Feature film, fiction.
Synopsis
LUCIA is 14 years old but she looks a bit younger. She's skinny and her body is that of a girl. As she uses brackets she always smiles mouth closed and as soon as she finishes eating she goes to the bathroom to be sure her teeth are clean.
Lucía's parents are divorced. She and her brother FEDERICO (9) live with their mother in an apartment. ALBERTO is 43 years old and he is a chiropractic. He has left his wife and he spends little time with his children on weekends and holidays.
Alberto has rented a bungalow in a thermal resort to spend a week with Lucía and Federico. He has picked them up at dawn to gain time. Holidays will be short and the sky looks like it's going to rain.
During the silent road trip, it starts raining.
Once at the thermal resort the perspectives are discouraging: the place is a messy sucession of cabins and hotels full of eldery people. Moreover, the bungalow rented by Alberto is too small (only one bedroom for the three of them) and a lightning storm warning keep the pools closed for indefinite time.
Full of good intentions, Alberto –rather unsuccessfully– tries to take his children to several excursions to cheer them up and forget the failure of the family trip. In spite of her father's efforts, Lucía is not willing to give him any opportunity.
Lucía feels stuck in a claustrophobic situation that the insistence of his father in cheering up only worsen. Neither the tendency of Alberto to exaggerate everything, nor his noisy behaviour in public help Lucía, that frequently feels deeply embarrased.
The backdrop of this situation are the empty pools and the permanent presence of the rain.
During her second day at the resort, Lucía meets MADELÓN (15), a girl that although being her age looks more confident and mature. Lucía finds in Madelón not only the possibility of getting rid of her family and escape boredom, but also of doing things she usually doesn't do. With Madelón Lucía shares cigarrettes and she stays late at night drinking beer.
Nevertheless, when the boy she likes (AGUSTÍN, 16) looks interested in her new friend, Lucía decides to distance herself from Madelón and she finds in her father a safety exit for this new situation that she doesn't know how to handle. Now, the excursions that Alberto organizes doesn't look that horrible.
Certain strangeness emerges at the ending of the story. Lucía is left alone by chance and she's not sure what to do. She waits for her father and brother to return. As time passes and Alberto and Federico don't show up, Lucía looks at the place that, due to the changing weather, has recovered the life it lacked. Not knowing how to feel, Lucía let herself go.
Technical details
Ana was born in Montevideo on February 7, 1980.
In 1999 she starts attending the degree of Social Communication at the School of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Uruguay, and in the third year of the degree she chooses to specialize in Creative Narrative. In 2003 she gets the Bachelor Degree in Social Communication upon presentation of the Mémoire: Fiction, documentary, and transfer of style.
During that year, she participates in several short film projects in collaboration with graduates of the Film School of the Catholic University. In April 2004 she is invited to be part of the direction team of Ruido, Uruguayan feature film directed by Marcelo Betralmío, where she serves as script supervisor.
During the subsequent years, she taps into the advertising field, working as direction assistant and script supervisor for several producers.
Leticia was born in Montevideo on November 5, 1981.
In 2000 she starts attending the degree of Social Communication at the School of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Uruguay, and in the third year of the degree the chooses to specialize in Creative Narrative.
In 2003 she obtains her degree, having directed the documentary La Sombra del arco (2002) and the short fiction film Decí que no estoy (2003) during the academic period. In 2005 she obtains the Bachelor Degree in Social Communication upon presentation of the Mémoire Character v. Structure: the script as system.
Since 2004 she directs a series of castings for the producer CONTROL Z FILMS, among others, for the Uruguayan feature film La Perrera directed by Manolo Nieto, and, more recently, the feature film Acné directed by Federico Veiroj, for which she also worked as second direction assistant.
In 2004, Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge started working together in the creation of original scripts. In February 2005 they submit the original script El cuarto del fondo at the competition Por una ley de cine announced by the Producers Association of Uruguay. The script is awarded the prize, together with other two projects.
During 2005 they develop and co-direct the short film they finish early in 2006.
In 2007, the script Tanta Agua is selected by the Fundación Carolina and Casa América to participate in the Course of development of Ibero-American cinematographic projects that shall take place in Casa América, Madrid, in October and November this year.
