Film
El Father Plays Himself
2020 · 1h 45m · Documentary
A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
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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.
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Cast
Crew
- Mo ScarpelliDirector
- Rodrigo MichelangeliProducer
- Manon ArdissonProducer
- Juan Soto TabordaEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- April 25, 2020
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Spanish
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Documentary
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