Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2019
Language: Portuguese
Subtitles: English
Runtime: 21 mins.
Under the watchful eye of their vogueing mother, a young dancer from a Rio de Janeiro favela navigates Brazil’s vibrant ballroom scene. Together, they compete and perform at balls across the country, in one of the most dangerous places in the world to be visibly queer. When a new age of violence dawns on the LGBTQ+ communities of Brazil, the family bands together in an act of creative resistance. Filmed during the first year of the Bolsonaro presidency, MOTHER is is a queer coming of age story about the power of chosen family.
Kate is an award-winning director raised in London and New York whose work explores power, identity and citizenship in the digital age. She experiments with form in her films, playing with genre conventions to investigate truth. Her work has screened internationally at film festivals and galleries including the BFI London Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Institute for Contemporary Art, and DOC NYC. Her Grierson and RTS award-winning film FAKE NEWS FAIRYTALE was included in the BFI’s season Born Digital: Raised by the Internet and exhibited in a group show Digital Citizenship: The Precarious Subject at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Jas works internationally as a director, with many of her films focusing on stories in Latin America. Her films look at the role of imagination in real stories, and experiment with the boundaries of the documentary genre. Jas started out as a documentary filmmaker working for NGO’s and aid organisations around the world, and studied directing on an MA at the National Film and Television School. Her most recent film ABRÁZAME looks at the imaginative worlds of three children growing up inside a Bolivian prison.
Director:
Jas Pitt, Kate Stonehill
Production:
Sorcha Bacon, Lua Guerreiro.
contacto: sorcha@try-hard.co.uk
Screenings
León
19.9.2021
21:00 (Horario CST)
Cinema Picnic | Jardines del Forum Cultural Guanajuato 
San Miguel de Allende
22.9.2021
22:00 (Horario CST)
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