INTERNATIONAL RELEASE MAY 21st Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2012

Control Z Films presents 3, a familiar comedy. Humberto de Vargas, Sara Bessio and Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy play the leading roles in ’s new film, a dramatic comedy about the three members of a nuclear, disfunctional family.

SYNOPSIS For Rodolfo (Humberto de Vargas), life at home feels empty and cold, as if he doesn’t belong there. Meanwhile, his first wife Graciela (Sara Bessio) and their teenage daughter, Ana (Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy), are going through defining moments in their lives. Subtly, Rodolfo will try to slip back into the place he once had next to them and walked away from ten years ago. 3 is a comedy about three people condemned to the same, absurd fate: being a family.

TRAILER http://www.3pelicula.com http://vimeo.com/37339370

INTERNATIONAL RELEASE 3 will have its international première in the prestigious Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, on May 21st, 2012. Further information available at the Directors’ Fortnight website: http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com DOMESTIC RELEASE 3 was released nationwide in on April 20th, opening in theaters in Montevideo, Salto and Paysandú with huge success. Only in Montevideo, 3 had more than 6.000 spectators during its first two weekends. Simultaneously, 3 is being released in a national tour covering fifteen cities across the country through Medio&Medio Films’ itinerant platform, being the first Uruguayan film to be released this way.

PRESS QUOTES

“Somewhat different to his previous work, a film that shows Stoll as a director and scriptwriter who has the ability to surprise audiences and renew himself” Matías Castro, El País

“The three leading actors own their scenes and deliver serious performances. For those skeptical of Humberto de Vargas: he rules” Clara Esmoris, El Observador

“A model kit with no instructions on the back of the box, one in which you can see a gentle film or an obscure drama” Agustín Acevedo Kanopa, La Diaria

“Grass sods unevenly patched over a grave in a cemetery, plants that are removed from pots into a better place that no one knows why it could be better, the girl’s apathy when masturbating an occasional boyfriend, the father's current partner who is never seen in images, are all subtle observations, of cinematographic wisdom at times (...) Those moments confirm Stoll as one of the most skilled Uruguayan filmmakers today” Manuel Martínez Carril, Brecha

MAIN CHARACTERS

RODOLFO HUMBERTO DE VARGAS

Humberto de Vargas (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1962). Actor, radio and TV host, singer and football narrator, Humberto de Vargas began his artistic career at an early age. In 1977 he won a televised singing contest and almost immediately after became a household name as a regular presence on Canal 10, where he hosted the variety show La revista estelar for more than a decade. His first venture into theater came in 1983, when he joined the cast of a local production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. That performance earned De Vargas a Florencio, Uruguay's most prestigious award for theater productions. A second Florencio came in 2001 for his role as Werner Heisenberg in Michael Frayn's Copenhague. As a film actor he played Jorge in Álvaro Buela's Alma Mater (2005). He has recently been part of the TV series Porque te quiero así and the play Al encuentro de las tres Marías. Currently he hosts the morning show Arriba gente on Canal 10.

GRACIELA SARA BESSIO

Sara Bessio (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1968). Trained as an actor at the Escuela Municipal de Arte Dramático Margarita Xirgu (EMAD), she earned upon graduation a yearlong working scholarship with the Comedia Nacional, Uruguay's national theater company. Meanwhile, she was a member of La Comuna, an independent company and was directed by prominent names of the uruguayan theater scene in productions such as Doña Ramona, The Cherry Orchard, The Trojan Women, Opiniones de un payaso, Le Loup Garou, King Lear, Ghosts and Esquina peligrosa, among others. She was also part of the theater group Pampinoplas and directed the play Estoy buscando un Saltanubes. In 1994 she starred in La Trampa, a film by Ricardo Islas and Julio Porley. Bessio also appeared in the TV series Curro Jiménez: El regreso de una leyenda and the film El Faro, by Eduardo Mignogna. Since 1992 she has been a body expression and drama teacher.

ANA ANACLARA FERREYRA PALFY

Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990). In 2005 she began her acting studies at the Escuela del Actor. That same year she played the leading role in a short film directed by and Pablo Stoll. Since then she has appeared in several shorts while she keeps training as an actor. 3 is her feature-film debut in a leading role.

DIRECTOR Pablo Stoll Ward

Born in 1974 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Together with Juan Pablo Rebella he scripted and directed (2001) and Whisky (2004). Both films received several international awards and were commercially released worldwide. During 2006 and 2007, Stoll was scriptwriter, director and occasional actor in the news satire show Los Informantes, aired for two seasons on Montevideo’s Channel 4. He has also directed several video clips and short documentaries for television. He is a founding partner at Control Z Films, the production company for his own films and where he has produced also La Perrera (2006), Acné (2008) and Gigante (2009). In 2009 he directed Hiroshima, his first solo feature film, which was chosen for Toronto, Rotterdam, Jeonju, Mar del Plata and Jerusalem among other international film festivals.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES

“In 2006 we began to write this story with Juan Pablo Rebella and Gonzalo Delgado: a dramatic comedy about the three members of a nuclear, disfunctional family. A kind of bourgeois family, from a middle-class neighborhood in Montevideo. Perhaps what one would call a typical family.

Six months later, Juan Pablo decided to put an end to his life. For the next two years, the story of this family was left in a drawer, but it never went out of my head. Eventually, the story made its way out and I wrote it in one go.

3 is a film about egoism and the search of redemption. About coming of age and those moments in life when, even without us noticing, our personality takes shape. It's a story about second chances and the fear they arouse: fear of failure.

The balance posed by the family in 3 is unlikely, but possible. A place that may be a bit untrue but nevertheless safe. In 3 the characters are found in a moment of passage, in a constant and rhythmic movement that will lead to a final encounter.

The film follows that movement, goes along with the characters and lives those moments with them. This is expressed in sequence shots that unveil each character's environment, which is also marked by a special sound treatment for their particular moments.

The music characters listen to defines as well this time of their lives. Ana moves in a spiral from pop to rock, Rodolfo recovers the pleasure of listening to his old vinyl records he had left at his former home, while Graciela finds a new love and a sort of second youth.

Like in our other films there is humor and wonder towards the absurdity of quotidian life. There are things not said that are however drained from the empty words of everyday exchanges. There is music and this time some dancing too, that moment when we all make fools of ourselves to the beat of the music.”

Pablo Stoll Ward

TECHNICAL DETAILS / CREW

Title: 3 Country: Uruguay/Argentina/Germany/Chile Year: 2012 Format: 35 mm, color Runtime: 119 minutes

A CONTROL Z FILMS production

Coproducers: PANDORA FILMPRODUKTION / Christoph Friedel RIZOMA FILMS / Natacha Cervi, Hernán Musaluppi KINÉ / Florencia Larrea

With the support of: PROGRAMA IBERMEDIA / ICAU / MVD SOCIO AUDIOVISUAL / FONA / W.I.P. PUNTA DEL ESTE / INCAA / ARTE-ZDF / FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG SCHLESWIG- HOLSTEIN / FILM UND MEDIEN STIFTUNG NRW / MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION / WORLD CINEMA FUND

Cast: Sara Bessio (Graciela) Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy (Ana) Humberto de Vargas (Rodolfo) Néstor Guzzini (Dustin) Matías Ganz (Matías) Carolina Centurión (Mica) Inés Bortagaray (Adjunct professor)

Special appearances by: Santiago Pedrero (Víctor) Fabián Arenillas (Doctor) Casting by: Leticia Jorge Wardrobe: Emilia Carlevaro Production Manager: Juan José López Assistant Director: Manolo Nieto Zas D.P. & Camera: Bárbara Álvarez Art Director: Gonzalo Delgado Galiana Sound Director: Daniel Yafalián Music by: Reverb / Sebastián Del Muro Eiras Songs by: Astroboy / El Cuarteto de Nos / Chicos Eléctricos / The Supersónicos / Eté & Los Problems / Los Delfines / Sexteto Electrónico Moderno / Fernando Cabrera / Vieja Historia / Hablan por la Espalda / Jimmy Helms / Guided by Voices / Opa Story by: Gonzalo Delgado Galiana, Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll Ward Screenplay: Gonzalo Delgado Galiana / Pablo Stoll Ward Edited by: Fernando Epstein / Pablo Stoll Ward Executive Producers: Fernando Epstein / Agustina Chiarino Directed by: Pablo Stoll Ward

SHOOTING AND POSTPRODUCTION 3 was shot in Montevideo, Uruguay, during the spring of 2010, from August 30th until October 27th. Postproduction took place in Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and Germany, and was finished on October 2011.

ONLINE Official website: http://www.3pelicula.com Website CONTROL Z Films: http://www.controlzfilms.com/ Vimeo channel: http://vimeo.com/trespelicula Twitter: http://twitter.com/3pelicula Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/3pelicula

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3 – press dossier English ver. 2//05/07/2012