A Tenista

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a tenista
Tennis Girl Daniel Barosa

Oct-2013

15' Portuguese Brazil

Ju is late for her pricey private lessons. Consumed in a marathon of family chaos, SMS texting and hormones, the improbable pubescent tennis player runs from a secret.

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Category: Fiction

Genre: Drama Teen Movie

Debut film

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Reviews

Michael Carlson - Irresistible Targets

It has nothing to do with the famous poster of a woman in tennis whites rubbing her bottom, butTennis Girl, a 2013 short directed by Brazilian Daniel Barosa, and written by him with Humberto Palmas, packs a lot of emotion into its 15 minutes. It does it by showing very little but implying a lot. Ju is a pretty teenaged girl running late. She's snappy with her harried mother, she's distracted by text messages, and she's more interested in flirting with her tennis coach than actually having a lesson. On the face of it just a brief slice of a day in her life. But as Felipe, the coach, ignores he flirting and implores Ju to concentrate on her lesson, she runs off to the toilets. But she stops along the way, contemplating yet another call on her mobile, and for an instant rubs her belly. We think back; the film opens with a shot of an empty corridor in the family's apartment; Ju eventually emerges from the loo. She skips eating, she ignores her mother and her godmother, and on the way out she barely has time f
Bruno Carmelo - Adoro Cinema

O curta-metragem brasileiro A Tenista, de Daniel Barosa, acompanha a história de uma adolescente rebelde, revoltada contra a mãe. O tom adotado pelo filme, tanto nos diálogos quanto na direção de fotografia, é de grande naturalidade, mas o aspecto que chama a atenção é o fato de ter sido feito inteiramente em plano-sequência, ou seja, em uma imagem ininterrupta, do início ao fim. O final pode ser abrupto, e o conflito da protagonista é um tanto banal, mas A Tenista se destaca por sua coerência.
Valentina Valentini - Movie Maker

What else is a good bet at Slamdance? According to Germanidi, the shorts are where tomorrow’s marquee names are duking it out today. “Slamdance has always been adept at finding new talent through shorts—Benh Zeitlin came to Slamdance with short films.” (She names “Viking,” “Salt,” “A Tenista,” and “Running Seasons” as narrative shorts to look out for.)

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Director

Daniel Barosa

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Producer

Nikolas Maciel

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Cast & Crew

Humberto Palmas

Scriptwriter

Eduardo Barbosa

Sound designer

Eduardo Praça

Music soundtrack

Thiago Klein

Music soundtrack

Guilherme Almeida

Production sound mixer

Alice Antunes

Film editor

Caio Campos

Camera operator

Bianca Melo

Cast

Renata De Paula

Cast

Gabriel Godoy

Cast

Thabata Picasso

Art director

Caio Pedron

Director of photography

Paulo Bastos

Production assistant

Uirá Wagner

Sound Recording

Alexandre Cristofaro

Color correction

Ana Pupulin

Stills Photographer

Gabriel Buéssio

First camera assistant

Aron Aguiar

First assistant director

Eduardo Praça

Art director assistant

Beatriz Gallo

Production manager

Nikolas Maciel

Executive Producer

Henrique Regamatti

Special effects supervisor

Guilherme Bergozine

Costume designer

Juliana Vacaro

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Selections

Selected

Bendfilm Festival

October 2015

United States

Selected

Mostra Kino-olho

August 2015

Selected

Vilnius International Short Film Festival

August 2015

Lithuania

Selected

Rhode Island International Film Festival (riiff)

August 2015

United States

Selected

Mostra Do Filme Livre

June 2015

Selected

Festiwal Polskich Ilm

May 2015

Poland

Selected

Seattle International Film Festival

May 2015

United States

Prize

Short Of The Year

April 2015

Spain

Selected

Boston International Film Festival

April 2015

United States

Selected

Festival Internacional De Cine De Barranquilla

March 2015

Colombia

Prize

Ficid - Festival Internacional De Cine Deportivo

March 2015

Argentina

Selected

Slamdance Film Festival

January 2015

United States

Selected

Festival Internacional De Mar Del Plata

November 2014

Argentina

Selected

One Take Film Festival

November 2014

Selected

Longue Vue Sur Le Court

November 2014

Canada

Selected

Bratislava International Film Festival

November 2014

Slovakia

Selected

Kaohsiung Film Festival

October 2014

Taiwan

Selected

Bfi London Film Festival

October 2014

United Kingdom

Selected

Festival Internacional De Curtas Metragens De S

August 2014

Brazil

Selected

Festival De Cine De Lima

August 2014

Peru

Selected

Molise Cinema

August 2014

Italy

Selected

Festival De Cine De Lima

August 2014

Peru

Prize

Fest - New Directors | New Films

June 2014

Portugal

Selected

Tabor International Film Festival

June 2014

Croatia

Selected

Festival Internacional Del Uruguay

April 2014

Uruguay

Selected

Festival Internacional De Cinema De Balne

April 2014

Brazil

Selected

International Film Festival Rotterdam

January 2014

Netherlands