Private Project

After Link (WIP)

At the peak of Summer, mysterious things happen when a young couple travel to a mountain that seems to affect their technology.

  • Catarina De Cèzanne
    Director
  • Catarina De Cèzanne
    Writer
    Knitting Out (screenplay)
  • Frank Kallenberg
    Producer
    Unsin
  • Sofia Vilar
    Key Cast
    "Marta"
  • Nazariy Koval
    Key Cast
    "David"
  • Carolina Manfredi
    Key Cast
    "Jess (voice)"
  • Frank Kallenberg
    DOP's
    Unsin
  • Richard Osborne
    DOP's
    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Samanta Encarnação
    1st AC / Focus Puller
  • Gastão Travado
    Production Designer
  • Randy L. Ericsson
    Art Director
  • Rebecca Pilkington
    Art Director
    Eternals (2021), The Danish Girl (2015)
  • Ilka Selmeczy
    Props Master
  • Sérgio Botelho
    Sound Director
  • Oscar Sobrado
    Sound Designer & Mix
  • Anastasia Taylor
    Make Up & Hair
    Unsin
  • Antony Frew
    Production Manager
    Gladiator
  • Patrícia Alpoim
    AP
  • Irene Leite
    Prod Coordinator
  • Cristiano Guerreiro
    Grip (sometimes 1st AD)
  • Diego Sualdea
    Music
  • Rasmus Andersson
    First Assembly
  • Ana Santos
    Video Editor
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    13 minutes 40 seconds
  • Production Budget:
    6,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Portugal
  • Country of Filming:
    Portugal
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    4K Anamorphic
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Catarina De Cèzanne

Catarina César (aka Catarina De Cèzanne) is an independent filmmaker and screenwriter, born in a very small village in the South of Portugal. She speaks 3 languages and holds a master's degree in Film/TV production. She has been travelling around the world alone and lived in three different countries for years while looking for a place to belong. Today she is still looking for that place. A place to call home.

Currently, Catarina is collaborates with the 50th Boston SciFi Film Festival and is a production office manager for Films & Casting Temple at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia.

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Director Statement

The current version is a work in progress. No VFX, colour grading, score or sound design was applied.

(This is a short version of a 20min film)

The idea behind making a film about parallel dimensions is to open to different interpretations and to open the dialogue to mental health and social isolation as well as spiritual and metaphysical experiences. While someone might call it a hybrid genre mixing SciFi and Spirituality, or Quantum Drama and Horror, the main goal is to dive into the possibility of facing death with positivity, as an unlimited journey into other worlds. This film is dedicated to a dear friend who was struggling with mental health and always took a special interest in these themes and I hope it pulls you as much as it pulled us.

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Five years ago, when I was studying Cinema at the University,
there were two things that changed me forever. The first one
was when I found out that my boyfriend, who was also my best
friend, had schizophrenia and his memories were drifting away,
including the ones of my own existence. The second one was the
suicide of a colleague, which sometimes I still feel guilty
about for not being there for her.
Writing about it was the only way I could understand how these
two events shaped me, and find peace by honouring those two
people. By exploring the dark recesses of my heart, I wrote
and directed a short-film called “After Link” who I plan to
develop as a feature film in the near future. This story takes
place in the early 2000’s to demonstrate how the ramp of the
internet and modern technology changed humanity, how we are
all connected and yet disconnected from each other, how we
experience more but all feels so unreal. I wanted to make a
film not just about how to deal with grief and loneliness but
also about the loss of memories, the loss of ones existence to
the other, and the guilt of suicide. While the film would
highlight philosophical-existential theories, if it’s possible
to bend reality and that our minds were connected to
everything else and we could interfere with our world, ghosts,
our dreams and the web are as real as the physical world we live in,
and so on, in the long-run, the film is essentially
about a simpler idea:
After Link is a film that tell us that we don’t need to feel
bad when someone dies, because there’s always a place we can
meet again, and that People always stay with us, no matter
where they are or how they left us.