Directed by Martín Cuervo - Latido Films

Directed by Martín Cuervo

Comedy | Spain | Spanish | 2021 | 90 min

SYNOPSIS
           Four travellers meet in Madrid’s city centre through a share ride app. They had
           never imagined the journey they were about to embark on. They will gradually
           exchange secrets, emotions and mistrusts to finally arrive at a different
           destination than the one planned. But along the way they will have learned a
           lot from who they travel with... and from themselves.

CAST

Salva Reina - Julián   Ana Polvorosa - Ana   Andrea Duro - Elisa   Pol Monen - Miguel

CREW
Directed by and screenplay by Martín Cuervo
                            Álamo Producciones, A Contracorriente,
       Production companies
                            Neón Producciones
                            Raúl Berdonés, Pablo Jimeno,
                  Producers
                            Eduardo Campoy, Adolfo Blanco
                            Eduardo Campoy, Fernando Riera,
        Executive Producers
                            Enrique Ortuño
        Production Manager Mario Pedraza
                       D.O.P. Pablo Bürmann
                      Stylist Saioa Lara
                    Make-Up Pilar Álvarez
                  Hair Stylist José Javier Guerra
                Direct Sound Eduardo Martín
                     Editing Carlos Agulló
                       Music Iván Valdés
                        Cast Juana Martínez

DIRECTOR’S NOTES
CARPOOLERS aims to be a film with a powerful concept: spending one
and a half hours in a car with four people who, a priori, do not know
each other. One and a half hours without leaving the vehicle. Feeling
trapped by an everyday situation which anyone who has used one of
these apps has experienced at some point. An atmosphere loaded
with uncomfortable moments with strangers. With simple, prejudiced
and awkward conversations to break the ice. With amusing situations
bordering on the surreal. To emphasise that peculiar atmosphere, the
camera will never leave the car. Even when the characters stop at a gas
station, we will not follow them. We will experience everything from
the inside, as spectators of the increasing tension generated by the lies
and mysteries held by the driver. We will become an omniscient entity
witnessing the story from the point of view of the car itself, which is in
fact the fifth character, and a very important one.

 In summary, CARPOOLERS will be a film with a different and attractive
narrative, touching on several “never before” areas that will impact
the audience. But, above all, it will challenge our conscience and
preconceived notions through its dynamic dialogues and characters as
real as life itself. All of this will lead up to an answer for the initial key
question: Do you really know who you are travelling with?

DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY
MARTÍN CUERVO
Martín Cuervo (Madrid, 1987), was raised among sets and box cameras.        queda and Someone like you. All received the support of public
Son of a sound technician and nephew of a camera operator and a             entities and garnered numerous national and international awards
make-up artist, his life has always been deeply impregnated by cinema.      and recognitions.
In 2005 he started work in advertising as boom operator and in 2006         He continued to work in advertising, first as boom operator, later as
he worked on his first film as sound assistant: Café solo o con ellas by    sound technician, in the making of and finally as editor, operator and
Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo.                                                        producer of works for large brands like Mastercard, Ikea, Unicef and
That same year, he started his playwright training at RESAD. In addition,   Mahou, eventually participating in over fifty productions in different
the work he presented for the access test became the script for his first   departments.
short, Final, subsidised by the Government of Madrid, and later winning     He also started to work on music videos, at record companies like EMI,
the audience award at SEMINCI and nominated for a Goya Award in 2008.       Sony and Mushroom Pillow.
He followed the success of his first work with Imanol Arias, Asier          These activities kept him away from fiction for a while until, in 2019, he
Etxeandia and Manuela Paso, with Último minuto, La vida que me              finally embarked on his first feature film: Con quién viajas (Carpoolers).

PRODUCER’S FILMOGRAPHY
EDUARDO CAMPOY
Advisor for EGEDA (Audiovisual Producers’ Rights Management
Entity) and board member of FAPAE (Spanish Audiovisual
Producers’ Association Federation). From 1999 to 2003 he was
President of FAPAE and Advisor for the Spanish Institute of
Foreign Trade (ICEX). He has been a member of the Executive
Board of ANEPA (National Association of Audiovisual Production
Companies), Advisor for DAMA (Audiovisual Media Copyright Entity)
and Director of the Spanish Academy of Cinematography Art and
Science, as well as its Advisory Council, representing producers. He
was President of the Cinema Academy in 2009.
He is currently the Director of Álamo Producciones Audiovisuales,
the company which in July 2018 launched the film El mejor verano
de mi vida, a comedy coproduced with Atresmedia and distributed
by A Contracorriente Films, and a great success with audiences and
critics. Directed by Daniel de la Orden and starring Leo Harlem, Toni
Acosta and Maggie Civantos. In September 2019 they premiered
Litus, based on the theatre play by Marta Buchaca and also directed
by Daniel de la Orden, starring Quim Gutiérrez, Belén Cuesta, Alex
García, Adrián Lastra and Miquel Fernández. Litus participated in
the official section of the 22nd Málaga Film Festival, and actor Quim
Gutiérrez obtained the best Supporting Actor Award. Recently, they
have launched the comedy Hasta que la boda nos separe (Daniel
de la Orden) with Belén Cuesta, Alex García, Silvia Alonso, Mariam
Hernández, Antonio Dechent, Salva Reina and Leo Harlem, and this
summer they will premiere Superagente Makey, directed by Alfonso
Sánchez and starring Leo Harlem, Jordi Sánchez and Silvia Abril.

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