In 2000, visiting Chile after five years living in Barcelona, my good friend Eduardo Novion, a prominent advertising creative, told me a about his dream of making an epic fantasy movie based on the story of Leftraro, one of the greatest worriors of the original people Mapuche which lived in southern chilean territory and which fought first spaniard conquerors.
Leftraro was a nine years old boy when he was rapted by them.
Eduardo’s dream, consisted on showing spanish conquerors from the magical and mystic vision of this little Mapuche who’d never seen a white man riding a horse in an armor before, and who growed listening stories about ancient demonds which some day would come back from beyond the ocean.
In 2014, Ted Fields, founder of Raddar Pictures and producer of “Last Samurai” and “The Chronicles of Riddick” between other famous films, signed an intention letter for producing “Leftraro” and the spaniard actress Paz Vega confirmed her roll as the spaniard captain Pedro de Valdivia’s lover, Inés de Suárez.
Here, some of the concepts and character designs that I’ve been making for “Leftraro” on last fourteen years.
http://www.leftraro.com