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Ojo Salvaje (The Rate's Cut)

Paco Nicolás
15' / 2015 / Spain
Spanish
English subtitled

Audience vote 7.65

Twenty-five years ago, a family man from Orihuela, Spain named Rate bought his first camera and started filming his wife, stepson and pets. He spent three months looking for that elusive true story that has never been filmed before. His footage of domestic scenes becomes increasingly erratic, and soon after he stops filming. But when his sister is diagnosed with liver cancer, he picks up the camera once more. The drama that he was frantically searching for forces itself into his “wild eye,” his ojo salvaje. More and more family members join him at the bedside of his increasingly fragile sister, and he directs them with a true eye for detail to move a little closer the bed, so he can get them on film. Except for a few intertitles, this graduation film consists entirely of Rate’s home videos, and director Paco Nicolás closely follows the man’s failed attempts to capture the true drama.

Main Festivals & Awards

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA, 2015) - world premiere, Paradocs / Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF, 2016) - Stranger than Documentary

Director's Biography

Paco Nicolás grew up in Murcia, the city where he started his interest in the audiovisual world and where he begin to study Communication. At age 20 he moved to Madrid and was accepted at the School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of Madrid (ECAM) where he graduated with a major in Documentary Film. The Rate's Cut (Ojo Salvaje) is his first short film with a worldwide distribution. Currently, he combines his shorts with his work in L3TCRAFT Desarrollos Audiovisuales, with whom he has directed commercials for brands such as FOX, Warner or Microsoft.