Ivan Feature Film

IVAN is the result of a conjunction of artistic and human elements at the service of a cinematographic author piece that expresses, from an unique and particular narrative, and from a powerful visual poetics, those aspects hidden in the depths of the imagination of the brazilian writer and director Daniel Manzini.

The Creative Process of IVAN

The feature film IVAN, was born from a project that sought to integrate a professional team from the cinematographic area with people who had the will to express themselves artistically through the audiovisual and had no experience in the area. Ivan was totally filmed in São Francisco Xavier, in the interior of São Paulo, a city that has approximately 4000 inhabitants and is located in the Vale do Paraíba. Initially, the project had funding from the Municipal Culture Fund of São José dos Campos, and had a budget of R $ 100.000,00 for its first stage of realization. (preproduction and shooting).

Synopsis

One of the issues that is addressed in the film is the social inclusion of people with physical deformity, since the film has as starting point the main character, a 17 year old boy who has a cranio-facial deformity. This is the affair that permeates the entire film, where Ivan, creates a world aside and through his condition, interacts and resignifies what surrounds him. Form this point personal inquiries of the character are problematized and also some intrinsic to modern society. On the other hand, Ivan’s parents, Sonja and Armando, bring the viewer the opportunity to observe and reflect on common facts of the lives of parents that carry the full weight of feeling responsible for the life of a child with a serious deformity. This implies deep reflections about the affective field of the couple, giving arise to a psychological drama that borders on madness.

Be part

Ivan is a drama feature film that is currently in it’s post production stage (coloring, sound and music). Through this colaboratory platform we want to invite you to get actively involved in this cinematographic project, giving your economic contribution for us to finish our work and thus be able to take the movie to festivals of great international invoice.

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Daniel Manzini • Screenplay, Direction and Production

Daniel Manzini, 41 years old and native of São Carlos (Sao Paulo state), he is formed in Artistic Education and Plastic Arts in UNESP. He is a plastic artist, screenwriter and film director. In film, he also works as a colorist and art director.

Daniel Manzini

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Carlos Ramírez • Actor and Producer

Is a colombian actor, director and choreographer. He was writen, directed and acted 14 plays in Colombia, Costa Rica and Brazil; he has collaborate en more than 40 scene project, in addition to the counties named also in France and Germany. As a film actor he has participated dn diverse independent projects in Colombia and Brasil. He is co-founder of the A4Filmes production company with Daniel Manzini.

Carlos Ramírez

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Gilda Nomacce • Actress and Co-Producer

Gilda Nomacce performed in more than 16 theater plays and 80 films, among them Meu Amigo Hindu (2015) by Héctor Babenco and "Os Humores Artificiais" by the portuguese Gabriel Abrantes. She joined the CPT directed by Antunes Filho. For Festival Mix Brazil she won in 2017 the award of the jury for her performance in the short "Única Terra é na Lua" by Sergio Silva.

Gilda Nomacce

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The funds raised in this crowdfunding campaign It will be destined for the Image completion, the Creation and finalization of sound and Original Soundtrack and for the Distribution in Festivals.

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Lila Cairo • Plastic Artist

Poster developed from the painting “Sonja”, oil on canvas 50 x 70cm, by the Brazilian artist Lila Cairo. The techniques used for the execution of the work are based on the methods used in Renaissance painting, more specifically by the artists of Tenebrism, whose main exponent is Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio.

The presence of the contrast between light and shadow, one of the main characteristics of the chiaroscuro technique, is evident in the film’s photography, and also is present in it’s graphic material. As in the work of Caravaggio, who represented sacred figures through portraits of real people, street habitants and prostitutes, IVAN contrasts the sacred and the mundane bringing to clarity the beauty of what is avoiding exposure to light. The importance of using the chiaroscuro technique in the composition of the canvas that would be the image of the film's poster, resides in the technical and poetic exchanges between the film and the movement strongly represented by Caravaggio.

Lila Cairo