Alicia Moncholí, winner of the New Directors of Asturias Award for her newest brief, “Campolivar,” is growing her first characteristic movie, the coming-of-age drama “Weekends,” simply introduced as one of many 5 titles in improvement set to be offered on the Second Spanish Screenings on Tour.
They unspool at Rome’s MIA discussion board, which takes place Oct. 9-13.
“Weekends,” like “Campolivar,” is about up at Barcelona-based Oberón Media, launched in 2018 by Antonio Chavarrías, producer of Berlin Golden Bear winner “The Milk of Sorrow” and director of “The Chosen,” and Mexico’s Mónica Lozano, producer of Alejandro González Iñarritu’s “Amores Perros” and Eugenio Derbéz’s “Instructions Not Included.”
Selected on the ninth version of DAMA Ayuda, the place Moncholí was tutored by Michel Gaztambide (“Cows,” “No Rest for the Wicked”), “Weekends” was put by way of Spain’s Residencias de la Academia 2023 program and Acció Viver de Dones Visuals, a Seventh-month improvement initiative.
Her future debut can also be written by Moncholí, an alum of Barcelona’s Escac movie faculty whose work activates the reinterpretation of experiences associated to household, absence and latent trauma.
Expanding on “Campolivar,” “Weekends” is about in Spain in 2005. It tracks the journey of Olivia, 8, who reconnects together with her father after 5 years with out seeing him. Together they are going to journey to completely different accommodations over completely different weekends.
“Through the fractured dynamics of their relationship, Olivia will lose the innocence of her childhood and confront instability contaminated with a reality of anguish, feats and euphoria that her father reveals to her,” the synopsis runs.
“‘Weekends’” is a challenge that proposes a self-referential journey to discover the sensations of my childhood and my relationship with my father,” mentioned Moncholí.
“I aim to develop a project that reflects on mental health, parent-child relationships, and the changes in perception towards the world caused by childhood trauma,” she added.
Winning Moncholí the New Directors of Asturias Award on the Gijón International Festival Lab, “Campolivar,” which impressed “Weekends,” is now in post-production. It is slated for launch in early 2024.
Moncholí’s doc brief “No Quiero Más,” was chosen at numerous festivals, together with the Gijón Film Festival and L’Alternativa, and was awarded greatest scholar movie on the Navarre Film Festival.
Oberon Media’s credit embody Jaime Rosales’ San Sebastian competitors participant “Wild Flowers” and the upcoming “La Abadesa,” from Chavarrías, and Belén Funes’ “The Turtles.”
Antonio Chavarrías, Alicia Moncholi
Courtesy of Oberon Media