Luís & Gonçao Galvão Teles Wonderfully Surreal Feature from Portugal Premieres at the New Jersey Film Festival this Saturday, February 4!
Here is a brief interview with Luís & Gonçao Galvão Telesdone via email:
Nigrin: Your film GELO is futuristic film that deals with ice. Please tell us more about your film and why you decided to make it.
Luís & Gonçao Galvão Teles: A film is like life, we don't know exactly where we come from and where to we are going. This is the great mystery GELO tries to solve but will always remain unsolved. The son wanted to film life, the father wished to film the other side of life. We ended filming eternity together. ICE.
Nigrin: Your film is beautifully shot? Please tell us more about the Director of Photography and the work he did on your film
Luís & Gonçao Galvão Teles: Since the beginning there was a great intimacy between us and the DOP, João Ribeiro, looking at the future film like we were living it together. At the same time João was making a Visual Diary of the film we were dreaming together. He is a young master. He has just received an achievement award for the five extraordinary films he photographed during 2016, the first of which was GELO.
Nigrin: The lead actors are really wonderful. Can you tell us more about how you found them and how you came about casting them in lead roles?
Luís & Gonçao Galvão Teles: Since the possibility of Ivana Baquero, the young Ophélie from Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth arose as a dreamy possibility, she became the double face of the film - and it was paradise to film her. Afonso Pimentel and Albano Jerónimo, the two Portuguese leading actors are the perfect counterparts in the role game the square/triangle of the film plays obsessively.
Nigrin: Where did you shoot your film?
Luís & Gonçao Galvão Teles: The film was entirely shot in Portugal, as if it was nowhere and everywhere.
Nigrin: Are there any memorable stories while you made this film or any other info about your film you can rely to our readers?
Luís & Gonçao Galvão Teles: One of the most memorable stories was the first meeting with Ivana. There she was, 19 years old, with her father and agent alongside our Spanish co-producer, and she already knew the script by heart, inside out, as if it was her own. We talked for hours about her double character and the story as if we were already filming it. At the very end she agreed to be in the film and everything fell into place. She was the character(s). And she is an angel that illuminates the film.
Here is the trailer for Gelo:
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GELO will be preceded by two wonderfully quirky short films Doggie by Charles De Agustin and Schizophrenia by Yuri Muraoka . Here is more info on these films and this screening:
Doggie - Charles de Agustin (Princeton Junction, New Jersey) A teenager can't find his precious bag, so he forces two strangers to help him out. 2016; 10 min. With an introduction and Q+A session by Director Charles de Agustin!
Schizophrenia - Yuri Muraoka (Tokyo, Japan) In this intriguing experimental film, the filmmaker delves into his/her obsession with odd-numbers, which torments him/her in his/her daily life. In Japanese, subtitled. 2016; 10 min.
Gelo - Luis & Gonçalo Galvão Teles (Lisbon, Portugal) In this futuristic feature film, hearts still beat loudly in worlds made of ice. Born from the DNA of a frozen Ice-Age corpse, Catarina grows up incarcerated in an isolated palace, subject to experiments conducted by a FUTURE LIFE investigator. Meanwhile, a film student named Joana, falls madly in love with Miguel, an ice-obsessed classmate - only to see him tragically ripped from her hands during a journey to a snowy mountaintop. What can possibly unite Catarina and Joana? How many lives are there in one life? Is the end only the beginning of something else? In Portuguese, Subtitled. 2015; 105 min.
Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.
Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey
$12=General; $10=Students+Seniors; $9=Rutgers Film Co-op Friends
Information: (848) 932-8482; www.njfilmfest.com
Jimmy John’s of New Brunswick will be providing free food prior to all New Jersey Film Festival Screenings!
