Gary sells balloons on New York subways and dreams about learning magic. Filmed conversations get the Brazilian documentary filmmaker closer to this Brooklyn resident from a Cuban background, that in long underground routes questions himself about his way of navigating this world.
Marina Thomé
Marina Thomé is a photographer and documentary filmmaker. Holds a master’s degree in Creative Documentary (UAB – Barcelona, Spain) and Communication, Art & Technology (UBA – São Paulo, Brazil). Marina works as a researcher and producer of documentary content for multimedia platforms and has studied photojournalism and storytelling at International Center of Photography (ICP, NYC). Her recent productions include the feature film “The Sound of Bells”, presented in festivals like XXVII Festival Biarritz Latin America (France, 2017) and 42º Margaret Mead Film Festival (USA, 2018), “Alzira E – Aquilo que eu nunca perdi”, a cine-biography about Alzira Espíndola, a Brazilian singer and composer, to be released in 2020, and “The Dual Nature of Light” a transmedia project in development which won the Biarritz Amerique Latine Film Festival pitching to participate in the Lizières Residency (France, 2019).