Archive Cinema City 2011.

The Astronaut on the Roof

The Astronaut on the Roof

Genre: Fiction
Country: Germany
Year: 2010
Duration: 12 min

Director: Sergi Portabella
Scenario: Sergi Portabella

Cast: Tomas Sinclair Spencer, Jesse Inman, Patrick Diemling, Julia Hartmann, Marc Bischoff, Sebastian Kwaschik

Programme selection: Up to 10.000 Bucks

Budget: 9.000

Synopsis:


A comical road movie about two scriptwriters who write a film about two scriptwriters who write a film about a teenage couple who become bank robbers. A film about the struggle of writing a movie, getting lost in the way and end up starring your own script.

Director: SERGI PORTABELLA (Barcelona, 1980) He studied film at ESCAC film school between 1998 and 2002. In 2003, and together with two classmates, he founded Bipolar Films, dedicated to the production of music videos. He has halso written and directed a mini series for television, Nàufrags (Ship-wrecked, 2007) and three more short films: Autoayuda (Self-help, 2005), Te quiero (I love you 2009) and The astronaut on the roof (2009), selected by the Berlinale as one of the five finalists for the Berlin Today Award. In 2010 he recieves a scholarship from de Nikow Programm to develop his project We Are Ein Berliner.