É Tudo Verdade / It's All True - 19ª Conferência Internacional do Documentário

The 19th International Documentary Conference discusses the heritage of documental filmmaking, which the Festival brings to the fore in 2022 with a new cycle, It’s All True Classics. The three films chosen for this first edition will nourish the four debates on the conference, which explore the eightieth anniversary of Orson Welles’ time in Brazil shooting It’s All True, an unfinished three-part work on South America; the fortieth anniversary of the making of Eduardo Escorel’s Chico Antônio, o Herói com Caráter, a portrait of the homonymous coco folk-singer originally discovered by Mário de Andrade back in the 1920s; and the reconstruction of the documentary The History of the Civil War (1921), by the Soviet master Dziga Viértov, a work thought lost to posterity.

These hour-long debates will be shown free of charge on the Itaú Cultural and É Tudo Verdade platforms and on the festival’s YouTube channel. Translated into Brazilian sign language.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

11 AM OPENING

AMIR LABAKI (It’s All True)

40 YEARS OF CHICO ANTÔNIO

EDUARDO ESCOREL AND CARLOS AUGUSTO CALIL

On the centenary of the Modern Art Week of 1922, the director of Chico Antônio, o Herói com Caráter recalls his encounter with the man himself, the coco-singer discov- ered by Mário de Andrade back in the 1920s.

EDUARDO ESCOREL is a filmmaker. He is the director of the films SARS- CoV-2, O Tempo da Pandemia (2021), Imagens do Estado Novo 1937-45 (2016), and Paulo Moura – Alma Brasileira (2012), among others, and editor of Terra em Transe (Entranced Earth, 1967), by Glauber Rocha, and Cabra marcado para morrer (Twenty Years Later, 1984), by Eduardo Coutinho.

CARLOS AUGUSTO CALIL is a cultural manager, university lecturer, film director, and writer. He was director of The Brazilian Film Company— Embrafilme (1979-1982) and the Brazilian Cinémathèque (1987-1992), and was Secretary of the São Paulo City Department of Culture. He is the author of essays on cinema, theater, history, and literature.

3 PM INTERVIEW: VIÉRTOV’S CIVIL WAR

NIKOLAI IZVOLOV AND LUIS FELIPE LABAKI

Nikolai Izvolov talks to Luis Felipe Labaki about the re- construction of Dziga Viértov’s (1896-1954) film about the Russian Civil War, which captured a crucial juncture in the 20th century and shows some of the major players, such as Leon Trotsky, in action.

NIKOLAI IZVOLOV is a historian and head of the Russian Cinema Depart- ment at the Cinema Art Institute in Moscow. Using an innovative method that combines research and creation, he has reconstructed classics by Dziga Viértov, Alexander Medvedkin, and Lev Kuleshov. He collaborated with Chris Marker on The Last Bolshevik (1992).

LUIS FELIPE LABAKI is a filmmaker, researcher, and translator. Member of the It’s All True selection committee, he was one of the curators responsible for the retrospective 100: Back to the USSR, at the 22nd edition of the festival. He organized and translated Cine-Olho: Manifestos, Projetos e Outros Escritos, a collection of writings by Dziga Viértov (2022).

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

11AM 80 YEARS OF IT’S ALL TRUE

MYRON MEISEL TALKS TO AMIR LABAKI

The American critic and producer Myron Meisel discusses the documentary It’s All True..., which he co-directed with Bill Krohn in 1993, using footage shot by Orson Welles during his time in Brazil in the 1940s.

MYRON MEISEL Considered the best American cinema critic by Cahiers du Cinema, he has published in Rolling Stone, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, Hollywood Reporter, and Movieline. He is the author of monographs on John Cassavetes and Michael Curtiz. He made his directorial debut on It’s All True..., which he also wrote.

AMIR LABAKI Founder and director of the It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival, he directed the Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo (São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound) and is a former board member of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). His published books include O Cinema dos Anos 80 (1992). He also writes a weekly column, “É Tudo Verdade”, in Valor Econômico newspaper.

3 PM 80 YEARS OF IT’S ALL TRUE: NEW BRAZILIAN APPROACHES

LAURA GODOY AND JOSAFÁ VELOSO

Two young Brazilian researchers who took Orson Welles’ time in Brazil as their subject of study analyze the repercussions of his visit in the light of the eightieth anniversary of the shooting of It’s All True.

JOSAFÁ VELOSO is studying for a PhD in cinema at ECA USP. He holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Studies (UFF-RJ). He studied documentary cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV), in Cuba. He directed the feature-length documentary Banquete Coutinho (2019), about the work of Eduardo Coutinho.

LAURA GODOY is a producer and researcher. Partner in the production company Ventura, she has worked on such films as Vozes de Paracatu e Bento (2018), by Walter Salles. She directed the short film Exsicata and is currently developing a project titled Welles na Terra do Silêncio.