In a brief explanation, a webdoc is an interactive documentary that can make use of diverse media to build a narrative, allowing the viewer the control the navigation and participation. This type of format has increasingly been used to construct documental audiovisual narratives, which could hardly be expressed through traditional film formats. In The Stronger Family Project, we will use texts, audios, videos, photos, illustrations and animations to assemble this universe of people who are part of the collective. It is possible to get to know each family member through their profiles in a closed social network, by the blog organized by the Strongers themselves, and by photo or video portraits made through the lenses of the directors Paulo Mendel and Vitor Grunvald. Throughout the productio...
A Stronger Family is a new project by BlankTape, an art and film production company specialized in new media. In 2016, the idea of a documentary film accompanying the tenth year of this LGBT family, emerged from a conversation between the directors Paulo Mendel and Vitor Grunvald, with the former political representative of the collective, Elvis Justino Stronger. Since then, the filmmakers have been working with members of the family to collect material for the feature film, and also for the webdoc version of the project. The objective is to follow the events and daily life of these LGBT people from the outskirts of São Paulo for a long period of time. This is a committed process and a careful research led by a filmmaker and a visual anthropologist, with many creative and technical steps t...