SHORTS / SOLITUDE

SOLITUDE

Animation. 13 min. Directed by Tami Martins & Aron Miranda. 2021. Brazil

In the Amazon, Sol (25 years old) is recovering from the end of another abusive relationship, while her Shadow escapes to the Atacama Desert because it couldn’t stand to see her suffering. While Sol, finally, begins to retake her own spaces and dreams, her Shadow seeks independence. They both go on journeys in search of self-love and self-confidence to rediscover in solitude the way back to each other.

Festival Internacional de Cine Silente México

ICONA Animation Film Festival

Festival do Rio - REDENTOR TROPHY BEST SHORT FILM

Palm Springs Animation Film Festival

T-Short Animated Film Online Festival

APEX Film Awards

Athens ANIMFEST

Muestra de Cine del Norte de Brasil

Latino & Native American Film Festival

Goiânia Mostra Curtas

OIFF Turin Shorts Film Festival

Tami Martins

Designer, illustrator and urban artist for 15 years, Tami Martins was born in the North of Brazil, in the State of Amapá. She graduated early and earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the Higher Education Center of Amapá (CEAP), where she also taught from the age of 24 until the year of 2018. She is a partner at Castanha Filmes and Jubarte Audiovisual, both film production companies from Amapá. Tami directed and scripted in 2020 the animation “Solitude”, for which she also created the conceptual art. In 2021, she starts as the executive producer of the series “Amazônia Panc”, by Jubarte Audiovisual.

FILMOGRAPHY

2016 Encantes - Histórias de Laranjal do Maracá (motion graphics & credits)

2017 Intermitências sobre Macapá (short)

2017 Carta sobre nosso lugar - Mulheres do Vila Nova (motion graphics & credits)

2021 Golden Mountain (motion graphics & credits)

2021 Waiting the Rain (motion graphics & credits)

2021 Solitude (short)

Aron Miranda

Aron Miranda is a partner at Jubarte Audiovisual (Amapá) and Castanha Filmes (Amapá). In 2009, he started working with music composition, sound design and mixing for cinema and TV, and in 2017 he had his debut as a director with the short film “Intermitências sobre Macapá” (2017). Today, he already signs the direction of 4 short films executed with regional and national public funding and participates in several series and films throughout Brazil as a composer, sound designer and mixer. Among the main training courses he took are editing and mixing courses (IATEC/RJ), Direction Assistance (CONNE/AP) and Film Direction (AICTV/SP).

FILMOGRAPHY

2017 Intermitências sobre Macapá (short)

2018 Walkírias (short)

2021 Waiting the Rain (short)

2021 Solitude (short)

2021 Memórias da Terra (short)