The Kiss
A kiss should
be just a kiss.
The Kiss is a short film, a period piece about acceptance and tolerance with an LGBTQ theme. It's about prejudice and how to deal with it.
Why do we sometimes reject people we love because they are somehow different from us? Set in 1955, the film tells the story of two women, Mrs. Tancredi and Mrs Williams, and how they deal with people who are different in their family after an incident with Mrs. Tancredi's son at school.
Written
by the award-winning actress Barbara de la Fuente and produced by Southern
Mirrors and DECO Pictures.
The Kiss will be shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Barbara de la Fuente
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Barbara is an award winning actress, author, producer, arts
promoter and entrepreneur. A graduate of the School of the Dramatic Arts,
University of Sao Paulo, she has worked in Brazil and Canada in numerous award
winning theatre plays, films, and TV series. As a writer, she wrote the
plays Cut & Fried, Breasts, and Se Essa Rua Fosse Minha, the films The Other Daughter, The Kiss and the screen version of Cut and Fried, which was selected by ten film festivals around the world
and nominated for Best Short and Best Actor. As a producer, she produced the
documentary Merging
Cultures, the shorts Cut & Fried, The
Necessity of Men, Twister, the plays Breasts, The Art of Listening, The Nelson Rodrigues Festival and
the film festivals BRAFFTV, Pink Latino, Up to 3’,
and Expressions
of Brazil, a three-day multidisciplinary event at Harbourfront Centre. www.barbaradelafuente.com
Joffre Faria SIlva
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Born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Joffre Faria Silva lives in
Toronto Canada, where he works in the film and TV industry. Joffre graduated
with honors at Concordia University (Montreal), receiving his BFA in
Specialization in Film. He has written and directed four short films and has
written several feature-length scripts in both Portuguese and English. His
first feature-length film "Impedimento"
- Offside has been shown in fourteen film festivals
around the world and it has won 5 awards. Best Romantic Comedy (International Film Festival of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 2010), Silver
Lei Award Excellence in Filmmaking (Honolulu International Film Festival, Hawaii USA - 2009), Best Feature-Length Film (Al Sawy International Film Festival, Cairo Egypt - 2009), Best
First Time Director (International Film Festival of
Pucket, Thailand - 2009), Runner-up Best Feature Film (Project Twenty 1 – Philadelphia USA
- 2008). https://vimeo.com/user2878406/videos
Savannah Burton
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Savannah is a much sought after Trans actress
originally from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Her recent
acting credits include Killjoys (Syfy) and Beauty
And The Beast (The CW) and has been featured on eTalk and Daily
Xtra. Later this year, Savannah will appear in an upcoming Documentary on
OUTtv entitled The Transgender Project. An accomplished athlete who is a
member of the 2015 Canadian National Women's Dodgeball team. She is the first
out Trans athlete in Canadian history to compete in team sports
internationally. Learn more at savannahburton.com.
Denise DeSanctis
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Denise was raised in the Jane & Finch corridor of Toronto, Ontario to a Scottish mother and Italian/Irish father. She discovered an intense passion for acting during her second act in life and in an effort to experience its fullest expression has immersed herself in classes, independent film and commercials. In her auditions, training and roles as an actor, she has developed her ability to translate lived experience and emotional intelligence into her character portrayals. Denise has shown herself to be an ambitious and committed actor whose directors and instructors have complimented her embodiment of a character and ability to flesh out a layered performance that is truthful, honest and complex.
David Emanuel
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David has been performing since he was a kid and has appeared in several plays, films, musicals,
voice overs and TV shows. He has a great love for acting, singing, performing
and most recently has taken on directing and producing. He has been
nominated and has won several performance and production awards, including
Sears Drama Festival awards, and has been privileged to have studied and worked
with very talented individuals. A Toronto native, who also lived in
Europe for a portion of his childhood, David has had the opportunity to perform
in English, French and Portuguese. He attended York University- Glendon
College for French, Drama Studies and Political science and has studied acting
and singing in New York City, Los Angeles, Montreal and Toronto. www.actordavidemanuel.com
Clarice Michelon
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Clarice is a Costume and Fashion Designer based
in Toronto. She's graduated in Fine Arts, Fashion Design and Image Consultant.
As Costume Designer , her work includes Dr. Mason's Cure, Dancing with The Local Stars,
Breasts and The Listener (Toronto Fringe Festival) and the latest, the
short movie Cut & Fried. As a
Fashion Designer her work were shown in the Toronto Art & Fashion Week
and Expressions
of Brazil. It also can be found at cmichelon.com. Clarice is
a highly creative person and her design style is International and
Cosmopolitan. "Sanz Frontiere" are the 2 words that define her
style. She's also mastering her skills as a portrait painter which she has
done as a hobby.
Alexander Silberberg
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Alexander was born and raised in Santiago de
Chile as an only child. Since very young age, Alexander presented
aptitudes for drawing and sculpting, honing his skills through the years,
without any formal training besides art class in middle and high school.
In 2002, he got accepted into Chile's best institution for higher
education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he got a Bachelor
degree in Human Studies and Social Sciences, an Architect degree and a Master's
degree in Urban Projects. This last degree was gotten while working in a Urban
studies office. After this period in 2013, Alexander decided to go back to his
roots and true passion of drawing, sculpting and creating characters, so he
decided to go to Toronto, Canada, to study at Complections College of Makeup
Art & Design, taking the full make-up artist program, ranging from fashion
make-up to prosthetics and creature design, starting in February 2014. He
graduated in September 2014. His professional debut was made as a make-up
assistant for the independent short film White Lock. Since then he has been
steadily working on various independent projects either as make-up artist on
set or making props for The Butcher Shop spfx workshop.
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Daniel
is a film editor, born in Brazil under the Capricorn Sun (that means he is very
organized and passionate about his work), and his professional background
includes journalism, computer programming and teaching. With over 15 years of
experience in editing (TV news, advertising, short and feature-length films),
his portfolio holds several projects, including the shortsStill Closed and Sorry
for Coming; the
erotic experimental short Colby
Does America - South Carolina Segment; the original series Standardized (nominated for Best Editing at Rio Web Fest); Poor
Etiquette, Chef’s
Challenge, and
My
Way of Living (for GNT TV Channel); and his first feature film, Cecilia's
House (directed by Clarissa Appelt), premiered at the Brazilian Film and TV Festival
of Toronto. Daniel is also the Digital Content Coordinator for Soulpepper,
Toronto’s largest not-for-profit theatre company.
Manuela Casinha
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Manuela was born in Sao Miguel, Azores, Portugal. While in high school she fell in love with Drama and Theatre. After a long period away from it all, she returned to what she loved. A full member of ACTRA, Manuela is not only a performer, but also contributes as a strong, independent force in the following categories: Production Manager, Assistant Director, Art department, Costume and Wardrobe. She has worked on the set of Night Cries, Cut & Fried, Davey’s Diary, God and Country, Remedy and The Necessity of Men to name a few. Manuela is also a well-known Casting background assistant and wrangler, casting for Night Cries, Country Crush, No Deposit, Sicilian Vampire and presently The Red Maple Leaf.
Alexandre Dias Ramos
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Alex was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and lives in Toronto,
Canada. He was a production assistant in the
web series Standardized (9 episodes), set designer in Twister, and colour consultant in Carmelo’s
Tomatoes. He is also the publisher of VISIT
curatorial art magazine, curator of BRAFFTV (Brazilian Film &
Television Festival of Toronto), and was co-curator at aluCineLatin
Film + Media Arts Festival 2015. He studied Visual Arts at University of Sao Paulo (USP);
holds a Specialist degree in Art Education at NACE-USP and in Museum Studies at
the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sao Paulo, a Master’s degree in Sociology of
Culture at FEUSP, and a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism at UFRGS
Institute of Arts. Author of the book Media and Art: Contemporary Views (2006) and
organizer of On the Work of the Curator (2010), among others.
Marcelo Paolinelli
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Marcelo is a Brazilian-Canadian writer,
journalist, and filmmaker from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He has a MFA in
Documentary Media from Ryerson University in Toronto. His work explores social
justice and human rights issues, gender, and sexuality. Marcelo is passionate
about film and photography and in addition to producing his own projects he has
also sought to collaborate with other filmmakers. His documentary Food for All was
exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, Brazil and Italy. Another of his short
documentaries, Crystal, was
screened in the Pink Latin Film Festival in Toronto. Recently, Marcelo worked in
the production of the Canadian drama/feature Fucking My Way Back Home.
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