El Father Plays Himself

04/25/2020

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1hr 45min

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Documentary

A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Jorge Thielen Armand
  • Jorge Thielen Hedderich
  • Rodrigo Michelangeli

    Director

  • Mo Scarpelli

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Rake Films
  • Ardimages
  • La Faena

    Production Countries

  • Italy
  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America
  • Venezuela

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish

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