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.
Director: Mo Scarpelli
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 105 min
Release Date: April 25, 2020
Cast
- Jorge Thielen Armand - Self
- Jorge Thielen Hedderich - Self
- Rodrigo Michelangeli - Self
Editing: Juan Soto Taborda
Production: Rake Films, Ardimages, La Faena
Country: Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela
Language: Español
Original Language: es
Keywords
venezuela, filmmaking, making of, latin america
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is El Father Plays Himself about?
- 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.
- Who directed El Father Plays Himself?
- El Father Plays Himself was directed by Mo Scarpelli.
- Who stars in El Father Plays Himself?
- El Father Plays Himself stars Jorge Thielen Armand, Jorge Thielen Hedderich, Rodrigo Michelangeli.
- How long is El Father Plays Himself?
- El Father Plays Himself has a runtime of 1h 45m (105 minutes).
- What genre is El Father Plays Himself?
- El Father Plays Himself is a Documentary film.
- Where was El Father Plays Himself produced?
- El Father Plays Himself was produced in Italy, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela.