The Last Summer of La Boyita

La Boyita is a motorhome with the magical ability to float, a sort of domestic amphibian, a refuge for Jorgelina as she enters the age of adolescence. Going on holiday to the countryside with her father, Jorgelina meets Mario, a boy who raises doubts in her that she’s unsure how to deal with. After going horseriding one day, Jorgelina discovers a bloodstain on the saddle and another on Mario’s trousers. He doesn’t know what to say. He doesn’t know why, but he’s not like the other boys. After this discovery, Jorgelina will stand by Mario as he gets to know himself and accepts his sexuality. In the end, far from separating them, this revelation will bring them even closer together...
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Script: Julia Solomonoff
Cinematography: Lucio Bonelli
Editing: Rosario Suarez, Andres Tambornino
Sound: Lena Esquenazi
Music: Sebastian Escofet
Actors: Guadalupe Alonso (Jorgelina), Nicolas Treise (Mario), Mirella Pascual (Mario’s mother), Gabo Correa (Jorgelina’s father), Guillermo Pfenning
Production: Travesia Producciones, Argentina T. +54 911 5261 7308 guillermina@travesiaproductions. com www.travesiaproductions.com & Julia Solomonoff & Domenica Films (Argentina) www.laboyitafilm.com
Producers: Pepe Salvia, Maria Teresa Arida, Lucia Seabra, Julia Solomonoff
Co-production: El Deseo (Spain) & Epicentre Films (France)
Art Direction: Mariela Ripodas
Format: 35mm Color
Production Country: Argentina-Spain-France
Production Year: 2009
Duration: 93
Contact: El Deseo, Spain T. +34 91 724 8199 F. +34 91 355 7467 eldeseo@eldeseo.es www.eldeseo.es

Julia Solomonoff

She graduated from the Centro de Experimentacion y Realizacion Cinematografica of Buenos Aires and received an MFA from Columbia University. Her short films Ahora, Scratch, Siesta, Un dia con Angela and 8vo 51 received awards from the Directors’ Guild of America, FIPRESCI, New Line Cinema and the Milos Forman Fund, and Siesta was a finalist for the Academy Awards in its category. She has worked as an assistant director, notably on Walter Salles’s The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). Her directorial debut, Sisters, was premiered at the Toronto FF.

Filmography

1992 8vo 51 (short)
1993 Un dia con Angela (short)
1998 Siesta (short)
2001 Scratch (short)
2003 Ahora (short)
2005 Hermanas/Sisters
2009 El ultimo verano de la Boyita/The Last Summer of La Boyita