90 Días Para El 2 de Julio Is a Story of Love and Friendship in a Context Nobody Likes: Rafael Martínez García

Gustavo R. Gallardo

90 días para el 2 de julio (2021), written and directed by Rafael Martínez García, was presented at the 19th Morelia International Film Festival (FICM) in the Michoacan Section of Feature Fiction Film.

Filmmaker Rafael Martínez García said the idea for his film came to him in 2013 while he was taking an exam to study screenwriting at the CCC Film Training Center (CCC) in México City.

Junket 90 días para el 2 de
julio. Rafael Martínez-García (Competencia
Largometraje Michoacano)

Martínez García defines himself more as a screenwriter who sometimes directs and not as a director who sometimes writes screenplays. Regarding the film, his debut feature, he stressed that because of the subject it addresses, "there was a small possibility that (the actors) would tell me 'no, Rafa, give it (the screenplay) another read through.' Fortunately, that didn't happen, everyone went in with a lot of enthusiasm."

90 días para el 2 de julio tells the story of Luis, a young man who is forced to remain locked up in a house for several weeks so that his affair with a candidate running for governor won't come out and ruin his political aspirations. Through this time, Luis analyzes his situation in search of a change."

I am very confident that at the heart of this film is a story of love and friendship in a context that nobody likes, or that we should not like. In a context that we should question, that we should rethink, but the center of the film is a beating heart, the same engine with which we made it," he said.