El 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.

Country:

Italy,

United Kingdom,

United States of America,

Venezuela

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

105 minutes

Year:

2020

Director:

Mo Scarpelli

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Company:

Rake Films,

Ardimages,

La Faena

Cast:

Crew:

Producer

Director

Editor

Sound Designer

Cinematography