Name of Baptism – Frances – Documentary (2019)

[Documentary | 2019 | 16 min

SYNOPSIS

The director immerses herself in her father’s past by meeting the nun who helped her family flee the Angola Civil War in the 1970s. They came to Olinda and, as a tribute, the first daughter born in Brazil won the name of this woman.

FESTIVALS and AWARDS

-24th Festival It´s All True -International Documentary Film Festival- São Paulo/SP/BR, Apr 2019

– 5th Mostra Pajeú de Cinema – Afogados da Ingazeira /PE/BR, May 2019

FUNDING

Project supported by the Curta Afirmativo funding: protagonism of Afro-Brazilian filmmakers in the national audiovisual production.

FRANCES is the second film of the “Name of Baptism” project, a series of 5 films inspired by the stories that are behind of  the Director´s name.

CREW

Direction and Images – Tila Chitunda

Screenplay – Tila Chitunda and Amandine Goisbault

Editing – Amandine Goisbault

Artistic Collaboration – Julien Ineichen

Sound Editing and Mixing – Catarina Apolônio

Original Soundtrack – Johann Brehmer

Color Adjustment – Tiago Campos

Executive Production – Tila Chitunda and Amandine Goisbault

Production and Additional Imagens  – Julien Ineichen

Graphic Design – Ingrid Borba

English Translation – Mark Burr

 

CAST

Frances Ramirez

Fran Markham

Robin Markham