LOGLINE: A city, its protagonists and their dramas, joys and sadnesses embodied in an harlequin.
DESCRIPTION: Alegria is the first production in the long list of collaborations between the director Müller Barone and I, Raphael Bittencourt. Conceived after a great research about the different kind of clowns throughout the history, the film is a collection of visual metaphors that represent different stages of the human nature. Barone invited me to give shape and color to those metaphors through his lens and keen eye for detail in the post-production and color grading. Alegria was, naturally, also the first time the partnership between the two filmmakers, Bittencourt and Barone, got awarded. The film got the Best Film award in the Cine Al Mar – Santa Marta International Film Festival, in Colombia. A great did if you take into consideration the fact that the independent production had a budget of U$1000 and won over U$80K productions. The production had quite a few participations in many other film festivals around the world with several nominations in different categories and it’s now available for free streaming.