ZOOM
Philippine
release date: August
03, 2016
Logline:Who’s zooming who?
Director:Pedro Morelli
Screenplay:Matt Hansen
Stars:Gael García Bernal, Alison Pill, Mariana Ximenes, Jason Priestley
Genre:Romance, Comedy, Animation
Synopsis:
A
multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film
director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the
others.
The
Three Realities of ZOOM
From the crazy mind of Pedro Morelli, written for
the screen by Matt Hansen, and produced by NivFichman, these three creative
geniuses collaborated to create the distinctuniverses of ZOOM.Hansen
explainsthat “originally, the film was similar to INCEPTION in that it started
with one reality pointand went further into one’s consciousness. This changed
when I suggested that we do the filmEscher staircase style where we would have
different worlds affecting one another. Conceptually, this idea sounded really
cool, but we soon realized that realistically the idea was fairly complicated.
Wethen decided cut the film down to three stories, which led us to create
ZOOM.”
EmmaThe
Cartoonist
Emma works in a factory that
makes love dolls. But when she looks in the mirror, Emma tendsto compare
herself to the dolls and becomes dissatisfied with her own flawed body. And so,
shedecides toinvest her savings in breast implant surgery.The surgery endows
Emma with enormous breasts, just like the dolls. But she has a hard timegetting
used to their presence and begins to feel like a stranger in her own body.
Emmaquestions her decision and ultimately tries to get the implants removed.
Unfortunately, shedoesn't have enough money left for the surgical reversal.
“The thing about Emma is that
a lot of people know a girl like this,” says writer Matt Hansen.“She’s nerdy
but not in a pejorative kind of way. She’s caught up in this society of
perfectappearances, but unable to see her own inner beauty.” Emma’s inner
beauty captivatedproducer NivFichman as well. “Emma is someone who I would love
to meet,” says Fichman.“She’s a secret artist, she draws really well. I feel
sorry for her because she has this problemwhere she is not as confident as she
looks and wants to be augmented. But this unrealisticimage of beauty is
something society has imposed on all of us and that is one of the mainthemes of
the film.”
In her free time, Emma likes to draw cartoons and creates a comic book
about the life ofa filmmaker named Edward.
Edward The Filmmaker
Edward is designed by Emma to
be the perfect man. Charming, handsome and sexy, he is asuccessful action film
director. Immersed in a world of fame, fortune and vanity, he craves to
berecognized for his artistic sensibility.Edward's problems begin when his
penis dramatically shrinks overnight - the result of a derisivepractical joke
by his creator Emma, who holds his destiny in her hands. This sudden
andsenseless mutation leaves Edward in despair.
The character of Edward is far
too familiar to those in the film industry. “Edward’s a caricature ofa variety
of directors in movies that both Niv and I have come across over the years, in
that he’sa commercial guy who is trying to make something meaningful or arty,”
says Hansen. “He’s aparody of that type of filmmaker, the process of making a
film as well as having various peopleinfluencing the work, for better or
worse.”
Edward's latest project is a movie about a successful Brazilian fashion
model whostrives to be a novelist.
Michelle
The Novelist
Michelle is a Brazilian
fashion model living in Toronto. She dreams of becoming a novelist despite the
discouragement of her manager (and boyfriend) Dale. But when Michelle shows
anincomplete manuscript to a respected publisher, he thinks it has great
potential and encouragesher to complete it. In order to concentrate on
finishing the book, Michelle escapes to Brazil soshe can focus exclusively on
her work.
Michelle’s character was
created around the concept that one should not judge a book by its cover.
“Michelle is that kind of girl who people think is just beautiful,” says
Hansen. “She has all these advantages in life: she goes to the front of the
line; she can get what average people can’t and she sees the benefits and disadvantages
to that---one of them being that she is not taken seriously as a writer because
she’s only seen as beautiful.”
Throughout her story, Michelle is writing a book about Emma, an
insecure woman who works in a factory that makes love
dolls.
And this closes the circle between the three realities of ZOOM. (PR)
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