Ressurreição (2019)

Resurrection started as a storyboard made in 1985 by me during an animation workshop with animators from the National Film Board of Canada that took place in Rio de Janeiro. By that time Otto Guerra saw this storyboard and keep a copy with him. He later on rediscovered it around 2018 and contacted me about doing the film. He started producing the film with his team from OttoDesenhos and later on my company Dr.Smith. made the post-production, soundtrack, copies, publicity and entries for film contests. We found out that despite the story was created in 1985, it reflects to a large extent the present political and social mood of Brazil. For the last years after the 2016 coup the religion was captured by the extreme-right and is used as a trigger and excuse for violence and hate advocacy while the millionaire pastors use this rhetoric to trick the poor and steal their money.