DROWNING
‘Drowning’ is a drama and explores some ways to reassure people at such times, and also to instill confidence that life usually gets better and time always heals. This film shows a particularly emotional crisis of a young man, Oscar, who starts to enter a vicious cycle of bad decisions, after losing his grandmother. These bad decisions came from not understanding this new feeling. It’s an emotional battle inside him to remember his last memory with his grandmother.
Duration: 15:04m
Date: 2021
Role: Director and Writer
Best Student Film at Falcon International Film Festival
Best Actor at Falcon International Film Festival
Honorable Mention at Best Short Film Award
Air on RTP2 on the program "Cinemax"
Directed and written by João Lopes
Produced by Rafaela Sousa
Director of photography - Catarina Verdelho
Assistant director - Ricardo Pereira
Camera operator - Tomás Bandeira
Sound director - Diogo Chaves
Music - Leonardo Machado
Trailer - Leonor Ferreira
Editor - João Lopes
Oscar - Diogo Fernandes
Mother - Silvia Almeida
Friend - Teresa Vilhena
Grandmother - Maria Lurdes
Co-production - Middlesex University and Cimbalino Filmes