"A deeply human portrayal".
Emiliano Granada - Variety
TFL Awards
TFL Audience Design Fund 2020 (€ 45.000)
consultancy with TFL experts Clara Miranda Scherffig and Kirsten Loose - online, September 2020
The TFL Funds are supported by the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union
festivals & awards
International Feature Film Competition, Visions du Réel 2020 / Special Mention
synopsis
A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father’s life in the Amazon jungle. He casts his father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition spirals into a process which confronts the father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son.EL FATHER PLAYS himself holds a steady lens to the ways the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
info
original title
EL Father Como Sí Mismo
genre
Documentary
country
United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Venezuela
running time
105’
produced by
Ardimages UK – United Kingdom
in co-production with
La Faena Films – Canada
Rake Films – Italy
Channel 6 Media – Canada
Tres Cinematografía – Venezuela
directed by
Mo Scarpelli
