Tess Quatri
Writer-director
Norway
Tess Quatri is a writer/director who grew up on the Canary Islands, as well as in Sweden and Kenya. She is currently living in Norway, where she graduated from The Norwegian Film School with a bachelor’s degree in directing for fiction. Tess also holds a degree in screenwriting from the renowned Swedish screenwriting program “Alma Education” for industry active screenwriters.
She is now working on her debut feature film, LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW, with which she won The Swedish Film Institute’s “Wild Card”, a development grant for promising talent.
Tess is also signed as a directing prospect at the commercial production company Bacon Oslo, with whom she has filmed a music video for the musical artist-duo Röyksopp.
Project
Like there is no tomorrow
When Fridas (30) home is taken by wildfires, she is forced to move down to the touristic parts of her volcano paradise Island, together with her daughter Gara (9). As all the apartments in the area are empty holiday-apartments, she ends up at a slum-like caravan village with other locals, surrounded by luxury resorts and mass tourism. The caravan village turns out to be threatened by the construction of yet another luxury resort. Frida has to try to make herself a living while constantly moving, fighting and surviving – all while trying to give her daughter an everyday life in a constant party environment on a burning paradise island.
Suddenly, it is like the island and its volcano starts being alive, and strange things start happening around Frida as the ocean around them starts boiling, and the spirits of the animals from the burnt-down zoo’s start circulating the skies.
