2009 CineBH Exhibit October 15th to 20th, 2009
CINEBH DISCUSSES CO-PRODUCTION AND OPENS UP ITS SCREENS TO THE WORLD’S CINEMATOGRAPHY PRODUCTION
STATE CAPITAL EVENT HAS INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMING, SHOWS UNRELEASED TITLES AND DISCUSSES INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION IN MOVIES AND DEBATES WITH FRENCH GUESTS
As a closure to the audiovisual program Cinema with no Frontiers (Cinema Sem Fronteiras 2009) – which also integrates Tiradentes and Ouro Preto Exhibits – CineBH Exhibit comes to its 3rd edition as the great cinematographic meeting of the capital state, sealed as official event of “The Year of France in Brazil” and proposing the focus on international co-production and the dialogue with France in films and debates as the main theme. For that, for the first time, the exhibit internationalizes its programming, bringing unreleased films in Brazil that had great repercussions in festivals like Cannes, Berlim, Venice, Locarno and Toronto to Belo Horizonte, besides Brazilian pre- premieres and seminars with special guests.
The 2009 CineBH Exhibit will show the total of 77 films (24 films, 7 medium-format films and 46 short films), divided into 46 sessions throughout the six days of programming offered to the public for free. There will be, also, four debates with filmmakers, critics, producers and researches where, from the films, will bring to discussion the characteristics and drawbacks of international co-production.
“CineBH Exhibit represents a new dialogue between constitutive strengths of cinematography. The event has the purpose of focusing and understanding the Brazilian audiovisual market context in exchange with the world as it discusses crucial matters that put in the first place the need of the reopening of exhibition spots, even to form new publics as to a feasible alternative for today’s issue that is distribution of the Brazilian cinema inside the country”, analyses Raquel Hallack, Universo Produção director and event coordinator.
The main piece of news at the 2009 CineBh Exhibit is its international programming, dedicated to the discussion of the role of France as the main co- producer of many films in the world. The schedule brings the exhibition of contemporary co-productions made with very diverse countries such as the USA, Philippines, Holland, Germany, Argentina, Spain and Brazil itself.
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Movies like New York, I Love You (film in episodes directed by 11 filmmakers from all over the world and had its premiere at the latest Toronto Festival), O Menino Peixe by the Argentinian filmmaker Lucía Puenzo that had its premiere at the “Panorama” Exhibit, in the latest Berlim Festival) and Independencia (directed by the Philippian Raya Martin and showed at the “Un Certain Regard” Exhibit in the latest Cannes Festival, the movie will have its first public exhibition in Brazil at CineBH).
But the news aren’t only in the international programming. The National Pre-Premieres also hold special surprises for the audience with the first national public exhibition of the very expected Plastic City, a Gullane Films co-production with China, Hong Kong and Japan. The film, directed by Yu Lik-wai (Jia Zhangke photo directing) comes to Belo Horizonte after being exhibited in the Venice and Toronto festivals.
Another very expected film is Os Famosos e os Duendes da Morte, director Esmir Filho first film that just had its world premiere in the latest Locarno Festival. Still part of the national pre-premieres programming are the documentaries Mamonas pra sempre, o Doc, by Cláudio Kahns, Dzi Croquettes, by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez, Dia dos Pais, by Julia Murat and Leo Bittencourt, and Só Dez Pó Cento é Mentira, by Pedro Cezar. For the exhibition closure, the veteran Domingos Oliveira presents his latest film Todo Mundo Tem Problemas Sexuais.
To heat the debates on the international co-production theme, CineBH also shows two emblematic titles in this production scenery in Brazil. The first, still unknown by the Brazilian audience, is Dead in the Water, a North American thriller entirely filmed in Brazil and directed by the Brazilian Gustavo Lipsztein. The other one is the acclaimed classic: Orfeu Negro, Marcel Camus’s masterpiece, filmed in Rio and an adaptation of the play “Orfeu do Carnaval” by Vinícius de Moraes. The film was awarded “Best Foreign Movie” at the Oscar and got a Golden Palm at Cannes Festival.
As the honored of this year’s edition, O2 Filmes will also have a special programming dedicated to its own international co-production attempts, bigger and more complex each day as noticed by the selection of the production company tittles that will be shown during the exhibit: Cidade de Deus, by Fernando Meirelles; Ginga, by Tocha Alves, Hank Levine and Marcelo Machado; O Banheiro do Papa, by César Charlone and Enrique Fernández; and Blindness, by Fernando Meirelles, biggest co-production ever made in Brazil with a US$ 25 million budget, Hollywood actors and filmed in three different countries.
The short film production, either in digital or film, will also have a special presence on the 2009 CineBH program. A total of 46 pieces will be exhibited, grouped in six sessions on the main exhibit, one of them dedicated to the kids and a special session of Cine- Concert. The medium-format film, usually ignored either in the commercial circuit than in movie festivals and exhibits, shows its strength and diversity in eight tittles divided in five sessions.
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The movie schedule also brings two great news. On Saturday, the will be only session of the film-game A Gruta, when the audience will have individual remote controls to interfere in the main characters destiny. There will be more than 30 different interactive moments and 11different possible endings for the story. On Monday, there will be a Cine-Concert, a multi-sensorial show with the presentation of the visual work of the filmmaker and visual artist Cao Guimarães, soundtrack performed live by O Grivo, composed by Nelson Soares and Marcos Moreira. The improvisations will be done with instruments and sound machines made by the own artists using old cans and crystal glasses.
And then, the already traditional Cinema Little Exhibit – session dedicated to children and family – also gets in the “Year of France in Brazil” wave with the French animation O Rei e o Pássaro, by Paul Grimault, dividing the kid’s attention with O Guerreiro Didi e a Ninja Lili and Turma da Mônica em uma Aventura no Tempo and the documentary session Palavra (En)cantada, by Helena Solberg intends to bring the whole family together with a lot of poetry. At the same beat comes the Cine-School session – dedicated to public school students in Belo Horizonte - , with the exhibition of the French film Entre os Muros da Escola, by Laurent Cantet and the Brazilian movies O Grilo Feliz e os Insetos Gigantes e Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões.
SEMINÁR PLACES INTERNATIONAL CO-PORDUCTION ON THE SPOT
The 3rd Brazilian Cinema Seminar: market perspectives and languages, part of the 2009 CineBH Exhibit program, opens space for filmmakers, critics, producers and researchers, French and Brazilian, discuss the characteristics and drawbacks international co-production brings to the Brazilian audiovisual market reality.
At the table Co-Production: Paths and Criteria, Andrea Barata Ribeiro, producer and partner in O2 Filmes, this year’s honored company, discusses the paths of international co-production with Rachel Monteiro (international consultant of Cinema do Brasil program), Heitor Dhalia (filmmaker and partner in the recent created Celluloid Dreams Brasil) and, representing the French experience on the subject, Antoine Segóvia (producer of Independência, part of this year’s edition), Eva Kihn (coordinator of the Cinema en Développement program of the Toulouse Festival) and Georges Goldenstern (director of Cinefondation at Cannes Festival).
Brazil as a setting for foreign productions, subject even more in the agenda, will be theme for the table Destiny: Brazil, with the participation of the producers Fabiano Gullane (from Plastic City and Birdwatchers) and Elisa Tolomelli (from Dead in the Water); Riofilme president, Sergio Sá Leitão; Ancine international affairs consultant,
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Letícia Godinho; Minas Film Commission executive director, Carolina Gontijo; and the recent created Rio Film Commission president, Steve Solot.
In The TV as an Ally, it will be time to discuss how TV can act on the incitement and spreading of film production, strengthening, this way, the whole audiovisual chain, by the more than successful French policy to the sector. As part of this table, there will be Cadu Rodrigues, Globo Filmes director; Gabriel Priolli, TV Cultura Content and Quality Center coordinator; Octavio Penna Pieranti, Audiovisual Secretary TV and Digital Platforms coordinator; Paulo Mendonça, Brazil Channel director; Susy dos Santos, researcher and professor at UFRJ; and Bruno Deloye, French channels Cinécinéma Classic, Club and Famiz (Canal Plus Network) director.
At last, the table The Audiovisual Market and Public Policies for the sector in Brazil and France intends to set out a parallel between government actions that are being drawn in this area in Brazil and France, with special attention on independent production and low budget. For this, the guests for the discussion are Manoel Rangel, Ancine president-director; Silvio Da-Rin, Ministry of Culture Audiovisual Secretary; Brigitte Veyne, Audiovisual Adida of the France Embassy in Brazil; and Joël Augros, professor and researcher at University of Paris 8, in France.
“The benefits of co-production are beyond the immediate financing of productions, which wouldn’t be able to get financial support in a different way. It has the capacity of approximating cultures, not only through the finished piece, but also by sharing experiences and knowledge among professionals from different nationalities involved in its realization. Different visions of the world and of the cinema are confronted, debates about cultures and ways of production are stimulated, new cinemas are instigated”, says Leonardo Mecchi, 2009 CineBH Exhibit collaborator.
*** CineBH Exhibit integrates the Cinema with no Frontiers programm executed by Universo Produção in Minas Gerais state (also responsible for the Tiradentes Exhibit, in January, and CINEOP – Ouro Preto Exhibit, in June) and reaches its 3rd editions from the 15th to the 20th of October, 2009 with the challenge of exposing the characteristics of film production in the audiovisual market in exchange with the world and with the presence of FRANCE. The event will take place at the Cinema Village, that’s being put up once more in Santa Tereza, a traditional neighborhood in the state capital. As part of the Village is Cine- Square (that holds over 1.000 expectants), Cine-Tent (with room for 400 people), and the traditional Santa Tereza Cine (with a 500 people capacity), expressive architectonic and urbanistic building in the cultural and cinema history on Belo Horizonte, funded in 1944 and shut down since 1980, coming up one more time as the heart of CineBH. More Info: (31) 3282.2366 – Universo Produção Oficial website: www.cinebh.com.br
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3rd CineBH – Belo Horizonte Cinema Exhibit October 15th to 20th, 2009
Sponsorships: Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte/Belotur, Petrobras, Contax] Incentive Laws: Municipal and Federal Cultural Incentive Laws Supporters: França.br 2009, Culturesfrance, Embaixada da França no Brasil, Ministério da Cultura/Secretaria do Audiovisual, Ambev, Café Fino Grão Idealization and execution: Universo Produção
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