Catharina Scarpellini

Movies

Motherhood
First Assistant Camera
Commissioned by Channel 4 to celebrate Black History Month, the visually and emotionally striking film tells its story with interviews and voiceovers of various mothers; from embarking on motherhood in pregnancy all the way through to grandmothers; covering topics such as dismantling stereotypes, navigating motherhood and sitting down with a child to talk about race.
From Fragments
First Assistant Camera
An elderly couple dance their swansong in an empty ballroom. This film negotiates a tragic issue with sensitivity and understated pathos.
Enclosure
Cinematography
Through scenes of a repeating and limited daily routine, we get to know upfront the reality of marginalized women way before they were emprisioned. Saudade Mundão is a movie about human beings that takes place on the public jail of Franca, São Paulo.
Enclosure
Production Director
Through scenes of a repeating and limited daily routine, we get to know upfront the reality of marginalized women way before they were emprisioned. Saudade Mundão is a movie about human beings that takes place on the public jail of Franca, São Paulo.
Enclosure
Director
Through scenes of a repeating and limited daily routine, we get to know upfront the reality of marginalized women way before they were emprisioned. Saudade Mundão is a movie about human beings that takes place on the public jail of Franca, São Paulo.
Amor Só de Mãe
Director
Amor só de Mãe tells the story of 3 women incarcerated that reflects the reality of an unequal social system. Nina, Lea and Elisabette are inmates in the Franca Public Prison, in the state of São Paulo. The documentary follows the daily lives of these lives and proposes a reflection on the pain of mothers and daughters while awaiting their sentences. Love, only a mother is above all a film about the human