Casa
- Direction
- Letícia Simões
- Country
- Brazil
- Format
- Feature film
- Type
- Documentary
- Original title
- Casa
- Scenario
- Letícia Simões, with the collaboration of Eduardo Valente and Hilton Lacerda
Letícia Simões
Filmography
– O chalé é uma ilha batida de vento e chuva | Cinélatino Toulouse 2018
– Tudo vai ficar da cor que você quiser | Cinélatino Toulouse 2015 (Best Documentary); Int’l festival de Rio of Janeiro 2015; Noida Film Festival (Special Mention); Visões Periféricas 2015
– Bruta Aventura em Versos | Int’l Film Festival of Rio of Janeiro 2011; Int’l Film Festival of São Paulo 2011; Int’l Film Festival of Tiradentes 2012
Note of intent
This documentary is the process of searching a house. A house that is not concrete; a house that was built by memories. Home proposes a documentary created from the intimate to the universal, taking the real / fictional duality to the limit and dealing with themes larger than the particular issues. Home becomes a documentary-letter of a daughter who seeks to relate to her mother in order to prove her sanity. However, anyone who seeks to approach a buried past has to behave like someone who digs. After all, what do we mean when we say home?
Synopsis
The return of an absent daughter to the city where she was born, fearful of a crisis of sanity of her bipolar mother, is the trigger for this familiar rapprochement. Letícia, the newly separated daughter, blames herself for having distanced herself from her mother in these ten years away from home; Heliana, the mother, is facing a serious depressive crisis that began with the decision to put her mother, Carmelita, in a nursing home. When confronted with Heliana’s obsession with the past – she archives pictures, diaries, correspondences and objects from the whole family – Letícia believes that memory is a way of recreating this intimacy. But to open these files, the daughter will have to convince her mother, who keeps them locked up. In the construction of spaces of affection among these women, Home questions what is sanity, what is memory, what is feminine, what is solitude.
Visual concept
Home is thought of as a mixed documentary of observation and direct cinema. A daughter filming her mother and her grandmother. A camera that films them both. To create the record of intimacy, one hopes for a nearby camera that will accompany the daily relationship between these three women. A camera focused on the details of a everyday life, a camera that is fixed, still. The people enter and leave the frame; not otherwise. The daughter does not know how to film her mother and sometimes this filmmaking is ugly and uncomfortable.
- Objectives sought in Films in Development
At this point of the project, the project has an urge to be discussed within its own strategies. Specially the creative issues: how to film my mother and me? Where to put the camera? Which creative strategies the film needs from me as a documentary filmmaker – how can I create images for the responses letters of my mother? All these concept questions I aim to discuss at Cinéma en Développement with my colleagues and my mentors.
- Shooting planned date
March, 2018.
- Planned shooting location
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
- Percentage of funding in place
- 100%
- Production
- Carnaval Filmes
- Coproduction
- REC Produtores
- Producer's biography
João Vieira Jr. studied Law and Journalism at the Faculdade Católica de Pernambuco. He has worked with important directors of national cinema, such as Marcelo Gomes, Hilton Lacerda, Karim Ainouz, Letícia Simões and Lírio Ferreira. He is producer of longs like Cinema, I travel because I need to, I go back because I love you, Once upon a time I, Veronica, Tattoo, and Joaquim, films from the REC Producers catalog, of which he was founder and partner for 18 years. Also signs the production of the films The Sky of Suely and Baixio of Beasts. He is a member of the Audiovisual Advisory Board of Pernambuco and the Film Management Committee of Brazil.