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Fabian and Beatriz are two children who
set up a raffle in order to get two costumes for
Halloween. Their efforts are challenged by their parents,
who unwillingly unfold a local tragedy.
On June 23rd "Witches' Night" was screened at the Puerto Rico International Film Festival Vieques Island.
NDB was also showcased in the Orlando Film Festival 2010
On June 23rd "Witches' Night" was screened at the Puerto Rico International Film Festival Vieques Island.
NDB was also showcased in the Orlando Film Festival 2010
and scientists of the Universe. It's widely believed, though, that King Karthik, assisted by Sorcerer Omar, conjured evil spirits into a pack of dogs
when Prince Mani, his brother and contender to the throne of the Tamils, escaped in a condemned-to-death ship of dogs after the murder of King Ponraj the Third. Captain Ravi, a student of law at the University of Madras, organises then the Resistance,
a movement that advocates the return of Prince Mani as the legal King of the Tamil
Empire.
DOGS stages the only attempt of Captain Ravi to meet
Prince Mani in a coffee shop of Madras. He falls into an ambush, triggering the
perverse plan of the Dogs to rule the Empire...
When I discovered Hamlet in
1986 I decided to perform the role during the prime
of my youth. In the summer of 1997 I boldly altered
Shakespeare's original play to rewrite it according to my
own Weltanshauung.
When I told my colleagues about my project, most of them considered it too ambitious and too difficult to realize. After all, I had no much budget, and the DV format was not considered to be up to the standards of cinema. Such impression changed soon after and we shot the film along four months, during the weekends in the parks and roads of Philadelphia.
Kennedy Gamarra a
rebellious teenager who in a moment of rage decides to get
enlisted in the army, an experience that will change his
life and that of his corrupt relatives.
I wrote the first draft of po in 1988, while
discovering the novels of Samuel Beckett.
The title refers primerely to p.o. (post office in the US) a subtle reference to Bartleby, but also to the portuguese word for 'dust'. po is man who lives intensively, in spite of being constantly hurt by his relatives and friends. The external world is his reference, the source of his sufferings, pleasures and ambitions. As Voltaire, he believes that he will leave the world as crooked and wicked as he found it. Eager to be imperceptible po has chosen to live in a dark and small room, as a handicap, reducing his own fate to the remembrance of his dreams, experiences and nightmares. A woman takes care of him, though he complaints that she is trying to kill him.
I described po once as 'a story of frustrated ambition in the mood of post-industrial society'. Shot in 1995 po was awarded with the Temple University Motion Picture Association Scholarship.
The title refers primerely to p.o. (post office in the US) a subtle reference to Bartleby, but also to the portuguese word for 'dust'. po is man who lives intensively, in spite of being constantly hurt by his relatives and friends. The external world is his reference, the source of his sufferings, pleasures and ambitions. As Voltaire, he believes that he will leave the world as crooked and wicked as he found it. Eager to be imperceptible po has chosen to live in a dark and small room, as a handicap, reducing his own fate to the remembrance of his dreams, experiences and nightmares. A woman takes care of him, though he complaints that she is trying to kill him.
I described po once as 'a story of frustrated ambition in the mood of post-industrial society'. Shot in 1995 po was awarded with the Temple University Motion Picture Association Scholarship.
How do people survive in a
third-world town? What are their expectations, their
problems and their dreams? MANATI, PORTRAIT OF THIRD-WORLD
HAPPY TOWN is an attempt to answer these and other
questions posed by the social and political convulsions of
Colombia
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