Country: Brazil
Year: 2024
Duration: 90'
Dé is a black teenager from Chatuba, a Rio de Janeiro favela. He receives the news that his grandmother, Almerinda, is in the terminal stage of Alzheimer's disease. He and his two best friends, Adrianin and Martins, decide to make the most of the last days of life with her.
Biography
film director
Luciano Vidigal
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ???) is born in the Vidigal favela and he is an actor, screenwriter, theater and film director. He acted in 42 films and wrote and directed one of the episodes of the feature film 5x Favela - Now by Ourselves, premiered in Cannes. With Cavi Borges, he directed the documentary City of God - 10 Years Later. With the short fiction film Lá do Alto, he won more than 40 awards in national and international festivals. White House is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Neguinho e Kika (cm, 2005), Concerto para violino (ep di 5x Favela - Now By Ourselves, 2010), Tornado (cm, 2012), 5x Pacificação (coregia Cadu Barcellos, Rodirgo, Felha, Wagner Novais, 2012), City of God - 10 Years Later (coregia Cavi Borges, 2013), Mais X Favela (7 ep, serie tv, 2011-2014), Lá do Alto (cm, 2015), Funk Brasil - 5 Visões do Batidão coregia/co-directors Cavi Borges, Christian Caselli, Rodrigo Felha, 2016), Mais Jovem, Mais Bela, Mais Linda (videoclip, coregia Cavi Borges, 2019), Janelas Daqui (coregia Arthur Sherman, 2021), Kasa Branca (2024).
Declaration
film director
“My intention in this film is to show the territory and characters through affection and humanity linked to daily life in the favelas. White House is inspired by the teenage universe, and shows the trajectory of three best friends who become a family when they are faced with the news that the grandmother of one of them is in the last days of her life.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Luciano Vidigal. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Arthur Sherman. EDITING: André Sampaio. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Alexandre Magalhães, Rafael Cabeça. COSTUME DESIGN: Lena Santana. MUSIC: Fernando Aranha, Guga Bruno. SOUND: Fernando Aranha, Bernardo Adeodato, Vampiro. CAST: Big Jaum, Diego Francisco, Ramon Francisco, Teca Pereira, Gi Fernandes, Roberta Rodrigues, Guti Fraga. PRODUCTION: Bárbara Defanti, Gisela Camara, Roberto Berliner, Sabrina Garcia, Leo Ribeiro, Cavi Borges for Sobretudo Produção, TVZero.
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