II Mostra Ocupa CCVM presents the films approved in the Ocupa CCVM public notice - Amazônia em Foco

10 to 12 January 2024 to 19:00

From January 10 to 12, at 19:00, the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center will show the II Mostra Ocupa CCVM. The event presents in its programming the films selected in the Occupy CCVM – Amazônia em Foco public notice, held in 2023 and which received projects from the states that make up Amazônia Legal. In all, seven films received resources to be produced or finalized, and encompass a variety of themes such as popular culture, the indigenous presence on social networks, paradoxes between the forest and urbanization, the impact of the flooding of the Solimões River on an Amazon city and the cultivation of the traditional pineapple from Turiaçu, in the interior of Maranhão.

January 10, at 19:00

How to See the City, by Rafael Pinto – Pérola

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the Boa Vista that I see the same as the one you see? What imaginaries narrate the place where you live? Where does the city hurt you? Where does it cure you? What makes you most alive in this place? What makes you stay here? The work is an audiovisual work that records and marks a Boa Vista imagined/taled/experienced by people living in different neighborhoods, containing portraits and accounts of their relations with the city, transcribed, reproduced and pasted in the form of a lick-lambe in the neighborhoods of the people who, together with the artist, share the authorship of the work

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Fire, Punch and Kick, by Denis Carlos

The film traces scenarios and accompanies the promisers of the São Benedito Drum, which takes place in Anajatuba, in the interior of Maranhão. With the so-called Punga dos Homens, the male figure is considered the protagonist in the dance and in all the dynamics of the rituals that are recorded.

January 11 at 19:00

Papo de Mestre – Creole Drum

Papo de Mestre – Tambor de Crioula brings together masters and masters of popular culture for a relaxed conversation about their life stories, trajectories, and contributions to culture, in addition to their difficulties and future desires regarding the perpetuation of work. Members of the Drum of Faith in God, Drum of Leonardo and Drum of the Forest, people who participated in the foundation or are still active, shared their knowledge

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Anaman, the Venice of the Amazon

Anamã was recorded in 2021, during one of the biggest floods that occurred in the rivers of the Amazon basin. The film shows the routine of the city, which has been suffering an enormous impact over the last 10 years during the flooding of the Solimões River. The municipality is completely flooded and residents have to adapt to the sudden rise of

the waters.

January 12, at 19:00

Original Digital, by Jesus Pérez

“Original Digital” accompanies Flay Guajajara on his journey as a communicator for indigenous peoples, testifying to his points of view in an unexpected encounter.

Carne Doce, by Ellen Veloso, Isadora Pinheiro and Ianael

In a poetic dive through the lens of the documentary, “Sweet Meat” reveals the pulsating history of the women and residents of Serra dos Paz in Turiaçu (MA), intertwining their lives with the majesty of the pineapple, symbol of the economic activity that weaves the plot of these narratives. Through the authentic voices of women producers, we are invited to contemplate cultivation as an intimate dance between the land, the fruit and the sustenance of an entire community

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River Curve, by Amanara Lube

“Curva de Rio” is a walk between the forest and the Amazonian urbanization guided by the perspective of enchantment, an audiovisual immersion hailing the omnipresence of the enchanted beings that inhabit the streets, roads, forests and riverbanks. It is in the curve of the river where the sediments that fertilize memory and hold the untold stories of the visible and invisible beings that populate the imaginaries and the magical worldview accumulate

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