Prof gets grant to make film
Eileen Kiza
Issue date: 12/12/06 Section: News
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A Rutgers-Newark Visual and Performing Arts professor has been awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the New York Council on the Arts in order to produce a feature film later this year.
Entitled "Delirio Tropical," which in English means "tropical delirium," the film is "an experimental narrative feature that deals with interpersonal relationships of a couple living in Puerto Rico during the biggest political scandal in the history of the island," Velez said.
"It is a narrative about the lack of honesty at a political and social level as well as on a personal level."
The budget for the project is about $250,000, Velez said. He has already received $12,000 from the NYSCA in order to start his film. The Creative Capital grant is ongoing, meaning he will receive money only when the film progresses.
Velez said he will collaborate with another Puerto Rican writer this winter and begin shooting the feature this Spring.
"I'm really trying to make a work about Puerto Rico that pushes boundaries of what a feature should be like, in terms of form and structure," Velez said. "Unfortunately it will be a film where most people will leave it scratching their heads and wondering. Hopefully a few days later they will understand."
Entitled "Delirio Tropical," which in English means "tropical delirium," the film is "an experimental narrative feature that deals with interpersonal relationships of a couple living in Puerto Rico during the biggest political scandal in the history of the island," Velez said.
"It is a narrative about the lack of honesty at a political and social level as well as on a personal level."
The budget for the project is about $250,000, Velez said. He has already received $12,000 from the NYSCA in order to start his film. The Creative Capital grant is ongoing, meaning he will receive money only when the film progresses.
Velez said he will collaborate with another Puerto Rican writer this winter and begin shooting the feature this Spring.
"I'm really trying to make a work about Puerto Rico that pushes boundaries of what a feature should be like, in terms of form and structure," Velez said. "Unfortunately it will be a film where most people will leave it scratching their heads and wondering. Hopefully a few days later they will understand."
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