"Mad Bills To Pay", interview with the director Joel Alfonso Vargas

"Mad Bills To Pay" by Joel Alfonso Vargas is a realist social drama on a Latino family in the Bronx. there is a lot of personal memories in the film, as the director comes form Bronx and inevitably the neighbourhood becomes another lead character of the movie. We met with the director on the day of the film's premiere in the Perspective programme in the Berlin International Film Festival. The choice on casting also non professional actors to get more realistic One of the aims of Joel Alfonso Vargas in making "Mad Bills To Pay" was the realism, in order to get that he decided to cast also on professional actors form the Bronx. Casting was very successful and the chosen people were so natural and at ease not to show their minor acting skills. The rehearsals were long and  they are all perfectly integrated in the film. A semi- documentaristic p.o.v.  The way "Mad Bills To Pay" is shot is through use of wide angles, some static wide shots from a distance, to give the audience the idea of the world the characters live in and also to open a peek in that life for an audience that sometimes feels to be in a real-life show more than in a fiction.