Your Mouth is Fire

In the near future, a virus was spread by a totalitarian government, to normalize language and behavior. On an island at South Atlantic, someone is accessing an ancient memory, which in the right hands can be replicated as an anti-virus.

  • Pedro MC
    Director
  • Pedro MC
    Writer
  • Lirous K'yo
    Key Cast
    "Boca"
  • Sarah Motta
    Key Cast
    "Zués"
  • Sandro Maquel
    Key Cast
    "Bolívar"
  • Dea Busato
    Key Cast
    "Lotte"
  • Joana Felício
    Key Cast
    "Deuza"
  • Giselle Marques
    Key Cast
    "Relêitor"
  • Helder Antunes
    Key Cast
    "Cabrón"
  • Babyton Santos
    Producer
  • Marina Borck
    Director of Photography
  • Cleo Rosa
    Art Direction
  • Heitor Caramez
    Sound Design
  • Diogo de Haro
    Original Soundtrack
  • Luiz Barz
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Tua Boca é Fogo
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Sci-fi, Horror, Trans, Experimental, Art
  • Runtime:
    25 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 7, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 10th Kolkata Shorts International Film Festival-21
    Kolkata
    India
    August 31, 2021
    Asia Premiere
    Honor Mention
  • Indie Short Fest - Los Angeles International Film Festival (ISF-LA)
    Los Angeles
    United States
    August 1, 2021
    North American Premiere
    Selection
  • Pure Magic International Film Festival
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    August 14, 2021
    European Premiere
    Best Experimental/Art Film
  • Lift-Off First Time Filmmakers
    London
    United Kingdom
    September 1, 2021
    UK Premiere
  • Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    September 20, 2021
    North American Premiere
    Best 05th Public Vote
  • GRITO Queer Festival
    São Paulo
    Brazil
    October 25, 2021
    Brazil
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Pedro MC

Filmmaker born in Florianópolis, with over 21 years of experience in production, film club and representation in the culture council. He was president for two terms of the Cinemateca Catarinense ABD-SC. He is a visual artist and producer of shows, festivals and screen occupation programs, such as Floripa Que Horror! International Festival of Fantastic Film, Negro Cinema Festival SC, Cinematic Session and Cineclub Sound & Fury. Directed feature documentary film "Maciço", awarded as best film at the SESC Film Festival, and won several awards for short and medium-length documentary and experimental films. "Tua Boca é Fogo" is his first science fiction film and was written during OcupaMINC in 2016.

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Director Statement

Carta do Diretor.
Director Statement.

TUA BOCA É FOGO foi escrito durante o Golpe de Estado no Brasil em 2016. A ideia de um vírus propagado por um governo totalitário, num futuro não muito distante, se tornou quase uma profecia. Hoje no Brasil está acontecendo uma pandemia com um governo genocida, onde milhares de vidas estão sendo perdidas. Existe uma guerra de informações, como se o vírus fosse linguagem. A memória do nosso cinema está sendo queimada, literalmente está pegando fogo. O acervo da Cinemateca Brasileira está sendo criminosamente apagado, por culpa direta deste governo. O filme que conseguimos rodar em 2020 fala sobre diversidade, tem uma protagonista mulher negra e transgênero, e o elenco é 90% negro, com maioria sendo o primeiro trabalho no cinema. É uma conquista termos finalizado o filme. E a estética afro-futurista é trabalhada para conseguirmos imaginar um futuro, já que nosso passado está sendo apagado com fogo.

YOUR MOUTH IS FIRE was written during the Coup d'état in Brazil in 2016. The idea of ​​a virus propagated by a totalitarian government, in the not-too-distant future, became almost a prophecy. Today in Brazil there is a pandemic with a genocidal government, where thousands of lives are being lost. There is an information war, as if the virus were language. The memory of our cinema is being burned, it is literally on fire. The Cinemateca Brasileira's collection is being criminally erased, through the direct fault of this government. The film we were able to shoot in 2020 is about diversity, has a black and transgender female protagonist, and the cast is 90% black, with the majority being the first work in cinema. It's an achievement to have finished the film. And the Afro-futurist aesthetic is crafted so that we can imagine a future, as our past is being extinguished with fire.

I hope you enjoy watching this film, as such we did making it.

Pedro MC
Santa Catarina Island, Brazil
August 2021