ABOUT THE FILM

SHORT FILM | DRAMA | 11 MIN

EXTINCTIONS

Director: Monica De Almeida
Writer: Monica De Almeida
Producers: Monica De Almeida
Language: French
Country: Switzerland

STARRING

Marie Fontannaz

as Hélène

David Leon Salazar

as Matthieu

Arnaud Huguenin

as Jérémie

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about the filmmaker

DIRECTOR & PRODUCERS

Monica De Almeida

Monica De Almeida is a film director, producer and screenwriter. Swiss with Portuguese origins, she started her career as a production manager, while collaborating with directors and producers on several productions, in Switzerland. A few years later, her deep passion for the creation of audiovisual contents motivated her to start her own production company “Seven Prod”. She also very naturally got carried into the love of writing and directing. In 2016 and 2018, she wrote and directed two comedic series for television and the web, “Happy coli bat” and “Ladies Happy hour”. These successes were followed, in2019, by “Extinctions”, first short film written and directed by Monica De Almeida and noticeably well received by numerous international festivals jury and awarded many times. The same year, she directed the psychological thriller “Look what you have done!”, once again selected for the competition of a long list of international festivals and awarded multiple times. Monica De Almeida is currently already working on the pre-production of her next short film, as well as writing the final draft of her first feature film.