1. Art and Diseño

COMO FUNCIONAN
CASI TODAS LAS COSAS
HOW ALMOST EVERYTHING WORKS
DIRECTOR
PRODUCERS
LANGUAGE
F O R M AT
RUNNING TIME
GENRE
C O U N T RY
FERNANDO SALEM
TAREA FINA
UTÓPICA GROUP
FERNANDO SALEM
EL PERRO EN LA LUNA
SPANISH
HD 2.35:1 DCP
93’.
DRAMA - COMEDY
ARGENTINA
EXT. CELINA’S HOUSE - DAY
SYNOPSIS
EXT. TOLLBOOTH - DAY
Celina is an introspective and shy girl who lives in a desert working-class
neighborhood. She has a boyfriend and works at a deserted tollbooth in order
to provide for her father who is very sick.
But on a Sunday after coming back from church she finds him dead.
Organizing her father’s belongings, she discovers the address where her
mother lives in Italy. Celina then resigns from her work at the tollbooth, to sell
books door to door, just like her father did.
How almost everything works is an American encyclopedia that has all the
answers, selling it will allow her to save money to look for her mother, the only
one she has left.
EXT. TOLLBOOTH - DAY
During her first sales journey she does not manage to sell anything, but discovers that her mother never left to Italy, but remade her life and lives on the
other side of the desert.
Celina then finds the courage to cross the desert she saw from her tollbooth,
and with the excuse to sell her an encyclopedia, knocks on the door of her
mother’s house.
“
A film that introduces a brave new director capable
of running risks directing his actors, in casting selection,
and in a new narrative and visual proposal turning his
personal experiences in a unique and touching film.
”
CREW
III UNASUR Cine IFF Jury Statement
DIRECTOR
Fernando SALEM
WRITERS
Fernando SALEM
Esteban GARELLI
PRODUCERS
Verónica CURA
Paula MASSA
Juan Pablo MILLER
Diego AMSON
Fernando SALEM
CINEMATOGRAPHER
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
COSTUME DESIGNER
SOUND DIRECTOR
EDITOR
MUSIC
Georgina PRETTO
Carina LUJÁN
Laura DONARI
Juan BERNARDIS
Emiliano FARDAUS
Juan BERNARDIS
FIRST CONCEPT IMAGE FOR THE FILM
DIRECTOR’S MOTIVATION
I came to think that every December I would fall in love and that every
March they would leave me again. Playing with statistics I draw the
conclusion that I would die at the age of 31. I firmly believed that a
streak of bad luck was the natural consequence of a previous period of
good fortune.
I maintained that the time to recover from a rupture was directly
proportional to the duration of the relationship.
Nothing worked.
EXT. DESERT - DAY
We could find the explanation to these phenomena in religion, self-help,
our parents, horoscope, psychoanalysis, sales courses, encyclopedias
and even in some films.
However, most of the time all this is not enough and we feel the impulse
to look for our own answers.
How almos eveything works it is the fight of logic, calculation, parameters and encyclopedias against destiny, luck, love, god, death, chance
and some of our human feelings.
If a salesman was to knock on my door offering an amazing book that
answers to all my queries, it wouldn’t be easy to convince me.
I think that sometimes there are things that don’t have an explanation
and that isn’t all bad.
We all cross a desert loading with our heavy incomplete encyclopedias.
¿Don’t we?
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Fernando Salem was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1976.
He studied Communication Sciences in UBA and he graduated as Filmmaker in ENERC.
FERNANDO SALEM with GEORGINA PRETTO (DOP) on SET
This is his first feature and obtained the INCAA’s Opera Prima prize.
Fernando directed several shortfilms, but Trillizas Propaganda! emphasize’s.
It obtained the National Arts Found Alberto Fischerman’s Prize, and was
selected and distinguished in more than twenty festivals such as Venice,
Sapporo, Mar del Plata, Friburg and San Sebastian, where obtained the
Jury Special Mention Prize.
Besides, Trillizas propaganda, obtained the Condor de plata prize to the
Best Argentinean shortfilm of 2007.
He completed his professional training working in Francis Ford Coppola’s film
“Tetro” and he improved his acting director skills in New York where he
attended to a Greta Seacat’s seminar.
“
When my grandmother was dying, my mom was next to her in the
hospital. Suddenly she saw a butterfly landed on top of the oxygen mask.
She waved her hands and accidentally scared it away. It went flying out the
small window on top them.
Just a few moments later, my grandmother stopped breathing.
You can call it God, Holy Spirit, soul, butterfly, moth. But, does it matter?
Later she told me she never before saw someone dying, and she couldn’t
explain the moment of peace she felt.
She couldn´t explain it.
Maybe there are things that doesn’t have an explanation.
And that’s ok.
”
Since 2009 he works directing documentaries for the educative
TV Channel Encuentro, TV Shows and commercials that obtained several
prizes, like the fund TV 2011 in the junior category awarded to
“The Amazing Excursion of Zamba”, and Prix Jeunesse International
2014 among others. He also writes a TV show about philosophy called
“Mentira la verdad” nominated for the Emmy Awards.
“Como funcionan casi todas las cosas” won the Work in Progress Prize
at the III International UNASUR Cine Film Festival en 2014.
By these days he started working in the adaptation and development of
his new film project called “Agosto” based in Romina Paula’s novel.
CASTING
Verónica Gerez
Pilar Gamboa
Marilú Marini
Miriam Odorico
María Ucedo
Rafael Spregelburd
Esteban Bigliardi
Sergio Pángaro
Vicente Esquerre
PRODUCTION COMPANY
UTÓPICA GROUP
Muerte en Buenos Aires (2013)
Dir. Natalia Meta
Lynch (2013)
Dir. Fox Telecolombia
Flora y fauna (2013)
Canal Encuentro
Dir. Michel Linchtenstein / Veronica Cura
Produced by
Verónica CURA
Las Acacias (2011)
Dir. Pablo Giorgelli
Winner
Caméra d’or a Cannes Cannes IFF 2011
Sutherland Trophy British Film Institute Awards 2011
Horizons Award for the Best Latin American film
San Sebastián IFF 2012
Silver Condor Argentine Film Critics Association 2012
Golden Sun for the Best film Biarritz IFF 2011
Un Amor para toda la vida (2011)
Dir. Paula Hernandez
Winner
Award of the Argentinean Academy for the Best Screenplay
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Argentina 2012
Silver Condor for the Best New Actress
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards 2012
Nominated Silver Condor for the Best Screenplay
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards 2012
PRODUCTION COMPANY
El muerto y ser feliz (2012)
Dir. Javier Rebollo
Winner
Goya for the Best Actor Goya Awards 2013
Nominated Best Film Mar del Plata IFF 2012
FIPRESCI Prizee and Silver Seashell for the Best Actor
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2012
Best Actress and Violette d’Or Toulouse Cinespaña 2012
La mujer sin cabeza (2007/2008)
Dir. Lucrecia Martel
Winner
Argentinean Academy for Best Director / Film / Screenplay
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Arg. 2008
Silver Condor for the Best Actress
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards 2009
Critics Award Lima Latin American Film Festival 2008
ACE Award Cinema - Best Director Premios ACE 2010
FIPRESCI Prize Rio de Janeiro IFF 2008
El Otro (2007)
Dir. Ariel Rotter
Winner
Silver Berlin Bear for the Best Actor Berlin IFF 2007
Silver Condor for Best Actor and Screenplay
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards 2008
Clarin Award for the Best Actor
Clarin Entertainment Awards 2007
Cama Adentro (2004)
Dir. Jorge Gaggero
Winner
Silver Condor for the Best First Film Best New Actress
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards 2006
Premios ACE for Best Character Actress and First Work
Premios ACE 2006
FIPRESCI Prize Toulouse Latin America FF 2005
PRODUCTION COMPANY
TAREA FINA
Ciencias Naturales (2014)
Dir. Matias Lucchesi
Winner
Grand Prix of the Generation KPlus International Jury
Berlin IFF
Mayahuel Award Guadalajara Film Festival
El Cerrajero (2013)
Dir. Natalia Smirnoff
Sundance Film Festival
Samurai (2012)
Dir. Gaspar Scheuer
Ni un hombre más (2012)
Dir. Martin Salinas
Las Acacias (2011)
Dir. Pablo Giorgelli
Winner
Caméra d’or a Cannes Cannes Film Festival 2011
Sutherland Trophy British Film Institute Awards 2011
Horizons Award for the Best Latin American film
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2012
Silver Condor Argentine Film Critics Association 2012
Golden Sun for the Best film Biarritz IFF 2011
Un Amor para toda la vida (2011)
Director Paula Hernandez
Winner
Award of the Argentinean Academy for the Best Screenplay
Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences of Argentina 2012
Silver Condor for the Best New Actress
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards 2012
Nominated Silver Condor for the Best Screenplay
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards 2012
CONTACT
COMPANY & CONTACT DETAILS
TAREA FINA
www.tareafina.com
+54 11 4703 0656
+54 11 4702 4755
Buenos Aires
Argentina
UTÓPICA GROUP
+54 11 4781 8055
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan Pablo MILLER
M +54 9 113891 3036
E-mail: [email protected]
Diego AMSON
M +54 9 114165 3074
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Verónica CURA
M +54 9 11 6754 5353
E-mail: [email protected]
Paula MASSA
M +54 9 11 5386 0455
E-mail: [email protected]
Leandro BORRELL
M +54 9 11 5886 1819
E-mail: [email protected]
FERNANDO SALEM
Fernando SALEM
M +54 9 11 5119 4925
E-mail: [email protected]