A film that explores different emotions and genres
As at the end of any stage of life, even more if it is adolescence, emotions mix with each other. The director proposes to do the same through film genres. “Summer Trippin” is a coming of age that uploads its curtain in a bright bariloche that slowly darkens. The storm appears and the Police satire also. He even clarifies this portrait with the Western, “Stoner Movie” (Comedy based on marijuana issues) and the thriller.
The crossing of genres is adorned with a soundtrack that goes from “Good times” by Dillom up to a version of “The house of the rising sun” by Santiago Motorized. In addition, the story manages to sustain itself thanks to an undeniable chemistry among actresses that manages to convince the spectator of A brotherhood that subtly ends up colliding with heartbreak.
“It was a challenge and It was necessary that they had that chemistry Because apart I told them ‘They are friends of a lifetime, they have many codes that only work between them’. That was their work and it went well for luck, ”says the director. In her prima opera not only explored her origins, but also her beliefs: “For me friends are a fundamental piece of our life, It is the family we choose. So cliché, but they are a support. ”
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Journalist: You have more than a decade of experience in the industry, you are creative producer in K&S Films. However, you now make your directional debut with “Summer Trippin.”
Morena Fernández Quinteros: I have the desire to direct many years ago since I studied Cine, which I received in 2013. I even studying I wanted to direct, but I studied production.
Q.: How was this prima opera born?
MFQ: I started writing in the pandemia, but recently I found scripts that I had written, which have scenes that are today in the movie. So, It is an imaginary universe that was a long time ago in my head. But in 2020 I specified it in such a project to present it to someone. In 2021, with the producer we made “the end of love” and there a very nice group of actresses was armed, among them it was Zoe Hochbaum. Years later, she approaches me and tells me “I’m looking for what movie produce next year.” So, I sent it to him as who has a embedded project. It was a process that occurred quickly for what are usually those of a prima opera. My internal process was longer, let’s say.
Q.: Zoe Hochbaum not only produces the film, but also gives life to one of the protagonists with Miranda de la Serna. You are a new face that directs a new generation of actresses.
MFQ: Somehow I am also a new generation. It’s funny because recently in the interviews they told me, “well, they are all children of actors.” That was a coincidence, it is A generational replacement, then all these new names appear where there are several who are children of well -known actors, With a lot of experience, but it hallucinates me because we are A new voice, a new way to bring a story to the screen And that gives me pride. And that we have the possibility because also as young people sometimes this frustration of good “When will you touch us? When are we going to have that place?”
Q.: And you are a new voice that brings to the screen the story of a friendship between two young women, a theme that is not yet exploited.
MFQ: The movie has some of the movies that I liked, but there is also something that mobilized me. On the one hand, this moment of life that there is a mandate, something that forces you to change, to leave your place, to look for something new and when that moment comes, It puts a little at check everything your life was there. It has to do a lot with my growing because I am from Bariloche, at 18 I had to come to Buenos Aires and that change was very abrupt. In that process I had to say goodbye to my friends I had grown up. And sometimes you think that these friends are going to be forever and it is painful to realize that you stop sharing, stop having things in common. We always talk about love duels, but the loss of friends is very painful. And put these two girls with all their naivety and the abrupt thing about how ingenuity is lost in general. These two kids take all things to a point of no return, to live something that changes the perspective of life forever. So, all that brought me to tell the story and I loved that they were two female protagonists because, as you say, there are not so many films, at least here in Argentina, except two young girls. It was not a reason why to make the film, but after they are two girls, he added a spectacular sense.
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Q.: Two girls who throw themselves into their void by their own decision, but also without knowing exactly what they were getting into.
MFQ: The film does not have so much to do with the drug business situation itself, but As the world takes advantage of that innocence of young people. As the kids get into the depths, everything becomes increasingly tense because they don’t even know what they are entering.
Q.: While they get into the depths, the story is getting dark. “Summer Trippin” manages a merger of genres that helps sustain this tension. In addition, both the scenario and its climate collaborated so that this friendly heartbreak is.
MFQ: When we started filming in Bariloche, we saw that I was going to rain all week and it was a crisis because it was a movie called summer Where is the summer if it will rain every day? And there was no way not to film. At that moment I said “Well, what do I do? Yes Bariloche is proposing rain is because I have to grab it, how will I grab her for my story?” And I started reading the script and said, “from this moment the rain will enter the story.” And that is when they begin to get into the storm. The rain gave a very spectacular film, which helped me a lot to build this climate of tension. Obviously, added to the staging and rhythm that the film itself has, but that generated that climate of tension that helped me reach the end. Then too The character of Lali And the police finished generating this mixture of genres that I wanted. The easiest way to define it is Coming of Age because it is the passage from adolescence to adulthood, But he also has some drama, thriller. I like to have achieved that mixture. I don’t know if it was so aware, did you see? I found her.
Q.: How did the idea of working with Lali arise?
MFQ: Lali is my intimate friend for many years. He knows me with the desire to direct. So, when it is confirmed that I am going to make the movie and I begin to advance in the writing process, one day chatting at home, he tells me in a joke “Is there a character for me”, but I say “Do you know what yes? I am writing this character named ‘The Diabla’, a narco layer.” And there we began to think how to do it because he was a character that you read it and naturally you could imagine someone much bigger and for me there Lali was very intelligent in its construction because he understood how he had to give that firmness to his youth. It was very nice because we were two friends accompanying us, Just as I have to accompany her in very rude things she does, I liked it to accompany me. So that participation became very natural.
Q.: “Summer Trippin” arrives at a time where the role of national cinema is constantly debate, what generates you to release in these times?
MFQ: It seems very crazy that I have to release me in this context because it is a very complicated moment, almost no one is filming, there is no promotion of culture in any way. And I can’t help abstracting my cinema is because I studied at the public university, because I had that possibility. I studied at Enerc and for having studied there I started working quickly. I perfectly understand the importance of promoting culture and education, of everything. So, I do not assume being released at this time, it seems very particular to me, an absolute privilege. We are opening a film made by quite young people in general, starring women. He has several things that make me feel pride that we have touched us in this context, but I don’t want to take aside that it is really complicated, did you see? For the entire sector.
Q.: And it is nothing more and nothing less than your prima opera.
MFQ: It seems to me crazy that the first thing I did A film that is going to be released in 50 rooms throughout the country. I go down the street, I cross with posters from the movie. That has been given in this way is spectacular and I just want it to be an omen to make more and better. But you have to love the work, then I find him, as a super demanding person that I am, his little things, but hey, it seems to me that we manage to do something different and that already leaves me alone. At one point in the process I said “I would make me so happy not to show it to anyone, I already did it, it remained for me.” And not, Showing it is a necessary part. The most difficult to do these things because the process is a lot of vulnerability, but it is necessary. I disabled her, it’s no longer mine, it’s what happens to each person who sees her. He like it or does not like it, but since that is happening, mission fulfilled.
The “Summer Trippin” route just started. While landing in the country’s rooms, he prepares for His soon pass through the San Sebastián Festival where it will integrate the “other activities” section. With this movie, the director Morena Fernández Quinteros not only highlights the importance of giving rise to new national stories, but also that there are new voices that take over the screen. It was time to see new faces.
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“Summer Trippin” (2025). Address: Morena Fernández Quinteros. Screenplay: Morena Fernández Quinteros and Juan Cavoti. Cast: Miranda de la Serna, Zoe Hochbaum, Lali Espósito, Ariel Staltari, Manu Fanego, Juan Grandinetti, Valentín Wein, Simón Saieg and Brian Sichel. Duration: 70 minutes.
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