El Father Plays Himself
“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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Mo Scarpelli Director · Juan Soto Taborda Editor
First release April 25, 2020 · Produced in Italy, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela · Production Ardimages, La Faena Films
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Rake Films
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Ardimages
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La Faena Films
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Italy · United Kingdom · United States · Venezuela
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Original title
El Father como sí mismo
Original language
Spanish
Spoken on screen
Spanish
Release dates
Venezuela · April 25, 2020
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No release date listed for United States.
Canada
September 22, 2021 · Digital · Cinefest Sudbury
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