Los Javis, a Voice to Be Seen
Los Javis are the new voice of the audiovisual world in Spain and have the potential to be the new voice of the entire world. They bring the colors and images of our country to life, recreating some forgotten stories that, by pampering them, are transformed into masterpieces.
Taking advantage of the fact that snow has inaugurated the 40th birthday of the Sundance Festival (held in Utah from January 18 to 28), we want to throw some of the sun and warmth that Spain is bringing to Salt Lake City this year in the form of La Mesías, the series created by Los Javis. This has been the year of the Spanish director couple, and the independent film festival knows it, which is why they have decided that La Mesías will be screened in the series section of the festival, called Episodic, being the first Spanish series to reach this category. The invitation to the festival, which this year pays tribute to Cristofer Nolan and features directors of the stature of Soderbergh and Tarantino, has been a big step for the Spanish duo of creators, who, through this, see the opportunity to project themselves to a wider audience, but not a new one, since in their previous work, Veneno, the American public, through articles in the New Yorker and Variety (even Madonna herself), had no qualms about praising their work.
But who are Los Javis?
The duo, created by Javier Calvo (33) and Javier Ambrossi (39), who a few years ago founded their own production company, Suma Content, are the voice of our country's generation. Creators of series such as Paquita Salas and Veneno, they had their first big success with the musical, which would eventually become their first film, La Llamada. In this film, we can see some of the ideas that the couple carries behind each of their creations, such as pop imagery, the religious roots in our country, the LGBT+ collective, and the rise and fall in the world of show business. While Paquita Salas already introduced us to secondary characters, where the important thing was hiding in those small and real moments where fame ends up devouring you, Veneno took it to the extreme by creating a whole discourse around the marble steps that being in the public sphere really requires, through a character as controversial as Cristina Ortiz Rodríguez (a trans woman, Spanish television personality) was and is. This series, whose sequel, Vestidas de Azul, has just been released, was the final push for Los Javis to create a masterpiece like La Mesías, which, without moving away from the colors, humor, and essence that the couple had been showing us, is tinged with a more intimate and serious 10mm, a dramatic thriller based on religious fanaticism, where music (which is an essential factor in all the producers' works) becomes essential to understand the family's story.
The phenomenon of La Mesías has become such in Spain that the fictitious group created for the series has become an essential part of the billboards of the most important festivals in our country. In addition to their career as creatives, they have also appeared in programs such as Drag Race, Mask Singer, and OT, helping them to spread their ideas. Because they are more than producers, directors, or scriptwriters, they are a reference in every sense, an image of success that has been achieved by working for an ideal, for a message that only they are capable of molding to create true works of art.
With this journey in their career as directors, Los Javis have only just begun. Their stories are outside of what has already been told, their colors tinge the voices that are usually hidden in the corners of rooms full of no's, and we have to thank them for that. They are an essential part of the imaginary of our youth, an engine by which many people feel not only understood but also valued in public and worthy of being told.
