August Winds

Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. But she feels trapped in the tiny coastal village. She is involved with Jeison, who also works on the coconut farm and who free dives for lobster and octopus in his spare time. During the month of August, when tropical storms pound the coastline, a researcher registering the sound of the trade winds emanating from the Intertropical Convergence Zone arrives in their village. The high tides and the growing winds mark the following days of the village, and a surprise discovery takes Shirley and Jeison on a journey that confronts them with the duel between life and death, loss and memory, the wind and the sea.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
Script: Gabriel Mascaro, Rachel Ellis
Cinematography: Gabriel Mascaro
Editing: Ricardo Pretti, Eduardo Serrano
Sound: Victoria Franzan, Mauricio d’Orey
Actors: Dandara de Morais (Shirley), Geova Manoel dos Santos (Jeison), Maria Salvino dos Santos (grandmother), Antonio Jose dos Santos (Jeison’s father), Gabriel Mascaro (wind researcher)
Production: Desvia, Brasil T. +55 81 3222 7053, +55 81 9236 9287 contato@desvia.com.br www.desvia.com.br
Producers: Rachel Ellis
Art Direction: N Stefania Regis
Format: DCP Color
Production Country: Brazil
Production Year: 2014
Duration: 77
Contact: FiGa Films, Brazil contact@figafilms.com www.figafilms.com
Awards
Special Mention – Locarno IFF 2014, Switzerland

Gabriel Mascaro

He was born in 1983, in Recife, Brazil, where he still resides and works. Spanning cinema and the visual arts, his work has been shown at the Guggenheim, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the MoMA Documentary Fortnight, the Athens and the Sao Paulo Biennale. He has written and directed four feature documentaries and two shorts that have screened at major international film festivals. His work challenges the line between documentary and fiction and explores the negotiation of power relationships in their most diverse forms. August Winds is his first feature fiction film.

Filmography

2008 KFZ-1348 (doc)
2009 High-Rise (doc)
2010 The Adventures of Paulo Bruscky (short doc)
2010 Defiant Brasilia (doc)
2012 Ebb & Flow (short doc)
2012 Housemaids (doc)
2014 Ventos de Agosto/August Winds