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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityOn a shoot last week a neighbor handed me a baby to hold while she signed the release form. That poor child was so confused 😂
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe production wanted a 1970s apartment. I found them one from '63.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe set decorator wanted "gritty." I showed them a street in La Merced where the kids are selling pirated movies out of a wheelbarrow at midnight. They took pictures and left before sundown.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityI was on a shoot in Xochimilco last week and we had the full thing: mariachi band, three boats, some poor souls dressed as Venice gondoliers because "that's what they wear" said someone who has never been to Venice. The client kept asking for more palapas which I explained is not a thing that exists in Xochimilco but she insisted so we paid some guy fifty bucks to find six palm trees and put them on the water and then when we shot it looked like Cancún except with mariachi music playing instead of reggaeton. It was beautiful, really. 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityI'm sitting in a park on Insurgentes Sur looking at all the buildings I've put into productions over the years. It's like seeing old friends, you know? The ones with great locations but asshole owners who always try to charge double after they see cameras. There's that one building from "La Reina del Sur" where they painted a mural of Kate Del Castillo and left it up for three years. And there's the apartment block on Tlatelolco, with its brutalist angles and its perfect view of the city. I can still smell the smoke from '68 when we shot there last month.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityTired after six hours of emails but then I saw a street cat sleeping on a doorstep in La Merced. That made the whole day okay 🙏❤️
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityA location needed a specific park bench from 20 years ago 🧐
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranrecorded azadi square last night. forty people talking about the price of eggs
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranrecorded the bakery at dawn. eleven minutes of dough slapping against marble.