ARID ZONE

By Fernanda PESSOA

UTOPIA DOCS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

dok Leipzig 2019
Honorable Mention (Next Masters Competition Long Documentary and Animated Film)
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Doc Market
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 76 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Fernanda PESSOA
    • Producer(s)
    • Antonio JUNIOR (Grafo Audiovisual)
    • Synopsis
    • How is it to be a foreigner in United States’ most conservative city? In 2001, Brazilian director Fernanda Pessoa was 15 years old and experienced being a foreign exchange student for one year in Mesa, Arizona, considered USA’s most conservative city. 15 years later – and two months before Donald Trump’s election – she’s back to try to understand her experience there and the conservative ideas regarding topics like the Mexican border, the cowboy lifestyle, religiosity and patriotism.