{"id":7314,"date":"2019-04-13T23:57:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T23:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:09:41","slug":"i-didnt-believe-in-the-phantastical-hollywood-stories-about-how-a-director-discovered-an-actor-in-the-street-marieta-ca-ballero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=7314","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI didn\u2019t believe in the phantastical Hollywood stories about how a director discovered an actor in the street\u201d- Marieta Ca-ballero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Marieta was born in Madrid, Spain, where she is\ncurrently based. When she was 9 years old she spent a year in California, where\nshe learnt English. She later returned to study in the United States having\nreceived the ASSIST scholarship to attend The Lawrenceville School when she was\n17. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a producer, Marieta has worked supporting online\ncontent creators and film directors. La Vieja, a short film by youtuber Rush\nSmith that she produced, currently has over 5 million views on the platform.\nShe became interested in the digital audiences and started a YouTube channel in\nEnglish called <\/strong>\u201c<\/strong>Eigengrau\nwhere she shares Making of content about her projects. <\/strong> <\/strong>Marieta\nalso hosts the Meeting de cine, a filmmaker<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>s gathering\nin Spain to share projects, resources and contacts. She has also written (yet\nto be published) her first book <\/strong>\u201cInstinto\nCineasta\u201d <\/strong>that can be translated as <\/strong>\u201c<\/strong>Filmmaker<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>s Instinct<\/strong>\u201d <\/strong>where\nshe gathers the experience of her first 5 years starting out in the industry in\nthe Spanish context, so that other filmmakers can learn how to build their own\ncommunity, find resources to shoot, and avoid being tricked in their first\nsteps in the professional world. <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exclusive Interview with Filmmaker Marieta Caballero<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam: Congratulations on being accepted at the prestigious International\nFilmmaker Festival of New York. Can you tell us about the film and the process\nof making it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emotional Disease is a story that taunts its viewers\ninto thinking about one question: can emotions be considered a disease and why?\n<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fine line between healthy and sick is blurry, as\nit<\/em>\u2019<\/em>s the\ncollective imaginary who dictates how the concept is used and to what it is\napplied to. In different times and in different cultures, sick is attributed to\ndifferent things. In a society where productivity and economic growth seems to\nbe the goal, are emotions a liability? If so, should they be treated as a\ndisease? Parting from this concept, the story of Indigo and Atlas came to life.\n<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film took a year to make. I wrote the screenplay\nin 3 days, but it wasn<\/em>\u2019<\/em>t\nuntil many months later, preparing the crowdfunding campaign, that I achieved\nthe 3000<\/em>\u20ac <\/em>necessary\nto make the film, thanks to 66 backers. Then it took about a month to\npreproduce, a 3 day shoot, and many many months of postproduction to complete. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY\nGlam:<\/strong> How did you go about casting for\nthe film?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is actually an interesting story. The moment I wrote Emotional Disease, I knew it wasn\u2019t going to be easy to make a short film in English in Madrid, as I would have less actors to choose from. I was lucky that Madrid is a very cosmopolitan city, with people coming and going from many places. For the male part, I put together auditions and when I saw Cai Pe\u00f1a, I knew he would be the one to play Atlas. But for Simone Gonzalez-Nagy, it was a very different case. Two weeks into looking for actors, all the actresses whose video books I was receiving didn\u2019t convince me. I walked into a Starbucks to have coffee and I saw her. I thought: wow, she really resembles the character I have in mind. She did look as a foreigner who would probably speak English, but I didn\u2019t believe in the phantastical Hollywood stories about how a director discovered an actor in the street. Yet I was so moved and motivated by finding my character that I went to talk to her. She turned out to be from the United States and accepted to audition for me. She sent me the best tape, and in the auditions she was by far the best actress for the part. It was pure coincidence, but I am very lucky to have had Simone play Indigo in Emotional Disease.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n