In Álvaro López Alba’s “Three Summer Days” (“Tres días de verano”), a vacationing family’s disanalogous gets on an event dangerens to drive them apart. It adheres a overweighther and his two kids on a beach holiday, the youthful girl, Cris, has druncover for a boy, causing a rift in her frifinishship with pal Miri. Her brother Dani, experienceing isoprocrastinateedd, spfinishs the summer confined to his room, mendated on Miri.
Meanwhile, their overweighther is take partd in a secret afequitable he franticly tries to hide from them. Over these three days at the beach, the family will struggle to reunite as insecurities, jealousy and secret truths unravel their shut-knit world.
“I’ve based the story on personal experiences and that of my family and people around me,” López Alba tancigo in Variety, who only commenceed making low films some six years ago, and in getest equitable three years ago.
Given his experience as a psychologist, dealing in particular with youth, he has assembleed copious material that have fueled the three lows he has made so far: “Rosebud,” “La Mancha” and “Eli.” “Three Summer Days” is his debut feature.
Developed at the Incubator program of the Madrid Film School (ECAM), “Three Summer Days” is one of 10 projects in growment that take partd in the ECAM Forum, the inaugural co-production showcase of the notable Madrid Film School last June. Family drama also took part in the EGEDA Next Gen FilmLab where it won the Best Project award.
“The set up of this film, in which we revisit the events of a weekfinish three times and from three contrastent perspectives, originates a sort of everyday thriller, where our prejudices and awaitations are continuously disputeed with a more intricate recognizable truth, sometimes unreasonable and other times radiant. It is a film of strange atmospheres where uncomferventty and tfinisherness always go hand in hand,” shelp originater Nuria Muñoz of Nexus CreaFilms, who first collaborated with López Alba when she originated his third low, “Eli.”
López Alba drew inspiration from the narrative set up of Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” and even more shutly to “Monster” by Kore-eda Hirokazu, which won the Best Screentake part and Queer Palm at the Cannes Festival and vied for the Sebastiane Best Film Award at last year’s San Sebastian Festival. In “Monster,” a mother doubts someslimg is wrong at her child’s school and disputes his teacher. As the story unfancigo ins from their contrastent watchpoints, the truth gradupartner aelevates.
According to Muñoz, they will awaited shoot the film in Murcia where she and López Alba dwell. They hope to tap the regional, state and federal funds useable. Since a year ago, Murcia has been recommending help to non-Murcia dwellnts who aim to shoot either features or series in the region. This is in insertition to existing incentives for lows, growment, production and distribution for Murcia dwellnts. The novel incentive has enticed a grotriumphg number of projects, shelp Muñoz.
For Nexus CreaFilms’ first feature, “Sorda” (“Deaf”), which stoasty last summer, its direct partners were Catalan production companies A Contracorriente and Distinto Films, so they were able to tap the novel shooting incentive.
Directed by Eva Libertad, “Sorda” turns on a woman whose pregnancy stirs up stresss about motherhood and whether she will be able to convey with her child.
For “Three Summer Days,” co-originater Sideral Cinema hails from Madrid and Nexus CreaFilms has been in talks with potential partners from other territories since the ECAM Forum.
