62ND LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL FILMMAKERS OF THE PRESENT COMPETITION

DUAS MARIOLA

PRESENTS

THE INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE OF

A FILM BY FELIPE BRAGANÇA & MARINA MELIANDE

A FUGA, A RAIVA, A DANÇA, A BUNDA, A BOCA,A CALMA,

A VIDA DA MULHER GORILA

THE SCAPE OF THE MONKEY WOMAN

LA FUGUE DE LA FEMME GORILLE

SYNOPSIS (ENGLISH): Two girls on a van in this adventure musical road movie. A soft tale of anger, joy, a beach, some sugarcane and a little bit of music. Shot in a 8 days trip through the neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro State, the film follows two sisters, Flora and “She”, in their never-ending journey in an apocalyptical but beautiful landscape, finding ways to survive making money with a show where “She” pretends to be transformed in a real monkey woman. Small towns, sugarcane landscape and industrial areas are mixed in their minds with the music, lights and romantic culture of the suburbs – as they transform their pain, doubt and desire, in a strange form of communication based on singing secret memories and wondering feelings. In this desertical and romantic world where they find themselves, the two girls keep trying to meet someone who could be part of their fantastic show, and some secret place where they could try to re-start the life on Earth with some violence, some fire and some silent sweetness.

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS: BEST FILM – OFFICIAL JURY and BEST FILM – YOUTH JURY in the 12a Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes (BRASIL) - (only public-screening) DIRECTORS` BIOGRAPHIES AND FILMOGRAPHIES: FELIPE BRAGANÇA, 28, filmmaker and scriptauthor – directed 3 shortfilms between 2003 and 2006 exhibited in more than 50 brazilian and international film festivals with national and international prizes. Creative partner of Karim Ainouz, Felipe has co-written SUELY IN THE SKY script when he was 24 years old and acted as an director-assistant in the same film. One year later, he was one of the head scriptwritters of the HBO Latin America Series ALICE, directed by Karim Ainouz as well. More recently, Felipe has won a prize to develop and shoot his first 35mm festure film called A ALEGRIA / THE JOY wich will be shot in 2009 and is programmed to be released in 2010, when he will be 29 years old. For more future projects, Felipe acts as a coordinator of a coletive film manifest of young brazilian film markers (called DESASSOSSEGO/NEVERQUIET) and is writting two others scripts for future feature films. One of then, again with Karim Ainouz as writer and director-assistant, called SUNLIT BERLIN. Filmography as writer and director:

• Por dentro de uma gota dágua – 2003 – 16mm – 10 min – as DIRECTOR

• O Nome Dele (o clóvis) – 2004 – 35mm – 15 min – as DIRECTOR • Jonas e a Baleia – 2006 – 35mm – 20 min – as DIRECTOR • O Céu de Suely – 2006 – 35mm – 80 min – as DIRECTOR-

ASSISTANT and SCRIPTWRITTER • Eu não sei dizer o nome dela (Epis. Tão Perto, Tão Longe –

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Coletive Project)– 2008 – DV – 5 min – as DIRECTOR

• Banho de Sol para Dinossauros (Epis. Praia do Futuro – Coletive Video Project) – 2008 – DV – 8 min. – as DIRECTOR

• Alice (HBO) – 2008 - 13 Episodes of 45 min. – as HEAD SCRIPTWRITTER

• No Meu Lugar – 2009 – 35mm – 105 min. – as SCRIPTWRITTER – SPECIAL SCREENING IN THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2009

• Desassossego (coletive film project) – DV – 90 min. – to be released in 2010 – as DIRECTOR and ARTISTIC COORDINATOR

• A Alegria – 35mm – 80 min – IN PRE-PRODUCTION – as DIRECTOR and SCRIPTWRITTER

• Sunlit Berlin – 35mm – 95 min – IN PRE-PRODUCTION – as DIRECTOR ASSISTANT and SCRIPTWRITTER

felipe_braganca@yahoo.com.br

MARINA MELIANDE, 28, filmmaker and image/sound editor with more than 40 shortfilms edited and two short films directed with national and international prizes and released in more than 40 international film festivals. In June 2009, Marina has just finished a two years residence program in LE FRESNOY – National Visual Arts Center (FRANCE) where she developed two audiovisual installations/works presented in the LES FRESNOY annual showcase both in Lille and Paris. Today Marina is preparing her first feature film in 35mm, A ALEGRIA / THE JOY and is making the research of her awarded medium-length film project called A IMAGEM QUE FICA / THE IMAGE STAYS with will be shot in 2010. Filmography as director and editor (selected):

• Por dentro de uma gota dágua – 2003 – 16mm – 10 min – as DIRECTOR

• O Nome Dele (o clóvis) – 2004 – 35mm – 15 min – as DIRECTOR • Jonas e a Baleia – 2006 – 35mm – 20 min – as EDITOR • Eu não sei dizer o nome dela (Epis. Tão Perto, Tão Longe –

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Coletive Project)– 2008 – DV – 5 min – as EDITOR

• Letters to the old world (to LES FRESNOY annual showcase) – 2008 – DV – audiovisual installation – as DIRECTOR/AUTHOR

• The image that stays – (videoinstalation to LES FRESNOY annual showcase) – 2009 – in finishing process – as DIRECTOR/AUTHOR.

• Desassossego (coletive film project) – DV – 90 min. – to be released in 2010 – as DIRECTOR and EDITOR

• A Alegria – 35mm – 80 min – IN PRE-PRODUCTION – as DIRECTOR marinameliande@yahoo.com.br / www.marinameliande.com PRODUCTION COMPANY AND CREW PROFILE: DUAS MARIOLA is a small cooperative cinema company from Rio de Janeiro organized by six young partners of cinema created to produce films that believes in risk, enthusiasm and the youth as a possibility of cinema a never-ending form of art. The CREW of our film was formed by four members of the company - Felipe (director, writter), Marina (director, editor), Andrea Cappela (cinematographer) and Carolina Durão (producer, director assistent) - and some partners - Gustavo Bragança (Art Director) and Alberto Moura Junior (actor) wich work with Marina and Felipe since their first shortfilm released in 2003. Since it was created - in 2007 - DUAS MARIOLA FILMES has produced four shortfilms, two feature films and a lot cinema events and showcases in Brazil. In 2009, DM is also producing Felipe and Marina's second feature film (first in 35mm) awarded with the most important cultural brazilian support (by Petrobras), called THE JOY / A ALEGRIA. This film will also be produced in this cooperative and free willing process with a small budget and small crew.

DIRECTORS` NOTE: Felipe Bragança & Marina Meliande THE SCAPE OF THE MONKEY WOMAN is a road musical melodrama about youth. Its also about our crew and our colletive passion for some kind of enthusiasm, joy and anger in a way cinema can be still a territory of magic. We needed to do it like this: as an small adventure, as a kind of risk and lovefull trip about our imaginary in a country and around a city (Rio de Janeiro) full of explosion and tension. This film is the first part of our trilogy film-scape of the usual methods of making films in Brazil, trying to find some kind of firefull beauty in the small crews, gestures and life of our friends, memories and music. This film is part of our research about what is it to be young in a time and planet full of melancholic ideals and prophetic ends of world. We want this film and our cinema to be itself a object of possible beauty that can have enthusiastic, reflexive and joyfull effects in the eyes that see it. We really have no more patience to the ideal of the contemporary cinema as a sad cronist of our times to fight against the stupid entertainment. We think art cinema can do more: can still create alternative and combative time and space as a magic trick… Or maybe die trying to do it. CREW / TECHNICAL STAFF: Produced by: DUAS MARIOLA, Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande Associated Producers: Arissas Multimidia and Clara Meliande Directed by: Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande 1st Assistant Director: Carolina Durão Story and Screenplay: Felipe Bragança Executive Production: Felipe Bragança Assistant Production: Marina Pompeu Post Production Coordinator: Lara Frigotto Cinematography: Andrea Capella Gaffer: Alberto Moura Jr. Art Direction and Costumes: Gustavo Bragança e Mayra Sergio Art Assistant: Marianna Jannuzzi Kombi Graffitti: Chico 21 Image Editing: Marina Meliande Sound and Sound Design: Marina Meliande Aditional Sound: Felippe Mussel Show Announcement Record: Lucas Ramos Assistant Sound Editing: Felippe Mussel and Enrique Ramirez Sound Mix: Aurelien Grocq e Quentin Heems Credits Design: Gustavo Bragança Color Correction: Gerson Silva Original SoundTrack: Lyrics by Felipe Bragança / Melodies by Flora Dias, Morena Cattoni and Alberto Moura Jr Original Theme by Ricardo Rito Cast: Morena Cattoni, Flora Dias, Alberto Moura Jr and Pedro Freire Show Announcer (voice): Gabriel Versiani Support: Virginia Flores, Grupo Matriz/Cine Lapa, Midsummer Madness, Feira de São Cristovão and Calibre Filmes

A FUGA DA MULHER GORILA DV/HD – Color – 82 min. – 2009 – Brasil CONTACT DUAS MARIOLA www.duasmariola.com.br +55 21 25537336 + 55 21 95157320 larafrigotto@gmail.com felipe_braganca@yahoo.com.br BRASIL, 2009