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Chile Earthquake Film

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Daniel Dávila

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Hello Guys

Let me invite you to see the trailer for "03:34" a forthcoming film about last year's earthquake in Chile. It will be premiered next february 27th, one year after the disaster.
It was shot on december on Red One and we are making the post, vfx and color grading.

Hope you like it, thanks!


Greetings, Daniel

http://vimeo.com/18799732
 
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Very well done trailer Daniel...

As you'll also remember, I remember 3:34am on February 27, 2010 really well - in fact too well. Me and my Red camera wildlife production crew were sleeping in a wooden building right on the beach just 3 kilometers north of Constitution - very close to the epicenter of the earthquake!

We suffered through about two minutes of super-violent shaking - impossible to stand, windows breaking, groans and creaks, the ground rolling and rippling, etc. We just knew a tsunami would be coming soon after, so when the shaking stopped we scrambled for our truck, throwing the Red camera and a few things inside, then drove fast off the beach - as the first tsunami crashed ashore right behind us!

We frantically drove down a dirt road which had huge cracks in it, then down a paved highway with huge sink holes, cracks, and tilting sections. We knew we had to get up into the mountains to escape the tsunamis. We turned up one dirt road - but part way up the mountain a huge landslide of trees and boulders suddenly blocked our path. Backing down the road we raced to find another dirt road up into the mountains. We finally found one, and as we raced up it the aftershocks were crumbling the earthen banks next to us. In the moonlight below us we witnessed other tsunamis slamming onto the coast (experts later said there were eight tsunamis ranging in height from 10 meters to 23 meters). We later found out that the earthquake was an 8.8 in intensity - the world's fifth largest earthquake in recorded history. It released some 50 times the energy of the Haiti earthquake of a few months before - and we had been extremely close to it's epicenter.

When it got light we descended into a total disaster zone - sunken roads, massive flooding, village after village destroyed by the quake, or simply washed away by the tsunamis. In Constitution, just below where we were camped, 530 people were killed by the first tsunami - the one which we barely escaped just minutes after the shaking stopped. Our Red camera didn't have any batteries that survived, but we did shoot some incredible still photos and low-resolution video with one of our point and shoot cameras we salvaged.

Our drive back to Santiago was a long, long, long nightmare - roads and bridges out, little food or water, wrong way traffic on the carreterra, aftershocks, etc.

I'd love to see your finished movie Daniel. It will probably cause me to have "flashbacks", as you trailer has, but it will also help me to remember how unfortunate the Chilean people were in suffering through the earthquake and tsunamis, and how fortunate me and my crew were to survive the disaster. My condolences and best wishes go out to the people of Chile - they are true survivors.

Thank you for making your movie...from the trailer it looks like it will be very well done.
 
Thank You Steve for your sensible response, it was a hard experience for us here. I was very worry when it was told in this forum you were in Constitución, and wait long days to hear that you was all right.
The movie is a big production for Chilean cinema, but the idea is to use some of the earnings in help the people of Dichato, one of the towns destroyed by the tsunamis.
Some people here think it's been too close to make a movie of the earthquake, but we want to be there for the first anniversary.
Sadly, the locations weren't difficult to spot, there are lot of places here that are still in ruins, and the people in the south had a hard winter, but we are "used" to these calamities...
From my part, I'm working in getting the strongest images from the 4K material, I hope you can eventually see the finished movie.

Greetings, Daniel
 
Thanks Daniel. That's great that some of the funds will go to the people of Dichato. I think that's excellent - Chilean filmmakers giving some help to some of the people affected by the tsunamis.

I don't think its too close to the disaster date either. premiering the movie on the first anniversary of it is very symbolic. I think its a great day to premier the movie.

I'm way sorry to hear about the slow pace of rebuilding. I think the world never has understood how powerful the earthquake was, how big the tsunamis were, and how widespread the devastation was up and down the Chilean coast. Unfortunately the earthquake in Haiti was still getting most of the press coverage, even after the Chile quake and tsunamis. That's probably because there were many more lives lost in Haiti - but the economic impact of the Chile disaster was absolutely enormous. I wish the very best for the Chile in the recovery efforts.

Gracias para su pelicula buena y bueno suerte con todo
 
WOW!!

Muy Buen Trabajo Daniel, mucha suerte.

And yeah Steve, stil remember that day I got a call form Pam, so worried about you
ben in the middle of it all, take this opportunity to wish best recovery to a normal life
to al of those involved in this tragedy, and rest in peace to those that perished.
 
Excellent, looks captivating. Wonderful work on the trailer.
 
I have heard that you are going to be showing the movie in Dichato on the 27th, do you have any more information about the showing?

The trailer looks really great.
 
Fantastic looking movie...hope to see it one day.
 
Wow this was fast. Normally it takes a couple of years for filmmakers to portray such disasters. but i guess we life in fast times. the trailer looks good and i guess you will find an audience for it. Im not saying it is wrong to do such a thing. But i guess it would be hard for someone who had lost a close friend or relative to see that one year after the disaster a "fictional" film was being shown.
But then again it looks like a well done film.
 
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