Man Ré dreams that of traveling to the space. There he finds voices that speak to him, his hopes, his fears, the ministers who appear on TV… Everything goes well until his ship breaks down… and realizes that he is alone.
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Angola launched in 2017 its first satellite into space… and got lost. “The Adventures of Angosat” is a retelling of this dream. An indie musical film written and performed by Isis Hembe, one of the most renowned Angolan urban artists. It brings together upcoming artists from the streets of Cazenga (Luanda) in a unique one-shot fiction film.
Art Director: Gegé M’bakudi
Soud: Oswald Juliana
DoP: Resem Verkron
Cast Director: Fernanda Farah
Anim’Art Production: João Domingos
Music: Isis Hembe
Isis Hembe
Yohana Selei
Sebastião Constantino
Luz Feliz
Marco Almeida
Gonçalves Coxe
Blue Juelsa
Fernandes Diacage
Abel Camosso
Amilça Luísa
Celeste Wacalenda
Domingos Malebo
Muana Malonga
Scott Suave
Carla Gomes / aventurasangosat@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/aventurasdoangosat/
Resem Verkron (1999) is part of the two most exciting cultural movements in Luanda: the street art Verkron Collective (from which he takes his surname) and Geração 80, the leading art-house cinema production company. He defines his work as “emotional Afrofuturism”: his personal response to the Black American Afrofuturism. After working on different shorts, mostly as DoP, this is his second short as director. The previous one “Lola & Mami” (2021) deals with toxic masculinity.
Marc Serena (1983) codirected the award-winning Capverdean feature doc “Tchindas” (2015), which won 13 prizes in festivals such as Outfest Los Angeles (US), was nominated at the African Oscars in Nigeria (AMAA Awards) and was broadcast at PBS (US). More recently, his film “The Writer From a Country Without Bookstores”, shot in Equatorial Guiena, won a prize in Italy at the DIG Awards for best investigative journalism.
RESEM VERKRON
Lola&Mami (2021). Short
MARC SERENA
Tchindas (2015), feature.
Double Epidemic (2015), webdoc.
Freshwater Fish (in Saltwater) (2018), TV documentary.
The Writer From a Country Without Bookstores (2019), feature.
The Chihaa and Oraa Story (2022), short.
