Interview with Topo Colectivo / Berlin Music Video Awards 2024

Berlin Music Video Awards

Discover the interview with one of the nominees: Tomás Conterio and Poul Nissen, the directors of the Production & Creative company : Topo Colectivo. Their music video "LA ÚLTIMA - Quevedo" was selected this year in the "Best visual effects" category!   Check the full music video  "LA ÚLTIMA - Quevedo":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSFuXm5wxg   Follow them :  Instagram : @topocolectivo  @tocontacto & @poulnissen   Credits :   Interview and edit by Sebastian Sheath and Yannick Solandt (unsigned Berlin): https://www.youtube.com/@unsignedberlin   Do you want to be part of the Berlin Music Video Awards as well? Submit your video here: https://www.berlinmva.com/submit/ We are now taking submissions.

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00:00Can you introduce yourselves briefly, what's your name and where you're from?

00:08So we are BOL, and we are both directors, and we own a production company called Topol.

00:18Can you talk a little bit about the production company, what's your goal with the company?

00:25So we actually started as, we went to the film school together, and we met there, and

00:33then we shot a short film.

00:37And then we decided to create a production company which we could count with different

00:42teams for each project that were going to be shooted.

00:47Yeah, as we wanted to do cinema, we started to do like, music videos.

00:59To like, start to get more of our budget for doing our short film, and we start there,

01:08and we never end doing music videos, you know?

01:16And you're here nominated for Best Visual Effects for the Camino video, La Ultima, you're

01:26both directors on the video, how do you split the work between you?

01:30So our families, they say that they've never heard us talk with anybody as much as we speak

01:38together and we work so much, even our girlfriends sometimes, they are even a bit jealous, but

01:47we actually had to do this project together because it was a very ambitious project, we

01:52actually counted with only 20 days of pre-production, production and post-production, and we also

01:59had to travel to different places, we shot between Spain and USA.

02:05Yeah, we got pretty tight timings, so being two directors was easier for us to like, organize

02:16everything.

02:28And what about the visual effects in the video, do you think makes it really special?

02:31Yeah, you know, we wanted to do like a special video on this one because it's the last song

02:38of Quevedo before he retired, so we wanted to do a really special visual present for

02:49everyone, you know?

02:50And we got this amazing team, half of USA and half of Europe, that worked amazing on

03:00this one, and also knowing that we have this tight timing, it was amazing.

03:06Yes, the VFX post-production company is called Studio de Golza, and they were able to, as

03:15Tomas said, to build a team of people from different places like India, USA and Europe,

03:26because we had 10 days of post-production, so it's very tight, so they had to, like,

03:36I slept maybe one night and he was working the whole night, or the other way around,

03:40together with seven of the guys, and then we woke up and the next one would take over,

03:48and so there was never like a stop, a pause in the post-production development.

03:55If people are looking to work with Topol Panequil, what kind of people are you looking to work with?

04:01Passionate people.

04:02We love workers that love what they do, because for us, we spend the time much happier, and

04:15it doesn't seem like a profession, you know?

04:19We also look for talent, but the main thing for us is people that love what they do.

04:26Awesome, thank you very much.

04:27Thank you.

04:28Thank you so much.

04:29Thank you.

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