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The Cosmonaut's book of the filming

Hi everyone,

Let me introduce myself: my name is Daniel Mayrit, and I have the opportunity today of writing and sharing with you a very special post for me.

At best, you recognize my name for some pictures published in this blog, but for those who doesn't know me at all (most of you, I imagine) I am a photographer, I live in London, and I have been linked in different ways to The Cosmonaut project almost from its beginning. Besides, I have a great friendship with the guys of Riot... even before they were Riot.

The reason I briefly write to you is this: On a night like any other night, two years ago, handling a beer, it was decided that I was going to be the official movie stills photographer. From there, we jump to only two weeks ago. In one of the frequent visits of director Nicolás to London, lying on a park under a shiny sun (one of those we are grateful to have in England), we had the ambitious idea of taking the work a step further. Instead of the stills, we were going to make a book of the filming of the movie. Yes, a great book as a making off. It will mainly contain pictures, but it will be open to any interesting material. From diary fragments to interviews, even the pictures taken by the crew members in their moments of relax.

Why? Because we believe it is the best way to bring closer what the filming of the movie really was to the crowd of fans and producers who have also been supporting The Cosmonaut since two years ago. As you can imagine, taking more than 3000 producers to Russia and Latvia would make the budget to get out of our control. So we decided to do it the other way round, and try to bring a little bit of it so you can also take part, to an extent, in how life was during the shooting of the movie. This way, we continue the production company's line of keeping a close and constant contact with the audience, which has been really successful so far.

But, as we were telling you, the idea is not only great, but also ambitious, so we place our project in your hands once again to get it off the ground.

Right now, it is on the website Lánzanos, where you can contribute in different ways and obtain different exclusive rewards in return (only available there, you cannot find them in our shop). For instance, a picture of the book signed by the director and myself, the electronic version of the book in .pdf, or the book of the filming itself printed and also signed.

Think about this as a further push so your movie can become true, as well as a project where a beautiful book will come out, a book we would love to have ourselves as spectators.

We ask you for supporting and spreading it as much as you can. We know you'll do it, because you always do it, surprising us once and again. With you, cosmonauts, we go to the end of the world.

Daniel Mayrit