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Taprobana
2014

by Gabriel Abrantes

– The poem pleases your Excellency?
– I was nodding off the first ten cantos, but these poets are so intelligent. They put a sex scene in the end, and I forget I didn’t understand the rest.

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A sensuous and debauched portrait of Portugal’s national poet Luís Vaz de Camões teetering on the borderline between Paradise and Hell.

directing

Gabriel Abrantes

scriptwriting

Gabriel Abrantes

cinematography

Gabriel Abrantes
Natxo Checa
Lakruwan Withanage

sound

Hugo Leitão
Gabriel Abrantes
Daniel Gries

editing

Hugo Leitão
Gabriel Abrantes
Daniel Gries

with

Natxo Checa
Jani Zhao
Gabriel Abrantes
David Lasantha
João Pedro Vale
André Príncipe
Gonçalo Pena
Alexandre Melo

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Produced by
A Mutual Respect Productions
Vimukthi Jayasundara
CPH DOX:LAB

S16mm transferred to HD, 23 min.
Color / 16:9 / 5.1 Dolby Sound
Language: Portuguese, Singhalese

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awards

2014 Berlin International Film Festival [Deutschland] – EFA Nomination
2012 CPH:DOX LAB Fund [Denmark]

exhibitions & collections

Exhibitions
2018 Monográfico Gabriel Abrantes, La Casa Encendida, Madrid [Spain]
2014 Gabriel Abrantes, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva [Switzerland]

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screenings

2014 EFA – European Film Awards [Deutschland]
2014 Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale Shorts Competition [Deutschland]
2014 Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival [Portugal]
2014 CPH:DOX [Denmark]
2016 Friends with Benefits - Film Society of Lincoln Center [USA]
2017 Sicilia Queer Filmfest [Italy]
2017 BAFICI – Buenos Aires Festival International de Cine Independente [Argentina]

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full cast and crew

Cast
Natxo Checa
Jani Zhao
Gabriel Abrantes
Lasantha David
João Pedro Vale
André Príncipe
Gonçalo Pena
Alexandre Melo

Extras
U. G. Punchi Banda
B. Wimalawate
Dhamika Amarashinghe
Mónica Talina
Ana Rita Lopes
Joana Pais de Brito
Andreia Marcelino

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Directing, Scriptwriting
Gabriel Abrantes

Screenplay Consultant
Lasantha David

Camera
Gabriel Abrantes
Natxo Checa
Lakruwan Withanage

Editing
Gabriel Abrantes

Production Director
Natxo Checa

Assiociate Producers
Patricia Drati
Tine Fischer

Production Management, Portugal
ZDB

Line Producer, Portugal
Marta Furtado
Joana Botelho

Production Management, Sri Lanka
24 Frames

Driver
Dhamika Amarashinghe

Production Assistants, Sri Lanka
Lakruwan Withanage
Jani Zhao
Dhamika Amarashinghe
Lasantha David

Production Stills Photographer
Susana Pomba

Produced by
A Mutual Respect Productions
Vimukthi Jayasundara
CPH DOX:LAB

in corporation with
Danish Centre For Culture and Development

Producers
Natxo Checa
Marta Furtado
Gabriel Abrantes
Vimukthi Jayasundara

Music
The Barber of Seville Overture
  Gioacchino Rossini
  performed by the Davis High School Symphony Orchestra

Image Post-Production Coordinator
Pedro Ribeiro

Color Correction
Jennifer Mendes

Sound Mixing and Post-Production Recording
Hugo Leitão

Sound Editing
Hugo Leitão
Gabriel Abrantes

Foley Artist
Daniel Gries

Image and Sound Post-Production
Loudness Films, Lisbon

Director of Post-Production Facilities
Branko Neskov

Filmed in Kodak Vision III S16mm

16mm Developing Lab
Eclair Studios, Paris

Director of Costumer Relations, Post-Production
Gina Barbier

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