Credits
Director JASMIN TENUCCI
Writer Jasmin Tenucci & Saim Sadiq
Producer KÁRI ÚLFSSON, HENRIQUE CARVALHAES, RICARDO MORDOCH
Project Type Short
Runtime 16minutes
Country of Origin Brazil
Synopsis
Lucia, a young nurse in São Paulo, senses trouble in the air and an irrational fear sets in about her late-term pregnancy. As a result, she finds herself drawn to a local evangelical church and Nicole, one of its members. All the while, fires rage in the Amazon hundreds of miles away
Director Biography
Jasmin Tenucci is a Brazilian filmmaker, who has written, directed or produced films in Brazil, Iceland, Pakistan, and the United States. Her most recent short film, AUGUST SKY (2021), is a Cannes Short Film 2021 Official Selection.
Jasmin has a BA in film from São Paulo University and an MFA in writing and directing from Columbia University Film School. While at Columbia she taught directing to undergraduates and was one of the founders of a collective with filmmakers from all around the world with whom she works until this date. Presently, Jasmin is developing for two feature films: AUGUST SKY, based on her short of the same name; and THE SMALLEST WHALE IN THE WORLD, which won the 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Development Grant.
