Nazareno Alba is a filmmaker publicist, writer and scriptwriter who studied film direction at Cyevic Buenos Aires, Argentina and further went onto get a diploma in film scripting at Sindicato Arezine. His focus has been advertising direction and writing fiction film script.
Karla: Hey, after a year of not talking, now we have entered in an intense conversation.
Naz: I know, but I do not remember having more bad times than your histrionic laugh in a bar.
Karla: Well let us continue with this flow for the interview.
Naz: Done.
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Mexico taught me that I can be happy wherever I go, the only thing that I do not have to deny is where I come from. The world is a beautiful planet full of circumstances, colors, food, personalities and it will always be like this.
Hello Naz, tell us a little about yourself! What are your origins, current residence and what do you do?
My origins are my own, not any third parties. I come from a town in the province of Buenos Aires that everyone knows as "The Sleeping City." It is the place where people who work in the city sleep. It is the last train station in The Great Buenos Aires. My mom is a teacher and my dad is a radio host. They both grew up in that place. We never went to the capital. I needed a little escaping from there and that is how ended up in Buenos Aires, where I studied and lived for 10 years before moving to Mexico.
Why did you choose Mexico to live?
If I tell you the truth, it was because of my father. My father always talked about the reason why he had not succeed and my mother went from a rural school teacher to a director. He was always a radio host and nothing more. One day I heard him say; "If I had taken them to Mexico City, my story would have been different." Since I was little the idea stayed with me, something intrigued me about this place and I had to come to discover it myself.
Mexico taught me that I can be happy wherever I go, the only thing that I do not have to deny is where I come from. The world is a beautiful planet full of circumstances, colors, food, personalities and it will always be like this. Here I learned to be aware of where I come from and where I am going. This country gave me this, the opportunity to be able to push myself, work a lot, have a proper house and not worry so much about money. Here I have been able to develop. I have a roof, food and my passion (Tell stories where I come from).
Is telling stories, your dream as a filmmaker?
I never say that I am a filmmaker. I define myself as a writer who cannot write, who knew that he was going to starve and understood that he had to make films. The only thing I do know is that before I understood that there was a career in studying film, I was writing. In those days, I wrote and sold cleaning products.
I needed to quickly put into words those parties, sex, alcohol, drugs, women, men, Narcos. I used to go out and then I would throw up the poems that indeed are not poems, but they were just my thoughts.
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