Ese verano nos quedamos en casa (That Summer, We Stayed at Home)
Spain, 20m, Digital
In a country house in the middle of nowhere, the life of a couple repeats itself in an eternal cycle of daily routines and abuse.
Content Warning: Domestic Violence
Writer/Director: Noelia R. Deza
Producer: Robert Kerr
Director of Photography: Alana Mejia Gonzalez
Editor: Noelia R. Deza
Production Designer: Pilar Prieto
Sound Design: Roberto HG
Associate Producer: Guillermo Salazar
Cast: Teresa Casas, Andres Gertrudix
Contact: Noelia R. Deza, nr2488@colmbia.edu
2021 Program C
Screening May 8, 2022 at 7pm
About the Writer/Director
Noelia R. Deza is a screenwriter/director, editor and producer from Madrid, Spain. She was educated at ECAM (Madrid), EICTV (Cuba) and Columbia University School of the Arts (New York), where she obtained an MFA. Her films have been selected and awarded at festivals such as DocumentaMadrid, DOKLeipzig, Tribeca, FICUNAM Mexico, Beijing ISVF, FTII India, New Hampshire Film Festival, Abycine and Malaga Film Festival among others. Her latest film, That Summer, We Stayed at Home won a New York Foundation for the Arts/MOME’s Women’s Fund award before premiering at Malaga Film Festival. Noelia’s work is rooted in naturalism which, combined with her minimalist mise en scène, creates sensorily rich cinematographic worlds that blur the line between fiction and nonfiction.
About the Producer
Robert Kerr is a director, screenwriter and producer based in New York. After completing his BA in Psychology at Colorado College, Robert worked in the location department on numerous productions for HBO, Warner Bros. and Netflix, in titles including The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The OA and The Intern among others. Robert is currently an MFA candidate in Film Direction at Columbia University (New York) where he received the Dean’s Travel Grant to complete additional coursework in Cinematography at La Fémis in Paris. Robert’s last work as a director and screenwriter, Chronicle of a Move to Move Forward, was screened as an official selection of the 2019 New Hampshire Film Festival. Additionally, Robert produced and “co-created” That Summer, We Stayed at Home which premiered at the 23rd Malaga Film Festival. Robert is currently developing DownEast, as a short with an accompanying feature length script.
