Itau Cultural

Country:
BR BRAZIL
Submitted Films:
9
Registered since:
26.05.2005
Catalogue Url:
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Address:
Av. Paulista 149 - 6th floor - cep 01311-000
São Paulo
City:
Sao Paulo
Contact Person:
Roberto Cruz
Contact Title:
Rumos Itaú Cultural
Contact Email
robcruz@itaucultural.org.br
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Description:

Catalogue of Itau Cultural's productions (Brazil) O Itaú Cultural contribui para a valorização da cultura de uma sociedade tão complexa e heterogênea como a brasileira. É um instituto voltado para a pesquisa e a produção de conteúdo e para o mapeamento, o incentivo e a difusão de manifestações artístico-intelectuais. Ao considerar a cultura uma ferramenta essencial à construção da identidade do país e um meio eficaz na promoção da cidadania, o Itaú Cultural busca democratizar e promover a participação social no âmbito cultural. O Instituto é um centro de referência cultural, há mais de 20 anos promovendo e divulgando a produção artístico-intelectual brasileira - no Brasil e no exterior.

Films in the catalogue:

Title / Date
Catalogue
Country

33 / 2003

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Synopsis: A search documentary in which the director sets out to find his biological mother. The film is like a journal disclosing the director's initiatives, anguishes and uncertainties.

Aristocrata Club / 2004

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Synopsis: The glamorous recreational club founded in Sao Paulo by a group of black people in the 60s. The film is based on interviews with the three generations that frequented the Aristocrata and on a collection of photos and films. The documentary portrays the scene of black resistance looking back on not too distant past that holds a lesson of dignity for us all.

Barra 68 -Without Losing Tenderness / 2000

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Synopsis: The struggle of anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro in the early 60s to create and establish the University of Brasilia (UnB). The crisis dragged for four long years and in 1968, the streets of Brasilia witnessed the conflict between the students and the police.

Carrapateira is no longer jealous of Apollo 11 / 2004

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Synopsis: In 1969, Carrapateira in the hinterland of the state of Paraiba was considered one of the most deprived towns in Brazil. In that same year, the crew of Apollo 11 stepped for the first time onto the surface of the moon. Over thirty years later, this documentary shows how Carrapateira's people live today and relates the conquest of the moon to the personal dreams of progress and prosperity in the dry hinterland of the northeast.

Don't Cross Me / 2003

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Synopsis: "Me erra" ("Miss me") is jargon used by boxers in the Nobre Arte Academy, which has been in existence for 12 years at the Cantagalo Hill complex in Rio de Janeiro -a ground breaking amateur boxing and community work initiative. The documentary follows the routine of fighters borned and raised in the slum, showing how boxing fits into their lives and how the sport transforms the circumstances of an underprivileged community.

Invisible Daily Pleasures / 2004

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Synopsis: A portrait of the city of Belém do Para, made up of declarations from its young inhabitants who express and communicate through blogs. Because of its geographical and cultural distance, it has developed around itself and the Amazon region, which has always lived away from the world, in nearly complete self-sufficiency.

South Side Girl / 2004

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Synopsis: The opposite circumstances of two girls of the same age but from different social backgrounds. One is from Rio de Janeiro, lives with her parents in a comfortable middle class house in the Leblon neighborhood. The other one lives with her mother and nine other people in a plain house in the district of Capao Redondo, on the outskirts of Sao Paolo.

Swimming Pool Blue Acrylic Hinterlands / 2004

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Synopsis: A trip made as a film; a film wandering through the hinterland of Brazil. Remote places unveil traditions and habits of a Brazilian landscape that is at the same time naive and contemporary, local and globalized.

The Prisoner of the Iron Grid -Self Portraits / 2003

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Synopsis: A year before the Casa de Detencao de Carandiru (Carandiru Prison House) was shut down, in September 2002, the prisoners learned to use video cameras and documented the daily activities of the largest prison in Latin America. With investigative approach, the documentary discloses the intimacy and daily routine in the jail from the inmates' point of view.

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