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IN DEVELOPMENT

LUZ ORLANDO BRENNAN

THE TOURIST

Maria decides to take a trip to Bangkok by herself. But once there, she is informed her passport has expired. Trapped, and yearning for other worlds, Maria checks into a hostel in Buenos Aires. Her husband and friends believes she is in the Far East, but she has actually become a tourist in disguise in her own city, Buenos Aires.

TECHNICAL SHEET

Feature Film

96 min

2K, 5.1, Color.

Argentina.


Cast - Valeria Bertucelli

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Written & Directed by – Luz Orlando Brennan

Production –  Caudillo Cine, Cine Fervor.

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Producers: Diego Amson, Tili Arizmendi.

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With the support- INCAA

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THE STORY

      WORKSHOPS AND LABS:​

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  • IV Diplomado en Producción Cinematográfica Iberoamericana a production workshop organized by the Program and ASOCINE Ibermedia developed in Panama in April 2010.

 

  • II Taller INCINE de Encuentro Iberoamericano Programa Ibergente aimed at developing co-production projects in Quito, Ecuador.

 

  • II Tareula Latin American Seminar in Mexico DF, México.

 

  • Morelia Lab 2011. Morelia, México. during the Morelia International Film Festival (15-23 oct). Win CINEPOLIS award for best Pitch.

 

  • Produire au Sud Workshop 2012 organized by the Festival 3 Continents at Belo Horizonte, Brasil.

Maria decides to take a trip to Bangkok by herself. But once there, she is informed her passport has expired. Trapped, and yearning for other worlds, Maria checks into a hostel in Buenos Aires. Her husband and friends believes she is in the Far East, but she has actually become a tourist in disguise in her own city, Buenos Aires. Keeping up the lie implies a skillful actress job, and Maria carries it on in a game of a rampant splitting of herself. What before was only a lying game, it is now a releasing way of life. By disguising herself as a tourist in her native city, Maria is able to reinvent herself.

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​A ROAD MOVIE  WITHOUT PLANES OR HIGHWAYS.

 

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DIRECTOR´S NOTE

I wondered about that impulse to travel, that very common, and even a bit adolescent, fantasy of wanting to travel to change everything; as if the change in geography could change us completely, transform us into someone else and bring us back improved. I wanted Maria to act as someone else, to adopt another position from where to look. In this way, what starts as an almost accidental switch sets the different parts of her life into motion until she recovers her standpoint, falling back in love with her own existence. For this, Maria has a secret weapon: to play another role, to become another woman. To play a role is nothing but to let yourself go in an attempt of changing places, it is about a structural movement. Isn’t this also what travelling is all about?



Photo credits:​ @ihoworth

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