Ivo Canelas and Gaya Medeiros in An Avocado Pit
An outstanding member of the line-up of short films qualified for the 2024 Oscars, Ary Zara’s An Avocado Pit (Um Caroço De Abacate) tells the story of a cisgender man and a trans woman who meet one night by chance on the streets of Lisbon and end up changing one another in unexpected ways. It’s a highly polished, brilliantly edited piece of work full of energy and ideas, so I was delighted to get the chance to talk to Ary at a press conference in the run-up to the next round of Oscar selections. Also present were star Ivo Canelas, producers Frederice Serrand Andreia Nunes, and executive producer Elliot Page.
“An Avocado Pit came from the urge to see trans people alive in cinema. In our real lives, it's difficult to have control over our narratives, but in film, it's possible.
An outstanding member of the line-up of short films qualified for the 2024 Oscars, Ary Zara’s An Avocado Pit (Um Caroço De Abacate) tells the story of a cisgender man and a trans woman who meet one night by chance on the streets of Lisbon and end up changing one another in unexpected ways. It’s a highly polished, brilliantly edited piece of work full of energy and ideas, so I was delighted to get the chance to talk to Ary at a press conference in the run-up to the next round of Oscar selections. Also present were star Ivo Canelas, producers Frederice Serrand Andreia Nunes, and executive producer Elliot Page.
“An Avocado Pit came from the urge to see trans people alive in cinema. In our real lives, it's difficult to have control over our narratives, but in film, it's possible.
- 12/19/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Elliot Page, and Matt Jordan Smith and Tuck Dowrey of Page’s production company Pageboy Productions, have joined writer-director Ary Zara’s short “An Avocado Pit” as executive producers.
The film follows the meeting of Larissa, a trans woman and Claudio, a cis man. The two polar opposites come together to enjoy an evening side by side, dancing their differences away.
“An Avocado Pit” won Oscar-qualifying awards at Outfest and Guadalajara International Film Festival, the grand jury special mention for best lead acting at the AFI Festival and the best queer short award and the international student prize at Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont Ferrand, France.
The film is produced by Lisbon-based Take It Easy, with Andreia Nunes and Frederico Serra serving as producers. It stars Portuguese actor Ivo Canelas and trans actress Gaya de Medeiros.
Zara is a transgender person, activist, writer and director who studied cinema in...
The film follows the meeting of Larissa, a trans woman and Claudio, a cis man. The two polar opposites come together to enjoy an evening side by side, dancing their differences away.
“An Avocado Pit” won Oscar-qualifying awards at Outfest and Guadalajara International Film Festival, the grand jury special mention for best lead acting at the AFI Festival and the best queer short award and the international student prize at Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont Ferrand, France.
The film is produced by Lisbon-based Take It Easy, with Andreia Nunes and Frederico Serra serving as producers. It stars Portuguese actor Ivo Canelas and trans actress Gaya de Medeiros.
Zara is a transgender person, activist, writer and director who studied cinema in...
- 12/13/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Canada announced that it renewed its half-hour series Living in Your Car for a second season.
With the unstable economy as a backdrop, we follow Steve Unger (John Ralston), a fallen corporate executive whose rule of the financial world comes to an abrupt halt when he is arrested and charged with fraud, obstruction and racketeering. After cutting a deal to get out of prison, Steve quickly realizes his old life no longer exists: his former colleagues shun him, his wife, Lori (Ingrid Kavelaars), and daughter, Kate (Mariah Horner), don’t want to live with him, and even his own parents refuse to help him. As he clings desperately to the last vestige of his former self – a luxury sedan – Steve finds himself under court order to teach an ethics class, forbidden from working in any position that involves other people’s money, and making a new home for himself in his car.
With the unstable economy as a backdrop, we follow Steve Unger (John Ralston), a fallen corporate executive whose rule of the financial world comes to an abrupt halt when he is arrested and charged with fraud, obstruction and racketeering. After cutting a deal to get out of prison, Steve quickly realizes his old life no longer exists: his former colleagues shun him, his wife, Lori (Ingrid Kavelaars), and daughter, Kate (Mariah Horner), don’t want to live with him, and even his own parents refuse to help him. As he clings desperately to the last vestige of his former self – a luxury sedan – Steve finds himself under court order to teach an ethics class, forbidden from working in any position that involves other people’s money, and making a new home for himself in his car.
- 6/15/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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