My Mother is a Cow
My Mother is a Cow
DIRECTOR
Moara Passoni
COUNTRY
Brazil
YEAR
2024
DURATION
15′
GENRE
Live action
My Mother is a Cow
As fire consumes the Brazilian wetlands, the violence of nature and the arrival of a near-mythical Jaguar collide with 12-year-old Mia's desperate longing for her mother.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Moara Passoni
Moara is a Brazilian writer & director. She wrote and directed the feature-length essay film "Extase'' (CPH:DOX, MoMA’S Doc Fortnight, Visions du Réel) which received critical acclaim and won a gamut of international awards. Moara was co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated "The Edge of Democracy". She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Filmmaking” by Filmmaker Magazine, is an alumna of TorinoScriptLab, La Fémis-Cannes Producing Atelier, GOTHAM Week and NYSCA. She is developing her narrative feature debut Cost of Living (Torino Script Lab, Berlinale Talents Market), and her TV series Strikers. She is recipient of the Jelinek Award for her MFA in directing from Columbia University. She has a B.A. in Social Sciences from University of São Paulo. A Master’s in Documentary Filmmaking from the University of Campinas. She studied Aesthetics at University of Paris 8 and Dance and Performance at Catholic University of São Paulo. She’s a founding member of the BrazilianFilmmakerCollective.
- DirectorMoara Passoni
- ScreenplayMoara Passoni, Fernanda Frotté
- CinematographyCarolina Costa, AMC
- Cast
- Editing Fernanda Frotté, Germano de Oliveira
- Producer/s Moara Passoni, Sofia Geld, Uvaia Filmes , Daniel Liu, Uvaia Filmes.
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleMy Mother is a Cow
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date 1 January 2024
- Country of originBrazil
- Country of filmingBrazil
- LanguagePortuguese
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Moara Passoni
Moara is a Brazilian writer & director. She wrote and directed the feature-length essay film "Extase'' (CPH:DOX, MoMA’S Doc Fortnight, Visions du Réel) which received critical acclaim and won a gamut of international awards. Moara was co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated "The Edge of Democracy". She was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Filmmaking” by Filmmaker Magazine, is an alumna of TorinoScriptLab, La Fémis-Cannes Producing Atelier, GOTHAM Week and NYSCA. She is developing her narrative feature debut Cost of Living (Torino Script Lab, Berlinale Talents Market), and her TV series Strikers. She is recipient of the Jelinek Award for her MFA in directing from Columbia University. She has a B.A. in Social Sciences from University of São Paulo. A Master’s in Documentary Filmmaking from the University of Campinas. She studied Aesthetics at University of Paris 8 and Dance and Performance at Catholic University of São Paulo. She’s a founding member of the BrazilianFilmmakerCollective.
