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Release Date:
June 2, 2017
Original Title:
A Canção do Asfalto
Alternate Titles:
Pavement Song
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
Estúdio Tijucas
Production Countries:
Brazil
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 16
The film tells the story of Chen, a Chinese immigrant who lives as an invisible person in the city center. Amid homesickness, difficulty communicating in Portuguese and tiredness from work, Chen can't fit in anywhere. At night, alone and when the streets are empty, the asphalt becomes meditation and there he can dream. It is a fiction created and set in real locations in collaboration with the characters themselves, all non-professional actors who play themselves, creating a portrait with documentary aspects, both of their lives and of the center of Curitiba.
Director:
Pedro Giongo
Director of Photography:
Renato Ogata
Editor:
Pedro Giongo
Nathália Tereza
Executive Producer:
Lígia Teixeira
Producer:
William Biagioli
Sound Designer:
Marcos Lopes
Tiago Bello
Sound Recordist:
Lucas Maffini
Writer:
Pedro Giongo
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