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Why
did Eduardo Verástegui fund Metanoía and how did he form
the team?
2nd
of December 2005
Eduardo
Verástegui created Metanoía in order to make high-quality
movies with a message.
When
Eduardo embarked on this mission he had virtually no help
at all, having his production company based in the US, a
country not being his own, and without speaking 100% flawless
English, he considered to return to México.
"I
had two options; the first was to return to Mexico, the
second was creating a movie-company here. So I choose the
latter one.
It was just madness to go into this without production-experience
and without money. I had the plan to show Latin people as
heroes and doing movies with a deep spiritual message, elevating
the human dignity.
I
was eager to do so, and I kept believing in good faith to
fulfil my dream, I did so with all my heart. I started to
seek people participating in the project, sharing the same
vision and the same worries about our world.
During this quest I met a friend of Childhood once again,
a man from Tampico, Alejandro Monteverde, who studied at
the University of Texas specializing in film-directing.
He won several awards for best short-movies and he has the
same dreams as I have.
I
met Leo, a lawyer who has an impressive background added
with theological and philosophical studies. We all were
at the same wavelength. We want to make movies with a spiritual
message, moral values, which will touch the soul and mind
of the viewer.
We created Metanoía Films about one and a half year ago",
he adds ""Metanoía is a Greek word, which means inner conversion.
The process of moving out of the darkness and into the Light."
The
ex-singer of Kairo declares the script was written by Monteverde.
The preliminary title of the first movie made by Metanoía
is "Bella" (Beautiful).
"It's
the precious story of a soccer player who was at the peaks
of his fame, but then slide downhill and ends up as a cook.The
most difficult part of our venture was finding the money
for the funding of the project."
Eduardo
considers it as a miracle, that successful funding of the
project happened in just a week, and it was exactly the
week when Eduardo met Pope John Paul the Second in person,
October 2003. The pope prayed for success of the production
company.
"We
met an investor from Philadelphia, being the manager of
Jim Caviezel (the actor playing Jesus Christ in "Passion
of The Christ") The investor brought in fresh capital, and
became shareholder of the company. So the generated cash-flow
allowed us to do the taping of the movie in New York." he
adds.
We think we are ready with the post-production stages at
the end of January, when we will meet several distributors.
Today it's of utmost importance we have now a high quality
movie produced.
Verástegui indicates that sponsoring and supporting of the
movie Bella is done by nobody less but Steve McEveety, famous
all over the world. (Passion of the Christ, Braveheart,
Immortal Beloved)
"McEveety
left Icon Productions, created by himself, Mel Gibson, and
Bruce Davey. McEveety is the man who will do the sponsoring
of our production. He is like a godfather to our project.
He is ready to start help distributing as soon as we are
ready with the post production stage" Eduardo commented.
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