Pravda, Zeitgeist Apparatchiks And The Gauche Caviar

P.J. Marcellino | 5'14'' | Canada, Cape Verde     #filmhaiku #filmsonnet #filmvillanelle

Originally developed as a provocative triptych of film poems at the Ji.Hlava Film Academy in late 2021, P.J. Marcellino’s second experimental short (following Riga, 2018) is an exercise in political intervention, critiquing and questioning the cacophony surrounding truth, news cycles, populism, echo chambers, “alternative facts” and fake news in the year of our lord of 2021. In what he calls “a political punk poem”, Marcellino’s hybrid documentary boldy explores — through metaphor, layering, immersive sound, and provocative and reactionary soundbites — the performativity and surprising controversy of truth in our days. Or, as Philip Knightley called it: The First Casualty.

About the filmmaker:
P.J. Marcellino is an award-winning Cape Verdean-Canadian director/producer based in Toronto. His current feature, THE WHALERS (Hungry Eyes Media), was a Cannes Docs 2021 Spotlighted Project. For over a decade Marcellino built an international portfolio as a journalist, author, and researcher, then as a senior political advisor with international agencies, pivoting to film after graduating from Seneca College's Documentary Filmmaking Institute. He is an accomplished documentarian in various formats/lengths for web, tv and the silver screen. He is a producer with shows such as Big Brother Canada, and founder/CEO of indie prodco Anatomy of Restlessness Films.