The Projected Girl

Teresa is a surfer who lives a full love life until the day when using an app that allows surfers to analyze the state of the sea in real time, she realizes that something strange is happening on the beach. Intrigued by what she sees in the images, Teresa is faced with a decision that has been on hold for too long. At the same time, she realizes how she might not accept for others what she claims for herself. "It's harder to be true to one's own nature... than to fight it" (La Collectionneuse, Eric Rohmer, 1967).

* The film had Agnès Varda's estate's permission to use an excerpt from Varda's "Le Bonheur" (1965).

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Festivals:
- Martovski Film Festival (World premiere, 2024)
- FEST - New Directors|New Films Festival
- Yerevan Short Film Festival

  • Francisco Noronha
    Director
    Não Consegues Criar O Mundo Duas vezes, O Despiste, Reconstrução, O Triunfo de Helmut
  • Francisco Noronha
    Writer
    Não Consegues Criar O Mundo Duas vezes, O Despiste, Reconstrução, O Triunfo de Helmut
  • Canícula Filmes
    Producer
  • Miguel Mesquita
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    A Rapariga Projectada
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Romance, Drama, Fantasy, Mistery, Ghost
  • Runtime:
    28 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 8, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Portugal
  • Country of Filming:
    Portugal
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - School of Arts - Catholic University of Portugal
Director Biography - Francisco Noronha

Francisco Noronha is a young and independent Portuguese filmmaker based in Porto. He's also a film and music critic and collaborator for several national and international outlets. "THE PROJECTED GIRL" is his fiction film debut and it corresponds to his Master on Cinema's Final Project.

Francisco's filmography revolves around documentary, essay, fiction, and hybrid genres, and it includes Não Consegues Criar O Mundo Duas Vezes (You Can't Create The World Twice, co-directed with Catarina David, 2017), O Despiste (The Skid, 2019), Reconstrução (Reconstruction, 2022) and O Triunfo de Helmut (Helmut's Triumph, 2022). His films were screened at several film festivals and showcases (v.g., FILMADRID IFF, Martovski FF, Yerevan SFF, IndieLisboa IFF, Porto/Post/Doc, FEST - New Directors|New Films, Silk Road FF, Mostra de Cinema Português, Caminhos do Cinema Português, NYC Hip-Hop FF, Taoyuan FF).

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Director Statement

In the film "La Collectionneuse" (1967), by Eric Rohmer, one of the characters states at one point: “It is more difficult to be faithful to our own nature than to fight it”. In fact, the most comfortable path can be, paradoxically, the one through which the individual represses his desires. In love, for example: why can't one love more than one person? This is the hard but courageous journey that the female protagonist Teresa (whose name resembles and works as an update of Thérèse, the wife in Agnès Varda's "Le Bonheur)" embarks on, on a path of doubt and guilt, but also of truth and emancipation.