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CASA GRANDE,
or The Ballad of Poor Jean
A Film by Fellipe Barbosa
2014 / Brazil / Portuguese / Drama
115 min / HD / 1.85 / 5.1
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LOG LINE
Set within Rio's social elite, a teenage boy struggles to escape his overprotective parents
as his family spirals into bankruptcy.
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112 minutes
Drama
HD
1.85:1
5.1
Migdal Films
FESTIVALS
Rotterdam International Film Festival (World Premiere)
Toulouse Latin American Film Festival
BAFICI
CPH: PIX
KEY CAST
Marcello Novaes
Suzana Pires
Thales Cavalcanti
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Fellipe Barbosa
Iafa Britz
Karen Sztajnberg
Mauro Pizzo
Fernanda De Capua
Pedro Sotero
Ana Paula Cardoso
Nina Galanternick
Evandro Lima
Waldir Xavier
Damião Lopes
Patrick Laplan
Victor Barreto
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Casa Grande, or The Ballad of Poor Jean is my first narrative feature. It’s an extremely
personal film, since it portrays the world in which I grew up and from which I tried to
escape. My main intention was to tell a great story, focusing on characters and their
relationships, set in a very specific and authentic universe. I worked with non-professional
teenage actors alongside soap opera stars, whose image connects with the characters in
the film. Besides the naturalism in the performances, I strived for a formal rigor, through
the repetition of familiar shots, which gradually narrate the transformation of the big house.
The project went through the Sundance screenwriters and directors lab in 2008, where it
won the Annenberg Foundation Grant, and was a finalist of the NHK award.
CREW BIOGRAPHIES
Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa (Writer / Director)
Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa was born in Rio de Janeiro and completed his MFA in film at
Columbia University. Two of his shorts – La Muerte Es Pequeña and Salt Kiss – screened
at the Sundance Film Festival. Salt Kiss was also an official selection of the New York Film
Festival and won numerous awards, including Aspen, Austin, Guadalajara and Rio de
Janeiro Short Film Festival. In 2007, Fellipe was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25
New Faces of Independent Film. His screenplay Casa Grande went to the 2008 Sundance
Screenwriter’s and Director’s Lab; won the Annenberg Grant and was a finalist of the
Sundance/NHK Award. His feature documentary Laura won Best Documentary at the 2011
Hamptons Film Festival, where it premiered, and then played at Hot Docs, Visions du
Réel, Bafici, among others.
Iafa Britz (Producer)
Migdal Films was founded by Brazilian producer Iafa Britz. Over the last 10 years, Iafa was
responsible for the production of commercially successful and award-winning films, among
them The Man Who Bottled Clouds, an official selection of IDFA (Rotterdam), winner of the
Oscarito at Cine Ceará and the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prize in 2011; the comedies If I
Were You 1 and 2, winners of the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prize 2007 and 2010.
Her latest release is My Mother is a Character, a commercial hit which was awarded best
film at the 17th Brazilian Film Festival of Miami and has been selected in festivals in
Uruguai, United States and Estonia. Migdal is currently developing 2 Kidnappings and the
biopic of Sister Dulce, the Brazilian nun in line to be declared a saint. Migdal’s next
releases include Cássia, a musical documentary about the Brazilian rock star Cassia Eller;
and Casa Grande, which participated in the Sundance Labs.