É Tudo Verdade / It's All True

SESC SÃO PAULO

As the title suggest, documentary cinema touches upon the idea of recording reality, as though it were simply reporting what happens. But a claim of this kind requires a complement, since, by creating meaning through the combination of sounds and images, any audiovisual work produces its own reality.

It would be more precise to say that the documentary lends itself to the creation of a narration on the recorded material using a specific point of view and, as such, expresses a perspective learned from a gaze. While fictional cinema presents a situation –be it credible or not– and scrutinizes it in detail to create its narrative journey, non-fiction focuses in on a specific context, and imparts process and consequence to what it obtains.

This capacity to recognize that there are many possible ways of perceiving reality is a constant exercise for coexistence and needs to be appreciated. The 24th It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival, the most important event of its kind in Latin America, provides an enormous opportunity in this sense. In addition to the screening of films, the free program includes workshops, meetings and debates, primarily in the city of São Paulo, but with a traveling program that will visit the Sesc cultural centers in Araraquara, Jundiaí, Sorocaba, Santos and São José dos Campos.

For Sesc, this is a means of encouraging the production, creation, dissemination and enjoyment of audiovisual content that offer narratives in dialog with reality, whether they represent it or reflect upon its nuances.