Mo Scarpelli, a director and cinematographer with a knack for hybrid cinema, likes to turn her camera on people wielding cameras.
In the 2015 documentary Frame by Frame, she and her co-director followed a handful of photojournalists in Afghanistan. For her second solo outing, El Father Plays Himself, Scarpelli takes a deep dive into meta territory, recounting the making of an emotionally charged feature that was shot in the Amazon jungle and cast with nonactors.
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