El Father Plays Himself, local filmmaker Mo Scarpelli's latest film, debuts online Tuesday August 10th starting at 3:00pm.

Viewers can purchase tickets and watch live starting at 3:00pm followed by an online Q&A with both Director Mo Scarpelli and film character Jorge Thielen Armand at 4:445pm.

If you cannot make the 3:00pm showing, you can still watch the film anytime until August 11th at 11:59pm.

Tickets are available for only $5 to Big Rapids area residents with the code BRFRIEND.

Tickets can be purchased: EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF | (eventive.org)

 

El Father Plays Himself has shown internationally at IDFA 2020, the World's Largest Film Festival, over a dozen film festivals in Europe, Northern Africa, and South America, as well as at DOC NYC, the largest Film Festival in the US, as well as the Atlanta Film Festival, San Francisco IndieFest, and the Washington DC Environmental Film Festival.

El Father Plays Himself follows a young film director as he returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle. This filmmaker casts his father (El Father) to play himself in what starts as an act of love and ambition but spirals into a process which confronts El Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son.

El Father Plays Himself holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.

 

Mo Scarpelli, a BRHS alum, has finished multiple films that have shown internationally including Frame by Frame, and ANBESSA.

For more on Mo's other films, visit RAKE HOME - RAKE FILMS (format.com)