The Weight of Light

Production completed March 2012
First Premiere: April 21, 2012

Official Selections
HD Film Festival, Valladolid, Spain

Message: The Weight of Light is a metaphor set in the context of the current world economy and energy crisis, about the importance of transforming our negative energies into more positive ones.

Synopsis: In a world where the economy crisis reaches breaking point, a modest inventor revolutionizes the system and manages to put the greedy corporations in trouble with a simple machine that transforms people’s stress in miraculous ways.

Direction & Production

Production Team

Post Production

Director
Javier Ideami

Executive Production
Javier Ideami & Sonia Ghani

Production Team
Sonia Ghani
Apeksha Agarwal
Wendy Krueger
Alex Vargas
Matthew Novak

Director's assistant
Fernando Santacruz

Location Managers
Irma Garcia
Phill Gee

Production Photography
Emil Marte

Cast
Anna Bess Moyer Bell
Javier Ideami
Thomas Cokenias
Ross Turner
Karl J.Arana
Karina McLouglin
Rebecca Ines
Melby Mathew

Music Composed by
Jesus Calderon

Cinematography
Christopher McGilvray
Scott Krinsky

Camera assistants
Gabe Redder
Raffaele Vesco
Alona Bohol
Joe Mullen

Sound
Numael Hernandez
Jason Sakach

Machine & Batteries
Luis Echeverri

Makeup
Melissa Capistrano
M. Christina Costa
Kamran Sanei

Gaffer
Luigi Passalacqua

Additional Camera units
Fernando Santacruz
Raffaele Vesco
Nelson Bohol
Javier Ideami

Extras
Reid Martin Basso, Jose Arana,
Deborah Bass, Ron Bass, AJ Anable, Cheryl Beerer, Ron Beerer, Teagan Neil Daniel Basso, Jason Roark, Jason Wong
Wenlin Li, Patrick Wang and friends, Roberto Giberti, Greg Hornby, Patricia de Llano Colado, Tomás Pueyo, Raquel de Llano Colado, Andrés García Martínez Adrianna Fletes, Sonia Ghani, Isabel Guisande
Diego Buho (Diego García González)

Editing
Javier Ideamii

Sound FX
Antonio de Benito

Visual Effects
Javier Ideami

Color Correction
Ideami Studios

Machine 3D Animation & Illustration
Keving Ang

Additional Music
Fragments from Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy
Symphony 6 ("Pathetique") by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovski
Music performed by the Orquestra simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC) conducted by Pablo González,
Recording by Catalunya Música

Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix by Camille Saint-Saëns
Soprano voice by Lys Agnès, Orchestration by Jesus Calderón

French Diction Coach
Covadonga González-Bernardo