Louibi Airways (trailer)

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You're in the airport lounge and the speaker's announcement tells you it's time to board. When you collect your belongings you realize that someone reads the newspaper, leaves it as if everything was happening in slow motion; you see the coolest pilot you've ever seen, in a red uniform! This pilot is the one from your flight and has chosen to fly with Loubi Airways.

When she leaves the Ambassador lounge of the TWA Terminal, you follow her, her presence makes you not want to take your eyes off her, and when she arrives to meet the cabin crew, it happens again: Everything seems to be happening in slow motion.

You see that the cabin crew and the pilot meet and it makes you wish that the flight you are about to board never ends. They walk together to the most enjoyable security checkpoint you have ever seen and you follow them as they pass and move towards the plane, now you can't wait to get on board to see them again.

Loubi Airways is the story of everyone's dream flight! And the fun things we experience when we travel.

Hope you enjoy it!

Director Statement

As the Loubi Airways project materialized, I looked at the last two years and saw them as an excellent opportunity to bring some light to everyone's screen.

Life in big cities is tense, work is scarce, people are worried about their health and not being able to travel, everyone is at home looking at their screens, perhaps more than ever. So why not enjoy the past? Remembering things we all love, such as travel memories we've made, our first time on a plane, and our last landing before the world crashed. Travel far, take a plane to paradise, whatever that paradise is for you. This is Loubi Airways! A fun and colorful trip to paradise and the nostalgic glamor of the past. Forget about your worries and enjoy the flight!

It was a great experience to be able to work on this movie, connect with people from all walks of life, spend time in the beautiful TWA terminal, designed by a great architect Eero Saarinen. It is a magical place that inspires, a place that exudes positivity and hope. Seeing gravity pushed to such an extent, it gives you the impression of walking through the corridors and rooms in the mind of its creator, it is really cool to use it as our canvas to paint our history.

Hope Loubi Airways makes you smile.

Victor Bastidas

Victor Bastidas is a cinematographer with extensive experience working with leading brands around the world such as Vogue, Burberry, MAC Cosmetics, Dolce & Gabbana and more. He is of Ecuadorian origin, at the age of 18 he went to live in China, first he studied the language for 18 months and entered the Jiaotong University of Shanghai to do his Bachelor's Degree in Chinese and Business. After earning his bachelor's degree, he turned his passion for film into a career at age 22 and was offered to work with renowned fashion photographer Mario Testino, based in London, but traveling around the world, for six years. Here he worked as a cameraman, technical director, creative producer, and cinematographer. Victor has worked creating concepts, storyboards, directing, lighting, and filming in Europe, the UK, South America, Asia, and the US.

He had the opportunity to film the promo for the Vogue India edition, he traveled to Capri to film D&G Light Blue with Mathieson.

He is currently working on a personal project, a film that he has been making for 5 years: "Cumbia cumbia". He is fluent in English, Spanish and Chinese and although he still collaborates with his former mentors on some projects, his jobs are independent.