PELA JANELA

DEZENOVE SOM E IMAGENS and RIZOMA FILMS present

written and directed by CAROLINE LEONE A WINDOW TO ROSALIA

MAGALI BIFF CAC AMARAL

producer SARA SILVEIRA coproducers NATASHA CERVI & HERNAN MUSSALUPI cinematographer CLAUDIO LEONE
editors ANITA REMN & CAROLINE LEONE sound director MARTIN GRIGNASCHI sound FEDERICO BILLORDO
art director JUAN GIRIBALDI executive producers MARIA IONESCU & GEORGINA BAISCH

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 PELA JANELA A WINDOW TO ROSALIA

written and directed by Caroline Leone

Brazil-Argentina / 2017 / 84 / Portuguese / Color / 2K / 5.1 / 1:1,77

DIRECTOR BRAZILIAN PRODUCTION

& WRITTER
Caroline Leone
+55 11 99181.1230
carolineleone@gmail.com
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Vitrine Filmes Dezenove Som e Imagens (Brazil)
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Synopsis
Rosalia is a 65-year-old woman from the outskirts of So
Paulo. She has spent most her life working on a electrical
reactor factory.

One day, Rosalia looses her job, and her brother Jos
decides to take her with him on a road trip to Buenos
Aires.

This trip will subtly transform an essential part of Rosalia,

and the way she perceives the world around her.
Directors Statement
A Window to Rosalia is a film about a woman who has
lived an isolated life, devoted to her work in a factory
on the outskirts of So Paulo. Rosalia looses her job and
suddenly has to deal with a total rupture in her daily life.
Her brother Jos tries to comfort her and decides to take
her along on his work trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This trip will root a transformation in Rosalias way to look

at herself and the world. Detached from this foreign city,
experiencing it with an outsiders eyes, Rosalia will slowly
start to fantasize and interact with this new world. The
journey, the altered routine and the unexpected, will all
be the main agents of a subtle movement of change,
allowing Rosalia to set a fresh look on life.

The characters on this film are all starting their later

life not carrying any dreams or hopes. They have long
surrendered to harsh social and economical emotional
difficulties, tolerating their routines and renouncing their
desires for happiness, speeding up a movement of death.

A Window to Rosalia is a story that values simplicity,

realism, and the complexity of human characters. The
narrative is led by daily life poetry, by the richness of
simple acts and the places where the story takes place.

Aesthetically, I followed the path of my short films, trying

to achieve a naturalistic imagery through an almost
documental way of shooting.

Creating an extremely simple story that overflows

meaning, density and humanity was the greatest
challenge of the film.
Directors Biography
Born in So Paulo, Brasil, 1981, Caroline Leone graduated
at the Film School FAAP (Fundao Armando lvares Penteado)
in 2005. She wrote and directed two worldwide recognized and
awarded short films.

Dalva, her first short film, was shot during her film school years in
16mm and won the awards of Best Latin American Film at the 47th
Bilbao International Film Festival (Spain), Best Narrative Film Award
at the Film Gate International Film Festival (USA) and New Talent
Award at the 16th International Short Film Festival of So Paulo. It
was screened in over 15 international film festivals around the globe
getting excellent reviews.

Her second short film, Joyce, shot in 35mm, also had a great response
and was screened in official selections of important festivals, such
as the 57th Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia), the
21st Fribourg International Film Festival (Switzerland), the 19mes
Rencontres Cinmas dAmrique Latine de Toulouse (France), the
2007 Festival de Cinma des 3 Amriques (Canada) among many
others. Joyce also won several awards, one of the most important
ones being Best Film at the 2007 Rio de Janeiro International Film
Festival and Best Director at the 2007 International Womens Film
Festival/FEMINA.
Filmography

Joyce
2007 / 35mm / 14 / Color
http://vimeo.com/24589536

Joyce is a 12 years old girl that dreams about being a dancer on

TV. One certain night she and her sister Larissa go for a walk. Joyce
meets the guy shes in love with by accident and decides to give him
a love letter.

Joyce talks about hope, wishes and disenchantment. She is a girl

that lives in a very unfortunate environment and yet dreams about
love, happiness, and about being a dancer on TV.

Joyce was shot in So Paulo in some of its remarkable spots. It was

shot entirely on location, on two of the greatest slums here (Favela
Paraispolis and Favela Real Parque). These slums are surrounded by
one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the city and visually represent
the social differences in which we live here. The plot is universal; it
could take place in any given big city, and in any social level. It is a
simple plot, about a young girl that writes a love letter and decides
to give it to the loved one. This way of constructing the narrative, so
that it is not an obviously social oriented film, has the intention of
setting a subtle look to the daily life of this girl in a way that any given
viewer can identify with the plot.
Filmography

Dalva
2004 / 16mm / 10 / Color
http://vimeo.com/24590160

Poetic view of a single mothers daily life in the city of So Paulo,

Brazil.

Dalva is a very simple short film. The idea was to create a semi-
documental atmosphere surrounded by daily life poetry. Its the story
of a dream as well as the story of a woman, living her life in a city such
as So Paulo. Its a quiet, inner story.

Dalva is my first short film, shot during my 3rd year at the Film School
FAAP. It was all shot in locations, with film leftovers, no artificial
lighting, no camera equipment and a very small crew. The filming
days were intense, with a complete devotion from all members of
the crew.
Main Cast:
Magali Biff as Roslia

Cac Amaral as Jos

Main Crew:
Director: Caroline Leone (Brazil)

Screenplay: Caroline Leone

Producers: Sara Silveira (Brazil), Maria Ionescu (Brazil)

Hernn Musaluppi (Argentina) and Natacha Cervi (Argentina)

Director of Photography: Claudio Leone (Brazil)

Art Direction: Juan Giribaldi (Argentina)

Production Director: Cristina Alves

Film Editor: Anita Remn (Argentina) and Caroline Leone (Brazil)

Sound Director: Martin Grignaschi (Argentina)

Sound Technician: Federico Billordo (Argentina)

Production Company
Dezenove Som e Imagens was founded by filmmaker Carlos
Reichenbach and producer Sara Silveira in 1991, in partnership with
Maria Ionescu, with the goal of producing independent short and
feature films for the national and international markets. Since then,
the company has been producing some of the most memorable
Brazilian films. Producing or co-producing, with Brazilian or foreign
partners, Dezenove has been presenting its films around the world
for the past twenty five years.

Among he most recent films produced by Dezenove are The

moving creatures, by Caetano Gotardo, selected as Best Film by
IV Semana dos Realizadores (Brazil) and CINEPORT 2014; Avanti
Popolo, by Michael Wahrmann, which has been shown in several
national and international festivals, awarded as Best Film of the
Mostra CinemaXXI of the Rome International Film Festival 2012
(Italy); Hard Labor, by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, which has
participated in the Un Certain Regard session of Cannes Festival
2011; Swirl, by Helvcio Marins Jr. and Clarissa Campolina, which
participated in Orizzonti section of Venice Festival 2011, winning
the Interfilm Award; The Famous and the Dead, by Esmir Filho,
which has participated on the official competition on Berlin Festivals
Generation section in 2009; Sunstroke, by Felipe Hirsch and
Daniela Thomas, that competed officially on the Horizons section
of Venice Festival; Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures, by Marcelo
Gomes, awarded with the National Education Prize on the Un
Certain Regard section of Cannes Festival 2005; and it was officially
selected to represent Brazil on the Oscar 2007.
CoProduction Company
Rizoma is an independent film production company created in
2001 by Hernn Musaluppi and Natacha Cervi as part of the breakout
of Argentinean cinematography and its talented new generation of
filmmakers. In few years Rizoma became one of the most awarded
Independent film companies at the most prestigious Film Festivals.
Since then, more than 30 films found commercial distribution around
the world.

Since 2005 Rizoma also provide line production services for feature
films, receiving production companies from abroad that want to
shoot their films in Argentina, we worked with companies as Warner
Bros, Columbia Pictures, Filmax, Canal +, IDTv, among others. Being
one of the few Argentinean companies authorized to work with Films
with Completion Bond.

The production includes El motoarrebatador by Agustn Toscano

(in preparation), El otro hermano by Israel Adrin Caetano, La
obra del siglo by Carlos Quintela, Aire libre by Anah Berneri,
Las insoladas by Gustavo Taretto, Los dueos by Radusky &
Toscano, Un mundo misterioso by Rodrigo Moreno, Medianeras
by Gustavo Taretto, Amorosa Soledad by Carranza & Galardi,
Quin dice que es fcil? by Juan Taratuto, El custodio by
Rodrigo Moreno, No sos vos, soy yo by Juan Taratuto and Los
guantes mgicos by Martn Rejtman, as well as the coproductions
Pela Janela by Caroline Leone, Alfonsina by Christoph Khn, 3
by Pablo Stoll, Another silence by Santiago Amigorena, Bonsai
by Christian Jimenez, Gigante by Adrin Biniez, Hiroshima by
Pablo Stoll, Acn by Federico Veiroj, La perrera by Manuel
Nieto and Whisky by Stoll & Rebella, and the production services
Ruhm by Kleefeld, Resturlaub by G. Schnitzler, First mission
by B. Conen, La traque by L. Jaoui and Sultanes del sur by A.
Lozano, among others.
A WINDOW
TO ROSALIA

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