My Last Year as a Loser is a film about disillusionment, shame and the gap between the overeducated, underemployed millennials and their parents, who had high expectations for their kids and feel powerless when watching them fail, Menart told FNE. A young woman, 29-year-old Špela, finds herself lonely, unemployed and stuck sleeping on her disappointed parents' couch in the midst of Slovenia's seemingly never-ending economic crisis. She decides to give herself until her 30th birthday to turn her life around, but a newfound friendship with a group of similarly fated losers threatens to even further prolong her extended adolescence.
The film is produced by Danijel Hočevar through Vertigo in coproduction with NuFrame and 100.The project was supported by the Slovenian Film Center with 320,000 EUR. The technical support has been provided by Studio Viba Film in the amount of 135,000 EUR. The total budget is estimated at 575,000 EUR, Hočevar told FNE.
Menart was born in 1985 in Ljubljana. In primary school she was a fan of Alfred Hitchcock, and as a student at AGRFT she made a short documentary The Vain Case (2005). Her last movie was What about Mojca? (2014, Sever&Sever), a documentary, which explores the role of women in Slovenian cinema, analyzing how the status of women in the society is reflected in film classics.
Casting for the main roles is scheduled for autumn 2016; the shooting will take place in June 2017 in Ljubljana and its surroundings. Domestic theatrical release has been announced for 2018.
Production Information:
Vertigo
Metelkova 6
1000 Ljubljana
SI-Slovenija
Phone: +386 1 439 70 80
fax: +386 1 430 35 30
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www.vertigo.si
NuFrame
Devinska 8
1000 Ljubljana
SI-Slovenija
Phone: +386 41 979 229
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www.nuframe.si
100
Livarska ulica 11
1000 Ljubljana
SI-Slovenija
Phone: +386 1 439 70 10
fax: +386 1 436 43 77
www.100doo.si
Credits:
Director: Urša Menart
Screenwriter: Urša Menart
DoP: Darko Herič
Editor: Jurij Moškon
Production Designer: Marco Juratovec
Costume Designer: Tina Bonča
