Past, present, and future, of cinema and the world it mirrors, are inventoried by this 21st edition of the International Documentary Conference, held in partnership between It‘s All True and Cinemateca Brasileira. The centenary of filmmaker and photographer Thomaz Farkas (1924-2011) and the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, which redemocratized Portugal, are celebrated. The pioneering contribution to the audiovisual record of deep Brazil through the filming of French anthropologists Dina and Claude Lévi-Strauss in the 1930s is rediscovered, and the state of cinema and documentaries is investigated based on the work and perspective of British director and critic Mark Cousins, on his first visit to the country.
April 9th
10H00 - Masterclass Mark Cousins
Moderation: Amir Labaki
An inveterate cinephile, the honoree of the 29th edition of It‘s All True is the author of a vast and recognized catalog of films about cinema. The conversation with the festival‘s founder and director, Amir Labaki, will explore Cousins‘ omnivorous interest in the history of world cinema.
Mark Cousins
Critic and filmmaker, Mark Cousins received the unprecedented award for Innovative Storytelling from the European Film Academy in 2021. It‘s All True 2024 celebrates his work as a documentary filmmaker with a retrospective, showing films such as A Story of Children and Film and The Eyes of Orson Welles.
Amir Labaki
Amir Labaki is the founding director of It‘s All True. Author of 12 books on cinema and history, he twice directed the São Paulo Museum of Im-
age and Sound (1993-1995, 2003-2005). He was a member of the IDFA board and the Superior Cinema Council. He directed the series Cineastas do Real (Canal Brasil).
14H30 - O Brasil in the Cinema of Claude and Dina Lévi-Strauss
Carlos Augusto Calil in debate with Luísa Valentini
This conversation between a film scholar and an anthropologist will address the different aspects of the short films shot by Lévi-Strauss in their forays through Mato Grosso and Rondônia to study the culture of the Guaicuru and Bororo peoples, during the period in which they lived in Brazil, in the second
half of the 1930s.
Carlos Augusto Calil
Is a professor at ECA USP. Filmmaker, essayist, editor of over thirty books on cinema, photography, theater, history, and literature. He directed institutions such as Embrafilme, Cinemateca Brasileira, and Centro Cultural São Paulo. He was Municipal Secretary of Culture of São Paulo.
Luísa Valentini
Is an anthropologist and researcher at the Center for Amerindian Studies at the University of São Paulo. She is dedicated to memory collections of interest to Indigenous peoples and traditional communities. She is the author of the book Um laboratório de antropologia: o encontro entre Mário de Andrade, Dina Dreyfus e Claude Lévi-Strauss.
April 10th
10H00 - 50 years of the Carnation Revolution
Sérgio Tréfaut and Anna Glogowski
The revolution that put an end to forty years of dictatorship in Portugal based on two polyphonic films: one was shot collectively, by ten film crews, and the
other brings together archive images from different sources.
Sérgio Tréfaut
Worked as an assistant director for several Portuguese filmmakers. He made his debut as a director with the short film Alcibíades (1991). He directed feature films such as Fleurette (2002), Lisboners (2004), Viagem a Portugal (2011), Treblinka (2016), and Rage (2018).
Anna Glogowski
Worked for almost twenty years at Canal+ France, where she was executive director and director of the documentary department, and also at France 3, as commission editor. She was a programmer at festivals such as Paris Cinema and directed Doclisboa in 2011.
14H30 - Thomaz Farkas, 100
Filmmakers Walter Lima Jr. and Jorge Bodanzky join Eduardo Escorel, and moderator Maria Dora Mourão, to pay homage to the unique vision of Hungarian photographer Thomaz Farkas, known for his contribution to Brazilian photography and cinema.
Maria Dora Mourão
Is the General Director of the Cinemateca Brasileira and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Cinema, Radio, and TV at USP‘s School of Communications and Arts.
Walter Lima Jr.
Directed Brazil Year 2000 (1968), The Lyre of Delight (1978), The Oyster and the Wind (1997), and Out of Tune (2008). He also directed several documentaries for television. Teaches at PUC-Rio.
Jorge Bodanzky
Is a photographer and filmmaker. His main works include Iracema, Uma Transa Amazônica (1974). His new film, The Colors and Lovers of Lore, will premiere at this edition.
Eduardo Escorel
Escorel is a filmmaker, editor, and essayist. Has made Visão de Juazeiro (1970) for the series A Condição Brasileira, produced by Farkas. His new film, Antonio Candido, Final Notes, will have it‘s premieres in this edition
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Rubens Fernandes Junior
Is a journalist, curator, and photography critic, with a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP, professor and director of Communication at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado.
Service:
21st International Documentary Conference
April 9th e 10th, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Cinemateca Brasileira - Largo Senador Raul Cardoso, 207
CLOSE TO THE SUBWAY STATION HOSPITAL SÃO PAULO – THERE IS NO PARKING LOT
Phone: (11) 5906-8100
FREE ENTRY - LIMITED ADMISSION
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