Synopis //
After thirty years living as a nomad on the Brazilian roads, Fabiana, a trans woman and truck driver, will make her last trip before facing the retirement and leaving behind her adventures on the road.
Country: Brazil // Goiás, Tocantins, Pará, Bahia, Pernambuco, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo.
Duration: 89 min
Genre: documentary // road movie
Year: 2018
ABOUT THE MOVIE
Director's note //
In 2006, I migrated from Goiania to Sao Paulo. From there I started my first hitchhiking trips, on which the path is as important as the destination. Most of the people who stopped were truckers, all men. In general, they give you a ride to talk and feel the time pass faster. However, one of the times I was asking for a ride, a woman driving a big truck stopped: she was Fabiana. We traveled from Sao Paulo to Brasilia for two days. On this way, we began to know each other and she told me many of her incredible stories.
So, fascinated by her life story, I decided to make this road movie, to better understand this woman who loves to tell her stories, but at the same time leaves a lot between the lines. This decision was confirmed when she told me that she would retire. For Fabiana, "retiring" does not only mean stopping work, but also setting residence. So it was crucial to make this film on her last journey, which symbolizes an end and a new beginning. On the way, her girlfriend, Priscila, also a trans woman, embarked unexpectedly on the journey, bringing more complexity to the universe in which they live.
T R A I L E R
* Subtitles available (CC).
S C R E E N I N G S
SEPTEMBER // 2018
Brasilia Film Festival of Brazilian Cinema // "Festival dos Festivais" Selection
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17th September 2018 // 02:30 PM // At the Cine Brasília.
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17th September 2018 // 07:00 PM // At Nacional Museum of Brasilia.
JUNE // 2018
National Premiere
Olhar de Cinema - Curitiba Int'l Film Festival // Official Selection
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9th June 2018 // 07:15 pm // At the "Espaço Itaú Cinema".
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11th June 2018 // 02:15 pm // At the "Espaço Itaú Cinema".
"...documentário em estilo road movie acompanha as últimas viagens da caminhoneira Fabiana."
N E W S
M A I N T E A M
Cast
Fabiana Camila Ferreira
Priscila Cardoso
Direction, Script,
Photography and sound recording
Brunna Laboissière
Editor
Bruna Carvalho Almeida
Assistant Editor
Brunna Laboissière
Production Coordinator
Brunna Laboissière
Producers
Brunna Laboissière
Fernando Pereira dos Santos
Executive Producer
Brunna Laboissière
Fernanda Lomba
Fernando Pereira dos Santos
Assistant Producer
Fábio Alcamino
Screenplay and editing consultants
Lia Kulakauskas
Maria Clara Escobar
Trans Feminism Consultant
Helena Vieira
Consultants from Ateliers Varan in a Documentary Project Lab, 2015
Adriana Komives
Catalina Villar
Daniele Incalcaterra
Consultant in the Rough Cut Lab DocSP 2017
Claire Atherton
Sound Designer
Caio Gox
Sound Mixer
Caetano Cotrim
Color Granding
Marina Franzolim
Visual Art
Guilherme Minoti
Research
Brunna Laboissière
Eloy San Carlo
Fábio Alcamino