FEVER (In development)
Fiction, HD.
ABOUT
Fiebre is a feature film project in development written and directed by Carolina Kuzeluk and Diana Kuzeluk. This project has been selected for the writing and mentoring program, Acció Viver 2024 of Dones Visuals. It also has the support of the Paraguayan Audiovisual Institute (INAP) for its development stage.
This project is a playful reinterpretation of literary classics such as the Bible and Cervantes' Don Quixote, a work that portrays times of tension from the perspective of an anachronistic character. Fiebre seeks to retake this topic from a contemporary viewpoint and displace it to a tropical territory. The synopsis is as follows:
In a remote town in Paraguay, Don Alejo, a migrant family father, suffers a strong fever caused by dengue fever and feels the call of God. With Sánchez a peasant that has just been released from prison, and Mandiyú, a donkey carrying a large Bluetooth speaker on his back, Don Alejo preaches the word of God to his community, trying to raise funds to rebuild the roof of the local hospital that was destroyed after a storm.
The script starts with a quixotic image: two men and a donkey carrying a loudspeaker on its back, who go out together in pursuit of an ideal. From there, our characters will encounter the problems that concerns the most to Latin American peasant societies. They are the mean by which we have access to fragments of many stories.
Another relevant text is The Bible. For many people in Paraguay, the only literary text read and, probably, the most misrepresented and misunderstood. For this reason, several characters will communicate almost exclusively by quoting biblical verses, often out of context or with an excessively categorical sense.
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