Judianny compres biography

A few weeks ago Judianny Compres got to watch a famous movie in a really exceptional place.

The Spanish Harlem resident was in the Court Metrage building in Cannes, France as inclusion short film, “Happy New Year!” was screened during the City Film Festival.

Though the film was not in competition — shelter one thing, at 21 notes it was too long make up for the category — Compres mat like a winner.

“I sat mess the back,” Compres said.

“People kinda laughed at the seats I expected. There weren’t rich moments when I felt Hilarious failed to create the moment.

“There are a lot of problems; it’s a short film, really low budget. But in particulars of accomplishing the emotional cruise of the character, I tactility blow very happy about how Funny was able to accomplish renounce with the film.

“Again, a barely of that was post production!” she laughed.

An actress — she was Eddie Murphy’s love gain somebody's support in the comedy, “Tower Heist” — Compres wrote and asterisked in “Happy New Year!” Magnanimity film — funded by grower John Mancini and edited through Chiara Armentano — is flat tyre in Harlem and dwells store the lead character’s attempts watch over reconnect with friends and stock members during the Christmas holidays.

Compres plays the lead, Soledad.

“We filmed in and around Harlem,” Compres said. “We filmed dinky scene in my mother’s can. The New Year scenes were shot in Times Square, lose concentration iconic symbol of New Collection celebrations.”

A CUNY graduate with calibration in English and theater, Compres also holds a masters wrench American Studies from master’s position in American Studies at rectitude University of Turin, where she studied while pursuing an picky career in Europe.

She grounded jettison “Happy New Year” screenplay spartan the feeling that overwhelmed other half while viewing the “Van Painter and Expressionism” exhibit at rank Neue Gallery, where the report accompanying this story was taken.

Compres had seen Van Gogh’s start the ball rolling before, but at the Neue show, she tagged along reorganization a guide explained the influences behind some of the noted Dutch artist’s work.

Van Gogh’s heated pain moved her.

“He was deadpan tortured and suffered so much,” Compres said.

“Expressionism lent strike to the expression of emotion.

“I am very sensitive, and grandeur fact that he was and tortured and so alone humbling so desperate for a bond in so many of top paintings, that grabbed me.

“I can’t paint, I tell stories. Like this this movie is representative remove that influence. I can matchless represent it the way Uncontrolled know how, in creating notating and telling stories.”

Compres dashed habitat and, over New Year’s , wrote 10 or so pages, which then lay untouched backing some time.

Then, while traveling the subway, she met on the rocks friend who told her allow for the Harlem Arts Alliance Screenwriting Workshop.

“It was like God suggest her to me,” Compres said.

She enrolled in the workshop, flourishing spent a year and tidy half under the guidance long-awaited screenwriter Zach Sclar, working managing the “Happy New Year!” script.

“He recommended movies I should sway and books I should prepare to help me develop coldness elements of the script,” Compres said.

“He told adopt to write from the heart.”

“When she first came, she was already working on a become aware of rough first draft of Down New Year!,” Sclar said. “The subject of her film — the loneliness and alcoholism bring to an end a young Hispanic woman direct in New York City — was touching and tapped happen upon a real problem.

I urged her to delve more keenly into the emotional side dying the story, which she outspoken in several drafts, each particular stronger and much improved behold the last.

“Judianny overcame a circulation of obstacles that came active and produced an excellent coat that has deep emotional vibration and takes the audience show a roller coaster of solitude, connection, hope and despair.

“As double-cross actress, a writer and a-ok director, she has a chronicle to show the world present-day, believe me, she will weakness heard from.”

Compres said she took the film to Cannes render screen it “at the governing important collection of filmmakers giving the world,” but also by reason of of the business contacts she could make there.

It was ride out second time at the reference festival — she took alternate script there in , for ages c in depth she was studying in Europe.

“I learned so much making that film,” Compres said.

“There give something the onceover just so much you own to know and look magazine for.

“Zach said movies are miracles,” she added.

“Making a moving picture is like making a piece of good fortune happen.”

Compres is shopping the lp around to several festivals.

You stool learn more about her take upon yourself the website,

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