Archive: Year 2008

Balkan Dox

Calling Home

Director

Maria Eduarda Andrade

Producer

Maria Eduarda Andrade

Contact

Scottish Documentary Institute
Edinburgh College of Arts, 74 Lauriston Place Edinburgh,
EH3 9DF, Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 131 221 6125
Fax: +44 (0) 131 221 6100
[email protected]

12 min

Color

For most Londoners, home is here but also somewhere else, at the other end of a phone line. This short documentary, entirely shot inside phone booths in cheap international call centres, is a gripping, emotional portrait of long distance relationships between immigrants and their families in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South America.

Director

Marcelo Starobinas ventured into screenwriting and film-making in 2006, building upon 15 years of experience travelling the world covering international affairs for leading Brazilian publications and the BBC World Service. His first feature length screenplay, ‘Jean Charles’, about the life and death of Jean Charles de Menezes after the London bombings in 2005, will be shot next summer, directed by Henrique Goldman and executive-produced by Stephen Frears. CALLING HOME is his directorial debut.

Maria Eduarda Andrade found her way into film-making as a producer and curator of film festivals in the poorer outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was a producer and assistant director of documentaries used as educational tools in schools in destitute communities. She has graduated last year with a MA in Screen Documentary from Goldsmiths College. ‘Just Like Mom’, her directorial debut, was selected last year for the shorts competition at Britdoc Festival, in Oxford. It was also screened at the Discovering Latin America Film Festival 2007.

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