Director Edson Oda joins Eleanor
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Combining magical realism with striking visuals, imaginative visual effects Edson Oda is an exciting and unique talent. His films with their fantastical qualities provoke thought with the genuine human emotion that they’re grounded in.
Driven by her relentless pursuit to champion the creative ideas of unique voices, Lady Eleanor has signed a new director to her roster.
Japanese Brazilian writer-director Edson Oda's debut film, Nine Days, inspired Eleanor Founder and EP, Sophie Gold, to connect with the director on a professional level.
“I watched his film Nine Days and absolutely loved it,” says Gold. “It’s such a well-crafted story that he paced phenomenally, allowing the audience to fully embrace the events on screen without over-explaining them. It really moved me and I’m looking forward to watching it again.”
Variety chief film critic Peter Debruge described Nine Days as a film of “dizzying conceptual ambition,” writing: “At the risk of overselling Oda’s ultra-original, meaning-of-life directorial debut, there’s a big difference between Nine Days and pretty much every other film ever made.”
The first-time filmmaker fits well into the director focused model that Eleanor has crafted. Before winning the Sundance Film Festival Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in January 2020 Oda wrote, directed, and supervised projects for Philips, Telefonica, Movistar, InBev, Whirlpool, Johnson & Johnson, Honda, and Nokia. For Edson, the suicide of his uncle influenced his decision to construct a film that celebrates the small moments in life, as well as mental health and depression. ‘‘It is a dazzling exploration of death; not why people die, but how they live’’ said Oda.
In an interview with Observer, Oda explains his love for playing with mediums, saying, “I feel that we haven’t explored all the resources of cinema somehow. People will fill in the gaps of two images combined. They will complete the meaning of, ‘Okay, one person is there, another person there, you cut over the shoulders, and it makes sense.’ But life is not like that. And I think there’s something about cinema which I love is just exploring stuff in the language that we can figure things out and show in a way that we haven’t seen before.”
Edson Oda’s gift for capturing life in its purest form added to Eleanor’s mastery of bringing ideas to fruition is a powerful combination that both are excited to share with the world.
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