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Documentary ㅣ JEONJU Cinema Project: Next Edition - International

The Prince of Nanawa

Clarisa NAVAS
Argentina,Colombia,Paraguay 210min 2K Color Documentary
Production StatusPost production
Goal of ParticipationDistributor meetings, World Sales, Second Rights Platform Meeting
Production budget235,000 USD
Budget Required82,500 USD
Secured budget
  • INCAA[PRODUCTION FUND ARGENTINA] : 30,000 USD
  • Programa Ibermedia[PRODUCTION FUND] : 50,000 USD
  • FONDEC[DEVELOPMENT FUND PARAGUAY] : 7,500 USD
  • Vitrine Filmes[DISTRIBUTION BRAZIL AND SPAIN MG] : 15,000 USD
  • Proimágenes Colombia[PRODUCTION FUND COLOMBIA] : 50,000 USD
LOGLINE

A footbridge divides Argentina from Paraguay. People run around trafficking everything imaginable. At this dizzying pace, I met Angel.

SYNOPSIS

I met Angel by chance while filming on the border between Paraguay and Argentina.
When I heard him speak for the first time I couldn't believe everything that the 9-year-old boy was thinking and wondering in a territory forgotten by both countries. We promised to meet again and a year later I returned to Nanawa to invite him to do something together.
The Prince of Nanawa is a non-fiction film, built with the daily diaries that Angel has been filming since we met with other types of visual footage. These images, which engage in dialogue and enrich each other, have been accompanying our meetings for 10 years now.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

There are life-changing encounters, and that's what happened to me with Angel that day at the border. Over the course of ten years these images are testimony to the growth and construction of a bond. Perhaps a film can be a promise, a bond can also have that strength, that of believing that those words that are said commit us. Sometimes I think that The Prince of Nanawa is also a film about the forms of love from the differences, and how to accompany us in these transformations of lives that are radically different.
Angel had dreams and still has them, maybe that illusion is what keeps you alive despite everything, and with the desire to continue, I don't know what cinema can do at this point where everything seems to be crumbling around us, but undoubtedly imagination is our last reserve.

INTERVIEW
What inspired you to start this project?
The fortuitous encounter I had with Angel at the border revealed to me all that a child could say and imagine for a new world, from that place that seemed forgotten by both countries. The extreme affinity I felt with him made me think of something to be closer to him. Making a film together seemed to me a good way to start sharing our lives.
Is there any emotion you want the audience to feel after watching this film?
More than emotions that can be planned, I think the film will bring up questions, among them, how to make life more bearable when everything around us is falling apart.
DIRECTOR
Clarisa NAVAS
Born in Corrientes, Argentina in 1989. She directed One in a Thousand (2020) opening film in 70 Panorama Berlinale and Today Match at 3pm (2017). She won the Best Picture Prize in JEONJU International Film Festival 2020 with One in a Thousand (2020).
Today Match at 3pm (2017), One in a Thousand (2020)
PRODUCER
Eugenia CAMPOS GUEVARA
Eugenia Campos Guevara is part of Gentil Cine, a company based in Buenos Aires. She is the producer of arthouse feature and short films which were screened in festivals such as Berlin International Film Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, JEONJU International Film Festival and San Sebastian Film Festival. Her filmography includes: The Daughters of Fire (Albertina CARRI, 2018), The Little Match Girl (Alejo MOGUILLANSKY, 2017) Long Time No Sleep (Agustín GODOY, 2022) The Pretty Ones (2016) and The Face of the Jellyfish (2022) by Melisa LIEBENTHAL.
The Daughters of Fire (Albertina CARRI, 2018), The Calm After the Storm (Mercedes GAVIRIA, 2020), The Face of the Jellyfish (Melisa LIEBENTHAL, 2022)
CONTACTproduccion.gentil@gmail.com
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