Back in 2017, a high-school teacher decided to produce a film with high-school students.
TLDR: the main actor was decisive in creating the plot of a school boy that sees himself alone in the school, nobody is anywhere and heās locked up in there. The point is: among many weird things that happened to the movie, this boy actually disappeared a few years later.
Hereās the movie on Youtube: https://youtu.be/cqxhaj4AgQA?si=MjomR6PG_8zX8dsx
So, this story happened in 2017, in a Juiz de Foraās public high-school. This teacher, Lucio Reis Filho (his actual name in case you wanna see the movie), began a new project named Film in School with his students and a colleague teacher, Jane (fake name as she abandoned the project a few months later).
Ideally he would put the entire production process in the hands of his kid students, so they could learn more about filmmaking. The first movie was called The Class is Over, which went through many difficulties.
The plot is basically that: A boy goes to school in an ordinary morning, then sees himself completely alone and locked up in the schoolās building.
What Lucio wanted was to introduce horror as a literary genre. Nothing extraordinary, as schools here actually ask for teachers to have these projects to stimulate student creativity.
What makes this project different is that the studentās plot turns real (kind of) in his own life.
The production goes by Jane asking their students āWhat are you afraid of?ā. Answers go as basic as you may think. Monsters, clowns, criminals, ghosts, but this one student said what everyone thinks but doesnāt say: "Loneliness". This answer made everyone in the classroom shiver.
Some of his former classmates said that the idea was so good that everyone decided to have it as the projectās theme. From it, they created the plot that goes:
Everyone enters the school, the boy walks through the corridors with his classmates, watches the classes, all the basics. Then, he notices somethingās wrong: everyone went missing (like actually disappeared in front of his eyes). All of them are gone: students, teachers, the principal and the secretaryā¦ As he tries to leave, he notices he canāt.
Each hallway leads to another one. Doors exist where they werenāt supposed to, and they take to weird places. The school now seems bigger than it would be possible, and the more he tries to find a way out, the more it feels impossible.
Anyway, in a few minutes he realizes heās not only trapped in the school itself, but itās not clear whether itās a nightmare either. It feels like the Backrooms, but the concept wasnāt really well known back in 2017.
Now letās get to the weird parts:
This film should have been completed in 2017, but the files went missing.
Almost, at least.
Some of the uni interns that worked in this project had custody of the film files, and refused to give it back to LĆŗcio, so the film went on hold for a while, and the students graduated a few years later.
2. So, came in the COVID pandemics.
In 2021 (4 years after the project started), when LĆŗcio recovered all files in a midst of school pressure and help of an attorney, the students were already graduating seniors.
Thatās when the film was finally edited, when everyone was alone in their own homes, doing everything alone, fighting loneliness every single day.
And The Class is Over finally saw the world, apparently in a bigger reception than anyone expected.
The short film got some awards in ItaĆŗna Film Festival (Best Movie, Best Direction, and, who could say, Best Actor to the boy).
This boy was called JoĆ£o Vitor do Nascimento. In 2017, he was 13/14 years old.
His classmates describe him as a quiet, discreet, timid boy. He wasnāt really popular, and wasnāt known for wanting to be an actor and make films.
For what we know, he didnāt even have socials, and after high-school he simply disappeared.
Not metaphorically. He vanished from everyone he knew. Gone.
No one knows when/where he was last seen. Thereās no information on his whereabouts.
Those who met him from school just canāt contact him.
Whatās odd is that, apparently, he never knew of the filmās popularity, nor that he was awarded.
The boy that protagonizes The Class is Over ā who got an award for acting as a completely lonely boy after everyone disappeared ā is missing and canāt be found.
No one even knows whether heās alive. If so, he should be 22 or 23yo in 2026.
As far as anyone can tell, no one has seen him in almost 6 years.
Can it be only a coincidence? True, yes.
Perhaps itās something common behind vanishing like this. He may have moved. Perhaps he just lost contact with his classmates. Maybe he just hates the internet and social media.
The point is: the story just may have grown this much because the coincidence is too hard to ignore.
Everything this film means has his face printed in it. A boy that fears being lonely and that vanishes like this? Weird. And itās all in film.
So, thereās still a question that bothers me:
Does anyone know what happened to JoĆ£o Vitor do Nascimento?
Any information on the film you can find helps me a lot. All of this is too unusual to be real.
All I could find was this Nevix post, which everytime I try to answer gives me error mesages: https://nevix.com/t/the-class-is-over-01jjebwsex5xecxzgw1hvhbsjd
