Trailer for Semente Exterminadora [Exterminator Seed], 2017.
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Semente Exterminadora [Exterminator Seed]
A film by Isadora Neves Marques (previously Pedro Neves Marques). 2017. Fiction, 28', video, color, sound. Spoken in Portuguese. Portugal/Brazil.
An oil spill contaminates the Brazilian coast. Capivara, an oil rig worker is evacuated back to Rio de Janeiro, where the locals remain ignorant of the incoming disaster. Despite de danger, Capivara wishes only to return to the offshore oil rigs. In the city he is aided by Ywy, a woman who convinces him to travel to her homeland in Mato Grosso do Sul in search of work in the soya and corn monocultural plantations. There, Ywy tells him about the infertility of such transgenics plants and of an android like her. But Capivara, a human, is incapable of understanding her.
Premiere: Indie Lisboa Film Festival, 2017.
Credits:
Written and directed by Pedro Neves Marques
Produced by Capivara Filmes (Brasil) and Curtas Metragens CRL (Portugal)
Producers: Renato Rondon, Nuno Rodrigues, Pedro Neves Marques
Co-Producer: Catarina de Sousa
Cast: Zahy Guajajara, Luíz Felipe Lucas
Cinematography: Carolina Marsiaj Costa
Edited by: Pedro Neves Marques, Mariana Silva
Sound: Nuno da Luz
Assistant Directors: Catarina de Sousa, Mariana Silva
Assistant Producer: Nathalia Guinet
Post-Production Studio: Kino Sound Studio
With the support of: Fundación Botín (Spain) and Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual Português - ICA (Portugal)
A film by Isadora Neves Marques (previously Pedro Neves Marques). 2017. Fiction, 28', video, color, sound. Spoken in Portuguese. Portugal/Brazil.
An oil spill contaminates the Brazilian coast. Capivara, an oil rig worker is evacuated back to Rio de Janeiro, where the locals remain ignorant of the incoming disaster. Despite de danger, Capivara wishes only to return to the offshore oil rigs. In the city he is aided by Ywy, a woman who convinces him to travel to her homeland in Mato Grosso do Sul in search of work in the soya and corn monocultural plantations. There, Ywy tells him about the infertility of such transgenics plants and of an android like her. But Capivara, a human, is incapable of understanding her.
Premiere: Indie Lisboa Film Festival, 2017.
Credits:
Written and directed by Pedro Neves Marques
Produced by Capivara Filmes (Brasil) and Curtas Metragens CRL (Portugal)
Producers: Renato Rondon, Nuno Rodrigues, Pedro Neves Marques
Co-Producer: Catarina de Sousa
Cast: Zahy Guajajara, Luíz Felipe Lucas
Cinematography: Carolina Marsiaj Costa
Edited by: Pedro Neves Marques, Mariana Silva
Sound: Nuno da Luz
Assistant Directors: Catarina de Sousa, Mariana Silva
Assistant Producer: Nathalia Guinet
Post-Production Studio: Kino Sound Studio
With the support of: Fundación Botín (Spain) and Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual Português - ICA (Portugal)