Jogos de Mente

Direction
Ricky Mastro
Country
France, Brazil
Format
Feature film
Type
Fiction
Original title
Jogos de Mente
Scenario
Ricky Mastro

Ricky Mastro

Ricky has written and directed 7 shorts films. He worked for Real Ideas Studio in Cannes. He created RECIFEST (Festival LGBTQ in Recife). He lives in Toulouse where he is getting his university diploma of Research and Audiovisual Creation at the ESAV. He is in the production of his first feature, 7 minutes. He is the film programmer for the Festival of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Goiás – Brazil.

Filmography

THE STORM (2017, 16′) Beijing Queer Film Festival (China), Chéries Chéris (Paris), Festival Mixbrasil (São Paulo) THE MOUSETRAP (2016, 9′) Image+Nation (Montreal), Out & Loud Pune International Queer Film Festival 2017 (India), In and Out (Nice), Zinegoak (Off Zinegoak) in Bilbao XAVIER (2015, 13′) Frameline (San Francisco), BFI Flare (UK), GLBT Festival Torino and Mix Milano (Italy) HAPPILY EVER AFTER (2009, 7′) part of the feature film Fucking Different São Paulo : 60th Berlinale Film Festival, Some prefer cake (Italy), Kopenhagen LGBT Film Festival (Denmark)

Note of intent

I want to talk about soccer, free love, about being part of a group. This has inspired me to write a movie that shows four people who live together, less because of love than because they need each other. Nowadays, most people look for others according to what they can get from them. The characters in this film are all HIV positive, but, this is only one of their characteristics.

Synopsis

Four young adults live happily together: Maya, Miguel, Pedro and Diego. The boys keep fit by playing soccer, while Maya sells her cupcakes. Their relationship seems to be based on love and trust, but actually they are together by the need to get anti-HIV medicine. They are not aware of their bounds fragility, until an outsider shows up. Leandro is a very intelligent guy, obsessed by a man on television in charge of the weather forecast. One day, he discovers Miguel playing soccer with the rest of the group. Miguel looks like the weatherman. Leandro decides to infiltrate the group in order to get closer to him. He pays attention to each member’s role and realizes how to manipulate them according to their needs. In the end, Miguel leaves Maya to be with Leandro and the group is torn apart. However, Leandro’s intentions are not based on love either.

Visual concept

Our story could take place in any major city in the world, but as it is now, it will take place in São Paulo, Brazil. The characters live in a social bubble in an upper class neighborhood. Their clothes and attitudes reflect a society where everyone lives as if they were by themselves in the world. They will be portrayed using a very beautiful and clean photography that will also create an environment of joy and make the public desire to be like them. The characters are the opposite of the usual HIV stereotypes: they are healthy, beautiful.

Objectives sought in Films in Development

To meet professionals of cinema from everywhere and from the region of Occitanie. We would love also to meet producers, buyers and distributors.

Shooting planned date

End of 2019

Planned shooting location

São Paulo

Budget
1 000 000 €
Percentage of funding in place
5 %
Project's development phase

The project belongs to Ailton Franco’s Núcleo de Desenvolvimento de Projetos. In this ‘núcleo,’ we have five LGBTQIA theme projects: one TV series, three films and a TV show. Ilda Santiago (Director of Rio International Film Festival) is the mentor of the ‘núcleo.’

Biographie producteur.ice

Ailton Franco Jr has been an executive producer since 92. He created the Rio International Short Film Festival, Curta Cinema. He is developing the project Jogos de Mente (Mind Games), and he is producing the documentary Othelo by Lucas Rossi, and a Brazilian-French production of Kali by Julein Seri with Daïgaro Films.