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Academy Award Submission for Nomination Best Foreign Language Film from Brazil: ‘Little Secret’ Interview with David SchurmannThe touching and engaging “Little Secrets”/ “Pequeno Segredo” opens like a flower. In fact, flowers and butterflies are metaphors for the fleeting but beautiful and bright life of a young girl whose secret, shared with three women becomes a beacon of love for the audience.Based on a true story lived by the director David Schurmann himself, who, for two-and-a-half years lived on a sailboat with parents, his two brothers, and his adoped sister Kat, I was most curious to know more about his life.DS: I grew up on a boat sailing around the world. With the opportunity to see and experience incredible moments, such a life also made me aware of one important fact: how chance encounters can change our lives.My first contact with filmmaking occurred practically by chance, when I...

Written by Kate Lyra, Director, Latc — Latin American Training CenterAmidst the flurry of controversy surrounding its selection, “Little Secret” (“Pequeno Segredo”) screened for the press in Rio de Janeiro.

“Some people are afraid of the ocean,” says Heloisa, (Julia Lemmertz in a perfect pitch performance). “But I feel safer on the water than on dry land.”

Marcos Bernstein’s masterful narrative, directed by David Schurmann, sets the ocean as symbol and metaphor, weaving it through the interlocking stories of three families — and three mothers — forever joined by a secret and a child.

It is the ocean that both separates and connects places as exotic and unlikely as the Amazon and New Zealand, an ocean that protects and sustains us like amniotic fluid.

“Kiwi” (as New Zealanders are endearingly known) Robert Lockett (Errol Shand) has crossed the ocean to find work as a petrochemical engineer in Manaus, capital city of the...

Written by Kate Lyra, Director, Latc — Latin American Training Center

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