A child's birthday party. The father is exultant because, for the first time, he will be able to record everything from this special day. But the brand new and complex camera he has just bought is a mistery to him. How do you turn it on? How can you focus? Is it recording? Trying and failing. The result is he gets very confused with the little “rec / pause” button: when the camera is recording, he is sure it isn't and vice versa. Going from hand to hand when it is supposedly in “pause”, the camera accidentally records stories, sorrows and secrets that shouldn’t be recorded...
Production Company: 24 VPS filmes
A man buys an expensive video camera to record his son's birthday party. Unable to operate the complex device, he presses the wrong button and ends up recording things that weren't supposed to be recorded...
Bruno Carneiro graduated in Film and Vídeo at the School of Communication and Arts at University São Paulo (ECA-USP). Working as a filmmaker since 1997, he has directed five short-films: O tempo dos objetos (Newcomer Award at Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival and Best Script at Brasilia Film Festival), Carregar uma Criança (Newcomer Award at Cuiabá Short Film Festival, Best Picture Award granted by ABD-RJ at Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, Best Sound at Belo Horizonte Short Film Festival), Esboço para Fotografia (Best Cinematography ar Jornada de Cinema da Bahia), Infidelidade and Rec, Pause. Has also directed thirteen documentaries: A Valsa do Pódio (co-directing with Daniel Hanai, through the grant Memória do Esporte Olímpico Brasileiro), seven episodes of the series Obra Revelada (Instituto Cultural Itaú), Mestres da Literatura – Lygia Fagundes Telles (TV Escola), O Saber Tradicional (TV Cultura de São Paulo), and three episodes of the series Expresso Brasil – Acre, Mato Grosso e Rio Grande do Norte (TV Cultura de São Paulo).
Ana Andreatta
Paulo Bordhin
Amazyles de Almeida
Sílvio Restiffe
Miriam Mehler
Luis Serra
Giovanna Hansen
Vinicius Precioso
Director
Bruno Carneiro
Assistant Director
Cristiane Oliveira
Cinematographer
Kátia Coelho
Producer
Production Manager
Vanessa Montenegro
Assistant producer
Nicole Marchi
Art Director
Carol Bassi
Direct Sound
Ricardo Marques
Editor
Marcio Miranda Perez
Coach
Bia Borin
Music by
Marcos Azambuja
Clarinet player
Joaquim Araújo
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