LA TUERCA

The Nut

España. 2007. Color. 10 min. Ficción. .
  • Film Director: Azul Melissa Martínez.
  • Scriptwriter: Azul Melissa Martínez.
  • Editing: Azul Melissa Martínez.
  • Art director: Azul Melissa Martínez.
  • Co-production: México
This is the story of a little girl and a nut. It is also the story of a middle-aged woman who has lost all contact with dreams. La Tuerca is about magic, memories and the significance of small things that we sometimes forget when we become adults.

Azul Melissa Martínez
I was born on april 23, 1974. Since I was a little girl I loved movies, I spent thousands of hours watching every movie I could. At scool I participated at several theater plays and I loved to writeall kind of stories. But it wasn't untilñ unuiversity when I entered thye career of visual Arts and Comunication where I could make come true all those stories, because that was the first time I directed my own scripts and participated in several audiovisual projects. After finishing my career I went to Madrid Spain to study Direction and Digital Postproductin and that was the first time I directed my first Short Film "Silencio" and participated on other 12 Short Films in different areas such as Assistant director, Arrt Director, Production, ect...I learned a lot duringthose years and when I finished I returned to Mexico to work for one year in a Production House of Filmaking and publicity called "Cine por Marca" and that was the first time I directed a documentary film professionaly called "Esquizofrenia". In 2006 I come back to Madrid to take a postproduction course and I directed my first Short Film in 16 mm called "La Tuerca" wich is finally postproduced and finished in 2007.