We are narrative nonfiction directors working in the documentary tradition of direct cinema. We operate without “directing” in the traditional sense, letting life unfold before us, anticipating the direction of the story. We were excited to team up with Pablo, and apply an outside imposed “direction” to this style. After working together in a workshop taught by Abbas Kiarostami, we found out that we were all interested in making a minimalist, doc-style narrative with a child protagonist that mixes fictional and documentary elements. Pablo developed a script that served as a guideline for preproduction, but on the ground it was our intention to let the narrative unfold as it may. Using the observational documentary method, we captured scenes naturally letting the “actors” dictate their dialogue, blocking and movement. Jean Renoir’s words were our guiding light, “It is the cameraman’s duty to make it possible for us to see the spectacle, rather than the duty of the spectacle to take place for the benefit of the camera.” However, we had Pablo acting like a little devil on the shoulders of our non-actor talent making them say and do things that spurred on and heightened their natural behavior. Working together with Pablo, we had an idea of the scenes we wanted to capture, but as it unfolded quickly and in a foreign language we relied mostly on our documentary instincts to “see the spectacle”. The resulting film is a work that feels more like a documentation of a film or a film observed; one with cinematic qualities but with the heart of a documentary.