A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
Unfortunately the movie El Father Plays Himself is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Production | Rodrigo Michelangeli | Producer |
| Production | Manon Ardisson | Producer |
| Directing | Mo Scarpelli | Director |
| Editing | Juan Soto Taborda | Editor |
| Sound | Roberta Ainstein | Sound Designer |
| Crew | Mo Scarpelli | Cinematography |
| Sound | Lucas Meyer | Dialogue Editor |
| Editing | Joel Sahuleka | Colorist |
