CHOICE
A short film by Rafael Valério
An empty park in the middle of the night. Inside a parked car, a young and an older man just had sex. They talk about their sexual preferences, until one of them shares something surprising to the other.
Un parc vide au milieu de la nuit. A l’intérieur d’une voiture garée, un jeune homme et un homme plus âgé viennent de coucher ensemble. Ils parlent de leurs préférences sexuelles, jusqu’à ce que l’un des deux dévoile quelque chose de surprenant à l’autre.
Un parco vuoto nel mezzo della notte. All’interno di una macchina, un giovane e un uomo più anziano hanno appena fatto sesso. Parlano delle loro preferenze sessuali, finché uno di loro condivide qualcosa di sorprendente all’altro.
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SYNOPSIS
FESTIVALS
Thunderdance Film Festival - Dalston, London, UK - November 2017 - Official Selection
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Austin Spotlight Film Festival - Austin, Texas, USA - November 2017 - Official Competition (World Premiere)
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Cinématico Film Festival - Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico - November 2017 - Official Competition (Mexican Premiere)
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Mumbai Shorts Film Festival - Mumbai, India - November 2017 - Official Competition (Indian Premiere)
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Roma Cinema Doc - Rome, Italy - December 2017 - Official November Monthly Competition
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Los Angeles San Rafael Film Festival - Los Angeles SR, Segovia, Spain - December 2017 - Official December Montlhy Competition
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Short to the Point Film Festival - Bucharest, Romania - October 2017 - Official Competition
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Lake View Film Festival - Punjab, India - December 2017 - JURY AWARD
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PickurFlick Indie Film Festival - Delhi, India - January 2018 - Official Competition
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Alternative Film Festival ALTIFF - Toronto, Canada - December 2017 - Official Competition
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Bucharest ShortCut CineFest - Bucharest, Romania - January 2018 - Official Competition
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Film Festival - Pune, India - December 2017 - Official Competition
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IndieFlicks Film Festival - Manchester/London/Sheffield/Liverpool, UK - February 2018
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Rafael Valério was born in Brazil in 1988.
Admirer of Fellini, Rohmer, Lars Von Trier, Almodóvar but also of Buffy the vampire slayer, Ally Mcbeal, Weeds and Six Feet Under, he began studying cinema in Sao Paulo.
He left for France in 2008, where he graduated in cinema university in Montpellier in 2012, then got a professional Master degree in cinema script writing and directing at the Sorbonne in 2015. Passionated by script writing and reading, he worked as intern then as a script reader and script doctor, first in festivals then in acquisitions and production.
In 2015 he created a production collective with friends, with which he co-produced and co-directed the short film « J’ai vu l’amour », screened at the competition section of the Pantin Short Film Festival in 2016.
In the summer of 2016 and 2017, he participated in « Cinema da Mare », the biggest gathering of young filmmakers of the world, in Italy, where filmmakers are supposed to direct one new film per week, completely self-produced.
That's how in 2017 he met a group of talented Brazilian filmmakers, Leandro, Aline and Pedro, and a talented Italian actor, Stefano, which whom he made his first short film to be screened, CHOICE.
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DIRECTOR'S BIO
CONTACT
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CAST AND CREW
Written and directed by: Rafael Valério
Assistant director: Aline Zambrini Santos
Director of photography: Leandro Paiva
Sound engineer: Leandro Paiva & Aline Zambrini Santos
Cast: Rafael Valério, Stefano Bucello
Producer: CinemadaMare productions & Rafael Valério
Acting coach: Pedro Formigoni
Editing: Leandro Paiva & Aline Zambrini Santos
Color correction: Leandro Paiva
Translation: Stefania Ascarelli
Music: « Broken coin » by Soft and Furious (freemusicarchive.org)
Shot in Vercelli, Italy,September 2017 during CinemadaMare XV
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