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CLOSE UP is a film company looking to explore our reality in a close-up shot. We are currently in post-production of our first Fiction film, "KMKZ" (2021 - 2023), directed by Andres Hernandez. In addition, we have two coproductions: the documentary feature film "Severa Flor" (2022-2023) directed by Jimena Sánchez and the fiction feature film "Delirio Cósmico" (2022) directed by Felipe Moncada, both projects currently in post-production. Our main objective is to support audiovisual creation, explore realities, to build a dialogue with the viewer. We seek to create, accompany, carry out, and finish independent audiovisual projects with a social, diverse, and ethical impact in which cooperative work predominates. We aim to build ideas and generate content to create new paths in achieving independent audiovisual.
KMKZ's proposal presents a hybrid story built with an independent production scheme. This project, CLOSE UP's first feature film, was based on self-financing, aiming to develop a low-cost production model with high production values ​​that offers different public content, exploring exhibition markets, sales, and financial return.
CLOSE UP unites the experience of its members, whose productions and participations include short films, feature films, video clips, documentaries, and series shown at festivals and markets such as San Sebastián, Intravenosa, Festival, FIDBo, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand, Torino Film Lab, RED Studios Competition, Ventana Sur, Bilbao Seriesland Festival, Bogoshorts, FICCI and IndieBo, among others; on platforms like Netflix and Retina Latina; and open and pay television channels such as Canal Trece, Canal Capital, Señal Colombia, ShortsTV, NATGEO, NBC, ABC, and TV3.
Hello,
My name is ANDRES HERNANDEZ
CEO and Creative Director
CLOSE UP
I am a Producer, Director, Cinematographer, and associate member of the Society of Camera Operators in Los Angeles, California. I hold an MFA in Cinematography from the New York Film Academy, Los Angeles campus. My work has earned awards such as Best Cinematography at the Jury Prize, Die Seriale in Germany 2018, the Jury Award at the Bilbao Seriesland Festival in Portugal 2018, and the Public Award at RED STUDIOS in the United States 2018. I participated in the 55th International San Sebastian Film Festival's Film School contest, where I had the pleasure of meeting Alfonso Cuarón and Alfonso Beato in Spain in 2007. Currently, I am working on my Opera Prima as a producer, director, and DP: KMKZ, a 90-minute coming-of-age/revenge film. Thanks to that, I opened my own production house called Close Up, where I am starting to produce and coproduce indie cinema.
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