29th BR Film Festival promotes workshops and debates and approaches public of the cinema professionals
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29th MOSTRA anounces the meetings at the lounge. Photo: Abbas Kiarostami in 2004. |
São Paulo International Film Festival will promote and support, in this edition, workshops with national and international filmmakers and producers.
The enterprise is a way of approaching the public interested in the cinematographic technique and production of talented cinema's professionals.
To minister direction and production workshops, that will take place at FAAP, institution that supports the event, the 29th International Film Festival brings to São Paulo the celebrated filmmaker Danis Tanovic and the awarded producer Cedomir Kolar, director and producer of L'Enfer, which will be exhibited in this edition.
The Bosnian Danis Tanovic became worldwide famous in 2001, when his first film, No Man's Land was awarded in the main international film festivals . No Man's Land won the prizes of Best Screenplay, in Cannes , the Golden Globe and the Academy Award of Best Foreigner Film, among others. The film was exhibited at the 25th São Paulo International Film Festival and won the Public Prize.
Cedomir Kolar produces feature films and television series for more than 20 years. He has produced films as Arizona Dreams , by Emir Kusturica, Before the Rain (18th Film Festival), by Milcho Manchevski, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. He also produced Train of Life, by Radu Mihaileanu, winner of the Public Prize at the 22nd São Paulo International Film Festival, besides No Man's Land , 11'09''01 - September 11 e L'Enfer, in which he worked with Danis Tanovic.
The workshops will happen on Sunday, October 30th, at FAAP, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, and 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, five hours long each workshop.
Danis Tanovic will minister the workshop of direction, which will deal with themes like, schools of cinema and dramaturgy, set management, crew and actors. Cedomir Kolar will talk about cinematographic production, and subjects such as financing, distribution, networking and the production itself.
To register, the candidate has to send his curriculum to oficina@mostra.org, until October 22nd, saying which workshop he intends to participate. Twenty candidates will be selected for each workshop. The selected candidates will have to pay R$ 50,00 to participate.
The Motion Picture Association will accomplish the seminary “The Life of A Film in Two Days”, which will be supported by the São Paulo International Film Festival. Open to the public, specially to the partakers of the 29th BR Film Festival – Sao Paulo International Film Festival, the seminary will be ministered by the best professionals and authorities of the audiovisual industry in Brazil , like Hector Babenco, Patrícia Carvalho, and others.
Aiming to offer a panorama of the different stages of the long-length cinematographic production, from the screenplay elaboration to the film distribution. The seminary will take place at MIS – Sound and Image Museum, granted by the Culture Department of São Paulo State, on the 26th and 27th of October. For registering and further information, get in the site http://www.mpa-latinamerica.org.br or contact Jennifer Denhard, by email jennifer@mpaal.org.br .
Teleimage, the entertainment branch of Casablanca Group, is organizing a seminar cycle called “The New Tools of Cinema”. On Friday October 28th, from 2 to 6 p.m., the scheduled debates are “Sound – The New Sound Aestetics of Brazilian Cinema”, with professionals Luiz Adelmo and Beto Ferraz, and “Making the sound of a short”, including a practic lesson on sound edition of a film using the Pro Tools technology. On Saturday October 29th , also from 2 to 6 p.m., the scheduled debates are “Image – Special Effects for the movies”, with Marcelo Siqueira and Eduardo Salles, and “The Future of Color Correction”, with Teleimage professionals Sergio Pasqualino, Ely Silva and Gigio Pelosi. On Sunday October 30th, on CineSesc, at 7 p.m., there will be an exhibiton of the film Rosário Tijeras, by director Emilio Mailé, followed by the debate “Image Technologies: the time for digital intermediation in Brasil and the future of post-production in data2K”, with the participation of Marcelo Siqueira, José Augusto De Blasiis and the movie’s director.
