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Name : Pol Punto R & Monica Muñoz
Nickname: The Richters Special sign : The R Motto : The wildest side of love Website : https://www.onlytherichters.com/ |
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In a few lines, tell us who are you?
We are Pol & Monica (Spanish and venezuela/chile/italy) living in Berlin. We do wedding photo and video and we when met in a wedding conference in México we inmediatly felt in love. Later we moved together to Berlin. We decided to create The Richters (video and photo) as we shared the same point of view in weddings : real life moments and not possed cheesyness. We are are absolutely not interested in the industry standards or trends. We like to have a political point of view, we feel a bit like the Clash in the wedding scene.
How did you become a wedding videographer?
Monica already studied photography in the university (she even was a teacher there). She worked in almost every kind of photo (events, social, sport, press, portraits) and developed personal projects. I studied engineer but never finished, I always liked video montage so I decided to make it my profession. I ask for a credit and bought some equipment and jump in to a wedding with no idea about how to use it. I thought weddings were a nice white canvas to learn the audiovisual language meanwhile earning some money. Is like a scholarship for learning audiovisuals.
Since when ?
We both work in the wedding industry for around 8-10 years
How many weddings have you had?
Monica made probably more than 100 and I think 100 too.
Briefly describe your style?
We like to document without any intervention. Life is magnificient as it is and full of beatiful moments, so we don´t need (or want) to fake them. We prefer to capture real full of truth moments that maybe are not technically perfect or not so aestheticly beatiful instead the stage situations that are technically perfect but with absolutely no soul because there are not truth at all behind. We support feminist couples and weddings, we support the political aspect of the wedding culture as we defend progresism instead some obsolete traditions
We are Pol & Monica (Spanish and venezuela/chile/italy) living in Berlin. We do wedding photo and video and we when met in a wedding conference in México we inmediatly felt in love. Later we moved together to Berlin. We decided to create The Richters (video and photo) as we shared the same point of view in weddings : real life moments and not possed cheesyness. We are are absolutely not interested in the industry standards or trends. We like to have a political point of view, we feel a bit like the Clash in the wedding scene.
How did you become a wedding videographer?
Monica already studied photography in the university (she even was a teacher there). She worked in almost every kind of photo (events, social, sport, press, portraits) and developed personal projects. I studied engineer but never finished, I always liked video montage so I decided to make it my profession. I ask for a credit and bought some equipment and jump in to a wedding with no idea about how to use it. I thought weddings were a nice white canvas to learn the audiovisual language meanwhile earning some money. Is like a scholarship for learning audiovisuals.
Since when ?
We both work in the wedding industry for around 8-10 years
How many weddings have you had?
Monica made probably more than 100 and I think 100 too.
Briefly describe your style?
We like to document without any intervention. Life is magnificient as it is and full of beatiful moments, so we don´t need (or want) to fake them. We prefer to capture real full of truth moments that maybe are not technically perfect or not so aestheticly beatiful instead the stage situations that are technically perfect but with absolutely no soul because there are not truth at all behind. We support feminist couples and weddings, we support the political aspect of the wedding culture as we defend progresism instead some obsolete traditions
Who are the people who inspire you in the world of marriage?
Our couples. People that live in their own way, away from the cliches. Just happiness with no fears.
What are your inspirations outside of marriage?
We don´t have any specific inspiration, we like some narrative resources or aesthetics we see in movies, short movies or music videos.
For you, what is the most important in our profession?
This is about to document people so we should be good observers and psychologists. Also to be good adapting to the situations. We shoud learn how to document real like people. For a wedding videographer it should be more inspiring to see documentaries instead cinema, as cinema is fiction and a wedding is the real life. We are paid for documenting real life couples getting married not for doing movies. We should be more realistic and respect this distance.
What do you think you will bring to the workshop participants?
Push them to find their own style as is the only chance to be real different and feel really happy. What makes you special?. If you are just a copy of the copy of the copy, maybe you can be technically good and get beautiful shots but nobody will remember you since you have nothing recognizable to remember. Besides then you are pushed to compete only for being cheaper as you do the same than everybody does and you don´t want to be cheap.
What are your rewards / publications?
What we feel proud the most is to get attention for our wedding work in the NON-WEDDING INDUSTRY because it means you are doing something unique enough to stand out not only in the wedding scene. We got interviews, mentions or awards in culture magazines or newspapers. : El País, Yahoo News, Telva, Mujer hoy, Zancada magazine, Vanidades, Us, El pulso, Youth quake, Viste la calle, Berlin Amateur, TIP berlin...
SOME AWARDS:
- WINNERS in the Agripina national awards for the best Commercial Spot in 2012
- With our Sologamy (2020) short movie:
- WINNERS in the SHORT FILM FACTORY
- SPECIAL JURY MENTION in the SHORT OF THE YEAR
- WINNERS in the BERLIN FILM FLASH FESTIVAL.
- FINALISTS with a real wedding video but in a real cinema festival in MAD WEB FEST (2017)
We don´t pay much attention to the WEDDING INDUSTRY AWARDS as we miss real industry professional in the juries instead ourselves, but anyways we got some nice stuff too:
- Best spanish wedding videographer UNION WEP 2015, actually the first edition.
- TOP 10 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 INSPIRATION PHOTOGRAPHERS
- 5th position in the All-time overall INSPIRATION PHOTOGRAPHERS
- Some FEARLESS AWARDS
WEDDING BLOGS : My Rock wedding, Rock'n'roll bride, Frieda Theres, Evetichwill, Bodas de cuento, Una boda original, belle & chic, amor pra sempre, a todo confetti, etc..
We are so proud to have travelled the world doing CONFERENCES and WORKSHOPS in countries like USA, France, Spain, Brazil, México, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Greece, Hungary, Morocco, Rumania or Portugal.
Our couples. People that live in their own way, away from the cliches. Just happiness with no fears.
What are your inspirations outside of marriage?
We don´t have any specific inspiration, we like some narrative resources or aesthetics we see in movies, short movies or music videos.
For you, what is the most important in our profession?
This is about to document people so we should be good observers and psychologists. Also to be good adapting to the situations. We shoud learn how to document real like people. For a wedding videographer it should be more inspiring to see documentaries instead cinema, as cinema is fiction and a wedding is the real life. We are paid for documenting real life couples getting married not for doing movies. We should be more realistic and respect this distance.
What do you think you will bring to the workshop participants?
Push them to find their own style as is the only chance to be real different and feel really happy. What makes you special?. If you are just a copy of the copy of the copy, maybe you can be technically good and get beautiful shots but nobody will remember you since you have nothing recognizable to remember. Besides then you are pushed to compete only for being cheaper as you do the same than everybody does and you don´t want to be cheap.
What are your rewards / publications?
What we feel proud the most is to get attention for our wedding work in the NON-WEDDING INDUSTRY because it means you are doing something unique enough to stand out not only in the wedding scene. We got interviews, mentions or awards in culture magazines or newspapers. : El País, Yahoo News, Telva, Mujer hoy, Zancada magazine, Vanidades, Us, El pulso, Youth quake, Viste la calle, Berlin Amateur, TIP berlin...
SOME AWARDS:
- WINNERS in the Agripina national awards for the best Commercial Spot in 2012
- With our Sologamy (2020) short movie:
- WINNERS in the SHORT FILM FACTORY
- SPECIAL JURY MENTION in the SHORT OF THE YEAR
- WINNERS in the BERLIN FILM FLASH FESTIVAL.
- FINALISTS with a real wedding video but in a real cinema festival in MAD WEB FEST (2017)
We don´t pay much attention to the WEDDING INDUSTRY AWARDS as we miss real industry professional in the juries instead ourselves, but anyways we got some nice stuff too:
- Best spanish wedding videographer UNION WEP 2015, actually the first edition.
- TOP 10 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 INSPIRATION PHOTOGRAPHERS
- 5th position in the All-time overall INSPIRATION PHOTOGRAPHERS
- Some FEARLESS AWARDS
WEDDING BLOGS : My Rock wedding, Rock'n'roll bride, Frieda Theres, Evetichwill, Bodas de cuento, Una boda original, belle & chic, amor pra sempre, a todo confetti, etc..
We are so proud to have travelled the world doing CONFERENCES and WORKSHOPS in countries like USA, France, Spain, Brazil, México, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Greece, Hungary, Morocco, Rumania or Portugal.