Felipe Bustos Sierra

Felipe Bustos Sierra will present his next crowd-funded film project and elaborate on his previous experience, which has seen three successful campaigns.

Born in Brussels to a Chilean journalist, an exile of Pinochet’s military coup, Felipe Bustos Sierra realised early on that stories have as many sides as they have storytellers. Early memories seemed brighter and more persistent and powerful when witnessed on film.

In Edinburgh, Scotland, he founded Debasers Filums in 2010 with like-minded artists and made Tixeon, a feminist sci-fi short in collaboration with local stand-up comedian and writer Sian Bevan. A first award for Tixeon provided the initial funding for the making of Three-Legged Horses, a short film about his experiences as a rickshaw driver in Edinburgh. It features the song „Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky)“, which became the focus point of the crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter and Sponsume. His third film, surf rock dance film Five Six Seven Eight! was successfully crowdfunded as well. Both films are premiering at the Glasgow Film Festival in February 2012.