In an interview with Lusa, João Pedro Plácido said is correct the description of which is a director of a film alone: this “Back to Earth”, the did return to the village where his grandfather and mother were born, there on the border between the Minho and Tras-os-Montes.
Voted the best movie of the Portuguese DocLisboa 2014 “Back to Earth” is the portrait of a place 20 kilometers from Cabeceiras de Basto, where the locals live and work, with land and cattle.
João Pedro Plácido, born in 1979 in Lisbon, has “a sense of belonging to the place” and wanted to make this movie as a teenager, when he knew he wanted to be connected to the cinema. “I wanted to share for a long time,” he said, listing the issues that motivate:. Rurality, the sense of community, loss of cultural identity
“I have a genuine concern with that. And I do not have anything you want to share and I think I can do in a different way. (…) This is a first and a conclusion. I do not intend to continue to do. My job is to be director of photography and my projects are the projects of other directors, “he said.
” Back to Earth “was shot between December 2011 and January 2013, with several trips to the director Uz to record the village everyday, . at different times of the year, in the dead of winter and summer peak
The film focuses on two villagers from different generations – António, older, and Daniel, younger – that mirror those features of the countryside that João Pedro Plácido wanted to shoot.
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