Private Project

The Carnival Daughter

Rachele is a daughter of Carnival, as they call in Brazil orphans born 9 months after carnival, a promiscuous period resulting in unwanted pregnancies and many abandoned babies. She was abandoned as a newborn among garbage and animal excrement. This resulted in an dysfunction that prevents her from controlling any motor activity.
This is a personal story, my family story. Rachele is my cousin.
My aunt adopts her while still an infant, knowing nothing of her condition that will shape both of their lives forever. A symbiotic relationship is born, made up of unconditional love and infinite exchange and altruism. Love as the only cure to deal with any situation. A mother and daughter relationship decided by fate rather than biology but indissoluble.
This is a story of love for life, despite all possible limitations, desire to experience it, to live it as the most precious gift, to squeeze it as the sweetest fruit.
Rachele life is full of surprises and is nourished by aspects that seem denied her by her condition, but life continually challenges her.
My aunt begins to lack the strength she used to have with advancing age so they start a process of separation, for the first time in 38 years. Rachele is about to move to a facility specialized in caring for person with special needs.
This is a personal story, my own, as I would be a different man if I had not grown up alongside these two wonderful women.

  • kami fares
    Director
    Minotawra: exporting changes, severalvideojournalist awards
  • Kami Fares
    Writer
  • kami fares
    Producer
  • Rachele Cencini
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    La filgia del Carnevale
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Romance, Documentary, Disability
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes 7 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 7, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - kami fares

Kami Fares is an Italian-Palestinian visual storyteller. He has a degree at University of Rome in Cinema. At the beginning, he starts working on film sets, in the fiction movie industry where he learns the craft and technique of video language.
During these years, he also makes short films and advertisements on social issues, with one of which he wins an award at the Arcipelago Festival in Rome for the best story about ordinary integration.
Then, with one of his short movies “Innocenze perdute”, as screen-player, he wins the Marzocco Prize and then the story is among the finalist 12 short movies at Nastri d’Argento 2012.
He makes reportage and documentaries in intercultural context and situations of geographical and social marginalization. He prefers to tell the stories of the invisible people and dealing with social issues like immigration, refugees, prisoners, mental health, street children and much more. Lives of ordinary people, largely ignored by mainstream media, marked by the conflicts in our present world, driven by the desire to make these stories accessible to everyone.
He feels, as a visual storyteller, the Cinema of Reality as the most impressive way to have an impact on the audience since it is the closest expression to the direct personal experience.
After the documentary, "MinoTawra: exporting change”, about the end of Ben Ali’s regime in Tunisia, which is selected by several festivals and wins the Prime Prize at Lampedusa Festival, the Italian newspaper and webTV, LaRepubblica.it, contacts him, along with few others young video makers, to create a new young journalist team, within Repubblica, in order to develop a crew focus on web and investigative documentaries.
He also collaborates with RSI (Swiss TV), RAI (Italian TV), UNHCR (making a video for World Refugee Day 2012 in Angola), Italian Production ZaLab, Open Society Foundation, AlJazeera, BBC, Il FattoQuotidiano.
Thanks to two investigative reports, he wins a special Prize for “best young journalist” at Festival of Mediterranean Journalists and then, he is the Winner of Bronze Medal of President of Republic Senate.
Then he works for a year as videomaker for the Italian parliament until 2016, when he followed the 6 weeks documentary course at NYFA. During the 2018, he coversand. works for Vandana Shiva and Navdanya filming and telling the International Monsanto Tribunal. After that, he is back in taly where he moves to MIlan, working 2 and a half years for Condè Nast, shooting and editing hundreds of videos for Vanity Fair, Vogue, Waird, GQ, Glamour and all the Condè Nast branded realities.
In 2020 he works a year for Banijay production working as a camera operator for programs and reality TV in Italy and abroad.
Right now, mainly, he’s working on the realization of a documentary set in the main woman’s maximum security prison of Rome, Rebibbia and at the New York Film Academy seeking its way within the opportunities that this incredible city, New York City, can offer

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