PACARRETE
Original Title: Pacarrete
Director: Allan Deberton
Fiction / 97min / 2019
Portuguese with English Subtitles
An eccentric old woman dances to the beat of her own drum in Allan Deberton’s poignant debut feature. Pacarrete (the sublime Marcelia Cartaxo), a former ballet dancer who lives in northeast Brazil, decides to dust off her tutu slip and her ballet slippers to perform a classic dance for her city’s 200th-anniversary celebration–whether the townspeople want it or not. A broad comedy turns increasingly contemplative as the true nature of Pacarrete’s daily life becomes apparent.
Q&A with Allan Deberton, Director
About the director:
Producer, director and screenwriter, Allan Deberton is graduated in Cinema at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF-RJ). He has directed awarded films such as “Coconut Sweet” (2010), “The Best Friend” (2013), “Arthur’s Eyes” (2016), that together participated in over 100 national and international Film Festivals and won 49 awards. In 2014, he took classes with Hollywood’s screenwriter Robert Mackee at the Globosat Screenwriter’s Program. In 2015, he produced the feature documentary “The Other Side of The Atlantic”, by Márcio Câmara and Daniele Ellery, premiered at Havana Film Festival. In 2017, he co-produced the television series “Lana & Carol” by Samuel Brasileiro and Natalia Maia. In 2018, he co-produced with Globo Filmes the telefilm “Baião de Dois”. On the theate branch, he has produced shows like “Avenue Q – The Broadway Musical” (2015 and 2016), “The Hour of The Star – The Musical” (2017) and “Confessed Love” (2014 and 2016), the training program “Broadway Brazil” (2013, 2016, 2017 and 2018) with the Broadway Dreams Foundation. In 2019, he produced the short film “Those Two”, by Émerson Maranhão, winner of 19 awards in 40 film festivals. In the same year he premiered his first full-length film “Pacarrete” at the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival, nominated for the Golden Goblet Awards and the big winner at the 47th Gramado Film Festival (8 awards), including Best Picture, Best Picture by Popular Jury, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. He won the ‘Rajatha Chakoram’ (The Silver Crow Pheasant) award for Best Director at the 24th International Film Festival of Kerala (India). He is currently developing the projects “The Best Friend”, “The adoption” and “Ladies on the floor”.
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