
for land
I think then power point
and here we are today already
we are getting into other
planets
we have been in constant expansion
it seems as if somehow in
our DNA would have something of the big bang
that started everything
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well he told me that he commanded the command
to leave the same
I do not care about this etsav talk
viral, this is us getting into
travel other planets and as we said
is constantly expanding does not seem
as if we father there was something of that
big bang that started all this
cultural and migratory movements are
story generators because
they bring discoveries
discoveries that surprise us that
they hit us and that does not break the schemes and
because the human being is the only species
able to transform elements that we see
in reality in stories that the
attraction in I give you an example
Imagine those same ancestors
70 thousand years ago leaving the habitat
natural where they were born in africa and
discovering new things in his day to
day as a new fruit a new animal
or a weather phenomenon that does not
they had never seen a snowfall
think that for a good moment any
another species would have converted to this
new animal on a totem in an emblem
of protection for the for the tribe I
I would have talked about this snowfall like a
curse or a divine blessing
It happened to me something similar when and san
francisco in 2007
I remember seeing two things that there was never
seen before and they called me a lot
Attention
curiously one of them was also a
meteorological phenomenon
the fog I had never seen of this
way I thought ‘wow it looks like a sea of clouds
it fascinates me to see how he got in this way
covering all san francisco and doing
what giant things like the golden gate
bridge
the famous red bridge that interpol
disappear in front of your eyes
the other thing that I had no idea
and what it has done to me with a lot was the
number of people that I saw living in the
Street
more than 6,000 homeless people in the
Mecca of technology in the same city
where steve jobs presented the iphone in
one of the richest cities in the world
that number to date according to NGOs
placed 12 thousand and 12 thousand people who did not
they have a home where to live in san
Francisco
in my case that was the cultural shock
that changed my life, let me tell you
tell how we rewind ten more years
late until 2007 it was a pipiolo was
studying the university in san
francisco and I remember that they commissioned me
make a short film for one of the
classes and was also a shock to the
theme of men who knew that from
somehow cut me was going to be
related to this topic and so it was
I ended up writing the short film that
titulé there is Luis for whom
we needed not an actor but a
without real roof and that chris that
we did
we did a street casting we
we approach more than 20 people who
they lived in the streets of san francisco
to see if they were interested in being
the prota of the short
and good for many for many reasons
nobody seemed at all interested
The fact is that the filming date is
approached and we did not have our
protagonist
I remember a conversation with the
director of the short martín rosette the one
we discussed the possibility of changing the
script at the last minute of hiring a
actor but hey how is that they say that
when one stops looking in life
find associated uncertainty and a
agreement that came out of one of my classes
at night I was on my way home to
catch the subway and walk the
financial district of san francisco
I remember that I passed in front of one
of these without a roof but this time
there was something super different because this
occasion was the person to whom
he directed to me unusual thing and he did it from
a super friendly way
so I stopped and we started
talk and he told me that we call is
Spanish bassinet I told him called me frank
francisco as the city san francisco
he laughed because he thought it’s going to be easy
I remember a man and in a few
minutes I told him the idea of the short and I
I said good if you’re interested because not
we want in another somewhere else where
can find and tell me can you
find in my office
you have an office and it tells me if this
corner where we are going to find yours
it’s my office
here in the financial district I carry
coming every day during the
last 20 years
I remember that at that moment I thought
in ours
this person has been in the street for 20 years
The fact is that the next day we returned
to stay this is us 2007
have a coffee near the office
mus is where Moses could read the
script of the short film and he told me that if
I wanted to be a protagonist and finally
we did the short together
none of us could have
imagine in the life of this short of
four minutes students was going to
end up generating a feature film about
the life of bassinet we’ve been
producing and filming during
last 20 years ten years but Andalusians
they are a bit exaggerated and that this
story was going to include our beloved
city of malaga is wondering
but what does this character have to do with
san francisco with malaga
Let me tell you
efe the short that we made to wish won the
festival prize at the festival
notodofilmfest in madrid and the
festival organization invited moses
the divinity pick up the prize
so imagine your charge I do not know
we said in addition to jumping for joy
he told me that curiously Moses had
had a fascination with Spain from
small and he had three wishes to bathe
in the Mediterranean eating an authentic
paella and see in person the guernica of
picasso so imagine this person
directly leaving the house of
street san francisco and landing in the
kitchen of my house here in málaga for
eat it ballon and mother
I can attest that he loved it because
man asked three times and this we are
we in one or two we did
after the binge and just before
that of the managers are all in the
lounge the other play of the universe for
join this man from san francisco
with málaga was Picasso’s guernica
You make me Queen Sophia and I really
that in my life I had seen a person
get excited
in this way in front of a work of art
Moses broke to cry in front of him
guernica and all the people that I am
at that moment when the queen sofia
in the box a reflection of your own
life a life in which a bomb but
of drugs and family pressures
fell directly on top
lost his job his house and finally
his family upon my return to the United States
discover that behind this
artistic sensibility were
incredible musician that we have established
a guitarist with a lot of talent
70s and that he had also played with
People who follow ended up triumphing people
I have with the beatles or the rolling
stones you imagine
in the same way that many met
to my family already known to you all all
those relatives thought that moss was
dead
after 30 years without knowing anything about him
so imagine that moment of
family reunion 30 years later
In Chicago
little by little I was discovering the life of
bassinet and documenting it with my camera
with which he ends up recording six hundred
hours of material over 10 years
600 hours of material over ten
years
during this time we all live the
financial crisis that also accentuates
much more the problem of young people in
U.S
I came to Malaga once a year and saw
how the thing overflowed moratti the
I stop with some incredible indexes
however, I was struck by the
fact that in málaga or in spain I do not
I saw so many people living on the street
despite the financial crisis and every time
that he was returning to the United States and thousands and
thousands of people literally living
in a sleeping bag and I thought but
not because here not and so I knew that
I was looking for an answer that studies
complex and that the history of bassinet
it was just the tip of the iceberg
remember that the things that hit us are
can eat can become a
strong source of inspiration in my case
that constant cultural shock was born something
that we titled stories stories behind
of fog a multimedia platform
that is associated with the movie and
through which we are discovering
documenting
sharing the stories of 100
people who live in the streets of san
Francisco
through these stories we can
understand a little better
why this problem so big that
San Francisco faces United States and
we have also found stories so
incredible that breaks the stereotypes that
almost all of us have about the homeless
among those 100 people we have found
an ugly silicon valley to an ugly
he lost everything and ended up living in
the street to a woman
this woman who being pregnant was
victim of domestic violence had to
leave your house to eat showering and
sleep without anyone knowing the
facebook offices where she
he worked as a security guard
this other woman worked in Hollywood the
great movie industry build two
sets movie sets for
productions as big as matrix
we have found stories of
undocumented immigrants who carry
trapped in the United States 20 30 years
because they can not leave and if they leave
they can go back
we found teachers’ stories
university students with doctorates
backs that live on the street
stories of gay transsexual people
have had to leave the house because
family pressures children’s stories
and teenagers from whole families people
with severe mental problems like
bipolarity schizophrenia like living
in the street they have to go to the
street drugs to be able to continue
ahead
these stories in addition to the plane
staff help us understand a little
more the American system and how this
system so it’s related to the
poverty of the country being a stories of
buses and these want us to be
collecting are the last ten years of
my life you will be wondering but
france good time when they
we are finally avoiding the movie
in order to premiere it very soon
we have 600 hours of military equipment and
we are also combining these
stories in a book that we will publish
next to the release of the movie
remember that the human being always up
the movement and that these movements
migratory are generators of stories
because they involve discoveries that we
they collide and often inspire us
agreed environment that the human being is
the only species we the homo
sapiens the only ones able to observe
reality and tell stories that the
attraction in why today you have me
listened to talk about the homeless to
through the fog
because their stories are hidden
behind prejudice behind
stereotypes and many times behind
our own ignorance of it
way that san francisco hides
behind the fog
we carry is with you to san
francisco if ever landscape
incredible city
this is the lesson that this
Mr. Mockus is the most sincere answer
the question that I asked my grandmother faith
ten years ago but it’s really just
my story a story imagine the
number of people that are migrating by
the world and that in cultural clashes it
find the spark they need to
tell stories from one point of view
different from telling these stories
these people get involved in cultures
that transcend itself and inspire
rest of the world inspire us to understand
and discover so many things between
them that in reality we are all more
united that separated and that we are mirrors
for each other
thank you very much
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