Tiradentes: the film festival and opinions

Authors

  • Pedro Maciel Guimarães Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Cinema, 13.083.854, Campinas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v3n2.252

Keywords:

film festival, brazilian cinema, short films

Abstract

This text is a report of my own experience as curator of short films at the Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes for the past 5 years. Created in 1988, the festival has a focun in independent, auteur brazilian cinema, and has become one of the larger platforms for the exhibition and discussion of contemporary brazilian cinema.

Author Biography

Pedro Maciel Guimarães, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Instituto de Artes, Departamento de Cinema, 13.083.854, Campinas

Professor at the Department of Cinema Instituto de Artes/Unicamp) and the Post-graduation Multimedia programme in the same university. MA and PhD in Cinema and Audiovisual by Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and "pós-doutor" by ECA-USP. He published the book Créer ensemble: la poétique de la collaboration dans le cinéma de Manoel de Oliveira (EUE, Sarrebruck, 2010) and organized the book/catalogue Douglas Sirk, o príncipe do melodrama. He is the author of texts in all the volumes of the book collections Folha Cine Europeu (2011), Folha Charles Chaplin (2012), Folha Grandes Livros no Cinema (2013) and Folha Grandes Astros do Cinema (2014). Since 2011, he is part of the group of curators of Cinema Without Borders (Cinema Sem Fronteiras): Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes, CineOP and CineBH. His research interests include the history and aesthetics of classical and modern cinema, cinema actors, film genres (melodrama, musical, noir) and the cultural relations between Europe and Hollywood.

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Published

2016-06-17

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): Other films

Section

Exhibitions and film festivals