Il regista / The Director

Paulo Chavarrìa (b. 1979, Costa Rica) earned a degree in Social Communications Sciences (UCR, Costa Rica) and a masters in screenwriting (UiB, Norway). In 1999 he worked for Costa Rica's main advertising agency. He then went free lance, diversifying his activities (screenwriting, project development, director, photographer, film and sound editor) before specializing in postproduction as graphic, animation and DVD designer. His works have won awards at the Costa Rican Film Festival, amongst which: Balloons (2005) and Rediscovering Guayabo (2004).

«I wanted to make an animation film that could combine a serious and dark subject (life, death and existential anxiety) with a simple, almost naïve, narrative. I wanted to make a conceptual and abstract film that still would be able to convey enough as to give a brighter twist of hope and transcendence for the leaf towards the end of the short. At the same time I wanted to prove how far could I go with a project that I would write and direct, while also doing all the technical aspects of animation, lighting, compositing and rendering...».