BARONESA

Andreia wants to move out. Leid is waiting for her husband, who is in prison. They are neighbors in a poor suburban slum of Belo Horizonte, trying to escape the daily dangers of a drug traffic war happening on the outside and avoid the tragedy that comes with the rain.

  • Juliana Antunes
    Director
  • Juliana Antunes
    Writer
  • Marcella Jacques, Juliana Antunes and Laura Godoy
    Producer
  • Andreia Pereira de Sousa and Leid Ferreia
    Key Cast
  • Fernanda de Sena
    Cinematographer
  • Marcela Santos
    Sound
  • Pedro Durães
    Sound
  • Affonso Uchoa
    Editing
  • Rita M. Pestana
    Editing
  • Juliana Antunes
    Executive Producers
  • Fernanda Bréscia
    Executive Producers
  • Camila Bahia Braga
    Executive Producers
  • Filmes de Plástico
    Co-Producers
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Feature
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 20, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • FID​ ​Marseille​
    Marseille
    France
    July 17, 2017
    International Premiere
    Audience Prize for Best Picture, the Renaud Victor Prize (presented by a jury composed by inmates from Marseille’s public prison) and the Marseille Espérance prize
  • FIC Valdívia
    Valdívia
    Chile
    October 13, 2017
    Chilean Premiere
    Best Film
  • Tiradentes Film Festival
    Tiradentes
    Brazil
    January 23, 2017
    World Premiere
    Best Film and Best Cinematographer
  • Orense Film Festival
    Ourense
    Spain
    October 24, 2017
    Spain Premiere
    Best Film
  • Viennale
    Viena
    Austria
    December 28, 2017
  • Hamburg Film Festival
    Hamburg
    Germany
    October 18, 2017
  • Mar del Plata Film Festival
    Mar del Plata
    Argentina
    November 25, 2017
    Argentina Premiere
    Best Film
  • Montreal Documentary Film Festival
    Montreal
    Canada
    November 15, 2017
    Canadian Premiere
  • Havana Festival Film
    Havana
    Cuba
    December 10, 2017
Director Biography - Juliana Antunes

Born in 1989, graduated in Filmmaking at UNA university, in Belo Horizonte, Juliana is a founding partner at VENTURA, with Marcella Jacques and Laura Godoy. Juliana debuted as film director with her feature film “Baronesa”, awarded as Best Picture at the Tiradentes Film Festival 2017, where it had its World Premiere and had its Internacional Premiere at 28º FIDMarseille, in France, where has awarded 3 prizes, included Audience Award. Nowadays she is finishing her short films Plano Controle and Industrial and is developing her second feature film, Hit and Back Copacabana.

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Director Statement

Extraordinary stories are being developed in the lives of the women that inhabit periphery neighborhoods, but not being known outside their private sphere. It was the search of those peculiar biographies that made the film possible. Through a vivid and immersive research process the narrative was build, thanks to the complicity between the women filming and the ones being filmed, resulting in a movie that transits constantly between reality and fiction.

The screenplay wasn’t written traditionally, but made on the daily basis during conversations, memories, observations, provocations and re-takes. We worked trying to rearrange what was real, since there is no art without transformation. “Baronesa” is an invitation to share experiences through the feminine point of view and its representation.