Deaf Love 1500
- Film présenté cette année à Cinélatino
República, 2021 – Découvertes Court-métrage fiction. In partnership with the BrLab.
- Direction
- Grace Passô
- Country
- Brazil
- Format
- Feature film
- Type
- Fiction
- Original title
- Amores Surdos 1500
- Scenario
- Grace Passô
Grace Passô
Director, playwright and actress, she works in partnership with artists and theater companies. As a playwright, her texts were published in several languages, and she received several awards for her acting achievements in theater and cinema. She directed the short film República (2020) and, alongside Ricardo Alves Jr., the medium-length film Vaga Carne (2019).
Filmography
– Vaga Carne Berlinale 2020
– República Festival de Brasilia do Cinema Brasileiro 2020
Note of intent
This project is a rewriting of the theater play Amores Surdos. The narrative is a research on new themes and imaginings for contemporary black Brazilian cinema. Encompassing the lives of a black family, it gathers ten characters in its central plot and subjectively and politically discusses matters related to race, as well as the ways through which Brazilian families experience mourning.
Synopsis
The daily life of a Brazilian family whose members are prevented, due to their struggle for survival, from hearing their griefs and affections.
Visual concept
The house, besides being the setting for almost all of the narrative, is a metaphor for the lethargy of the family living the plot. The progression of a leak on the house ceiling throughout the narrative visually expresses the steps through which a family secret is revealed, as if it had a life of its own.
- Objectives sought in Films in Development
Our goals at Cinema en Développement are to present the project to potential coproducers and also to distributors and sales agents.
- Shooting planned date
2022
- Planned shooting location
Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
- Budget
- US$ 560,000.00
- Percentage of funding in place
- 36%
- Project's development phase
Development, Financing
- Production
- EntreFilmes
- Coproduction
- DesviaFilmes
- Biographie producteur.ice
Rachel Daisy Ellis – Film producer and co-founder of the film production company Desvia.
Ricardo Alves JR. – Film director and producer, his films were screened at international festivals such as Cannes Critics’ Week, Berlin, Locarno and Rotterdam.