É Tudo Verdade / It's All True

PLOTS OF THE REAL

One of the fundamental aspects of media based on the capture of light — such as photography, cinema, video, and their digital variants — is their link with reality. This characteristic has allowed, from the 19th century until today, these techniques to be used to document the human experience in numerous approaches, ranging from works more related to journalism to productions dedicated to the field of subjectivity.

Due to this factor, such audiovisual creations have the power to reveal social realities that, when narrated from a critical perspective, enable a problematizing view. This allows themes seemingly unrelated to our lives to become relevant, arousing a citizen perspective for artistic enjoyment. Focused on the dissemination of Brazilian documentary filmmaking, It’s All True — International Documentary Film Festival has sought, since 1996, to offer audiences an overview of audiovisual productions in this genre.

Sesc, in its permanent sociocultural and educational action, considers the expansion of points of view capable of attributing meanings to the real as an unavoidable step for the exercise of citizenship. This realization requires perspectives capable of perceiving the links between subjectivities, historical processes, species, biomes, among other elements that make up environments that are richer the more diverse they are.

Danilo Santos de Miranda
Sesc São Paulo Regional Director