El Father Plays Himself is a 2020 internationally co-produced documentary film directed by Mo Scarpelli,[1] an Italian-American filmmaker.

Jorge Thielen Armand[4] is a young filmmaker who left Venezuela, his home country, when he was 15 years old.

Years later, as an adult in 2019, he decided to go back, specifically to the Amazon jungle, with the only goal of telling the story of his father in a deeply personal film.

The theme of El Father Plays Himself shows an act of love and ambition that transforms into a difficult process during the filming, which forces both father and son to face their past and make peace with it.

[5] Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that El Father Plays Himself was "a tantalizing house of mirrors"[6] and Emiliano Granada of Variety expressed that he found it "a deeply human portrayal".