After having won the Silver Biznaga for best documentary director at this June’s Malaga Festival with “El Father Plays Himself,” which screens now at the Spanish Screenings, director-cinematographer Mo Scarpelli is leaping into fiction with her new project, “A Song That Slays.” Following a number of eye-catching doc titles that have always generated festival buzz whether “El Father Plays Himself” at last year’s Visions du Réel, “Anbessa” at the 2019 Berlinale and Frame by Frame at 2015’s SXSW – Scarpelli’s production company Rake Films has now been joined on her new project by Rome-based Dispàrte, which has boarded as lead producer.
Soon finishing the development workshop Less is More (Lim), organized by Le Groupe Ouest, which will stage a showcase event on Nov. 9-10 of in Brittany, “A Song That Slays” is a drama set among the Pokot nomadic community of western Kenya, based on the legend of a...
Soon finishing the development workshop Less is More (Lim), organized by Le Groupe Ouest, which will stage a showcase event on Nov. 9-10 of in Brittany, “A Song That Slays” is a drama set among the Pokot nomadic community of western Kenya, based on the legend of a...
- 10/22/2021
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
Premiering worldwide at Visions de Réel and looking for wider distribution, Mo Scarpelli’s “El Father Plays Himself” will stream April 27 to May 2 to a limited audience of 500 as the Swiss festival handles the almost ontological dilemmas that come with the pandemic.
Produced by Rake Films, Ardimages U.K. and La Faena Films, in association with Channel6 Media, the documentary follows a father and son as they shoot a film in which the Father plays himself, in the middle of the Amazonian Jungle.
What comes out is a deeply human portrayal that, much like the trailer, manages to speak volumes while saying very little explicitly; a not at all easy task that seems almost effortless under the eye of its director and cinematographer Mo Scarpelli, who has shown a talent for finding images that establish a dialogue with their viewer. Variety talked with Scarpelli for the release of the new trailer.
Produced by Rake Films, Ardimages U.K. and La Faena Films, in association with Channel6 Media, the documentary follows a father and son as they shoot a film in which the Father plays himself, in the middle of the Amazonian Jungle.
What comes out is a deeply human portrayal that, much like the trailer, manages to speak volumes while saying very little explicitly; a not at all easy task that seems almost effortless under the eye of its director and cinematographer Mo Scarpelli, who has shown a talent for finding images that establish a dialogue with their viewer. Variety talked with Scarpelli for the release of the new trailer.
- 4/23/2020
- by Emiliano Granada
- Variety Film + TV
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