{"id":29821,"date":"2024-06-26T12:48:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=29821"},"modified":"2025-03-23T21:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T01:36:46","slug":"2024-tribeca-review-of-award-winning-brazilian-film-short-patrana-a-must-see-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/2024-tribeca-review-of-award-winning-brazilian-film-short-patrana-a-must-see-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pensive, Mesmerizing Eulogy About the Brazilian Teammates of a Downhill Skateboarding Icon \u2013 Allysson Pastrana \u2013 Coming to Terms with their Existential Angst Over His Sudden Death During a Downhill Speeding Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Documentary, Drama, Sports<\/em> are tags on Tribeca Festival 2024 page about PASTRANA. \u00a0Others that this reviewer believes should be listed but aren\u2019t are <em>Cosmic, Surrealistic, Transcendent.<\/em> PASTRANA may look to potential audiences like a sports highlight film rooted in an ode to a fallen comrade. Believe this reviewer, it is so-ooo-ooo much more.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29970 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pub-Pastrana-PST_IMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pub-Pastrana-PST_IMAGE.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pub-Pastrana-PST_IMAGE-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pub-Pastrana-PST_IMAGE-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pub-Pastrana-PST_IMAGE-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pub-Pastrana-PST_IMAGE-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pub-Pastrana-PST_IMAGE-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pub-Pastrana-PST_IMAGE-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/h3>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/allysson_pastrana\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0px; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this profile on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; 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border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/allysson_pastrana\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allysson Pastrana<\/a> (@<a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/allysson_pastrana\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allysson_pastrana<\/a>) \u2022 Instagram photos and videos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Before the 2024 Tribeca Festival, PATRANA premiered at the historic 56th Bras\u00edlia Festival of Brazilian Cinema, winning competition&#8217;s main awards, including Best Short Film. <\/em><em>The international premiere was at the 25th BAFICI &#8211; Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, in April 2024, where it won the award for Best Latin American Short Film by the institution Films to Festivals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the fascinating facets of PASTRANA \u2013 there are many \u2013 is its obvious potential global appeal to audiences regardless of their sport of choice. PASTRANA has a cinematic ubiquity that transcends the many ways that people on this planet describe themselves and share space. As PASTRANA was being made in Brazil, the heart and soul of the filmmaking being infused in that film was going to be able to connect with audiences around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A fierce spirituality imbued in this film that, as I wrote earlier, is undeniable and would be way off a Richter Scale for evocative films like this if such a scale existed. Can\u2019t get over that PASTRANA is a 17-minute visually resplendent film short with the panache of a regular feature length film that can put audiences on the edge of their seats.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30206\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/greatPastrana-Screenshot-1024x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/greatPastrana-Screenshot-1024x346.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/greatPastrana-Screenshot-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/greatPastrana-Screenshot-768x260.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/greatPastrana-Screenshot-560x189.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/greatPastrana-Screenshot-260x88.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/greatPastrana-Screenshot-160x54.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/greatPastrana-Screenshot.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/>The Cinematography has swooshing scenes of Pastrana and other skaters downhilling like there is no tomorrow. This reviewer has one quibble with this superbly made film. That is, the way the downhiller\u2019s death was depicted in the opening 80 seconds of the film is in sharp relief to news and news photos of the accident scene.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30262\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30262\" class=\"size-large wp-image-30262\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/newsdeathestrana-1024x584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/newsdeathestrana-1024x584.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/newsdeathestrana-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/newsdeathestrana-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/newsdeathestrana-560x319.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/newsdeathestrana-260x148.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/newsdeathestrana-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/newsdeathestrana.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A slice of a news shot of Pastrana&#8217;s death<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pastrana | Teaser (ENG)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJ6pShH_Sjk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Short | Brazil | 15 minutes | Portuguese | English subtitles<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Direction: Melissa Brogni and Gabriel Motta<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Screenplay: Gabriel Motta, J\u00falia Cazarr\u00e9 and Melissa Brogni<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Producer: Alet\u00e9ia Selonk<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Executive Producers: Graziella Ferst and Marlise A\u00fade<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Cinematography: L\u00edvia Pasqual<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Sound: Roberto Coutinho<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Editing: Bruno Carboni<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Original Music: Jonts Ferreira<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29487\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tribecalogo-jury-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tribecalogo-jury-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tribecalogo-jury-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tribecalogo-jury-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tribecalogo-jury-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tribecalogo-jury-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tribecalogo-jury-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/tribecalogo-jury.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"2\" width=\"60%\" \/>\n<p>The first 73 minutes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7155\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7155\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Editor, Publisher Gregg W. Morris<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Can be reached at gregghc@comcast.net, profgreggwmorris@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by one of the film\u2019s directors, this is a bitter-sweet tale about downhill skateboarders coming to grips with the existential grief they are experiencing over the death of a teammate who died in a competition. This film is tagged as a documentary-drama-sport-movie yet it&#8217;s filmmaking is infused with a fierce spirituality that is cosmic, surrealistic and transcendent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 By Gregg W. 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