Scarce
Brazil / Fiction / 16’ / 4K / Color / 2022
Rose invites a film crew to check out her house, except it isn't hers. This hilarious mockumentary is as politically scathing as it is delightful. The undercurrent of the film is a deep critique of housing and food insecurity as a direct legacy of Brazil's, and indeed the world's, colonial past. In turns playful and uncomfortable, ‘professional dog walker’ Rose becomes a vector through which inequity and injustice must be reconciled.
Director: Gabriela Meirelles, Clara Anastácia
Script: Clara Anastácia
Director of Photography: Luís Gomes
Producer: Clara Anastácia, Érica de Freitas, Gabriela Meirelles
Editing: Bruno Ribeiro
Sound: Ernesto Sena
Musician: Negro Leo
Cast: Clara Anastácia
CV
Gabriela Gaia Meirelles was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro where she studied filmmaking. Her short film AFETO (2019) won the Saint Lucia Prize for Best International Experimental Short Film 2019 at the 17th Bogoshorts, Colombia, and an honorable mention at the Vitória Film Festival.
Clara Anastácia was born in Pavuna, on Rio de Janeiro's outskirts. Self-taught, she has been developing work aimed at inclusion and diversity. In 2020 she became a writer for the Netflix Brazil series.
Filmography
Gabriela Meirelles
Nothing (2015), A Letter to Laura Krauss (2016), Pleased to meet you, Gabriela (2017), AFETO (2019), Scarce (2022)
Clara Anastácia
Scarce (2022)
Festivals Attended
Rotterdam Film Festival
Clermont Ferrand Film Festival
IndieLisboa Film Festival
Rio de Janeiro Film Festival
Tiradentes Film Festival
Awards
Best Fiction Award - IndieLisboa Film Festival
Best Short - Rio de Janeiro Film Festival