NOVE CRÔNICAS PARA UM CORAÇÃO AOS BERROS

NINE CHRONICLES FOR A SCREAMING HEART
Fiction | HD/35mm | 2012 | 93 minutes
In co-production with Effects Filmes and LudoFilmes
Independent production

SYNOPSIS: Larissa is no longer in love with Mário; Leopoldo does not know whether to stay or go; Júlio still lives with his mother; Simone is tired of being a hooker; Vanise is reminded of what it means to be a woman; Philipp does not want to go back to Germany; Carol carries a graveyard of memories with her; André wants to make a different kind of sound; Denise decided to have new experiences while there is still time. In this surprising mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. They all are, each in their own way, at a turning point in their lives.

- To be released in 2012
- Web site (Portuguese): www.novecronicas.com
- Web site (English): novecronicas.com/english/

Directed and produced by: Gustavo Galvão
Screenplay by: Gustavo Galvão and Cristiane Oliveira
Executive producers: Guilherme Bacalhao, Marina Volpatto and Thalita Ateyeh
Director of photography: André Carvalheira
Art director: Valéria Verba
Editor: Marcius Barbieri
Sound supervisors: Miriam Biderman, Ricardo Reis
Soundtrack: Assis Medeiros, Jimi Figueiredo
Cast (alphabetical order): André Frateschi, Cacá Amaral, Carolina Sudati, Charly Braun, Cristiano Karnas, Denise Weinberg, Eucir de Souza, Evelyn Ligocki, Felipe Kannenberg, Júlio Andrade, Larissa Salgado, Leonardo Medeiros, Marat Descartes, Marcelo Coutelo, Mário Bortolotto, Paula Cohen, Plínio Soares, Ramiro Silveira, Rejane Zilles, Rita Batata, Rodrigo Bolzan, Simone Spoladore, Vanise Carneiro, Vinícius Ferreira



DIRETOR’S STATEMENT

I admire personal films, they tend to take a hold on me. I feel that I am discovering something intimate – something that the filmmaker secretly confesses, or almost unwittingly lets slip out. Such intimacy interests me more and more, hence my fascination with “small” films. So much so, that I decided to make one. I had made some short films of that kind, I felt that the time had come to make a feature film. There were a lot of feelings I kept inside and I felt a pressing need to release them.

I don’t know when exactly I embarked on this adventure of making a feature film with little money, independently and urgently. What I do know is that I was obsessed with American and European counterculture artists, who did what they wanted with whatever they had available. In September 2009, I spent a few weeks in San Francisco and in New York, and the trip awakened stories I had kept for myself for a long time. I realized that those stories still moved me and felt a burning urge to make them visible. In November, I started calling some friends to make a movie. Yes, a feature film: Nine Chronicles for a Screaming Heart (Nove Crônicas para um Coração aos Berros).

The stories that make up the film were developed as literary texts that dealt with day-to-day issues and were free from the constraints of a conventional film script. That is why the term “chronicles” is in the title. They are nine stories that merge together and contaminate each other, all dealing with the same theme: people who meet at a kind of crossroads in their lives, in need of reinventing themselves soon, or else… I don’t know. What is important is to change.

Just as the characters, which were coming to life at each conversation and rehearsal, I also had an overwhelming need to reinvent myself. It was with that feeling, so evident in my eyes and in my words, that I approached the actors and technicians I wanted to have in the project. Even old partners. With their talent and commitment, we would endeavor to make a great “small” movie.