Producer integrates film that won ‘Aquarius’ to represent the country at the Oscars – Today

The executive producer Samantha Capdeville couldn’t, as well as the teammates hold on to the crying on the set of "Little Secret", the film chosen to represent Brazil in search of a nomination for the academy award for best production in a foreign language, in 2017.

"The team was very united, integrated. It was not a story any, since it was something that had happened with the sister of the director who was on our side. So always in the emocionávamos. It was one of the best works that I’ve done," says the face mining of the film.

it Is precisely this force-emotional-that makes it glimpse a place for the brazilian among the top five finalists. "The film brings a story very strong, especially in this moment of love and tolerance. How can a hiv-positive open hand of their fears and to give back to the world?", asks.

The plot of "Little Secret", with national debut on 10 November, accompanying the adventure of the first brazilian family to give back to the world in a sailboat, among them the director David Schurmann. And also the pain for the disease of the daughter’s adopted, that will ensure you many tears.

The head of the production company mining Filmegraph, to the side of Rafael Conde, Samantha already knew about the project before being invited, by the hand of the screenwriter Marcos Bernstein, with whom he worked on "My Walk of Orange Lima". After entering the project, he had moved to Florianopolis for four months.

"The team came from several places. Had the people of Santa Catarina, Rio, Pará, northern brazil and even Argentina. All involved professional and emotionally," recalls Samantha, who graduated in Journalism from PUC, where he attended the cinema course professor Paulo Pereira, who died in that year.

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"I was passionate about cinema and wanted to do anything in this area. The producer Range hired me after you ask me what she could do and I reply, 'nothing, but that I would learn immediately'. There never stopped, and I was ten years old in BH", she recalls.

The change to the River was motivated by the movie "The Party Girl’s Dead" (2008), when he started to engage more effectively in the production. By Filmegraph, he made the documentary "playing Field", that went around the world. With "Little Secret", she hopes to get the Oscar.

About the Oscars and the controversy with "Aquarius" – considered as the best option to represent Brazil and that would have suffered retaliation from the government after, in Cannes, the team raising posters about carrying out a coup in the country, Samantha says to love the cinema Kléber Mendonça Filho.

"Unfortunately, it only had place for one. I can’t deny the joy that I was, but I’m sorry for having given this political moment, creating a polarity. Our film has all the qualities to be selected. And the choice in no way diminishes the 'Aquarius'", points out.