Official Selection to the Once a Week Online Film Festival 2011
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Feudal Lord Galindo de Oroel must fight a duel against a neighbouring Nobleman. His wife Auria is about to give birth to their first child. Both have prayed for a favourable outcome but can both prayers be answered?
Cast:
Diaco - Niccolo Cancellieri
Auria - Janneke Willemse
Galindo - Rey Agaoglu
Aznar - Mishael Lopes Cardozo
Midwife - Yvonne Smit
Handmaid - Juliette Koesen
CREW
Director/ Writer - Rey Agaoglu
Producers - Yvonne Smit, Rey Agaoglu
Music/sound - Herman Witkam
Cameras - Michiel Thijssen, Rey Agaoglu
Lighting/grip - Huub Bos, Juliette Koesen
Costumes - Margriet Bijvoets, Monique Vreeling
Stunts - Kenneth Smolders
Add. voices - Tamara Bok, Annelies Kersten
Color Grading - Judith de Boer
Film is shot in Belgium and Spain.
The Accu Films independent short film "La Ordalia" with Niccolo Cancellieri, Janneke Willemse and Mishael Lopes Cardozo. Written and Directed by Rey Agaoglu. Featuring Original Music by Herman Witkam. Sounddesign and Foley by Ronnie van der Veer and Andre Philips. Color Grading Judith de Boer. 2011 Accu Films.
Produced in Amsterdam, Holland but shot in Aragon, Spain and Gent, Belgium.
Feudal Lord Galindo de Oroel must fight a duel with a neighboring nobleman to settle a longstanding dispute. Diaco, Don Galindo's loyal squire, receives what he interprets to be a sign from God ensuring a favorable outcome to the duel. However when the duel commences Galindo's pregnant wife Auria prays for divine intervention to ensure her child will survive. Willing to sacrifice her own life for a living son she places God in an awkward dilemma... Can both prayers be answered? Or should God trade one life for another?
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
Rey Agaoglu is a former History student and illustrator who makes his directorial debut with the film La Ordalia. He has invested his own money and taken on many mantels: from writing to making the costumes in order to get this film completed.
Played at the 2011 Rome Independent Film Festival
Since its first edition in 2001, RIFF has become an event that is
followed with more and more interest by the public in Rome and a reference
for worldwide filmmakers. In these years, the Riff has received
works coming from the 5 continents, ending up being an attentive witness
representative of the directions and passions of the independent
film industry. An international vocation that has found expression in
the right choice during the film selection (giving priority to national and
international preview). There was therefore no coincidence in the fact
that the feature film winners of the latest editions were foreign films.
Just to mention few of them, the North American "Self Medicated" by
Monty Lapic in 2006, the Italian-American "Punk Love" by Nick Lyon
in 2007 and in 2008 the Estonian "The Class" by Imar Raag. The last
two editions of the RIFF, won by two great directors such as Steve
McQueen, "Hunger" (2008) and Andrea Arnold with "Fish Tank", have
engendered particular interest among critics and public. An international
soul that has given to the RIFF the opportunity not to focus only on
a specific issue but to use the dialogue, research and film experimentation
as identikit of the festival.
Each anniversary, likewise this tenth anniversary, brings a wealth of
emotions. An emotional flow that begins with the incoming of new
works to be selected (an average of more than 1000 every year ) that
increases when, in the movie theater, you meet lot of people, actors
and directors, who represent the reality of the cinema industry. But
the greatest reward comes when films selected at the RIFF receive
awards and international success. "West Bank Story" by Ari Sandel,
for example, an amazing short film selected in the 2005 edition, won
the Oscar for best short film in 2007.
"Scent "of the Oscar there was also for the film selected in 2006, "Kiss
by Winter" by Sara Johnsen, nominated for the Oscar in Norway. The
2005 festival saw as opening film "Omaha", a film about the Real IRA
by Pete Travis, the talented director who has signed in 2008 with a
stellar cast "Vantage Point". Several shorts that have been scheduled
have then been awarded with "David di Donatello", among others,
"Lotta libera" by Stefano Viali, "Aria" by Claudio Noce "Uerra" by Paolo
Sassanelli. Among the documentaries there were important titles too.
As an example for all the documentary "Crude" by Joe Berlinger, who
first made public the environmental disaster caused by Chevron in
Ecuador. It was presented at the RIFF as European premiere in 2008
and it is a news of few weeks ago that Chevron has been condemned,
also thanks to the international relevance of the complaint campaign
launched by "Crude", to pay 9 billion dollars in compensation.
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morcaman 4 months ago
I'm not associated with this vid, but I thought I'd address some of the gripes:
1: no one deflects any swords with bare hands. There are some step-in, redirects of the attacks, which is a legitimate technique. Step-in to 'diffuse' the power of the attack and use their momentum to redirect. 5:00
2: At close range, you can't really use a sword as intended, so using it as a choking weapon is your best option.
3: Aren't most signs from God are in the eye of the beholder?
gabrielsburg 5 months ago
I'm sorry, but how is the sun shining through the clouds a sign of god??
also a sword cannot be deflected with bare hands & it isn't for strangling, it's for stabbing & cutting,
EuroNoobz 5 months ago
Great locations. Enjoyed watching this.
andrewnorris2 5 months ago
Cool fight, but why in the fuck would you try to strangle someone with a sword? That was so ridiculous.
davidAnonsen 5 months ago
It seems cut off at the end.
Pretty intense story asking a pretty intense question.
cscdigitalgraphics 5 months ago