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Juan Cavestany is producing and directing Esa sensación, a movie with three directors

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- Together with Julián Génisson and Pablo Hernando, the filmmaker has wrapped the shoot for his fifth film, which, like People in Places, will tread an alternative and experimental path

Juan Cavestany is producing and directing Esa sensación, a movie with three directors
An image from the shoot of Esa sensación

Overlapping stories of love, faith and will: this is how the three directors/screenwriters and friends with shared affinities Juan Cavestany, Julián Génisson and Pablo Hernando describe Esa sensación [+see also:
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interview: Juan Cavestany
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]
(lit. “That Feeling”), the shoot for which wrapped last week in Madrid. Each director filmed one of the interweaving storylines: a “virus of inconvenience” that, after it has infected people, makes them do and say things unintentionally, triggering an infectious chain reaction of clumsiness; a man bumps into his father again, who admits that he has found religion, and he then begins to follow him through the streets; and a woman begins a pathologically passionate relationship with street furniture.

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While Cavestany is best known as the man behind the successful People in Places [+see also:
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(winner of the Sant Jordi Award for Best Spanish Film in 2013), his partners on this cinematic venture may require a brief introduction: 33-year-old Madrilenian Julián Génisson is the screenwriter, actor and director of Towards Bruce Lee’s Tomb, as well as being a member of the audiovisual collective Canódromo Abandonado. Meanwhile, Pablo Hernando (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1986) is the director and screenwriter of short films such as Agustín del futuro and Magia, in addition to the features Cabás and Berserker [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Pablo Hernando
film profile
]
.

Starring Lorena Iglesias (the psychologist in Magical Girl [+see also:
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interview: Carlos Vermut
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), Vito Sanz (who appeared in Los exiliados románticos [+see also:
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interview: Jonás Trueba
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]
by Jonás Trueba), Bárbara Santa Cruz (3 Many Weddings [+see also:
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interview: Javier Ruiz Caldera
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), Jorge Suquet, Miquel Insua, David Pareja and Pietro Olivera, Esa sensación will be scored by Aaron Rux (Purgatorio, People in Places) and edited by Raúl de Torres (The Friend Zone [+see also:
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interview: Borja Cobeaga
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]
No controles [+see also:
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). Cavestany is once again producing on a shoestring budget, but with bucketloads of audacity.

“There are already a couple of festivals (Mar del Plata and Abycine) that have shown an interest in the movie,” asserts Cavestany, “but we neither have a plan to exhibit it nor a distributor on the cards. The film is really out there, outside of everything; it’s pure handicraft, shot with minimal crew and like a co-operative, with everyone helping each other out: I’m really thrilled about Esa sensación because it’s simultaneously poetic and terrible, serious and jokey, searching for the unlikely beauty in the strange and the mundane.”

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(Translated from Spanish)

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