New Mexico
Film composer chooses New Mexico as creative hub
As New Mexico’s film industry continues to grow, the state is not only seeing huge studio companies select the state as their permanent destination – but also world-renowned artists.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As New Mexico’s film industry continues to grow, the state is not only seeing huge studio companies select the state as their permanent destination – but also world-renowned artists.
“You feel the grandiosity of what can happen on screen – that’s what music can do,” Marcello De Francisci said.
De Francisci carries many hats in the film industry.
A recording studio can feel like a home away from home for artists like De Francisci, who is a film composer. But after working on Michael Mann’s 2023 biographical drama, “Ferrari,” De Francisci decided to make New Mexico his next home.
“I decided to come here after Ferrari, I basically packed an entire, my whole entire facility in a truck and picked it up in a warehouse out of Glendale and just drove through the Mohave to Albuquerque,” De Francisci said.
With tools like Zoom and Facetime, De Francisci said this gives him the flexibility to work on Hollywood projects in the Duke City.
“Zoom calls now have really changed the landscape of creativity,” De Francisci said. “And that’s the one thing that I took seriously into consideration when I moved here. I said, well, I already got the clients. Many times when I was in Los Angeles, and I was based in Pasadena for example, I had a director in Santa Monica, they would come one time to my studio and after that, they had to come back they’d always tell me, it’s going to take two hours to get to your place. Why don’t you upload the files? So that was the catalyst for me to say, well, wait a minute. If I can Zoom somebody and the quality control that I keep, which is very strict in what I do, I can deliver the same thing to the guy in Santa Monica from Albuquerque.”
As Marcello gets set for his next big project, he’s also looking for New Mexico talent.
“I like the people, I like what’s going on,” he said. “I think there’s a lot of room for growth here. I think I can bring that talent, with my production skills and my cinematic background, to introduce those talents to the film industry, and I find that idea to be pretty exciting.”
For more on De Francisci’s work, click here. To contact him, click here.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Metropolitan Court of Bernalillo County had another packed docket Saturday morning.
“We are the busiest courthouse in the state. We see more than every other courthouse does, from the traffic tickets to the misdemeanor cases and the initial felony cases that are filed here,” said Metropolitan Court Chief Judge Joshua Sanchez.
Sanchez says the court oversees about 100 cases a day and Saturday New Mexico’s top judge, Chief Justice David Thomson of the New Mexico Supreme Court, got a firsthand look at the court’s caseload.
Sanchez says he welcomes the visit.
“We go to these statewide meetings, and they hear about how things happen. But until you actually kind of sit there with another judge and see what happens, it’s kind of eye-opening to see the kind of controlled chaos that we have on a Saturday morning,” he said about the visit.
He adds their biggest challenge at Metro Court is the case load.
Thomson says he plans to visit courts statewide to see these challenges for himself.
“I think it’s a good idea just to come down and see it. And what you see, if you watch these, is you see all the interactions between what we face, just not as a court system, as a society, right?” said Sanchez.
Just from one morning sitting in on court proceedings, he said it’s clear mental health plays a huge part in a lot of the cases metro court hears.
“If there are questions of competency, we can catch those questions here, rather when they get transferred to felony court, that’s one, can they be assessed early on,” Thomson said.
He also noticed a lot of repeat offenders.
“I think it’s very helpful to see it firsthand. On a few of these individuals. I’ve actually asked to look at some of the criminal history, so I have an understanding of the particulars,” said Thomson.
Sanchez said he hopes for more visits like this in the future.
“It’s just nice to give some real perspective and validates, I think, a lot of the things that we do communicate to AOC and the Supreme Court and things that we’re seeing,” said Thomson.
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