Dulcinea wouldn't have been a movie without the help of almost a hundred people from different nationalities. American, Spanish, French, Brazilian... Form the cast to the crew, we felt like a story about traveling should have the input of people from everywhere in order to keep the reality and truth

I think the funniest thing about this movie is that it started as a game. My friend Steven and I had always joked about the idea of making a movie on our own, mostly with our friends, for the fun of it while we both waited for our careers to move forward. What happened after that is part of our lives now and forever.

 

DULCINEA is a story of love. A modern fairytale about a man so desperate to end his life that he will travel around the world with the objective to find his own Dulcinea following the path of his hero: Don Quixote. 

 

It has always been in the back of my mind how the city where I’m from, Madrid, has never been portrayed in the romantic way that I see it. Other cities such as Paris or Rome are often called “cities of Love”, and I believe Madrid should be included there. My life has been divided across 10.000 miles and Dulcinea’s purpose is to show a man’s journey to find love across the world. A man that has no identity and it’s so lost on his own perception of reality that is unable to focus on the good he has by his side.

 

 

Think about Woody Allen, think about Midnight in Paris, think about Ruby Sparks, think about any modern fairytale with a twist of reality and rawness that distances itself from the usual hollywood topics. Think about an international independent movie that ties together the worlds of Los Angeles and Madrid. Think about an idealisation of Love. That is Dulcinea. 

 

 

The goal to this project was to let fantasy and reality mix into an unforgettable blend. All of us are firm believers on love stories and our objective was to show people what happens when someone reaches a limit. Similar to what happen to Don Quixote, a man so obsessed to find love that he ended up wasting his life and diriving everybody around him crazy. Connor, our protagonist, could pretty much be a modern day Don Quixote, looking to live his own adventures after his life has been completely shattered by him. 

 

At the end. we visited 12 different cities, 3 different countries and 5 different states inside the US making this movie, a process that lasted 9 long months of shooting. As I said, it all started as a game, and it quickly transformed into something real. 

 

 

We are currently at our last stages of post-production. Dulcinea has already been edited and we are only missing our sound design, music and color correction! It was 1 year ago when Steven and David started working on this project and it is slowly coming to an end. In a month we are flying back to Spain to finish some of the post-production work at some studios in Madrid, it's going to be a blast!

We are looking into creating a killer sound and music design. As a magic realism movie, music and sound are two of the most important aspects when it comes to creating the world and making sure that all the pieces fit together. 

We are licensing some very well known jazz and blues songs that will be featured in the movie. We believe that our old-school magic style will be given thorugh the music, tunes that resemble the past and that deal with nostalgia. 

Right after the sound design, we are going to finish our movie in a beautiful DCP so that when the movie is being enjoyed in the theater, people can see it with the best possible quality!