El Father Plays Himself (2020)
El Father Plays Himself (2020)
A father and son return to the Amazon jungle to shoot a deeply personal film. Fiction and reality clash as father plays himself.
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.

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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.


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

Details

Genres: Documentary

Language: Español

Release Date: 25 April 2020

Country: IT, GB, US, VE

Runtime: 105m

Company Credits

Company: Rake Films, Ardimages, La Faena

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Sound

Roberta Ainstein

Roberta Ainstein

Sound Designer

Lucas Meyer

Lucas Meyer

Dialogue Editor

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Other Crew

Mo Scarpelli

Mo Scarpelli

Cinematography

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