É Tudo Verdade / It's All True

In 2020, It’s All True reaches its 25th edition. Giving continuity to a partnership that has been constructed for over a decade, Itaú Cultural (IC) supports the international documentary festival. However, in a year marked by a pandemic and the resulting need for social distancing and isolation, the event had its face-to-face programming suspended and readapted to the virtual environment.

Between September 23 and October 4, the festival will be held online, in a variety of digital portals and platforms. As in previous years, IC presents some of the main showcases of the programming.

In this edition, at itaucultural.org.br, besides the online exhibition of films, Itaú Cultural is proud to host the International Documentary Conference.

In the last two years the organization began dedicating, at its headquarters, our Tuesday programming to the Seventh Art, in accordance with a monthly theme-oriented curatorship, which also offers courses and debates. Through the Audiovisual and Literature nucleus, IC annually promotes an extensive programming dedicated to the access and diffusion of Brazilian productions.

In 2019, two of the six exhibits of the Occupation program paid homage to relevant exponents of Brazilian culture who had some kind of involvement with cinema: the Eduardo Coutinho Occupation, concerning the life and works of the author of “Cabra Marcado para Morrer” (“Twenty Years Later”) and the Vladimir Herzog Occupation, which depicted Vlado’s interrupted dream of becoming a filmmaker.

Occupation is a program focused on the revival of these central characters of our culture, which has previously plunged into the works of filmmakers Luiz Sergio Person (2016) and Rogério Sganzerla (2010) and actors Laura Cardoso (2017) and Sergio Britto (2013). You can check the essays, interviews and part of the content of the exhibits at itaucultural.org.br/ocupacao. For other references about Brazilian motion picture artists, visit our Itaú Cultural Encyclopedia of Brazilian Art and Culture (enciclopedia.itaucutlural.org.br).

EDUARDO SARON

Itaú Cultural Director