DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS
2023 Films
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23m
Driven by their desire for light and warmth, British teenagers take a trip to the Balearic Islands. They must absorb the sun and store it in their bodies to take it back to their cloud-covered kingdom.
Directed by: Christian Avilés
Written by: Christian Avilés
Produced by: Nica Fazio
Cinematography: Manuel G. Romero
Editing: Christian Avilés
Production Design: Michi Vázquez
Costume Design: Marta Rosmeri
Make-Up: Meri Llenas
Sound: Jimmy Solórzano
Original Score: Christian Avilés
Visual Effects: Manuel G. Romero
Cast: Sam Zeitlin, Julia Fossi, Clara Sans, Lily Robins, Dina Serra, Gloria Sirvent, Julia Mascort
Original Title: LA HERIDA LUMINOSA
Film Production Country: Spain
Social Media:
http://www.instagram.com/laheridaluminosa
http://www.instagram.com/christianredrum
Statement of the Director/s
I had the desire to write a fairy tale based on the extremely transformative moments of adolescence, delving into the euphoric highs and the profound lows, about abandon and escapism altogether through the lens of magic realism.
In recent summers, it’s become a viral practice for European young people to jump off their hotel balconies while on holidays in Spain, and to even record it with their phones to later post the footage online. Witnessing it from a local point of view, throughout the years we’ve seen the national tv and media portray and explore the phenomena with a cold and distant regard; however I often found myself fantasizing and bonding with the young foreigners, thinking about our common links and mirroring such an aggressive activity to my own latent teenage angst so tied to our generation, the internet, and a deep longing to feel understood and belong. Empathizing with the emotions that go through one’s first unsupervised journey and the surreal feeling of experimenting a radically different weather than the one you’re used to. Being somewhere where you’re allowed to be someone else and, maybe for the first time, yourself.
Here I strived to focus on the mystical dimension that unfolds when British teenagers set out on their annual pilgrimage to Mallorca, chasing not only the sun’s warmth but also the ephemeral freedom of youth. A spiritual awakening happening in plain sight that yet remains an undeciphered mistery for those living on the Spanish island.
Biography of the Director/s
Born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1997, Christian Avilés is a director, writer and composer. He studied a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Media in Escac university, specialising in Direction. DAYDREAMING SO VIVIDLY ABOUT OUR SPANISH HOLIDAYS (LA HERIDA LUMINOSA), is his final degree project and his first short film – a fiction in which he delves into themes of teenage spirituality, magic and suicide. Premiered internationally at Berlinale Shorts 2023.
Filmography of the Director/s
2022 - Daydreaming so vividly about our Spanish holidays
Production Company:
Escac Films
Christian Avilés
Phone: +34744402611
Website: https://escac.com/films/
World Sales:
Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
Stine Wangler & Anna Leimbrinck
Phone: +494039106328
Website: https://www.shortfilmsales.com/
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