Taprobana
24 mins
In this short comedy, Luis Vaz de Camoes, the greatest Portuguese renaissance poet, struggles creatively while engaging in a hedonistic, coprophagic, and drug addled lifestyle. The film follows the poet, and his lover Dinamene, as he writes his masterpiece, the epic poem "Os Lusiadas." He travels from the cacophony of the Indic jungles, surrounded by allegorical elephants and rhyming macaques, to the frontier of Heaven and Hell, where he is confronted by his fantasy: fame and immortality.
Natxo Checa
Luís Vaz de Camões
David Lasantha
Opium Dealer
Jõao Pedro Vale
King Philipp II
Alexandre Melo
Petrarch
Gonçalo Pena
Homer
Natxo Checa
Producer
Natxo Checa
Executive Producer
David Lasantha
Screenplay
Vimukthi Jayasundara
Producer
Natxo Checa
Director of Photography
Lakruan Withanage
Director of Photography
Daniel Gries
Foley Artist
Hugo Leitão
Sound Editor
Hugo Leitão
Sound Mixer
Marta Furtado
Producer
Vimukthi Jayasundara
Screenplay