Gonella Productions

LANGUAGE: Portuguese, Chinese | SUBTITLES: English

SYNOPSIS
Behind their slanted eyes, immigrants carry with them their ancient traditions. Chinese pray, runs, Chinese do the samba. Chinese people it´s all the same.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
Production Company: Haver Filmes
Film exports/World sales: Gonella Productions

CAST
Chiu Yun Yu Braga, Hee Noun, Quem Lemos

MAIN CREDITS
Director: Denise Soares
Screenwriter: Denise Soares e Aristeu Araújo
Producer: Christiane Spode
Director of Photography: Elisandro Dalcin
Production Designer: Christiane Spode
Sound: Roberto Oliveira e Rodrigo Janiszewski
Editing: Aristeu Araújo
Sound Editing: Ulisses Galetto
Music Composer: Grupo de Música Tradicional Chinesa
Art:: Fabiola Bonofliglio

TECHNICAL DETAILS
Genre: Documentary
Production language: Portuguese
Country of origin: Brazil
Year of production: 2014
Total running time: 23’52”
Production format: Digital
Color type: Color
Aspect ratio: 16:09
Sound format: Stereo

AWARDS
Best Short, Best Sound, Best Art Direction and Best Edition in Kinoarte Film Festival 2015.

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
Kinoarte Film Festival
Olhar de Cinema Film Festival
ABC Film Festival

BIOGRAPHY OF THE DIRECTOR
Denise Kelm is the founding partner of Haver Filmes a Brazilian production company. Studied Film Directing at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños – EICTV, Cuba. She has directed 14 short films, fiction and documentaries that were screened and won prizes in many festivals around the world, like IDFA - International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, FICCI – Colombia, GIFF in Mexico, Sao Paulo’s Shorts International Film Festival and São Paulo Latin American Film Festival. In 2019 debut her first feature film.