1822 (The Year We Were an Empire) [2000]
Flavio González Mello
Writer and director
Flavio González Mello
(Mexico City, 1967)
He studied screenwriting and film-directing. He is a well known dramatic author in Mexico City. His play 1822, The Year We Were an Empire (a historical satiric play about the independence of Mexico) has been a big success, with more than 400 performances, most of them sold-out. His Mexican version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), with Diego Luna and Jesús Ochoa in the leading roles, has also been a major success. His play Lascurain or the Briefness of Power (a metaphor on the way that power transforms Mexican Presidents), also directed by the author, received in 2005 the principal award for a Mayor Production by the Mexican Association of Theatre Critics. His most recent work, Oedipus in Colophon, was staged by the National Theatre Company of Mexico in it’s opening season.
His other plays include: How to write an adolescence, performed in Mexico and Toyama, Japan; That’s the way it is, first staged in English by The Shopfront Theatre for the Young People of Sydney, Australia (directed by Justin Byrne) as well as by the 2 TIL 5 Theatre of Newcastle, NSW, Australia (directed by Michael Foster); The Practice of a Profession, a monologue on the dangers of psychoanalysis performed within as part of The Couch, directed by Michel Didym, in México and Argentina; Stubborn Words, a bilingual work (Spanish-Mexican Sign Language) written for the Deaf and Dumb Theatre Company: “Sign and Verb”, has been represented in various theatres and schools of the Mexico as well as being part of the Summer Program organized and produced by “Grand Performances” in the California Plaza of Los Angeles, California, USA (2004).
He has also written scripts for film, as the feature film Pachito Rex (México, 2001). The short Shotgun Wedding (1996), which he wrote and directed, won the Ariel Award for Best Short Film by Mexico’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has been invited to international film festivals such as Sao Paulo, Montecatini, La Habana, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA and Santiago de Chile. With his short 40 degrees in the shade (2008) he won the Gold Danzante at the 37 Huesca Film Festival (Spain, 2009).
He is also the author of a book of short stories Carpas´s Theatre (and other unknown documents). He is a teacher of Drama and Film Script Writing in the Film School of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Center for the Arts. He is also member of the National System of Creative Authors (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte).
He studied screenwriting and film-directing. He is a well known dramatic author in Mexico City. His play 1822, The Year We Were an Empire (a historical satiric play about the independence of Mexico) has been a big success, with more than 400 performances, most of them sold-out. His Mexican version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), with Diego Luna and Jesús Ochoa in the leading roles, has also been a major success. His play Lascurain or the Briefness of Power (a metaphor on the way that power transforms Mexican Presidents), also directed by the author, received in 2005 the principal award for a Mayor Production by the Mexican Association of Theatre Critics. His most recent work, Oedipus in Colophon, was staged by the National Theatre Company of Mexico in it’s opening season.
His other plays include: How to write an adolescence, performed in Mexico and Toyama, Japan; That’s the way it is, first staged in English by The Shopfront Theatre for the Young People of Sydney, Australia (directed by Justin Byrne) as well as by the 2 TIL 5 Theatre of Newcastle, NSW, Australia (directed by Michael Foster); The Practice of a Profession, a monologue on the dangers of psychoanalysis performed within as part of The Couch, directed by Michel Didym, in México and Argentina; Stubborn Words, a bilingual work (Spanish-Mexican Sign Language) written for the Deaf and Dumb Theatre Company: “Sign and Verb”, has been represented in various theatres and schools of the Mexico as well as being part of the Summer Program organized and produced by “Grand Performances” in the California Plaza of Los Angeles, California, USA (2004).
He has also written scripts for film, as the feature film Pachito Rex (México, 2001). The short Shotgun Wedding (1996), which he wrote and directed, won the Ariel Award for Best Short Film by Mexico’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has been invited to international film festivals such as Sao Paulo, Montecatini, La Habana, San Diego CA, San Francisco CA and Santiago de Chile. With his short 40 degrees in the shade (2008) he won the Gold Danzante at the 37 Huesca Film Festival (Spain, 2009).
He is also the author of a book of short stories Carpas´s Theatre (and other unknown documents). He is a teacher of Drama and Film Script Writing in the Film School of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and the National Center for the Arts. He is also member of the National System of Creative Authors (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte).
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1822 (The Year We Were an Empire) [2000]