A New Eucharistic Documentary- Alive: Who is There?

I still remember how I used to record my own stories with my father’s video camera. A mini VHS, a cheap PC, and hundreds of afternoons imagining worlds and recreating universes to capture them on a screen. Then came Jurassic Park and Toy Story, and CGI and 3D became my obsession. The possibility of creating fantastic characters and otherworldly heroes and villains with just my hands and a computer was pure addiction. Graphics and editing were accumulating among my knowledge to be able to give free rein to so much mental raving. After working for different film production companies, my knowledge was consolidated. Between production and production, I spent long periods working in television, but I kept my filmic curiosity intact by doing some parallel projects. To keep traveling to other worlds through a lens has always been my driving force.

On one of these trips, I met a group of young people and adults who, without knowing it, would become part of me for the rest of my life. Together with them I learned that there are still people who worship a God in a different way than I had known up to that moment. People who tell you, without fear or shame, that they love that God. And that they love him so much that they can’t stop telling you, because happiness is also contagious. That love they feel is their drug. Addictive, but healing and very passionate.

For two years they have opened the doors of their world to me and I have been able to document what was going on there. It all started when I attended the first Holy Hour and witnessed something I did not expect. I remembered the masses of my childhood as something empty, artificial, and automatic but what was there was something totally different.

For me, it has been an absolutely enriching experience to meet people who give themselves to others, with a great capacity for sacrifice, generous, and with a smile that never fades.