El Father Plays Himself
A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
2020-04-25
Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela
105 minutes.
Overview
A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
Year 2020
Studio Rake Films, Ardimages, La Faena
Director Mo Scarpelli
Crew Rodrigo Michelangeli (Producer), Mo Scarpelli (Director), Manon Ardisson (Producer), Juan Soto Taborda (Editor), Roberta Ainstein (Sound Designer), Mo Scarpelli (Cinematography)
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Language Español
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