LUCAS TURTURRO
Filmmaker, visual artist
SYNOPSIS
Juana (17) and Mara (14) only have each other. Since their parents’ tragic accident, they live with their aunt in her farm, where they work in the production of honey.
Their bodies burn from within. Mara, eager and restless, wants to discover and experience everything. Juana, on the other hand, strives to contain her desire and repress her destructive drive.
Their cousin’s arrival from the city shakes the stillness of the farm. Although at first they resist, the sisters end up inviting Lucio into their lives. The three of them become friends, and desire grows between them. But the triangle breaks the sisters’ bond. While Mara wants to experience her sexual awakening with Lucio, Juana becomes increasingly jealous. As Mara becomes more distant, Juana wants her even closer. The tension between the teenagers grows. And, as Juana’s plans continue to get thwarted, this family’s summer becomes a fierce experience. The hive is preparing for the arrival of a new queen bee.
Directed by: Lucas Turturro
Screenplay: Constanza Boquet
Producers: Victoria Aizenstat, Mauro Guevara
FESTIVAL DE MÁLAGA - Competencia oficial - 2021, España.
BAFICI - Competencia oficial Argentina 2021 - Argentina
Black Nights Film Festival - International Works in Progress 2019 - Estonia
A KING FOR THE PATAGONIA (An Underdeveloped Superproduction)
2011
In 1971, the graphic artist and publicist Juan Fresán sets out to make a film about the incredible story of Orélie Antoine de Tounens, the mad French man who, 100 years before, had proclaimed himself as "King of Patagonia and Araucaria" with his own constitution, currency and ministers. The film was called “La Nueva Francia”, but it was never finished for two reasons; lack of funding, and because the author was forced into exile to Venezuela. If the story sounds familiar, it might be because in the 1980s Carlos Sorín made “A King and His Movie”, inspired by that frustrated shooting, where he worked as the director of photography. In 2004, Fresán contacted Lucas Turturro to help him rescue the film footage that had been preserved.
Fresán died in July of that same year, but Turturro decided to follow the trail of that truncated film and to recover unseen material, by returning to the original locations, and gathering testimonies to shed light on the two tales –one inside the other– that compose this true story, which is stranger and more fascinating than any fiction.
Competencia oficial Argentina del 25º Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata 2010 – Mención Especial del Jurado.
Competencia oficial Festival de Málaga, Cine Español 2011- Mención Especial del Jurado.
35º World Film Festival, Montreal. Canada 2011. Documentales del mundo.
Nominada a los Premios Cóndor de Plata 2012, Rubro Innovación Artística.
29º Festival Internacional de Cine de Uruguay 2011.
Latino Film Festival LAFF Bélgica 2012 – No competencia.
10º Festival Nacional de Tandil Cine, 2011- Competencia documentales. Voto del público.
Competencia Oficial en Tucumán Cine 2011.
18º Festival Latinoamericano de Rosario.
Competencia oficial Festival de Cine Social de Concordia, 2012.
Declarado de interés cultural por la Secretaria de Cultura de la Nación
INCONSCIENTE
2017
If movies are "dreams" of reality, what are the dreams within movies? What do they tell us?
A young director begins to explore the life hidden behind cinema’s dreams, digging through hundreds of scenes from different eras and places. This investigation leads him to create a project that invites the audience to immerse themselves in the unconscious of cinema and a group of theorists to debate these mysteries. An essay on the dream-image and the possibility of revealing that truth is expressed as fiction—because if cinema is not made to translate dreams, it does not exist.
Experimental | 2016 | Argentina
Geometras del Señor Sur - KINO Rebelde - Fondo Nacional de las Artes - Mecenazgo - Fundación Itaú.
Director: Lucas Turturro
Producers: Andrea Bruno, Lucas Turturro
Selections & Screenings:
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7th AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - USA 2018
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Bogotá Experimental Film Festival / CineAutopsia 2017
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6th Experimental Audiovisual Design Festival of Valdivia – FEDAXV - Chile 2017
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17th International Documentary Film Showcase - Doc Buenos Aires - Argentina 2017
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IV Video Art and Experimental Video Showcase - Intermediaciones - Colombia 2017
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Casa Nacional del Bicentenario
SMOKE OF THE RIFLE (2004)
Shortfilm 16MM
11 minutes
Directed by: Lucas N. Turturro
-Tehran International Short Film Festival 2006, Irán.
-8émes Rencontres du Cinéma Sud-américain de Marseille, Francia, 2006.
-L'ALTERNATIVA FESTIVAL DE CINE INDEPENDIENTE DE BARCELONA 2006, España.
-Competencia en el marco del III Festival Nacional y I Muestra Internacional de Cortometrajes FENACO Cusco 2006, Perú.
-Seleccionado en el International Student Festival of Film Art Balchik 2005, Bulgaria.
Muestra de cortometrajes argentinos en Zurich, organizado por la embajada de Suiza, 2005.
-XII International Film festival “Etiuda&Anima”, Competencia oficial, Polonia, 2005
-II FESTIVAL DE JOVENES REALIZADORES DE AUDIOVISUAL DEL MERCOSUL, Brasil, 2005
-7º INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF STUDENT FILM IN BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, 2005
-Parte de la programación de “Canal A” del ciclo “Cortorama”, 2005.
-Proyección en la Muestra Itinerante Competitiva FEJOREL Festival y Jornadas de Realizadores Latinoamericanos junio del 2005, en el Cine Teatro del Centro Cultural York
-Declarado de interés cultural por la municipalidad de Mar del Plata 2004.
-Seleccionado para el Festival Internacional de Cine Iquique 2004, Chile.
-Exhibido en La Nave de los Sueños (2004) y Espacio Naranja (2006)