BELIEVE
SHORT FILM OF THE MONTH THE SUN
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Believe RELEASE: 15nd APRIL CREATOR: CLARA BARROSO CERTIFICATE: PG RUNNING TIME: 5m26s PLOT: A SHORT FILM WITH A MESSAGE DEDICATED TO HUMANITY TELLING HOW BEAUTIFUL THE WORLD IS AND HOW IT SHOULD BE TREATED.
-THE GUARDIAN
“A POWERFUL AND TOUCHING MESSAGE THAT THE WORLD MUST HEAR AND SEE!”
-CINEMAGIC FESTIVAL “WINNER FOR 3 AWARDS! AMAZING CONCEPT AND CINEMaTOGRAPHY features. must seen by everyone! ”
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he new upcoming short film ‘Believe’ has become a big part of everyone’s life, as it has also been picked as the ‘short film of the month’ for the Visual Effects Magazine. The five minute short film is a beautiful story with a powerful message towards humanity, to listen and to pay attention to the script of the film. The message is towards anyone, with the free mind of spreading love to everyone around you and to learn to take care of the world. The creator, Clara Barroso, claims that the concept of the short film is to be
‘emotionally touching’
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the short film script rather than theseries of different visuals that come along and flow perfectly with the script.
“Yes, the visual series on the short Film is beautiful because of all the use of diversity and equality."
Clara Barroso claims. "However if you listen to script and follow the visuals that are showing everything seems more powerful and seeming as if it’s trying to communicate with the audience” said Barroso. Because of this phenomenon release, it makes this 18 year old London creator with Portuguese roots, the youngest director/ creator in the BritAPRIL 2018
ish film industry. She is proud of the final outcome and all the feedback she has received since the short film has been release on the 15th April, online platforms, YouTube. By the end of April, Barroso has been chosen nominated for 5 awards from different short film festivals. Within those festivals she has won 3 awards. After her work being release she has proudly announced on her social media platform confirming that "I am very proud to announce that I will be the youngest creator/ director working with Walt Disney Pictures!" Since her announcement she has is already pitching one of her own films that she
wrote herself and the trailer for the film will be released at the end of July.
"I hope my future Films creates a connection with the audience." We got the chance to do get the audience involve and send questions through social media, via Twitter, for us to ask Clara Barroso and answer during her interview. She has happily answer the majority of the questions that the magazine subscribers have sent us.
"How did you come up with the concept for your short film?" To be honest, the whole idea of this
short film is more of my opinion about all the disasters in the world and the way people act towards one another. Especially in one thing that were all missing to look at, is the beauty within this world. Which in my opinion, I think is something we take for granted because of all the terror attacks and simply just killing the nature.
"Where have you shot your short film? And why have you chosen this location?" I shot my short film while I was on holidays in my hometown, Portugal, during the summer of 2017. I have gained a lot of inspiration from all my family and from the village that
I grew up in. Therefore I wanted to include as much of my background and where I come from along with different locations, to end up having a series of footage that would flow perfectly with the short film scrip. As the script has my own personal message towards the audience about humanity and beauty in this world. This was my whole idea to try and get the target audience to engage with my short film.
"In how many locations did you shoot?" For my short film, I have decided to shoot in four different locations, all around Portugal, especially up North and going
near towards capital of Portugal.
"Out of the four locations, which one did you enjoy the most shooting in?" That is a tough question. I would have to go with Barcelos,Braga. Not because that's where I come from but because of the way everyone interacts with each other. It. makes me happy seeing everyone getting along with each other, even if they are not family or no each other, they would still treat each other like family. This was also when I got the chance to work with all the extra people, having them dancing and playing traditional Portuguese instruments. All the positivity that we would
share made me happy as a creator and inspired me to shoot more and go into depth about this specific location. Everyone was so lovely!
"Why did you pick 2 young girls as your main characters for the short film?" This is one of the most asked question since I've released my short film. I have chosen a 9 year old girl and a 13 year old girl to be my main character of the short film, because I wanted to represent them as 'innocent and learners' in this world. The fact they are chosen to be shot in public locations within nature, show all the discovery they are doing for themselves.
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