I Brazil I Fiction I Color I 5.1 I 77 minutes
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“Engagingly episodic […] Bewitching” SCREEN INTERNATIONAL
“Impressive debut […] beautiful meditation on life and death” ERIC KOHN INDIEWIRE
“Strikingly lensed debut” JAY WEISSBERG VARIETY
“Arty contemplation of life and death” BOYD VAN HOEIJ THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Beautiful formal originality” Coming Soon IT
“Always subtly playful and with an undercurrent sense of humour” Otros Cines – Micropsia
SYNOPSIS
Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time. During the month of August, when tropical storms pound the coastline, a researcher registering the sound of the trade winds emanating from the Intertropical Convergence Zone arrives in their village. The high tides and the growing winds mark the following days of the village and a surprise discovery takes Shirley and Jeison on a journey that confronts them with the duel between life and death, loss and memory, the wind and the sea.
CAST
SHIRLEY I Dandara de Morais
JEISON I Geová Manoel dos Santos
GRANDMOTHER I Maria Salvino dos Santos
JEISON’S FATHER I Antônio José dos Santos
WIND RESEARCHER I Gabriel Mascaro
CREW
Producer I Rachel Ellis
Director I Gabriel Mascaro
Screenplay I Gabriel Mascaro e Rachel Ellis
Photography I Gabriel Mascaro
Executive Producers I Rachel Ellis & Stefania Régis
Editing I Ricardo Pretti & Eduardo Serrano
Production manager I Livia de Melo
Art Director I Stefania Regis
Sound Technician I Victoria Franzan
Additional Sound I Moabe Filho
Photography Assistant I Pedro Maia & Ana Lucia Diniz
Production Assistant I Stefania Régis
Executive Production Assistant I Vanessa Barbosa
Interns I Duda Gueiros, Joana Claude
Sound Design, Sound edit coordinator and Sound Mix I Mauricio d’Orey
Sound Mix Studio I Portomídia
Dubbing edit and mix I Carlos Montenegro
Dubbing Studio I Estúdio Carranca
Post-production producer I Vanessa Barbosa
Release Intern I Débora Lacerda
Post-production intern I Amanda Guimarães
Special effects I Ernesto Herrmann
Online I Caio Zatti
Online assistents I Bia Baggio & Pablo Hernandez
Colour correction I Cinecolor
Grafic Design I Guilherme Luigi
FESTIVALS, SCREENINGS AND AWARDS
AWARDS
– 67th Festival del Film de Locarno – Special Mention
– 47th Brazilian Cinema Film Festival – Best Photography, Best Actress
– VII Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife – Best Direction, Best Sound
– 34th Festival Internacional du FIlm d’Amiens – Best Film – Licorno D’Or
– Starz Denver Film Festival – Special Jury Award
– VI Semana dos Realizadores – Indie Lisboa Award
– 29th Mar del Plata Film Festival – FIESEL Award to under 35 years old directors
– 18th Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro (St Maria da Feira) – Critic Award
– !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival – Best Film
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS
– 67th Festival Del Film de Locarno – International Premiere
– 62th San Sebastian Film Festival – Horizontes Latinos Competition
– 33rd Vancouver International Film Festival – New Directors Competition
– 58th BFI London Film Festival – Debate Section
– 22nd Hamptons International Film Festival – Golden Starfish Competition
– 50th Chicago International Film Festival – Oficial Selection
– FilmFest Hamburg – Oficial Selection
– 43th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma – Panorama
– 30th Haifa International Film Festival – Panorama
– L’Alternativa 21st Barcelona Independent Film Festival – Oficial Competition
– 55th Thessaloniki Film Festival – Open Horizons
– AFI FEST 2014 – World Cinema
– Starz Denver Film Festival – Focus on National Cinema: Brazil
– Festival de Cine La Orquídea Cuenca – Largometraje Internacional
– 34th Amiens International Film Festival – International Competition
– 16th Festival FILMAR – Panorama
– 18th Black Nights Film Festival – Forum
– 29º Festival Internacional de Cine del Mar del Plata – International Competition
– 36 Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano – Concurso de Operas Primas
– 18 Festival de Cinema Luso-Brasileiro (St Maria da Feira) – Competição Oficial
– Moving Image – First Look
– 26th Palm Springs International Film Festival – World Cinema Now
– 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam – Spectrum
– !f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival – !f Inspired Competition
– 38th Portland International Film Festival – New Directors
– 9th Spirit of Fire International Film Festival – Competição Oficial
– Hong Kong International Film Festival – Global Vision
– 33º Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay – New Directors Competition
– Festival Internacional del Cine Barranquilla – Caribe Selection
– WOW Wales One World Film Festival – Oficial Selection
– Jameson Dublin International Film Festival – Oficial International Selection
– Festival de Cinéma Brésilien de Paris – Oficial Competition
– XVII Muestra International de Cine de Santo Domingo – Seccion Opera Prima
– 8th Subversive Film Festival – Feature Competition
– New York African Film Festival – BAM Rose Cinemas
– Inquietudo Portuguese-Speaking Film Festival – Non-competitive Festival
BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVALS
– 47th Brazilian Cinema Film Festival – Competitive Screening
– 38th Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo – Mostra Brasil
– VII Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife – Mostra Competitiva
– Festival do Filme Documentário e Etnográfico | Fórum de Antropologia e Cinema – Competitiva Nacional
– X Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema – Oficial Competition
– VI Semana dos Realizadores – Oficial Competition
– Cine Esquema Novo 2014 – Competitiva Brasil
– 2ª Mostra De Cinema de Gostoso – Panorama
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Desvia – Brasil
contato@desvia.com.br
FUNDING
Fundo de Cultura do Estado de Pernambuco (Funcultura)
INTERNATIONAL SALES
FiGa Films
contact@figafilms.com
