Where I Grow Old
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(2013 TFI Bloomberg Fellow - Brazil)
The diary of a young Portuguese woman who head for Brazil, compelled by the current economic crisis in her native country.
Marilia Rocha
Bio: Directors Biofilmography // Marília Rocha Marília Rocha is a filmmaker and one of the founders of Teia, collective based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She has directed the feature dcumentaries “Aboio” [Cattle Callers] (2005), best film award at It’s All True International Film Festival, “Acácio” (2008) and “A falta que me faz” [Like Water Through Stone] (2011), best film at São Paulo Latin-American Film Festival. Her works were programmed at festivals and museums such as MoMA (USA), New Museum (USA), Musée d’ethnographie Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Rotterdam International Festival (Holland), BAFICI (Argentina), Festival dei Popoli (Italy), DocumentaMadrid (Spain), DocLisboa (Portugal), among others. In 2011, her films had a retrospective at Dockanema Film Festival, in Mozambique, and a tribute at Festival Visions du Réel, which dedicated a special exhibition for her works, in Switzerland. Film Retrospectives and Public Collections Visions du Réel: Séance spéciale Marilia Rocha, Switzerland, 2011. Dockanema Film Festival, Mozambique, 2011. Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Minas Gerais Memorial, Brazil. Film Prizes It’s All True International Documentary Festival, Brazil - Best film to Aboio – Cattle Callers. São Paulo Latin American Film Festival, Brazil - Best Latin American film to Like Water Through Stone. International Documentary Film Festival of Barcelona, Spain - Best Latin American Documentary to Dead End. Mannheim/Heidelberg Film Festival, Germany - Jury’s Special Prize to Dead End. Forumdoc, International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil – Special prize of the Jury to Like Water Through Stone. JVC Tokyo Film Festival – Best Film Duralex Sedlex, Jury’s Special Prize to Bainema. Major screenings 2011-2010 New Museum, New York, USA. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington, USA. Visions du Réel: tribute to Marília Rocha, Switzerland. Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 39th Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands. 51th Festival dei Popoli, Italy. 8th Festival International Documenta Madrid, Spain. 32th Brazilian Art Panorama – MAM, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil. 12nd BAFICI – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Argentina. 14th RIDM – Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, Canadá. 8th DocLisboa International Film Festival, Portugal. 32th Havana Film Festival, Cuba. 22th Viña del Mar Film Festival, Chile. 42nd Brasilia Film Festival, Brazil. 5th São Paulo Latin-American Film Festival, Brazil. 29th Festival Internacional de Uruguai, Uruguay. 6th Dockanema – Documentary Film Festival of Mozambique, Africa.
2008-2009 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands. 24th Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico. 11th BAFICI, Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, Argentina. 10th International Film Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 7th DocLisboa – Internacional Film Festival, Portugal. 32nd São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil. 31st Havana Film Festival, Cuba. 5th SANFIC – Santiago International Film Festival, Chile. 7th IndieLisboa – Internacional Independent Film Festival, Portugal. 2007 56th International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg, Germany. 7º International Documentary Film Festival of Barcelona, Spain. 12º It’s All True – International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil. XVII Message to Man, Russia. 29º Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano of Havana, Cuba. 9º Festival de Cinéma des 3 Amériques, Canadá. 2005-2006 MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. 41º Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic. 9º RIDM, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal, Canada. 10º It’s All True – International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil. 21º Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico. 7º Tempo Documentary Festival, Stockholm, Sweden. Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France. Les Écrans Documentaires, France. Rio International Festival, Brazil.
Ivo Lopes Araújo
IVO LOPES ARAUJO has been working, since 2002, with cinematography when he did his first short-films. In the past years he has been working with cinematography of features and short-films in Ceará, Pernambuco and Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is the cinematographer of films such as DOS RESTOS E DAS SOLIDÕES (winner of seven national cinematography awards), A MONTANHA MAGICA and O GRÃO by Petrus Cariri. He worked on six films done for Programa DOCTV BRASIL, some of them AS VILAS VOLANTES by Alexandre Veras, and AVENIDA BRASÍLIA FORMOSA by Gabriel Mascaro. He is also the cinematographer in the following films A FALTA QUE ME FAZ [LIKE WATER THROUGH STONE] by Marília Rocha, O CÉU SOBRE OS OMBROS [THE SKY ABOVE] by Sergio Borges and GIRIMUNHO [SWIRL] by Helvécio Marins and Clarissa Campolina, all produced by TEIA, besides the long-films LINZ by Alexandre Veras, TATUAGEM by Hitlon Lacerda, O RIO NOS PERTENCE by Ricardo Pretti and DEPOS DA CHUVA by Marília Hughes and Cláudio Marques, all of them being post-produced. He worked as director for DOCTV SÁBADO À NOITE winner of the award for Best Film at Tiradentes Film Festival in 2008, and he also directed some short-films, some of them A AMIGA AMERICANA, winner of the acquisition award from Canal Brasil on the XX Cine Ceará, and ODETE awarded at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Luana Melgaço
Lives and works in Belo Horizonte. Holds a degree in social communication from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and has dedicated herself to audiovisual production since 2005. She is a member of Teia since 2010, developing projects and producing shorts, features and installations in partnership with the group’s filmmakers, including O céu sobre os ombros, by Sérgio Borges (Tiger Awards Official Selection and great winner of Festival de Brasilia, 2010), A falta que me faz, by Marília Rocha (International Premiére in Rotterdam, 2010) and Girimunho (Brazil- Germany-Spain co-production, World Premiére in Venice 2011, supported by Hubert Bals Fund, World Cinema Fund Berlinale and Ibermedia), by Clarissa Campolina and Helvécio Marins Jr. She is in constant dialogue with other filmmakers and producers outside of Teia; having produced eight documentaries by Marcos Pimentel and the feature Linz, quando todos acidentes acontecem, by Alexandre Veras, in partnership with Alumbramento.The films she has produced have been screened and won several awards at Brazilian and international festivals; being also released in movie theatres, on DVD and shown on television.
Francisco Moreira
Francisco Moreira lives and works in Lisbon, where he develops his activity as film editor and director. He studied Sociology and graduated in Cinema as an editing major, having worked extensively on the editing of both documentary and fictional projects, in Portugal and abroad, namely with production companies O SOM E A FÚRIA (pt) TEIA (br). As a creative collaborator, has been present in several international film festivals such as Cannes Director's Fortnight; Berlinalle; Venice Film Festival; Vienalle; Bafici; Doclisboa; etc. In 2011 he participated as an editor in the Berlinale Talent Campus.
Ana Siqueira
ANA SIQUEIRA, graduated in Communications from UFMG and with a diploma in Philosophy from Paris University 8. She was a programmer at Cine Humberto Mauro, in Belo Horizonte, she works with the selection and curatorship of the exhibitions and festivals, such as forumdoc.bh, Belo Horizonte International Short-Film Festival, Tiradentes Film Festival, and Festival SACI – Socialization, Art and Culture of Childhood. She is a text and film French translator and was co-author of the book “Quatro histórias que podem virar filme” [Four stories that can turn a movie] (2011).