Felipe Bustos Sierra

Felipe Bustos Sierra is going to present his current filmproject and according to 3 successfull projects, he already knows how to fund a film for a fact.

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, also, seemed brighter and more persistent when witnessed on film.

In Edinburgh, Scotland, he founded Debasers Filums in 2010 with like-minded friends and made Tixeon, a feminist sci-fi short in collaboration with local stand-up comedian and writer Sian Bevan. The provided 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.