'The Pirate Ship', Goya for best fiction short

With a very limited budget, Trullols presents in this friendly short some of the topics such as Twelfth Night, the crisis, returning to the maternal home after divorce, the whims of children...

The short The pirate ship, by Fernando Trullols, has won the 2012 Goya for Best Spanish Fiction Short Film, beating its competitors The prize, by Elías León Siminiani; Kill a child, by César Esteban Alenda and José Esteban Alenda; and My love, by Laura Pousa and Ricardo Steinberg.

With Alberto San Juan, Petra Martínez, Antonio de la Torre and Raúl Arévalo, among others, it is a nice short that exploits topics such as Twelfth Night, the crisis, unemployment, returning to the mother's home after divorce, the whims of children... Trullols plays with the unforeseen in a very low-budget production, with the support of the Coslada City Council (Madrid), which is garnering very good reviews in those festivals in which it is shown.

Fernando Trullols has extensive experience as an assistant director on twenty films. He has directed television advertisements and made several video clips, including one for the group Ella Baila Sola. He has participated in the script of films such as Mina's summer o Atlético Aviación, and has written and directed the shorts You can't see the stars from the city y Of the.

When asked what it takes to make a short film these days?, Fernando Trullols, already with his Goya in hand, told Panorama Audiovisual: "I love cinema a lot and want to tell stories, that's why I wanted to dedicate this Goya to all those people who make the happy audacity of experimenting and wanting to tell a story, those young people who are starting out and don't have the perspective of the business, they don't have that perverted thing and they have that illusion and that desire and they simply tell them. I think that That is what is needed, to have a story to tell, whether long or short, it does not matter, the important thing is to be able to tell a story and have the hope and do it. In our case it has been like that, it was a path that began as a very small thing.

With regard to having very popular acting faces in this short, as a guarantee of success, Trullols assures that "it is a very important seal because they are fantastic people who do a lot to help those of us who still don't know as much as they do to get the story going. Then, having well-known actors puts us in a place where people may have more interest a priori but then the story has to be seen, beyond the poster, and that is the important thing."

The pirate ship It is a short that was edited in Barcelona with Fran Gutiérrez, leaving in the director's opinion "very happy with the result...sometimes I look at it and I don't know how we did it, if I'm honest."

In this production everything was scanned in negative, the usual procedure for a feature film, and then the effects were carried out by Lluis Castells, who has also participated in Eva.

After achieving this Goya, Fernando Trullols already has a story running through his head. “Not as a step, but simply that the following story is long and I think it should be told that way,” he assured.