The Empress | movie | 2023 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

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00:26Hi, I'm Raíssa.

00:27I'm Juan, and we both direct the short film Imperatriz.

00:31I'm Letícia, and I'm the screenwriter of the short film.

00:34Imperatriz tells the story of two young people, Amelina and Eduardo,

00:39who happen to meet at a coffee shop in the middle of the night.

00:43This meeting will make each one of them take a different path in life

00:48than the one they've taken so far.

00:51It's essentially a story about what didn't happen between them,

00:55but also about the impact that certain coincidences

01:02and maybe even fate can have on people's lives.

01:06It may be something in my head, but it's just that...

01:11the moment I stepped out of the house,

01:15I felt like I had to be here, you know?

01:18This project was the first thing the three of us did,

01:26which was more professional, let's say.

01:29It was done with an audiovisual production logic,

01:32because this project was made for a third-year course

01:37in the fourth semester of the audiovisual course

01:40at USP's Communication and Arts School.

01:43We wanted to work a lot on the direction aspect

01:46with the exchange of glances between the two protagonists

01:52and the physical relationship between them,

01:56symbolizing both the position of the actors in the frame

02:02and the framing that we used as well.

02:05Imperatriz was shot twice a day,

02:07which were two nights, two days in a row,

02:10and it was a very important experience for the three of us,

02:13because it would have been very difficult to do everything

02:18that we would like to do if the whole team

02:20wasn't so in tune and so committed to making the set

02:24flow as well as it did.

02:26One of the things that is important to say is that

02:30it was very difficult to find a location to shoot the movie.

02:34We searched all over São Paulo for a place

02:38so that we could do it for free,

02:41or by exchanging services or offering some kind of service,

02:44but unfortunately we couldn't find it.

02:47So we had to pay a rent for the shooting days,

02:52and unfortunately we didn't have the money

02:55to pay the rent, besides all the other expenses from the short film.

03:00So we want to thank all the team leaders

03:04who got together to do a little favor

03:07so that we could pay the rent and make the short film happen.

03:11And if we manage to win this award,

03:14part of it would go to those people

03:17who helped make the movie happen.

03:21The short film is in post-production,

03:24and in that sense, an important thing that we would like to do

03:28is to give a better finish to the sound,

03:31so maybe we could do a dubbing,

03:34which also costs money, so we would bring new actors

03:37to be able to do these recordings.

03:40One of our goals is also to make the short film

03:43seen by as many people as possible,

03:46so that it can reach a lot of people,

03:49and for that we want to start by inscribing the project

03:54in several festivals, whether Brazilian or international.

03:59And we know that there is a cost for most of these festivals,

04:03often in dollars or euros.

04:06We would like to thank the Nascente team

04:09for choosing Imperatriz as one of the finalist projects.

04:12We are very happy about that,

04:15because it was really something very special for everyone involved,

04:18and we just want this film to circulate as much as possible

04:23so that this story can touch other people,

04:26reach other people,

04:29and make the name of ECA, CTR and USP

04:33circulate so that people know what we do here.

04:38That's it.

04:40Thank you, bye bye!

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