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1985. Mary was alone. She is raped at home the last redoubt of her loneliness. Her sanctuary is now her ordeal. A runaway car while crossing the street can be the solution ... This is premise of a short film , whose screenplay was written by Jaime Monsanto in partnership with Nuno Campos Monteiro, who is in full crowdfundig until the month of June with the aim of raise funds to finance the remaining production and editing of this project which addresses the issue of abortion .

What can you tell about this movie ?
Jaime Monsanto : We tried to address an issue in a more universal way. And in the limit there is always a person with a decision, only she lives with this resolution whether we like it or not and its consequences.

But why just this issue of abortion ?
JM : For various reasons, one is the referendum, and this new law seems to me however that the issue fell into oblivion . The truth is that this legal framework does not solve anything, it raises a new requirement in terms of responsibility and civility, the law gives me somehow the right to choose, which is demanding in itself in terms of awareness, a person has to decide and the why it decides, ie , it is a decision about life. The person requires attention, openness, support and training, requires a whole set, the law itself is a very little, is also needed an education, a path that leads a person to make that decision. That was one of my concerns not to have a slope on one direction or another, want to go towards the importance, the relief and difficulty that a woman has to go thru when making a decision like that.

Yes, but it was your personal choice does not meet the fact that the law somehow ignore the opinion of men in this area ? Potential parents, because deep down it is always women who decide?
JM : You know, maybe I am a freak of a man, I claim a role, participation in such a decision, yes. Truth be told , if I had a partner, girlfriend, or wife and we had to take such a decision and she wants an abortion, I can demand for my convictions, not to. Now, if she has to get pregnant, endure pregnancy for nine months, must have the child, take the role of being a mother and she has to decide it all over her body and the opposite also occurs. I say: I do not want you to do it and she has to decide for my external imposition and look at her body this particular way, with all that entails in physical and emotional terms.

You transported all these issues for the female character? Do not think that is a contradiction, given that you are a man and for obvious reasons you cannot put yourself in the place of a woman .
JM : That's right and we're both writers, but this is the essence of this law, is a demand, it is not a certainty that is a woman's question. As an individual participant in this decision, which was posted to the society, I have to participate in the search and I'm personally in a search , I'm not in certainty, absolutely no .

Looking for financial backups you created a trailer that looks more like a short documentary ...
JM : It's a trailer for a documentary .

Yes, but where various personalities lecture on the subject, are different points of view socially, ethically and legally, but why you decided to create this trailer in this way to attract funding for the project ?
JM : Because this decision was taken by the court of appeal and raises the question where I wanted. Look, I wanted to focus on another aspect, the resolution of a placed individual in a society, to what extent we all decide this ? The reason she uses been taken by an accident, she surrenders, let fate decides what somehow makes her not to be guilty in the eyes of society, since, she is been involved in an accident, but the format that we created for the film, the end reveals that after the accident solve nothing of the problem, the fact that lack of responsibility does not remove her the burden of this decision , she is aware of it, does not transpires outside, but she has this individual story, which is hers. Therefore, time is placed in 1985, okay, many years later, we arrived at a decision to have this law, but we must always ask ourselves to what extent we are sufficiently evolved as a society we are able to take it. I think quite honestly that this legal framework is necessary that the right choice is appropriate, now, I do not accept certainties about it , so I put Mark that has a very powerful discourse. Despite the decision includes throughout society, there is always the individuality of things , there is always a woman. If I accompany a woman in a miscarriage , there is a moment when she is alone and as much as I want to be with her , there is a moment that is hers alone, there is always the individual in all of this and at the limit is the woman, come what may in a sense or another, her requirement on it is relatively higher . The element of the society stems from the framework in the 80s, because the health system is already set as we know it today, the new money coming from Europe , there was a new policy on motorways to approximate populations, in that sense we regressed, right now it isolates, we opened health centers and universities which are currently closed for lack of population , so when we discuss the numbers on education and health we are going bad to worst in the future.

When you started the campaign crowdfounding ?
JM : We begin the middle of last year to start filming earlier this year .

So have started shooting the movie ?
JM : We 've recorded and we begin a second phase , two or three days of filming to correct a few things in Sermancelhe and Viana do Castelo, and other things went wrong that need to be rewritten. We continued with the campaign because now we will be editing, production is costly , then we need funding for festivals.

Then you achieved a high financial support through such campaigns ?
JM : Yes , but it was not enough for this second part of filming there was a profound financial work of Laura Milheiro with foundations and private companies, it was crucial .

What was the hardest part of filming ? What was hardest for you ?
JM : The most difficult time for everyone, especially for Laura Milheiro, producer and Sara Macedo, the assistant director, was to shoot the scenes that we recorded in two very distant locations in a very short time, two weeks it was Sermancelhe and the Agra's mountain. In terms of discipline was a very demanding schedules, of course we had a great master of photography , with several years of experience and work , which is the Franscisco Vidinha, which greatly facilitated our work because he has a lots of responsiveness in terms of organization and preparation of filming, been on time the film according to the sun and the time to we get the results we wanted . Even so we had to abandon some of the scenes, it was very painful, but we wanted to work with natural light and had a moment we had to relinquished some passages , which was very painful , because it's something we have not seen it, made sense as a whole, on paper did.

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