Walls of life

This is a movie about limitless human willpower. The documentary will make a cinematographic portrait of the artist Marcos Santos, who was born with cerebral palsy. He has his speech partially impaired, and without the movements of the arms and hands, he paints with his left foot and teaches children in a peripheral and stigmatized neighborhood of a typical brazilian city, São José dos Campos, to create art and bring it to the city walls. Endowed with great talent for art, intellect and spiritual greatness, which go beyond limits, Marcos brings a strong message about life and love, which goes beyond the limits of what is possible and performs miracles.
Marcos' personality, of course, has a symbolic value beyond the theme of a documentary film. It surpasses the barrier of the common man. Through it we can show that the world of the physically handicapped holds surprises far beyond the normal. It seems like an exceptional story: a large family, living in a suburban neighborhood, a poor black man and a birthmark, but as Marcos himself says: “the obstacles are there to be overcome”. Since the moment he found a piece of coal in the street and with it he began to pull his left foot, intuitively, some lines began to take shape and turn into a drawing, a figure appears with a crown on his head.
Marcos is an academic artist, living from his craft and paintings. Today, he has a happy family, he's a father and he owns his own house. His energy is extremely important as an example for young people, and it is with this uniqueness that he attracts them and easily transmits his knowledge and as he says, he is a person: “who gives back what he received, to his neighbors, to the children on his street, to the neighborhood, a way to transform their personal projects into collective action.''

"Walls of life" is a short version of the feature length documentary about Marcos Santos. The feature film “Marcos – The Willpower” is in its final stage of production, and it’s expected to premiere in 2023.
Run time: 15
Director: Zoran Djordjevic
Producer: Zoran Djordjevic & Diogo Gomes dos Santos

Title: english,spanish, german, serbian, french;
H.264 mp4 and DCP
image: (16x9 - 1920:1080)
sound: stereo 5.1 AAC 48000mHz
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Festivals:

7º Festival Curtas Campos do Jordão 2021 Brazil
1º Festival de Cinema Nacional de Chapecó 2021 Brazil
1º FIC Festival Infantil de Cinema Alfenas 2021 Brazil
1º Curta Parelhas Brazil
KG Film Festival 2021 Serbia
Urban Visions_Beyond the Ideal City Film Festival Bologa 2021 Italy
3º Cine Urutu 2021 Brazil
Mostra [em] Curtas 2021 Brazil
Paradox International Short Film Festival Pune 2021 India
Disability Film Festival London 2021 United Kingdom
WE CARE Film Festival New Delhi 2021 India
Anarhy Film Festival Manchester 2021 United Kingdom
Festival de Cinema de Alter do Chão 2021 Brazil
Mostra Eu Mais Velha São José dos Campos 2021 Brazil
Bradoc Festival São Paulo 2021 Brazil
Anatolian Film Awards Turkey
Best Shorts Competetion USA
Kalamata Monthly International Short Documentary Festival Greece
Parvaz International Film Festival ND 30/11 Iran
Tokyo Film Awars Japan
Rome Outcast Independent Film Award Italy
CINEFORTE Mostra Audiovisual de Cabedelo BRASIL

Awards:

*The Best film of Regional - 7º Festival Curtas Campos do Jordão 2021 Brazil
*Jury Awards - 1º Curta Parelhas Brazil
*Special Mention of Jury - Urban Visions_Beyond the Ideal City Film Festival Bologa 2021 Italy
Bradoc Festival ND Brazil
* award of best diretor
*award of best editing
Anatolian Film Awards Turkey
*The Best Film On Diability Issue Short Film November 2021

Best Shorts Competetion USA
* Award of Merit
Tokyo Film Awars Japan
*Golden Winner
Rome Outcast Independent Film Award
*The Best Documentary