DIRECTOR
João Italo
RUNTIME
10 Minutes
COUNTRY
Brazil
SYNOPSIS
At the end of the 1960s, a terrible wave of deaths and missing people in a rural town forced residents to flee. Euclides and Iracema need to protect their family against a mysterious creature and honor the conquest of their new home.
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
As a Brazilian and a peripheral person in my country, I fight for the democratization of access to cinema and for the revolt against the elitist circles that I encounter in my career. Horror cinema has been my study for years, and “Open Season” is my most personal film, which overflows the strength of social, fantasy and horror cinema, as it tells part of my family's story with the horrors suffered by my country. 1968 to 1984, by the military dictatorship. The day on which the film takes place, as you can see in the teaser, is the day on which AI5 was announced, a constitutional article that gave carte blanche to the dismantling of democracy, political rights, civic rights, art and culture .
The characters are a portrait of my great-grandparents and my mother, set in the house in which most of the generations of my family were born and died. Taking place on the balcony where I learned to fall in love with the art of storytelling, with scary folklore, I consider the film to be a personal milestone, for my small town and for my family.
The short is a fantasy and very faithful to my culture, country and family. In the last 4 years, we have suffered from a government that called for the return of dictatorship and the horrors of democracy. For 4 years we were prevented from creating culture and, in the first year after the end of the previous government, I finally managed to make this film, which is already having repercussions in São Paulo and outside our country.
CAST and CREW
Directed by - João Italo
Written by - João Italo
Executive Producers
- João Italo
- Joyce Cardoso
- Leon Barbero
Production Coordination
- Beatriz Pereira
- Leonardo Henriques
- Karol Simões
- Felipe Brandão
- Lucas Soares
- Deivid Dourado
Continuity
- Ana Laura Mourar
- Beatriz Caldera
Line Producer - Joyce Cardoso
Assistant Director - Julia Moura
Cinematographer - Alexandre Elaiuy
1st Camera Assistant - Jeff Guimarães
2nd Camera Assistant - Thiago Rosa
3rd Camera Assistant - Diego Galera
Gaffer - Lucas Costa
Key Grip - Pedro
Stagehand - Victor Pierini
Production designer - Vibe
Art Assistant - Larry Anjos
Art Search - Jeff Cellophane
Props producer - Daniel Corrêa
Set Dressers
- Biannca Rodrigues
- Nelly Furtado
- Manuela Furtado
Sound Direction - Matheus Coutinho
Sound Operators
- Raíssa Teixeira
- Beatriz VK
Makeup Artist - Bianca Gambelli
Stills
- Breno Angélica dos Santos
- Camila Falchetto
- Larry dos Anjos
- André Luiz
Photo Assistants
- Diego Menezes
- Yasmin Silva
- Gabriel Neumann
Edited by - André Vidigal
Original Score - Thierry Lucas
Colorist - Lucas Cangelli
VFX - Rerick Veiga
Sound Editing - Thierry Lucas
Mixing - Henry Berrocal
Editing Assistant - Lucas Valente
Poster Designer - Rodart
Graphic Designer
- Beatriz Pereira Motion Animator
- Gabriel Neumann
Casting - Bruno Fonseca
Marketing
- Letícia Cybis
- Carolina Alves
- Daniele Monteiro
- Camila Hatje
- Samy Reis
- Pedro Henrique
Drivers
- Tom Transportes
- Jeferson de Freitas
CAST
Fernando de Paula
Yara Forrer
Julia Ramos
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