THE SPANISH ROOM Teaser Trailer Now Available Online
Incredible Films announces that the first teaser trailer for Christopher Michael Roybal’s new feature film, THE SPANISH ROOM, is now available to watch online here: http://vimeo.com/7913324
THE SPANISH ROOM is a feature length documentary about Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, based out of the National Institute of Flamenco in downtown Albuquerque, NM. The film focuses primarily on the extensive time and effort that goes into producing one of Yjastros’ amazing shows, while also focusing on the many dedicated local people who give so much of their lives to improve their communities through flamenco. THE SPANISH ROOM is scheduled to premier Spring 2010.
More information about THE SPANISH ROOM will be made available on the Incredible Films website as the premiere approaches.
DESCANSOS Encore Screening to Benefit Peace & Justice Center
Incredible Films announces an encore benefit screenings of the feature film DESCANSOS at the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice on November 5, 2009 at 7 p.m. Donations will be collected during the screening, with all proceeds going to support the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice.
DESCANSOS consists of eight vignettes about love, loss and death and the many steps we take in between. The story spans all the way across northern New Mexico, from Albuquerque to Taos and finally ending in the small village of Chimayo and at its sacred church, El Santuario. DESCANSOS revolves around why people make the Lenten pilgrimage every year to El Santuario and what the many roadside shrines known as descansos actually stand for. DESCANSOS is unrated; it contains some adult language subject matter.
DESCANSOS was written, directed, filmed, and edited by Chris Roybal. In 2006, Roybal graduated with honors from the University of Southern California and then promptly relocated back to New Mexico. Over the past three years, Roybal has written and directed various films in New Mexico through his production company, Incredible Films.
This past year, Roybal was named Best Local Artist and DESCANSOS was named Best Locally Produced Film or TV Show Shot in New Mexico Last Year by the Weekly Alibi. Roybal previously held a benefit screening of DESCANSOS for the Peace and Justice Center at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque this past August.
“DESCANSOS is a 100% independent, New Mexican film,” said Roybal. “Unlike many films that only use New Mexico as a backdrop for somewhere else, DESCANSOS proudly showcases the fact that the film could not take place anywhere else in the world. The film was completed by volunteers and completely locally funded; a true testament to the talented and generous people that make up our beautiful state. In short, I created DESCANSOS to both celebrate our particular New Mexico culture and the bonds of love and loss that unite all us regardless of where we live or what we do.”
“It is my particular honor to once again help support the efforts of the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice. I encourage everyone to attend the screening and in the process learn more about the all positive being done at and thr0ugh the Center.”
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DESCANSOS Encore Peace & Justice Benefit Screening
Thursday, November 5, 2009
7 p.m.
Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice
202 Harvard SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Donations will be collected during screening.
Camera Operators Needed for Feature Documentary
Incredible Films LLC and Writer-Director Chris Roybal - DESCANSOS (2009), LA DOLCE (2006) and OUR FIRST GOODBYE (2006) - is searching for 10 camera operators with HD equipment to assist him during production of his next feature-length documentary project, THE SPANISH ROOM. The film features Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company based out of the National Institute of Flamenco in Albuquerque, NM.
Roybal is looking for shooters with HD video cameras, preferably the Panasonic HVX200 or Canon XH-A1.
Shooters will be utilized primarily on October 17, 2009 to help cover a live flamenco performance at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM. Professionals and experienced amateurs are encouraged to apply.
Shooters will receive copy and credit as compensation. Please contact Incredible Films at theincrediblefilms@gmail.com if interested or for more information; please include resume and links to your work, in available.
Join Incredible Films New Talent Database
Incredible Films and Writer-Director Chris Roybal - DESCANSOS (2009), LA DOLCE (2006) and OUR FIRST GOODBYE (2006) - are creating a database of talent for their future productions.
Roybal was recently named Best Local Artist and DESCANSOS was named Best Locally Produced Film or TV Show Shot in New Mexico Last Year by the Weekly Alibi.
Roybal is searching for talent for upcoming short films, music videos and photo shoots. Professional and amateur actors, musicians and models are encouraged to create a profile online through Incredible Film’s Premier Talent Database available here: http://incrediblefilms.ning.com. Incredible Films will utilize this database to cast future projects and to recommend talent for other projects Incredible Films is associated with. Instructions for how to create a profile can be found on the site’s homepage.
“I encourage everyone who is even remotely interested in working with myself and Incredible Films to join our new online community,” said Roybal. “This new database will be invaluable for finding new talent and should eliminate much of the need to hold live casting calls for our smaller productions. We are dedicated to creating the premier database for New Mexico talent that will showcase the many gifted local people who are ready and willing to work. Please help us do so.”
DESCANSOS Screening to Benefit Peace & Justice Center
Incredible Films announces a special benefit screenings of the feature film DESCANSOS at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque on August 22, 2009 at 1 p.m. All proceeds will go to support the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice.
DESCANSOS consists of eight vignettes about love, loss and death and the many steps we take in between. The story spans all the way across northern New Mexico, from Albuquerque to Taos and finally ending in the small village of Chimayo and at its sacred church, El Santuario. DESCANSOS revolves around why people make the Lenten pilgrimage every year to El Santuario and what the many roadside shrines known as descansos actually stand for. DESCANSOS is unrated; it contains some adult language subject matter.
DESCANSOS was written, directed, filmed, and edited by Chris Roybal. In 2006, Roybal graduated with honors from the University of Southern California and then promptly relocated back to New Mexico. Over the past three years, Roybal has written and directed various films in New Mexico through his production company, Incredible Films.
Roybal was recently named Best Local Artist and DESCANSOS was named Best Locally Produced Film or TV Show Shot in New Mexico Last Year by the Weekly Alibi.
“DESCANSOS is a 100% independent, New Mexican film,” said Roybal. “Unlike many films that only use New Mexico as a backdrop for somewhere else, DESCANSOS proudly showcases the fact that the film could not take place anywhere else in the world. The film was completed by volunteers and completely locally funded; a true testament to the talented and generous people that make up our beautiful state. In short, I created DESCANSOS to both celebrate our particular New Mexico culture and the bonds of love and loss that unite all us regardless of where we live or what we do.”
“It is my particular honor to be able to help support the efforts of the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice. I encourage everyone to learn more about Center even if they cannot attend the screening. The Center deserves and can always use the support.”
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DESCANSOS Peace & Justice Benefit Screening
Saturday, August 22, 2009
1 p.m.
Guild Cinema
3405 Central Ave NE
Albuquerque, NM 87106-1431
Tickets: $7
Available at the Center for Peace and Justice or at the door.
Listen to Chris Roybal on “Inside The Artist Studio” Radio Show
Filmmaker Chris Roybal will be featured on Rich Nichols’ “Inside The Artist Studio” radio show on Thursday, May 14 at 1:00 p.m. on AM 1340 KVOT in Taos, NM. Roybal will talk about his latest film DESCANSOS during the hour-long program.
Visit KVOT online for more information at http://1340kvot.com.
Right to Remember
Santa Fe New Mexican
Letters to Editor
April 20, 2009
Regarding “No rest for descansos debate” (March 29): I was mentioned in a letter concerning the feature film, Descansos, which I recently premiered.
After spending more than two years of my life on the subject, I’ve learned this: descansos are left more for the people who remain behind than for the people who go ahead.
We see the descansos and are comforted by the idea that someone will remember us when we, too, are gone.
In this way, the meaning of descansos is to live your life in a way that is worth remembering; be descanso-worthy, if you may.
We can argue about freedom of expression. We can argue about separation of church and state.
But what I believe cannot be argued is this fact: We all deserve to be remembered. And if descansos help us remember that, bueno.
Chris Roybal
Writer-Director DESCANSOS
Espanola
Pasa Pics - Descansos
Robert Nott
Pasatiempo
April 17 - 23, 2009
DESCANSOS
Two Chiles of Four (Mild)
Chris Roybal’s heartfelt but overlong paean to the personal and spiritual pilgrimages we all make in the face of loss is an appropriate closing show for The Film Center, which is leaving its current locale and temporarily relocating to the New Mexico Film Museum later this month. It’s a compilation of eight stories set in and around Chimayo featuring characters who seek to move forward despite tragedy. The script is too talky, the acting is all over the place, and the film as a static, stage-play feel to it. But a couple of the tales - notably one about a man who visits his dead girlfriend in her grave and another about a gay man who confronts his lover’s murderer - are poignantly successful. Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, only. Not rated. 140 minutes. The Film Center, Santa Fe.
Santa Fe Reporter: Screener
Patricia Sauthoff
Anthony Buchanan
Santa Fe Reporter
April 15-21, 2009
SFR PICK
Descansos chronicles the long and famous pilgrimage to Chimayo that New Mexicans still make annually to worship at El Santuario. Roadside shrines that echo death and rebirth are the traveler’s companion as they journey through New Mexico to arrive at a spiritual home.
DESCANSOS DVD and Soundtrack sales to Benefit SMHS Extended
Incredible Films has extended the time frame in which a portion of the profits from all DESCANSOS DVD and Soundtrack sales will go to the St. Michael’s High School Alumni Scholarship Fund.
“Instead of continuing with our original three-day plan, we are extending the benefit to run for the entire week of April 15 through April 21,” said writer-director Chris Roybal. “I want to make a very conscious and visible effort to support St. Michael’s, and I encourage others to do the same. It is my privilege to use DESCANSOS to help one of the educational institutions that helped me get where I am today.”
DESCANSOS DVD’s and Soundtracks are available through the Incredible Films website.