Big in Brazil! New feature interview with our director

Just because we've been quiet for a few weeks (OK, months...) doesn't mean the world has forgotten about dear Julio and our beautiful little project.

Just last week it was his 100th Birthday celebration - and countries all over Latin America and Europe put out news, parties and commemorations for the Great Cronopio.

And during all the hooplah, a gigantic newspaper in Brazil - O Globo - decided to pick up the phone, and give me a call. They wanted to know more about Julio and Carol, and the tragic love story between these two wonderful writers.

If you don't speak Portuguese get out Google translate: 

http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/livros/diretor-canadense-prepara-filme-sobre-historia-de-amor-de-cortazar-carol-dunlop-13696987

And Argentina Keeps Cooking:

If that wasn't enough – good old Poll was also featured in an article in our patron homeland of Argentina. The Porteños own Cortazar after all. No wonder they cant stop talking about our film.  Here's what they had to say about our film (this time in Spanish):

http://www.diariopublicable.com/especiales/2797-tea.html

Happy reading, les petits cronoppes!

We did it! 100% funded on IndieGogo

What an exciting finish - with hours to spare we went over the top and hit our target. The $12,500 we raised is what enabled us to travel to Europe to shoot our key interviews -- it's also what is keeping this modest filmmaker alive as we work on our teasers, the pitch and our quest to build the dream team to make this project come alive!

Thank you so much to everyone who pitched in by sharing, joining our Facebook page and of course by contributing!

All the prizes and rewards will start getting sorted out after Hot Docs!

Much love

Tobin

Paris, Marseille, and home again: shooting wraps up for the new Cortazar documentary

We've been silent on the blog front for the last two weeks because it's hard to write when you have a camera, a stack of letters and a 1970's VW in your hands!

We just wrapped up an amazingly successful shooting mission for our new Cortazar documentary all over France - from meeting ex-Cosmoroute adventures, to thousands of Cortazar fans at the Salon du Livres in Paris, to strolling the Seine and reuniting Stephane (Carol's son) with the long lost Fafner, all the way to the bottom of the Cosmoroute, where Raquel, Serre and the ghosts of the Marseille conquistadores continue to thrive… some in the strangest, oddest ways. We found dragons. We made epic 360 stedicam shots. We found a girl who looked like Carol and came on the road with us. We changed people's lives, putting the past in their hands, and seeing what happens. It was emotional. It was exhilarating. It was … exhausting!

It's damn good to be home in Toronto and gearing up for Hot Docs -- who's going to be there? We can't wait to see the Canadian talent and meet industry players from all over the world. Let's hope we are showing here next year! 

Tobin

Cult Montreal talks about Carol Dunlop, forgotten Canadian genius

An excerpt from Cult Montreal's piece on the research and origin's of our Cortazar documentary:

If you’re not a literary buff, the name Julio Cortázar may not mean much.But by those who are familiar with his work, he has been called a “modern master of the short story,” and is known as one of the major figures of the Latin American Boom of the ‘60s and ‘70s. In the late ‘70s, he fell in love with Carol Dunlop, an American writer, translator and photographer who lived and worked in Montreal.

Dunlop served as Cortázar’s muse and the pair wrote a book together, Autonauts of the Cosmoroute, during a road trip through France. While Cortázar and his writing have staked out a secure spot in history, Dunlop has faded into the background — she’s remembered in relation to her famous husband, and for her tragic death.

Tobin Dalrymple has set out to tell her story and unearth more about Dunlop and her life in Montreal with his documentary Julio & Carol. We spoke to him last week about the film’s development and his research process.

Read the rest here!

 http://cultmontreal.com/2014/03/new-doc-explores-a-forgotten-montreal-genius/#sthash.rKdjFqnr.dpuf