ALENTO
Deep breath
Leonor Pacheco
SYNOPSIS
During the late hours of the night a form tries to fall asleep. Struggling to maintain
control, it gets trapped into vicious cycles of abstract madness, visually and audibly growing
into a visceral and bizarre conflict between compression and decompression.
PRODUCTION BAP
DISTRIBUTION Leonor Pacheco
ANIMATION TECHNIQUES 2D animation in china ink and charcoal
DIRECTION Leonor Pacheco
MUSIC Nils Meisel and Pedro Pestana
ANIMATION Leonor Pacheco and Inês Teixeira
PAINTING Leonor Pacheco and Inês Teixeira
ADITIONAL PAINTING Joana Teixeira
INBETWEENING Inês Munhoz, Inês Teixeira and Leonor Pacheco
COMPOSITING Inês Munhoz
SOUND MIX Vasco Carvalho
PRODUCERS David Doutel and Vasco Sá
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Paula Silva
FESTIVALS SELECTIONS AND AWARDS
1 award and 16 selections, including:
Music Videos Award — Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Portugal, 2022
PIAFF Paris International Animation Film Festival, France, 2023
Monstra Lisbon Animation Festival, Portugal, 2023
Anifilm International Festival of Animated Films, Liberec, Czechia, 2023
PORTO FEMME International Film Festival, Portugal, 2023
Happy Valley Animation Festival, State College, USA, 2023
MIAF Melbourne International Animation Festival, Australia, 2023
Turku Animated Film Festival, Finland, 2023
ANIMIST Tallinn, International Animation Festival, Estonia, 2023
ANIMAGORIA Mostra de cinema de animação, Faro, Portugal, 2023
ANIMARIO Festival Internacional de Animación Contemporánea de Madrid, Spain, 2023
Punto y Raya Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023
Festa Mundial da Animação, Vila Velha de Rodão and Castelo Branco, Portugal, 2023
Entre Olhares Monstra de Cinema Portugues, Barreiro, Portugal, 2023
LIAF London International Animation Festival, England, 2023
Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Mednarodni. Slovenia, 2023
