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ARACATI
WORLD PREMIERE - IDFA 2015
Competition for Mid-Length Documentary
The film won a prize at BAL – Buenos Aires Lab for WIP | BAFICI 2015.
Brazil | Documentary | 2015 | 62’ | HD | Color | 5.1 and Stereo | 16:9
Original language: Portuguese
Subtitles language: English
SYNOPSYS
Jaguaribe Valley, Northeast Brazil. Departing from the seacoast, we follow the
path of the Aracati wind, sweeping into the heartland. Along the course, we
observe the relationship between man and landscape, spatial transformations
and the limits separating nature from artifice.
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
From six years now, we have travelled several times through the Jaguaribe Valley.
If at first we would like to make a film about the wind, after these experiences we
started to perceive that the landscapes were changing very fast, as much as the
ways of life and people’s sense of temporality. Then, we discovered that the wind
was much a driving force that would blow this journey through the region, as a
wind movie.
The documentary then carries the spectator through a regional journey,
introducing us to its characters, as it evokes a flow of sensations and small
perceptions. It's about mankind, nature and technology competing for the same
space, where different forces must coexist. Each character brings a different
perspective of changing spaces and leads the viewer by these landscapes
portraits.
The project comes out of a desire to know places and ways of life where the
prosaic and intense converge as man meets wind. During those years of research,
we have shot two short films, Aracati Wind (2014) and Study for the Wind (2011). In
2016, we have already scheduled a travelling showcase of the three films, to be
seen in all small cities where we shot.
ARACATI
CAST AND CREW
Directed and Written by
Aline Portugal
Julia De Simone
Sound Designer
Pedro Aspahan
Hugo Silveira
Produced by
Caroline Louise
Pedro Diógenes
Julia De Simone
Aline Portugal
Color Correction
Damián Benetucci
Cinematography
Victor de Melo
Graphic Design
Taís Augusto Lima
Editing
Clarissa Campolina
Luiz Pretti
With
João José Gonzaga da Silva
José Célio de Assis
Ideusuite Bezerra
Leonardo de Sá Dutra
Cavaleiro
Francisco Isac da Silva
Alvanir de Almeida
Euzébio Zloccowick
Research
Victor Furtado
Sound Recorder
Marco Rudolf
Post-Production Coordinator
Frederico Benevides
ARACATI
THE DIRECTORS
ALINE PORTUGAL is director, scriptwriter and partner at Mirada Filmes. She directed,
scripted and produced the short films Phryne (Critics Award – 16o Festival Luso
Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira, 16 o Tiradentes Film Festival, Rio Intl Film Festival
2013), Study for the wind (São Paulo Intl Film Festival, Montevideo Intl Film
Festival), Symphony (Rio de Janeiro Int Short Film Festival, Al Jazeera Inter
Documentary Film Festival). Aracati, her first feature film, was awarded in BAL, Lab
of Work in Progress (BAFICI 2015). She is now writing the scripts of the features
Coiote, by Sergio Borges (selected by many labs as Br Lab and Tres Puertos); and
Royal Court, by Julia De Simone (treatment selected by Hubert Bals Fund, from Int.
Film Festival Rotterdam). She is coordinator of the Screenwriting Course from
International Film Academy, and is finishing her master in Cinema and Audiovisual
Studies in Federal Fluminense University.
JULIA DE SIMONE is a filmmaker and partner of Mirada Filmes. She has a Master’s degree
in "Creative Documentary" from Observatório de Cine in Barcelona, and directed her first
documentary feature Bildungsroman, theatrical premiered in Brazil, 2012. Directed, wrote
and produced the short-films The Harbor (Tiger Rotterdam, Ficunam, Media City), Study
for the wind (Santa Maria Film Festival, São Paulo Int Film Festival), Symphony (Rio de
Janeiro Int Short Film Festival, Al Jazeera Inter Documentary Film Festival) and
Enchantment (Documenta Madrid). In 2010, directed the series Why are we like this? for
the Brazilian TV. Aracati, her second feature documentary, was awarded in BAL, Buenos
Aires Lab for WIP, in BAFICI 2015, and will have its world premiere at IDFA’s Competition
2015. At the moment, she is developing her first fiction feature Royal Court, supported
by Hubert Bals Fund for script and project development.
PRODUCTION COMPANY
MIRADA FILMES | www.miradafilmes.com.br
Julia De Simone
[email protected]
Aline Portugal
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COPRODUCTION COMPANY
ALUMBRAMENTO | www.alumbramento.com.br
Caroline Louise
[email protected]
Pedro Diógenes
[email protected]
WORLD SALES
FAKTURA FILM | www.fakturafilm.de
Zillestrasse 65, 10585 Berlin
Phone: +49 176 70 55 28 80
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