Visit to INPA, where Elisabeth-the-Sloth got a new name, IAGO given by its godfathers from the film industry: Bruno Garcia and actress Christiane Torloni. The festival organized a press visit of the (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia or INPA).
The festival organizes a large array of festivities for festival guests, filmmakers, journalists and local industry professional. An aramda of state stafeers, employed by the state make this smooth, enjoyable, air contionned with drinks everywhere we land...
So far we were treated with a night visit of the old city in an open air bus (drinks & canape...)
Dark (black on black) crossing of the Rio Negro by night on the longest bridge in the word over a river.
Visit of a biologocal institute...
November 6th a very relaxed and charismatic State Secretary of Culture talked to the press over coffee and champagne by the pool of the Caesar Business Hotel, the best in town of Manaus.
PHD Harvard MBA lawyer graduate described himself as apolitical, but passionate and fierce as a lion about Culture and the accomplishments he made towards handing cultue to the people.
He described how his actions had been judges and which effect they had on the political level and for th epeople of Amazonas...
Great short film with two stories interlacing two boys for one girl, and a lost in the rain forrest ending opened the shorts competing this week in Manaus at the 9th edition of Amazonas Film Fest.
video by Leopoldo Soto...
The festival organized a press visit of the (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia or INPA).
The INPA institute is a public educational and research institution in Manaus, Brazil. It was founded in 1952, with the purpose of providing a more extensive knowledge about the Brazilian Amazon Region. Most part of the research focus on the main topics of ecology, molecula...
Six films start this Monday (5) the dispute for the awards of the Amazonas Short Film Competitive Exhibition - Documentary, in the 9th Amazonas Film Festival (AFF).
The presentations - four works produced in Manaus and two in Parintins - take place from 04:30 pm on, in the Amazonas Opera House, and it is free of charge. And they are the evidence of the positive balance of the cultural policy developed by the Government of Amazonas state by means of the training actions of the Lyceum and ...
We chatted With the state secretary of culture, Robeiro Bragas about the successful screening of theopening film (Buddies, 3 kids with down syndrome, who escape their institution for a wild ride (with guns love and laughters)
Sharing a drink at the lavish diner cocktail opening ceremony, held outside the Theatre.
Robeiro remembered founding this festival 9 years ago with Lionel Chouchan (PublicSystem) the man who managed 150 festivals (so far, counting each edition of Deauville, Avori...
We will be reporting from Manaus, visiting Amazonas Film festival Those of you who are curious about it should read this.
http://www.amazonasfilmfestival.com.br/ Manaus, Brasil.
City or jungle?
Please keep in mind that although planted in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Manaus is actually the second largest metropolitan area in Northern Brazil with more than 2 million inhabitants.
Is Manaus on the Amazon River?
Manaus is situated on the Rio Negro (means "Black River")...
We will be reporting from Manaus, visiting Amazonas Film festival Those of you who are curious about it should read this.
http://www.amazonasfilmfestival.com.br/ Manaus, Brasil.
City or jungle?
Please keep in mind that although planted in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Manaus is actually the second largest metropolitan area in Northern Brazil with more than 2 million inhabitants.
Is Manaus on the Amazon River?
Manaus is situated on the...
AMAZONAS FILM FESTIVAL UNVEILS 2011 JURORS AND LINE-UP Award-winning films from around the globe will be screened at this unique festival in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest The eighth annual Amazonas Film Festival today announced its 2011 line-up, which features award-winning films from around the globe, and its jury of international stars and filmmakers. The festival will run November 3-9 in Manaus, Brazil. Screenings will be held at the Teatro Amazonas, the Belle-Epoque opera house upon...
The seventh annual Amazonas Film Festival today announced its 2010 line-up, which features award-winning films from around the globe, and its jury of international stars and filmmakers. The festival will run November 5-11 in Manaus, Brazil. Screenings will be held at the Teatro Amazonas, the Belle-Epoque opera house upon which Werner Herzog based his epic film, Fitzcarraldo. 35 films will competed in three sections, all vying for the Voo na Floresta (Flight Over the Jungle) trophy. These inclu...
Interview with Olivier WeberCongratulation Olivier your film will show May 16th at 10:00pm in the Palais (K)Yes and will meet the audience: I cannot wait for this opportunity.Why did you choose this topic, the world of gold? After I travelled to the Amazon, I was struck by this peculiar world of gold. The men who live around the gold mines in the forest live in extremely difficult conditions. While very few live by, some become very rich overnight. A war opposes the two—no holds barred. The su...
Synopsis A new gold rush is sweeping through the Amazon rainforest where scores of women and men hunt for nuggets and specks of gold. But this race for gold is bringing on the destruction of one of the last earthly paradises, the world’s largest tropical forest, the lungs of our planet, where everything and anything can be paid in gold. As a result, a gold ingot cycle has developed—with its batch of insolvents, prostitutes, godfathers, traffickers, whether in French Guiana, Brazil or Surinam...
BC: Olivier Hello, why did you choose this topic, the world of gold? After I travelled to the Amazon, I was struck by this peculiar world of gold. The men who live around the gold mines in the forest live in extremely difficult conditions. While very few live by, some become very rich overnight. A war opposes the two-no holds barred. The surrounding brutishness is massive. And yet, they are so well organized! In the depths of the Amazon, the lungs of our planet, the gold mines are surrounded b...
AMAZONAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALOrganised by the Amazonas State Government with the co-operation of the Department of Culture and the Amazonas Film Commission, and by Le Public Système, with the cultural backing of Guaraná Antártica and the Varig group (Air Transport and Hotels), the Amazonas International Film Festival, that will take place from november 13th to 21st, is based on a twin concept:> Adventure (in the broadest sense), directly and irrevocably linked to every aspect of this l...
