Alphabet Luxury
Description :
“My body, the vessel that I have taken care of so conscientiously, is my ultimate betrayer and my ultimate ally.”
Luxury Alphabet is a deeply personal exploration of identity and the array of emotions revealed throughout the process of suffering breast cancer. Written and directed by Lorena Medina, the cancer experience is expressed as a stream of consciousness, through a mix media approach written in a somewhat alphabetical order, and depicted in a series of scenes of individuals, choreographies, animations and AI that connect as metaphors or analogies of the emotional overload of living with a life threatening, long term illness.
Anchored by the desire to give visibility to the feelings that emerge in the cancer journey, each scene navigates through the timeline of the emotional process, flowing towards the awakening of a woman that is forced to let go of the person she was and start welcoming the possibilities of who she can become.
Medina says: I dealt with my illness with a lot of humour, positive attitude and strength. But the moment I was released from frequent care and didn't have to go to the hospital on a weekly basis, a different truth hit me. What the fuck just happened to me? I woke up in the middle of the night with this question, and soon after I started writing about the real emotions that lay underneath the positive surface I needed to survive.
Credits :
Alphabet Luxury
Produced by Smile @smile________tv
Co-Produced by Reverie Content @reverie.content RSA @rsafilms
A Adrià Calvo - Key Grip Adriuh Arvizu - Project Manager at Hola Combo Ainara Trigueros - 1st AD @ainaratrigueros Alba Pedreira - 2nd Assistant Camera @albapedreira Albert Marcet - Director letter B Animation @charmed_snake Alberto Ojeda - Steadycam Operator @aos.camera Albert Piñana - Spark @albertpinana Alejandra Plans - Production Manager @ale_padt Alvaro Weber - Managing Director and Executive Producer @alvaroweber Andrea Achinte - Assistant Make Up @andrea.achinte Anna Iaccheo - Actress letter Z @annaiac_ Antonio - Location Assistant Arnau Blanch - Art Assistant @arnau_blanch Artic - Post Production, Online, Color Grading, Compositing, Sound Mix @artic_pospo Aura Sosa - Translation to Spanish @nycwindow
B BCN Props - Prop Rental Berta Models - Talent Agency @bertamodels Berta Molina - Video Assistant @bertasilenceplease Blackbee - Catering @blackbee.es Boudika - Production Service Tenerife @boudika_productions
C Capítulo Dos Lab - Wardrobe Rental @capitulodoslab Casa Kubrick - Location @casakubrick Casting Singular - Casting @castingsingular Check The Gate - DIT Chris Martin - Director letter Q Animation @mr_chrismartin Clara Casanovas - Production Assistant Claudia Sposaro - Catering (Blackbee) @colocook CLR - Camera & Grip Rental Costume - Wardrobe Rental @costume_thestylistroom Cristina Español - Executive Producer @mghrn
D David y Eva - Bus Rental Doméstico - Prop Rental Dominique Aizpurua - Production Designer @chez_dominique
E Edu Olavide - Producer
F Federico Albanese - Music Fifth Models - Talent Agency @fifthmodels Francisco Felices - Gaffer Francisco Berjillos - Spark François Vogel - Director letter S @francois.vogel Frankenstein Studio - Casting @franksteinstudio
G Gabriela Badillo - Animation, Production, Coordination at Hola Combo @holacombo Gacy Sarubbi - Art director Assistant, Props Master and Actress letter L @gacysarubbi
H Hola Combo - Animation, Design, Post on scenes C, G, Myself @holacombo
I In Extremis - VFX @inextremisfilmservices Ivan Tikas - Art Assistant @ivantikas Izaskun Montilla - Producer Tenerife @boudika_productions
J Jaume Ponsa - Color Grading @jaume_ponsa_color Javier Lagmaniere - BTS @lamaignerejavier.film Javier Puente - Unit Manager Javier Sales - Transport Captain Jesús Estarregui - Spark Joan Collet - Production Assistant Juan Carlos Dávila - VFX @inextremisfilmservices
L Lali Font - Actress letter I @lalifontzheng Lina Frank - 2nd AD Liza Marie Vermoot - Actress letters F and W @lisamarievervoort Location Support - Production Support Lorena Medina - Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Voice @lorenaipsum Lucas Nolla - Editor @sprinkler_lab Lucy Lenox - Casting Director (Frankenstein Studios) @luci_lenox
M Maite Nogueras - Production Assistant Manu Rastrollo - Compositing-Fx @manurastrollo Marcos Martínez - Sound Design, Mix @artic_pospo Maria Anna Serrat - Compositing-Fx @artic_pospo Mateus Andersen - Actor letter R Marc García - Art Assistant Marc Miró - Cinematographer @marcmiro Marga Sardà - Actress letter G @marghsarda Marta Blanc - Actress letters A and R @marta_blanc MPE - Risk Assistant
N Nicolas Parrilla - Casting Coordinator Nicol di Maso - DIT Norma Massip - Casting Director (Casting Singular) @castingsingular
O On Loc - Truck Rental On Set Studio - Wardrobe Rental Otti Ramírez - Wardrobe Stylist @xxotti
P Paula Barjau - Assistant Stylist @paulabarjau
Q Quadis Rent A Car - Van Rental
R Ramona Martínez - Actress letter Y @ramonacuervo Ricardo Gómez - Actor letter N @ricc_dominguez Rodrigo Ecco - Catering (Blackbee) @blackbee.es
S Sandra Ordóñez - Make Up Artist @sandratosca Santiago Nadal - Actor letter E @iacnadal Sergi Guzman - Actor letter H @jayyysees SIP - Sparks Company Smile Media - Production Company @ smile________tv Sobirah Ceesay - Actor letter P @soribahceesay Special Thanks - Alvaro, Jonás, Edu Cado, Dominique, Gacy, Otti, Margarita, Kata, Sarah Gessler, La Madre que parió a Otti, La Madre que parió a Gacy, Steph, Stéphane, Damiano, Rich, Gabs y Manu Rastrollo Streaming On Set - Wireless & Streaming @streamingonset
T Teo Guillem - Director letter K @teo_tello Toni Garreta - Actor letter E @tonigarreta
V Vicente Villaamil - Graphic Design @artic_pospo
X Xavi Giner - Compositing-Fx @artic_pospo Xavi Morón - Streaming Xenia Pinto - Focus Puller @xenia.pinto
Z Zeferino - Lights Rental @zeferinolights