
That Wasn't Me
Aquel no era yo
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Aquél no Era Yo [That Wasn't Me] is a 2012 Spanish short film directed by Esteban Crespo. It tells the story of Paul and Kaney. Two characters, an African child and a Spanish woman, who could have nothing in common, but will get to join their lives forever through a life-giving shot. Kaney is an African child soldier. He lives with many child soldiers and obeys the orders given by the man who has become like their father, the General of the Rebel Army. Paula is a Spanish aid worker who moved to Africa following her boyfriend, Juanjo, in order to bring help and to rescue the child soldiers who live there. In a border crossing point, Paula and Kaney meet each other and this will be the starting point of this dramatic story, full of fear, violence and redemption. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Type: Trailer • Published 2012-11-21
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- Director
- Esteban Crespo
- Screenplay & Story
- Esteban Crespo
- Original Title
- Aquel no era yo
- Country of Origin
- Spain
- Spoken Languages
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 20m
- Production Studios
- Africanauan, Prima y Vera Producciones
Creative Leadership & Key Crew
Esteban Crespo
Esteban Crespo
Ángel Amorós
Department Leadership Roster
Esteban Crespo
Director
Esteban Crespo
Screenplay
Ángel Amorós
Director of Photography
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86th Academy Awards (Oscars 2014)
<br/>Awards <br/>Winners are listed first <br/> <br/>* 1. Best Picture <br/>12 Years a Slave – Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, and Anthony Katagas <br/>American Hustle – Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon <br/>Captain Phillips – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca <br/>Dallas Buyers Club – Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter <br/>Gravity – Alfonso Cuaron and David Heyman <br/>Her – Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, and Vincent Landay <br/>Nebraska – Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa <br/>Philomena – Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, and Tracey Seaward <br/>The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey McFarland, and Emma Tillinger Koskoff <br/> <br/>* 2. Best Directing <br/>Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity <br/>David O. Russell – American Hustle <br/>Alexander Payne – Nebraska <br/>Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave <br/>Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street <br/> <br/>* 3. Best Actor <br/>Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof <br/>Christian Bale – American Hustle as Irving Rosenfeld <br/>Bruce Dern – Nebraska as Woody Grant <br/>Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street as Jordan Belfort <br/>Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave as Solomon Northup <br/> <br/>* 4. Best Actress <br/>Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine as Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis <br/>Amy Adams – American Hustle as Sydney Prosser <br/>Sandra Bullock – Gravity as Dr. Ryan Stone <br/>Judi Dench – Philomena as Philomena Lee <br/>Meryl Streep – August: Osage County as Violet Weston <br/> <br/>* 5. Best Supporting Actor <br/>Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club as Rayon <br/>Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse <br/>Bradley Cooper – American Hustle as Agent Richard "Richie" DiMaso <br/>Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave as Edwin Epps <br/>Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street as Donnie Azoff <br/> <br/>* 6. Best Supporting Actress <br/>Lupita Nyong'o – 12 Years a Slave as Patsey <br/>Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine as Ginger <br/>Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld <br/>Julia Roberts – August: Osage County as Barbara Weston-Fordham <br/>June Squibb – Nebraska as Kate Grant <br/> <br/>* 7. Best Original Screenplay <br/>Her – Spike Jonze <br/>American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell <br/>Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen <br/>Dallas Buyers Club – Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack <br/>Nebraska – Bob Nelson <br/> <br/>* 8. Best Adapted Screenplay <br/>12 Years a Slave – John Ridley from Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup <br/>Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke; characters based on the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset <br/>Captain Phillips – Billy Ray from A Captain's Duty by Richard Phillips and Stephan Talty <br/>Philomena – Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope from The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith <br/>The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter from The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort <br/> <br/>* 9. Best Animated Feature Film <br/>Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Peter Del Vecho <br/>The Croods – Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders, and Kristine Belson <br/>Despicable Me 2 – Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri <br/>Ernest & Celestine – Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner <br/>The Wind Rises – Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki <br/> <br/>* 10. Best Foreign Language Film <br/>The Great Beauty (Italy) in Italian – Paolo Sorrentino <br/>The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium) in Dutch – Felix Van Groeningen <br/>The Hunt (Denmark) in Danish – Thomas Vinterberg <br/>The Missing Picture (Cambodia) in French – Rithy Panh <br/>Omar (Palestine) in Arabic – Hany Abu-Assad <br/> <br/>* 11. Best Documentary – Feature <br/>20 Feet from Stardom – Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen (posthumous award), and Caitrin Rogers <br/>The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sorensen <br/>Cutie and the Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher <br/>Dirty Wars – Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill <br/>The Square – Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer <br/> <br/>* 12. Best Documentary – Short Subject <br/>The Lady in Number 6 – Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed <br/>CaveDigger – Jeffrey Karoff <br/>Facing Fear – Jason Cohen <br/>Karama Has No Walls – Sara Ishaq <br/>Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall – Edgar Barens <br/> <br/>* 13. Best Live Action Short Film <br/>Helium – Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson <br/>That Wasn't Me – Esteban Crespo <br/>Just Before Losing Everything – Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras <br/>Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? – Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari <br/>The Voorman Problem – Mark Gill and Baldwin Li <br/> <br/>* 14. Best Animated Short Film <br/>Mr Hublot – Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares <br/>Feral – Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden <br/>Get a Horse! – Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim <br/>Possessions – Shuhei Morita <br/>Room on the Broom – Max Lang and Jan Lachauer <br/> <br/>* 15. Best Original Score <br/>Gravity – Steven Price <br/>The Book Thief – John Williams <br/>Her – William Butler and Owen Pallett <br/>Philomena – Alexandre Desplat <br/>Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman <br/> <br/>* 16. Best Original Song <br/>"Let It Go" from Frozen – Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez <br/>"Happy" from Despicable Me 2 – Pharrell Williams <br/>"The Moon Song" from Her – Karen Orzolek and Spike Jonze <br/>"Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – U2 <br/> <br/>* 17. Best Sound Editing <br/>Gravity – Glenn Freemantle <br/>All Is Lost – Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns <br/>Captain Phillips – Oliver Tarney <br/>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Brent Burge and Chris Ward <br/>Lone Survivor – Wylie Stateman <br/> <br/>* 18. Best Sound Mixing <br/>Gravity – Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, and Chris Munro <br/>Captain Phillips – Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, and Chris Munro <br/>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, and Tony Johnson <br/>Inside Llewyn Davis – Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, and Peter F. Kurland <br/>Lone Survivor – Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, and David Brownlow <br/> <br/>* 19. Best Production Design <br/>The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin (Production Design); Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration) <br/>American Hustle – Judy Becker (Production Design); Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration) <br/>Gravity – Andy Nicholson (Production Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration) <br/>Her – K. K. Barrett (Production Design); Gene Serdena (Set Decoration) <br/>12 Years a Slave – Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Alice Baker (Set Decoration) <br/> <br/>* 20. Best Cinematography <br/>Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki <br/>The Grandmaster – Philippe Le Sourd <br/>Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel <br/>Nebraska – Phedon Papamichael <br/>Prisoners – Roger Deakins <br/> <br/>* 21. Best Makeup And Hairstyling <br/>Dallas Buyers Club – Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews <br/>Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Stephen Prouty <br/>The Lone Ranger – Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny <br/> <br/>* 22. Best Costume Design <br/>The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin <br/>American Hustle – Michael Wilkinson <br/>The Grandmaster – William Chang Suk Ping <br/>The Invisible Woman – Michael O'Connor <br/>12 Years a Slave – Patricia Norris <br/> <br/>* 23. Best Film Editing <br/>Gravity – Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger <br/>American Hustle – Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, and Alan Baumgarten <br/>Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse <br/>Dallas Buyers Club – John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa[b] <br/>12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker <br/> <br/>* 24. Best Visual Effects <br/>Gravity – Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, and Neil Corbould <br/>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, and Eric Reynolds <br/>Iron Man 3 – Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, and Dan Sudick <br/>The Lone Ranger – Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, and John Frazier <br/>Star Trek Into Darkness – Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, and Burt Dalton <br/>
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What is That Wasn't Me about?
Aquél no Era Yo [That Wasn't Me] is a 2012 Spanish short film directed by Esteban Crespo. It tells the story of Paul and Kaney. Two characters, an African child and a Spanish woman, who could have nothing in common, but will get to join their lives forever through a life-giving shot. Kaney is an African child soldier. He lives with many child soldiers and obeys the orders given by the man who has become like their father, the General of the Rebel Army. Paula is a Spanish aid worker who moved to Africa following her boyfriend, Juanjo, in order to bring help and to rescue the child soldiers who live there. In a border crossing point, Paula and Kaney meet each other and this will be the starting point of this dramatic story, full of fear, violence and redemption. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Who directed That Wasn't Me?
That Wasn't Me was directed by Esteban Crespo.
Who stars in That Wasn't Me?
The principal cast of That Wasn't Me includes Alejandra Lorente, Gustavo Salmerón, Babou Cham, Mariano Nguema, Alito Rodgers Jr..
When was That Wasn't Me released and how long is it?
That Wasn't Me was released in 2012 with a total runtime of 20m.















