El Father Plays Himself
2020Feature documentary30m
MS
A film by Mo Scarpelli
Rake FilmsSold by Tribushare on behalf of Rake Films · Checkout on rakefilms.tribushare.com
- Released
- 2020
- Genre
- Feature documentary
- Runtime
- 30m
- Filmed in
- Venezuela · Italy · UK · USA
- Audio
- Stereo
- Quality
- HD
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9
About the 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. 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.
- Directed by
- Mo Scarpelli
- Studio
- Rake Films
What people are saying
- Special MentionVisions du Réel2020
- Silver BiznagaMálaga2021
- Best of FestivalsIDFA2020
- Best Doc on ArtBogotá2021
Inside the film
Cast & crew
- Mo ScarpelliDirector
- Jorge Thielen ArmandCharacter
- Jorge Roque ThielenCharacter
- Juan Soto TabordaEditor
- Mo ScarpelliCinematographer
- Roberta AinsteinSound Designer
- Manon ArdissonProducer
Extras included
Included when you rent or buy.
Locked until you rent or buy4:34Deleted Scene - Trouble on the River
Deleted Scenes
Locked until you rent or buy29:52Conversation between El Father & director Mo Scarpelli, August 2021
Interview
Locked until you rent or buy5:38Deleted Scene - The Last Day of Filming
Deleted Scenes
