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DOCUMENTARY 03 - HEADLAND

DIRECTOR:

MARIANA DUARTE

RUNTIME:

00:13:00

COUNTRY:

UNITED KINGDOM

GENRE:

DOCUMENTARY

FILM SYNOPSIS

A nature reserve on the English Channel is a place of wonder and solace, shaped and haunted by violence. A sensitive look at life on a pebble beach reclaimed from the ocean, HEADLAND interweaves the age-old tradition of sea rescues with recent migrant crossings, as witnessed by the last of the Dungeness fishermen.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY

Mariana Duarte is a Brazilian filmmaker based in Scotland with a particular interest in intercultural cinema. She directed Newcomers (2013), and her latest short, Headland (2024), was commissioned by the Scottish Documentary Institute’s Bridging the Gap programme. A Berlinale Talents alumna, her work has been screened at international festivals, including Big Sky (Best Mini-Doc Award for Headland), Edinburgh, Curta Kinoforum, Tiradentes, and Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival. Previously a video editor at TV Globo for over seven years, she later graduated from the Kino Eyes Erasmus Film Masters. She is currently pursuing a PhD by Practice in Film at Edinburgh College of Art, researching new imaginaries of borders in contemporary cinema through creative non-fiction. Her most recent publication, A Camera in the Water: Reframing the Migrant Image in Documentary Film, was featured in Screen Journal.

CAST & CREW

Director: Mariana Duarte

Producer: Alice Rowsome