Vi–as, freelance reporter without a story and more spirit than Pollyanna, finds himself entangled, with pleasure, in the affaires of a peculiar band of thieves: the sensitive Lucky Caramba, his partenaire, Dulce, and Mario, their trusty side-kick.

"Light, stylish retake of that favorite genre, film noir."

American Cinematheque

"This was a superb story, full of twists and turns that kept our audience guessing."

Curt Markham,
President, Movies on a Shoestring, sponsors of The Rochester International Film Festival

"'As Far Out as Here' is far too short!"

Laura Soria,
Actress

Another Film Noir story?

To classify films by genre is just a way of simplifying our lives. My grandfather simplified things even more by putting detective, western and war stories all into one category: "those shoot-out pictures" ("de tiros").

Americans gave the name "Film Noir" to the genre possibly to give the movies an air of sophistication or to avoid racial associations. Within each mystery film or novel there is a story about a passionate, violent, and almost always broken, love affair. Corrupt policemen and politicians, detectives with a dark past, reluctant heroes and the girl who always fulfills the stereotype of the femme fatale or vamp... People who have "been there, done that", and more than once.

"Casablanca", Touch of Evil", "Vertigo", "Blood Simple", Dashiell Hammett stories and "The Spirit" by Will Eisner are about human behavior under the magnifying glass of exceptional situations, that's all.

-Guido JimŽnez