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Les amigues de l'Àgata

Growing up and changing or sticking with all-life friends. A generational portrait made just finishing the school.

Director: Laia Alabart, Alba Cros, Laura Rius, Marta Verheyen
Year: 2015
Duration: 70'

Plot

Ágata starts college and new experiences arrive, but she doesn't want to lose contact with their lifelong friends. Step by step, their friendship is put to the test as they wander discos, parties, and flirts.

Four young filmmakers sign this naturalistic movie, which shows us the intimate landscapes of Ágata with a glance that reminds us of the first Cassavettes. A collective work of rare maturity for a college degree project, it was financed by crowdfunding and advised by referents such as Isaki Lacuesta or Elias León Siminiani. With its coral storytelling, the work becomes a generational portrait of urban feminine culture, such close and honest that it makes us feel we are sharing the same moments.

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Full Cast and Crew

Director: Laia Alabart, Alba Cros, Laura Rius, Marta Verheyen

Writers: Laia Alabart, Alba Cros, Laura Rius, Marta Verheyen

Film Editing: Laia Alabart, Alba Cros, Laura Rius, Marta Verheyen

Cinematography: Laia Alabart, Alba Cros, Laura Rius, Marta Verheyen

Cast: Elena Martín, Carla Linares, Marta Cañas, Victòria Serra

Laia Alabart, Alba Cros, Laura Rius, Marta Verheyen

Laia Alabart, Alba Cros, Laura Rius and Marta Verheyen graduated in audio-visual communication in 2014 for the Pompeu Fabra University. To release this project they have shared stages and creative tasks, from script to editing, going trhough the direction of actresses and cinematography. Agatha’s Friends is their degree’s final project and thei debut. This film has been made under the Audio-visual Communication degree from the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and could have counted with the support of Elías León Siminiani, Gonzalo de Lucas and Isaki Lacuesta. This is the second feature film that comes out of these studies after The Creator of the Jungle by Jordi Morató.