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Pavel Giroud is a Actor and Director Cubain born on 1973
Pavel Giroud is a film director. He studied design and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Diseño (High Institute of Design) ten years ago.
He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time. He then began to paint, working with the basic plastic arts and incorporating video in his work.
Gradually he managed to accompany his paintings with video installations, emphasizing on irony. Fake TV spots, fake narrative films... Then irony got the upper hand. The advertising business was beginning to take off in Cuba and someone from an ad agency approached Giroud about making a film for a Cigar brand. He accepted, and discovered he liked advertising. When People saw his videos, they told Pavel he was a “gifted storyteller” and encouraged him to try his hand at cinema. With the money from his ad work he started making short films.
Pavel Giroud had to do everything – from image to sound – when he directed his first short film. He even featured his friends in his movies, rather than professional actors.
The only film poster he has allowed in his apartment is the one for Todo por Ella, which he made with five friends in 2002. "That film really opened doors for me," he recalls gratefully. Most importantly it led to the excellent 3x2, which won the prize for best first film at the 2004 Montreal Film Festival. "3x2" was a joint effort among three young directors, Giroud along with Lester Hamlet and Esteban Insausti. Each had 30 minutes to portray a love affair. The film opens with Giroud's "Flash", set in modern-day Havana, where a photographer becomes infatuated with a 1950s fashion model. “It wasn’t a massive hit but it made us feel good and made us feel like we were making a real picture”. From there on, Pavel decided to focus his career on cinema.
Pavel Giroud only filmed what he wrote, until he read the script of the movie La edad de la peseta, written by Arturo Infante, a young screenwriter and director. “When I first read the script, I didn’t see in this movie the possibility to express myself as a director”. However, he gradually and simply fell in love with the script and the movie, “Now, I tell Arturo that it’s my film not his, and that he should forget he wrote it…” He finished "La Edad de la Peseta", in 2006. It's the story of a ten-year-old boy ("the silly age" of the title) who enters puberty just as his country's Revolution is getting under way. When film critics saw the movie, they named Pavel, the “new Cuban Truffaut”.
Giroud went back to his script duties for his most recent film, to be called Omerta. It's the story of a man who works as a bodyguard for one of Havana's big mobsters in the 1940s and becomes obsolete after the Revolution. "It's a story about ageing, and the art of ageing," Giroud says. And for some reason this makes him smile.
Giroud steers clear of artistic arrogance with natural ease. Probably because he is at heart a genuine artist. “I believe all my films, all my work reflects the reality of Cuba because it reflects my own reality as someone who lives in Cuba and it mirrors my concerns as a citizen of this country, as an individual. I cannot think of anywhere better than Cuba”.
Puis Pavel se tourne vers le cinéma, et en particulier la réalisation de courts-métrages. Pour son premier court-métrage, Pavel Giroud fait tout lui-même, du travail de l’image à celui du son. Il engage quelques amis pour jouer dans ses films, plutôt que de faire appel à des acteurs professionnels.
La seule affiche de film présente dans son appartement est celle de Todo por Ella, un court-métrage de fiction qu'il a réalisé avec cinq amis en 2002. Le film, qui raconte l’histoire de Sergio, étudiant brillant et cocaïnomane, connaît un franc succès à sa sortie.
Ensuite, Pavel Giroud passe à la réalisation de Tres Veces Dos, qui remporte le prix du meilleur 1er film au festival de Montréal en 2004. Tres Veces Dos est né d’une collaboration entre trois jeunes réalisateurs : Pavel Giroud, Lester Hamlet et Esteban Insausti, chacun disposant de 30 minutes pour mettre en images une histoire d'amour. Pour l’occasion, Pavel imagine Flash, une histoire d’amour passionnelle entre un photographe et un mannequin des années 1950, avec pour toile de fond La Havane.
Pavel Giroud écrit toujours les scénarios de ses films, jusqu’à ce qu’Arturo Infante, alors jeune scénariste et réalisateur, lui fasse lire le scénario de son projet La Edad de la Peseta.
Au début réticent, Pavel Giroud est finalement séduit par le scénario et décide en 2006 de le porter à l’écran. Le film, qui raconte l'histoire d'un jeune garçon de dix ans (« l'âge bête » comme le veut le titre) au moment de la révolution, a valu à Pavel Giroud d’être surnommé par les critiques le « Truffaut cubain ».
Pavel Giroud reprend son métier de scénariste pour son film, Omertá sorti en 2008. L’ensemble de son œuvre reflète la réalité de Cuba, et donc sa propre réalité.
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Pavel Giroud
He first worked as a designer, but for a very short period of time. He then began to paint, working with the basic plastic arts and incorporating video in his work.
Gradually he managed to accompany his paintings with video installations, emphasizing on irony. Fake TV spots, fake narrative films... Then irony got the upper hand. The advertising business was beginning to take off in Cuba and someone from an ad agency approached Giroud about making a film for a Cigar brand. He accepted, and discovered he liked advertising. When People saw his videos, they told Pavel he was a “gifted storyteller” and encouraged him to try his hand at cinema. With the money from his ad work he started making short films.
Pavel Giroud had to do everything – from image to sound – when he directed his first short film. He even featured his friends in his movies, rather than professional actors.
The only film poster he has allowed in his apartment is the one for Todo por Ella, which he made with five friends in 2002. "That film really opened doors for me," he recalls gratefully. Most importantly it led to the excellent 3x2, which won the prize for best first film at the 2004 Montreal Film Festival. "3x2" was a joint effort among three young directors, Giroud along with Lester Hamlet and Esteban Insausti. Each had 30 minutes to portray a love affair. The film opens with Giroud's "Flash", set in modern-day Havana, where a photographer becomes infatuated with a 1950s fashion model. “It wasn’t a massive hit but it made us feel good and made us feel like we were making a real picture”. From there on, Pavel decided to focus his career on cinema.
Pavel Giroud only filmed what he wrote, until he read the script of the movie La edad de la peseta, written by Arturo Infante, a young screenwriter and director. “When I first read the script, I didn’t see in this movie the possibility to express myself as a director”. However, he gradually and simply fell in love with the script and the movie, “Now, I tell Arturo that it’s my film not his, and that he should forget he wrote it…” He finished "La Edad de la Peseta", in 2006. It's the story of a ten-year-old boy ("the silly age" of the title) who enters puberty just as his country's Revolution is getting under way. When film critics saw the movie, they named Pavel, the “new Cuban Truffaut”.
Giroud went back to his script duties for his most recent film, to be called Omerta. It's the story of a man who works as a bodyguard for one of Havana's big mobsters in the 1940s and becomes obsolete after the Revolution. "It's a story about ageing, and the art of ageing," Giroud says. And for some reason this makes him smile.
Giroud steers clear of artistic arrogance with natural ease. Probably because he is at heart a genuine artist. “I believe all my films, all my work reflects the reality of Cuba because it reflects my own reality as someone who lives in Cuba and it mirrors my concerns as a citizen of this country, as an individual. I cannot think of anywhere better than Cuba”.
Biography
Pavel Giroud sort diplômé de l’Instituto Superior de Diseño (Institut Supérieur de Design). Il travaille d’abord quelques années comme designer, avant de se consacrer à la peinture, puis en intégrant la vidéo dans son travail. Progressivement, il associe peinture et installations vidéos, en détournant, entre autres, de fausses publicités télévisuelles. Le marché de la publicité commençant à émerger à Cuba, une agence sollicite Pavel pour la réalisation d’une publicité pour vanter une marque de cigares. Il accepte l’offre.Puis Pavel se tourne vers le cinéma, et en particulier la réalisation de courts-métrages. Pour son premier court-métrage, Pavel Giroud fait tout lui-même, du travail de l’image à celui du son. Il engage quelques amis pour jouer dans ses films, plutôt que de faire appel à des acteurs professionnels.
La seule affiche de film présente dans son appartement est celle de Todo por Ella, un court-métrage de fiction qu'il a réalisé avec cinq amis en 2002. Le film, qui raconte l’histoire de Sergio, étudiant brillant et cocaïnomane, connaît un franc succès à sa sortie.
Ensuite, Pavel Giroud passe à la réalisation de Tres Veces Dos, qui remporte le prix du meilleur 1er film au festival de Montréal en 2004. Tres Veces Dos est né d’une collaboration entre trois jeunes réalisateurs : Pavel Giroud, Lester Hamlet et Esteban Insausti, chacun disposant de 30 minutes pour mettre en images une histoire d'amour. Pour l’occasion, Pavel imagine Flash, une histoire d’amour passionnelle entre un photographe et un mannequin des années 1950, avec pour toile de fond La Havane.
Pavel Giroud écrit toujours les scénarios de ses films, jusqu’à ce qu’Arturo Infante, alors jeune scénariste et réalisateur, lui fasse lire le scénario de son projet La Edad de la Peseta.
Au début réticent, Pavel Giroud est finalement séduit par le scénario et décide en 2006 de le porter à l’écran. Le film, qui raconte l'histoire d'un jeune garçon de dix ans (« l'âge bête » comme le veut le titre) au moment de la révolution, a valu à Pavel Giroud d’être surnommé par les critiques le « Truffaut cubain ».
Pavel Giroud reprend son métier de scénariste pour son film, Omertá sorti en 2008. L’ensemble de son œuvre reflète la réalité de Cuba, et donc sa propre réalité.
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Juan of the Dead (2011)
, 1h32Origin Espagne
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Andrea Duro, Pavel Giroud
Rating63%
Juan (Alexis Díaz de Villegas) is forty years old and has devoted the majority of his life to living in Cuba doing absolutely nothing. He is accompanied by his bumbling sidekick, Lazaro (Jorge Molina), who is just as lazy but the bigger fool (and accident-prone), on a makeshift fishing raft. Their line snags what they think is a corpse but it suddenly awakens and attacks them, ending with Lazaro shooting it in the head with his spear gun. They think nothing of it at first and go about their business as usual, which involves thuggish activity and associating with their less than reputable friends: Lazaro's vain, Americanized pretty-boy son Vladi California; drag queen La China, who is also an expert slingshot marksman; and China's black, hulk-like lover Primo (who faints at the sight of blood and has to wear a blindfold when fighting).
