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The DGA Latino Committee screened Rodrigo Garcia's Ten Tiny Love Stories on July 8, a work that premiered at the Stockholm Film Festival in November 2001. Garcia, who also wrote the script for the film, shot it entirely on Sony Hi Definition for a modest $100,000 budget.
Son of renowned author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Garcia spent more than 12 years working as a cameraman and a director of photography on such films as The Birdcage, Great Expectations and Gia before making his directing debut with Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her.
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When asked why his movies seem to have a strong female bent, Garcia said, "I have an easier time writing women. I tried to write both movies from the male and female perspectives but I could never find the voice for the men. When you start in a profession, your style develops to a great extent by what you can do. And what you can do well, you begin to lean on, and you develop and nurture that, and I write women well.
"In my heart, though, these movies are not about women, they're about my own little obsessions and in that sense both movies are very self-indulgent."
For Garcia, filmmaking is somewhat therapeutic as he uses his own fears and neuroses for subject matter. Each monologue in Ten Tiny Love Stories addresses something about relationships that scare him.
The idea for Ten Tiny Love Stories emanated from his desire to do something ambiguous. Garcia wanted to keep viewers guessing as to whether they were watching a film or a documentary, with the tone feeling both written and non-written, and the dialogue being both confessional and expositional.
In most cases Garcia did not even meet the ten actresses until shooting day. There were no rehearsals and the women came with their own wardrobes. Nearly all ten monologues in the final cut were from the final take of the day.
It's a very claustrophobic thing to write a monologue. It's always the same voice, the same point of view. It wraps you up in a way so that after a while you don't know if you're coming or going." Garcia said that it was "quite a rush" to see life finally breathed into his monologues on shooting day.
Garcia has also directed episodes of HBO's hit Six Feet Under and most recently, directed the pilot episode of Carnivale, also for HBO.
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