2025 Films: Gargalo (Bottleneck)

Gargalo (Bottleneck) by Carlos Segundo & Anna Zêpa

Brazil (Wisconsin Premiere)

Running Time: 16 minutes
Drama

Tickets

Friday, September 5th 6PM
Avalon Atmospheric Theater
2473 S Kinnickinnic Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53207

Janaina is tired, and that can be scary.

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Director Bio:

Carlos Segundo

Member of Hollywood Academy. Pardino d’oro at the Locarno Film Festival (Big Bang - 2022); in competition at the Cannes Festival (Sideral - 2021), Carlos Segundo is a director, photographer, screenwriter and editor. 

His other most recent works are: the short De Vez Em Quando Eu Ardo (2020) and the feature Fendas (2019), both premiered at FID Marseille; and the shorts Subcutâneo (2018) and Ainda Sangro Por Dentro (2016), both premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. Professor of the Audiovisual at the Department of Social Communication at UFRN, Post-doctorate at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, Segundo holds a PhD in Cinema from Unicamp (2016). Master in Psychoanalysis and Cinema at the Federal University of Uberlândia (2011), postgraduate in Philosophy of Art at IFITEG/UEG (2008). In addition, he is coordinator and curator of festivals, exhibitions and workshops.

Big Bang screened at the 2023 MKE Short Film Fest.

Anna Zêpa

Brazilian director, screenwriter, producer and script supervisor, her films are: Resonance (2025); When Love Doesn’t Breathe (2024); Adelaide, there’s no second chance for mistakes here (2021) and Disclosing Acuenda (2021). She is the executive producer and actress of the fiction short Entre (2019); screenwriter and photographer of the documentary I also didn’t cum (2024). Graduated in Social Communication, she currently lives in Lisbon, where she is studying for a master's degree in Cinematographic Project Development at Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon.