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AGORA

An engaged man arriving from a long trip takes a cab home to find out he's boyfriend is not ready to get married.

  • Thomas Nascimento
    Director
  • Thomas Nascimento
    Writer
  • Bernardo Cabral
    Producer
  • Thomas Nascimento
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    AGORA
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Drama, Gay, GLBT, Romance
  • Runtime:
    19 minutes 19 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 15, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    0 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:
    No
  • 3 Festival O Cubo no Cinema
    Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    May 22, 2016
    South America Premiere
    Best Ficcion Director
  • Puerto Madero International Film Festival Nominee
    Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    May 27, 2016
    South America Premiere
  • Ekurhuleni International Film Festival
    Benoni
    South Africa
    May 31, 2016
    South Africa Premiere
    Nominee
  • 5 Festival Latinoamericano de Cine Independiente Bahía Blanca
    Bahia Blanca
    Argentina
    September 8, 2016
    South America
    Nominee
  • GRAND OFF - WORLD INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
    Warsaw
    Poland
    November 28, 2016
    European Premiere
    Nominee
  • Second Asia International (Wenzhou) Youth Short-Film Exhibition
    Wenzhou
    China
    October 9, 2016
    Asia Premiere
    Nominee
Director Biography - Thomas Nascimento

Thomas Nascimento issues from Sao Paulo, Brazil; After several years abroad in Europe he recently arrived home in South America to further studies in Cinema, in Buenos Aires. Nascimento directed and wrote the new short film AGORA (a double-entendre meaning ”NOW" and “OPEN SPACE”) as an independent project recorded in Sao Paulo. He recorded MARIA in which three Buenos Aires friends tell their love stories on an iPhone, intentionally desiring a hybrid cinema verité, and neo-realistic spontanaeity with imperfections of cellular hi-def video recording. Nascimento has worked as a producer on Globo television, various reality-shows and on International productions. "NOW" is his first work as a director. He currently resides in Buenos Aires where he has several projects in pre production.Filmography - 2015/2016 - "Now" - short film. 2015/2016 - "Maria" - short film

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Director Statement

As an artist and film-maker everything I do in life derives from the idea I'm alive. If I'm alive, I'm completely in love. Everything around me has importance, and I believe we need to give more emphasis to vital issues; this is being lost with time. Without the moral and ethical compasses we create by ascribing value to humanity’s issues, we become desensitized and more skeptical.
In such a world-context I would likely die. I don’t know if I could live in an insensible world. I draw my inspiration from the sensitivities, and sensibilities of a world built on the senses, denotatively and connotatively – from brushing my teeth to composing quick texts to the intensest moments I’ve captured. And living by this principle I’m driven to expose myself artistically in a diverse array of related forms. Articulating Humanity’s sincerest emotions through people’s feelings as they’re formed makes me magnificently happy. We need to stop whatever we’re in the midst of, look around us and realize we can be, and we are living in a more poetic way. The day I don’t feel empathetic interest and inspiration for/from others’ lives, my world will be void and the embodiment of Nietze’s tupiniquim.