Breve historia del planeta verde
- Direction
- Santiago Loza
- Country
- Argentina
- Format
- Feature film
- Type
- Fiction
- Original title
- Breve historia del planeta verde
- Film presented in Toulouse
Si je suis perdu, c´est pas grave – 2015 – Competition
- Scenario
- Santiago Loza
Santiago Loza
He studied film at the UNC and at the Argentinean National Institute of Cinematography (INCA) with specialising in screenwriting. He wrote, produced and directed documentaries and feature film in video format. They have been screened at national and international festivals. Grieta is his first full-lenght feature film.
Filmography
1. La paz. Berlin Film Festival, Bafici – Best picture – 2013, Cinélatino: Rencontres de Toulouse (Panorama Fiction 2014)
2. Los labios. Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard selection – 2010 / 2011), Cinélatino: Rencontres de Toulouse (Panorama Fiction 2011)
3. La invención de la carne. Locarno Film Festival – 2009, Cinélatino: Rencontres de Toulouse (Cine en construcción 15: 2009 / 2010), Cinélatino: Rencontres de Toulouse (Otra mirada).
4. Extraño. Cinélatino: Rencontres de Toulouse (Cine en construcción 01: 2002), San Sebastián (Cine en construcción 02: 2002), Rotterdam film festival – Tiger Award – 2003.
Note of intent
I want to make a movie about dear beings, weak, hurt, who are dragged to live an extraordinary situation. I would like to make a film more open to the narration, like a tale. A mix of genre between science fiction, dramatic, comedy and adventure. The other, the weird, the alien, told in the every day. I know the three actors. I take for the film some of their personal lives, the courage with which they dealt with certain experiences. The movie is a tribute to the all the losers. And an act of poetic justice.
Synopsis
Tania is a trans girl who makes shows at discos in Buenos Aires. Pedro is a creature of the night, a regular dancer. Daniela works in a bar as a waitress. She is dealing with a break-up. They went to school together in their home town. Tania receives the news that her grandmother has died, so she decides to go back to the town with her two friends. Her grandma has left her house as an inheritance, and hidden an Alien body that accompanied her in those last years. She asks them in a letter to please take the creature to the place where it appeared to give it eternal peace. Pedro, Daniela and Tania start a journey looking for that place. They find the appeasement they need, what makes their loneliness softer. At the end, they arrive to a mysterious place, where the Alien ship comes to look for the creature. Tania leaves with it. Pedro and Daniela stay in Earth, closer than ever.
Visual concept
The visual aspect of the film takes as reference some 80´s entertainment movies like Stand by me, The Goonies, in which the characters have to solve a challenge. The imagery takes referents like Andrei Tarskovski´s Stalker, the wandering movies of Antonioni. An image that recalls the charm of old science fiction. Filmed on 35mm, as a retro sing. Digital black and white flashbacks to see the ET alive. The first part shows the gay night in Buenos Aires, a non realistic image which is a mix of pictorial and comic composition.
- Objectives sought in Films in Development
Find international producers and professionals interested in the project.
- Shooting planned date
December 2015
- Planned shooting location
Córdoba and Entre Ríos, Argentina
- Percentage of funding in place
- 20% (85 081 €)
- Project's development phase
There is a first version of the script. Meeting with the main actors and looking for locations.
- Producer's biography
Constanza Sanz Palacios began her film career in 2005, producing a independent films of innovative aesthetics. She produced Edgardo Cozarinsky’s trilogy of essay films Notes for an imaginary biography, Nocturnos and Letter to a father. Currently she is in production stage with Memory exercises, the second feature film by Paz Encina, and developing The immerse family by María Alché.