Radiant Star is in several festivals in Brazil and worldwide But the toughest experience from her still early career was her latest short, “Estrela Radiante” (“Radiant Star”),which served as her course conclusion project for the academy. She recalls it started with a team of about thirty people who, one by one, abandoned her. “I was working with art film students, so it´s people who know very little but at the same time can be pretty demanding”. The issue of professionalism was plenty used to bring
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her down. “They sent e-mails tearing me apart, like I was a monster, a freak, so a lot of people saw that and called quits”. Ironically, she says, the same people who demanded so much professionalism from her dropped out of the short. “I lost the cameraman, the photography department, production, about a week and a half from starting I had nothing, but I decided to show that it was possible, real Papillon, ‘I´m still here, you bastards’” She ended up calling people who were not film professionals and ended up getting the job done. “People became producers, got artists to make props, cuz no one told them it was impossible. You tell stuff to a film student, to them all´s impossible, can´t be done”. Among those who helped her make the project, she hi-
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