Project Detail

El Father Plays Himself

Name: El Father Plays Himself
Director: Mo Scarpelli
Genre: Woman Director
Released: 2020
Duration: 106 min

Synopsis

An exiled Venezuelan director returns to his collapsing country to make a fiction film based on his own self-destructive father, who he casts to play himself. Father and son venture to the Amazon jungle, revisiting past traumas in a country that offers them no future. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF explores the ways a son who left and a father who stayed face the pains of their past and the uncertainty of their future, all through the catharsis of making a film.

Details

Year: 2020
Type of project: Features
Running time: 106 min
Director: Mo Scarpelli
Producer: Manon Ardisson
Editor: Juan Soto

Genre

Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

An Ardimages UK, La Faena Films, Rake Films, Channel 6 Media production

Ardimages UK

Manon Ardisson

manon@ardimages.com

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