"I placed the story in two very different places to show their contrasts," Elias says of his film, 'Dos Mas,' which was shot on location in his native Spain and his new home, New York City, where he's completing his film studies at Columbia University. "One place is New York, which needs very little introduction or explanation, because it's a place that so many people have seen or visited. And the other, is a place that I know very well," but other people probably don't. The location in Spain is near where Elias was born and grew up. "It took a long time to find this location. We looked around and around until we finally found the location that perfectly fit the image we were looking for. Then we found it. One house, in the middle of nowhere, with nothing around it, a sort of paradise for the woman in the story." But filming in two separate locations as far as New York and Spain are from one another incurred huge costs. The mere mention of the budget exhausts Elias. "We got financial support and cooperation from short film associations in both the U.S. and Spain. Some of our crew gave us money, and of course, I had to put in money of my own. In the end it took us about a year to raise the funds for this film. Because of that, I have no money left for myself for the next five years!" Elias told us a little about the filmmaking industry in Spain. "For about 20 or 25 years, there wasn't any film school in Spain. So, for people like me who wanted to make films, we just had to do it all on our own, figure things out as we did them. But about five years ago, a national film school in Madrid was set up, so there's a new generation of filmmakers coming out of Spain. I think it's going to strengthen filmmaking in Spain." Although 'Dos Mas' literally means 'two more,' in Spanish, Elias says the title is deliberately vague. "Rather than explain the meaning of the film's title, I'd rather that audiences decide for themselves what it means. I guess in some ways it means that two people won't come to the same conclusion on any one thing…" As for the future, Elias isn't sure where it will take him, but he's open to all options. "I probably have a better chance right now to succeed in Spain than I do in New York. But given the chance, I'll make films anywhere that I can. Of course, if a Japanese producer calls me up and asks me to make a film here, that would be fine with me. So, if anyone is listening, please…(laughs)"