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.”
7.0
2020
1h 45m
Documentary
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.
Key Crew
Director
Mo Scarpelli
Producers
Rodrigo Michelangeli
Manon Ardisson
Cast (3)
Jorge Thielen Armand
Self
Jorge Thielen Hedderich
Self
