62ND LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL
FILMMAKERS OF THE PRESENT COMPETITION
DUAS MARIOLA
PRESENTS
THE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE OF
A FILM BY FELIPE BRAGANÇA & MARINA MELIANDE
A FUGA, A RAIVA, A DANÇA,
A BUNDA, A BOCA,A CALMA,
A VIDA DA MULHER GORILA
THE SCAPE OF THE MONKEY WOMAN
LA FUGUE DE LA FEMME GORILLE
SYNOPSIS (ENGLISH):
Two girls on a van in this
adventure
musical
road
movie. A soft tale of anger,
joy,
a
beach,
some
sugarcane and a little bit of
music. Shot in a 8 days trip
through the neighborhoods of
Rio de Janeiro State, the film
follows two sisters, Flora and
“She”, in their never-ending
journey in an apocalyptical
but
beautiful
landscape,
finding
ways
to
survive
making money with a show where “She” pretends to be transformed in a
real monkey woman. Small towns, sugarcane landscape and industrial
areas are mixed in their minds with the music, lights and romantic culture
of the suburbs – as they transform their pain, doubt and desire, in a
strange form of communication based on singing secret memories and
wondering feelings. In this desertical and romantic world where they find
themselves, the two girls keep trying to meet someone who could be part
of their fantastic show, and some secret place where they could try to restart the life on Earth with some violence, some fire and some silent
sweetness.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS:
BEST FILM – OFFICIAL JURY and BEST FILM – YOUTH JURY in the
12a Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes (BRASIL) - (only public-screening)
DIRECTORS` BIOGRAPHIES AND FILMOGRAPHIES:
FELIPE BRAGANÇA, 28, filmmaker and scriptauthor – directed 3 shortfilms
between 2003 and 2006 exhibited in more than 50 brazilian and
international film festivals with national and international prizes. Creative
partner of Karim Ainouz, Felipe has co-written SUELY IN THE SKY script
when he was 24 years old and acted as an director-assistant in the same
film. One year later, he was one of the head scriptwritters of the HBO
Latin America Series ALICE, directed by Karim Ainouz as well. More
recently, Felipe has won a prize to develop and shoot his first 35mm
festure film called A ALEGRIA / THE JOY wich will be shot in 2009 and is
programmed to be released in 2010, when he will be 29 years old. For
more future projects, Felipe acts as a coordinator of a coletive film
manifest
of
young
brazilian
film
markers
(called
DESASSOSSEGO/NEVERQUIET) and is writting two others scripts for
future feature films. One of then, again with Karim Ainouz as writer and
director-assistant, called SUNLIT BERLIN.
Filmography as writer and director:
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Por dentro de uma gota dágua – 2003 – 16mm – 10 min – as
DIRECTOR
O Nome Dele (o clóvis) – 2004 – 35mm – 15 min – as DIRECTOR
Jonas e a Baleia – 2006 – 35mm – 20 min – as DIRECTOR
O Céu de Suely – 2006 – 35mm – 80 min – as DIRECTORASSISTANT and SCRIPTWRITTER
Eu não sei dizer o nome dela (Epis. Tão Perto, Tão Longe –
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Coletive Project)– 2008 – DV – 5
min – as DIRECTOR
Banho de Sol para Dinossauros (Epis. Praia do Futuro – Coletive
Video Project) – 2008 – DV – 8 min. – as DIRECTOR
Alice (HBO) – 2008 - 13 Episodes of 45 min. – as HEAD
SCRIPTWRITTER
No Meu Lugar – 2009 – 35mm – 105 min. – as SCRIPTWRITTER –
SPECIAL SCREENING IN THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2009
Desassossego (coletive film project) – DV – 90 min. – to be
released in 2010 – as DIRECTOR and ARTISTIC COORDINATOR
A Alegria – 35mm – 80 min – IN PRE-PRODUCTION – as DIRECTOR
and SCRIPTWRITTER
Sunlit Berlin – 35mm – 95 min – IN PRE-PRODUCTION – as
DIRECTOR ASSISTANT and SCRIPTWRITTER
[email protected]
MARINA MELIANDE, 28, filmmaker and image/sound editor with more
than 40 shortfilms edited and two short films directed with national and
international prizes and released in more than 40 international film
festivals. In June 2009, Marina has just finished a two years residence
program in LE FRESNOY – National Visual Arts Center (FRANCE) where
she developed two audiovisual installations/works presented in the LES
FRESNOY annual showcase both in Lille and Paris.
Today Marina is
preparing her first feature film in 35mm, A ALEGRIA / THE JOY and is
making the research of her awarded medium-length film project called A
IMAGEM QUE FICA / THE IMAGE STAYS with will be shot in 2010.
Filmography as director and editor (selected):
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Por dentro de uma gota dágua – 2003 – 16mm – 10 min – as
DIRECTOR
O Nome Dele (o clóvis) – 2004 – 35mm – 15 min – as DIRECTOR
Jonas e a Baleia – 2006 – 35mm – 20 min – as EDITOR
Eu não sei dizer o nome dela (Epis. Tão Perto, Tão Longe –
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Coletive Project)– 2008 – DV – 5
min – as EDITOR
Letters to the old world (to LES FRESNOY annual showcase) – 2008
– DV – audiovisual installation – as DIRECTOR/AUTHOR
The image that stays – (videoinstalation to LES FRESNOY annual
showcase) – 2009 – in finishing process – as DIRECTOR/AUTHOR.
Desassossego (coletive film project) – DV – 90 min. – to be
released in 2010 – as DIRECTOR and EDITOR
A Alegria – 35mm – 80 min – IN PRE-PRODUCTION – as DIRECTOR
[email protected] / www.marinameliande.com
PRODUCTION COMPANY AND CREW PROFILE:
DUAS MARIOLA is a small cooperative cinema company from Rio de
Janeiro organized by six young partners of cinema created to produce
films that believes in risk, enthusiasm and the youth as a possibility of
cinema a never-ending form of art. The CREW of our film was formed by
four members of the company - Felipe (director, writter), Marina (director,
editor), Andrea Cappela (cinematographer) and Carolina Durão (producer,
director assistent) - and some partners - Gustavo Bragança (Art
Director) and Alberto Moura Junior (actor) wich work with Marina and
Felipe since their first shortfilm released in 2003. Since it was created - in
2007 - DUAS MARIOLA FILMES has produced four shortfilms, two feature
films and a lot cinema events and showcases in Brazil. In 2009, DM is also
producing Felipe and Marina's second feature film (first in 35mm) awarded
with the most important cultural brazilian support (by Petrobras), called
THE JOY / A ALEGRIA. This film will also be produced in this
cooperative and free willing process with a small budget and small crew.
DIRECTORS` NOTE:
Felipe Bragança & Marina Meliande
THE SCAPE OF THE MONKEY WOMAN is a road musical melodrama about
youth. Its also about our crew and our colletive passion for some kind of
enthusiasm, joy and anger in a way cinema can be still a territory of
magic. We needed to do it like this: as an small adventure, as a kind of
risk and lovefull trip about our imaginary in a country and around a city
(Rio de Janeiro) full of explosion and tension. This film is the first part of
our trilogy film-scape of the usual methods of making films in Brazil,
trying to find some kind of firefull beauty in the small crews, gestures and
life of our friends, memories and music.
This film is part of our research about what is it to be young in a time and
planet full of melancholic ideals and prophetic ends of world. We want this
film and our cinema to be itself a object of possible beauty that can have
enthusiastic, reflexive and joyfull effects in the eyes that see it.
We really have no more patience to the ideal of the contemporary cinema
as a sad cronist of our times to fight against the stupid entertainment. We
think art cinema can do more: can still create alternative and combative
time and space as a magic trick… Or maybe die trying to do it.
CREW / TECHNICAL STAFF:
Produced by: DUAS MARIOLA, Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande
Associated Producers: Arissas Multimidia and Clara Meliande
Directed by: Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande
1st Assistant Director: Carolina Durão
Story and Screenplay: Felipe Bragança
Executive Production: Felipe Bragança
Assistant Production: Marina Pompeu
Post Production Coordinator: Lara Frigotto
Cinematography: Andrea Capella
Gaffer: Alberto Moura Jr.
Art Direction and Costumes: Gustavo Bragança e Mayra Sergio
Art Assistant: Marianna Jannuzzi
Kombi Graffitti: Chico 21
Image Editing: Marina Meliande
Sound and Sound Design: Marina Meliande
Aditional Sound: Felippe Mussel
Show Announcement Record: Lucas Ramos
Assistant Sound Editing: Felippe Mussel and Enrique Ramirez
Sound Mix: Aurelien Grocq e Quentin Heems
Credits Design: Gustavo Bragança
Color Correction: Gerson Silva
Original SoundTrack: Lyrics by Felipe Bragança / Melodies by Flora Dias,
Morena Cattoni and Alberto Moura Jr
Original Theme by Ricardo Rito
Cast: Morena Cattoni, Flora Dias, Alberto Moura Jr and Pedro Freire
Show Announcer (voice): Gabriel Versiani
Support: Virginia Flores, Grupo Matriz/Cine Lapa, Midsummer Madness,
Feira de São Cristovão and Calibre Filmes
A FUGA DA MULHER GORILA
DV/HD – Color – 82 min. – 2009 – Brasil
CONTACT
DUAS MARIOLA
www.duasmariola.com.br
+55 21 25537336
+ 55 21 95157320
[email protected]
[email protected]
BRASIL, 2009