SH WC Silent Movie – Melo Viana, Brazil, 2020, 15’

SH WC Silent Movie – Melo Viana, Brazil, 2020, 15’

The “Cinema Mudo” project is the realization of a short film and at the same time helping and integrating residents of a community living in a high-risk area. All children (actors and actresses) who work in the movie are residents in the community Vila Torres, an at-risk area in Curitiba. They were chosen after theater classes for children held in that community as part of the film project.
The short film proposes, as a background, to expose the history of cinema from the transition between silent and spoken cinema. This exhibition is made through the frames with references to the most representative films of the transition, covering the specific period between 1930 and 1934.

Director: Melo Viana
Writer: Melo Viana
Producer: Sandra Zawadzki