10, 11 & 12/07 – 1st Amazon Film Fest @ Rich Mix, London
24 Jun, 2014
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FILM | TheAi??AmazonAi??Film Fest ai??i?? from 10thAi??to 12thAi??July | @Rich Mix Cinema Ai??( 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd London,Ai??E1 6LAAi??) | +info: Ai??Ai??http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/festival/amazon-filmfest/Ai??| Ai??amazonfilmfestlondon.tumblr.comAi??|Ai??A?5, A?3 concessions, A?8 (Day pass for screenings)
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Discover the extraordinary world of Amazonian Culture
TheAi??AmazonAi??Film Festival comes to London showcasing culture and arts from BrazilA?s north region
BrazilA?s north region is one of the most important, mysterious and discussed parts of the world but still lacks attention and awareness of its cultural legacy. Amidst the hype of the World Cup,Ai??TheAi??AmazonAi??Film FestAi??comes to London for the very first time bringing toAi??the Rich Mix,Ai??in Shoreditch, a vibrant string of films, documentaries, animations and short movies produced in the region by local filmmakers. From 10thAi??to 12thAi??July, the festival will present an extraordinary showcase ofAi??AmazonA?s culture, society, environment and political issues. The event will be followed by the photo exhibition calledAi??Visions of theAi??Amazon, presenting the art of five Amazonian Photographers from 14thAi??June to 30thAi??July.Ai??TheAi??AmazonAi??Film Fest presents 6 feature films and 5 short movies, a truly Amazonian party and a family day dedicated to the little ones.
CULTURE, RELIGION, GAY ACTIVISTS, NATIVE INDIANS AND ANIMATIONS, ENVIRONMENT AND POLITICAL ISSUES
The Festival is produced by Instituto BR, a non-governmental organisation promoting 21st century Brazil via contemporary Brazilian Culture and Brazilian Portuguese language.
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PROGRAMME
10th, 11th, 12th at RichMix LONDON PROGRAMME
Ai?? Thursday 10/07Ai?? -Ai??6pm -Ai??Juliana fights the jambo-tree of the Devil for John Baptistai??i??s Heart Directed by Roger Elarrat Fiction- Short Movie. 22minAi??
Short movie immersed in magical realism, andilled with tradition and fantasy as in many Amazonian stories. Baptist is a cold and introspective man who cannot sleep, eat, orshow his feelings for the photographer Juliana, the only person who was interested in someone as strange and mysterious as him. The film follows his journey to find out what has happened to his soulai??i??.
Brega S/A Ai??-Ai??Directed byAi??Vladimir Cunha and Gustavo Godinho Feature – Documentary. 62min
Tecnobrega is an independent musical movement from the jungle-city of Belem, in Brazilai??i??s ai???wild-westai??i?? Para. Tecnobrega is a local musical movement like no other where the artists actually encourage piracy of their music creating a new model for music distribution that has gained international recognition. 
8.30pm – Ai??Ai??Moved by Faith -Ai??Ai??Directed by Fernando Segtowick Ai??Short movie – Documentary – 18min
Ai??Nossa Senhora de NazarAi?? (CAi??rio de NazarAi??) is one of the biggest religious events in the world, attracting over 2 million people to the streets of BelAi??m do ParA? on the second Sunday of October ai??i??Moved by Faithai??i?? tells the story of some of the thousands of volunteers who help with the procession – nominated as a Cultural Heritage of Ai??Humanity event by Unesco, – and their dedication and struggle to contain a crowd delirious withfaith.
Daughters of Chiquita -Ai??Ai??Directed by Priscila Brasil Ai??Feature – Documentary Ai??- 53min
Chiquitas is the most important gay event in the Amazon which happens on the same street on the same day as the biggest catholic event in Brazil Nossa Senhora de NazarAi??!Whilst two million Catholics line one side of the street, on the other side thousands of gays and LGBT supporters celebrateAi??In 2004, a government organisationdeclared that Chiquita’s Party should be included as part of the catholic celebration – as a Unesco Cultural Heritage of Humanity event . But how can Chiquitas’ Party be a part of the CAi??rio?
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Friday – 11/07 4pm – Ai??Alo, Alo Amazonia (Feature) -Ai??Directed by Gavin Andrews. Feature – Documentary. 51min
For over 50 years the radio program “Alo, Alo Amazoniaai??? has been relaying messages between isolated communities on the riverbanks of the Amazon. The film immerses us in the everyday life of the Amazon people, characterised by messages of all kinds ai??i?? travel arrangements, birthday greetings, messages of love and unpaid debts
6pm -Ai??Awara nane putane – The story of LianaAi??Directed by SAi??rgio de Carvalho. Short Movie Animation. Ai??22min
An animation that tells theAi?? myth of the traditional use of the controversial ayahuasca, aAi??psychedelic brew of various plant infusions used by indigenous people from the heart of the Amazon rainforest.. Currently in the news in the UK because of the recent death of a British student in Colombia who was suspected of having ingested it, this animation reflects on the culture surrounding ayahuasca and the Yawanawa people who imbibe it, The film was made by drawing workshops and storytelling with the Indians themselves. The dialogues and songs, in the language of Yawanawa’s, were recorded in their own community.
Ai??Corumbiara -Ai??Ai??Directed by Vicent Carelli Feature Documentary. 117min
AAi??personal account of 20 years of video activism in Corumbiara, a municipality in North Brazil. In order to stop the destruction of the habitat of this group of isolated Native Americans, their existence has to be proven in court. Back in 1986, filmmaker Vincent Carrelli first got involved in a hunt for the remains of an Indian village, which had been wiped off the map by a landowner. The film documents the heart warming contact between the researchers and a family of CanoAi?? Indians, and contains unique footage of one of the last survivors of an unknown tribe. The activists face an uphill struggle having to deal with opposition from landowners, lumber merchants and farmers, some of whom are willing to use violence to get what they wantai??i?? 
8.30pm -Ai??The Mudurukus Indians ai??i?? Weaving Resistance -Ai??Directed by Nayana Fernandez. Ai??Short movie. 25min
The Brazilian government is planning to build a vast number of big dams on the Amazon river and its tributaries, destroying biodiversity and disrupting the way of life of thousands of Amerindians. Now that the work is well under way on the huge Belo Monte dam on the Xingu river, the government is pushing ahead with its next big project – a series of dams on the Tapajos river. But 12,000 Munduruku Indians, long feared as warriors, live here and are fighting back.
This documentary, filmed in late 2013 and early 2014, looks at life in a Munduruku village, where traditional skills are practised and children are brought up with remarkable freedom. It documents the growth of resistance, even among the women, not traditionally fighters, some of whom are emerging as guerreiras (woman warriors).
TOXIC: AMAZON -Ai??Directed by Felipe Milanez. Feature Ai??- Documentary. 108 min
On the same day Brazil’s Parliament voted to decrease logging and ranching restrictions in the country’s Forest Code, outspoken environmental activists ZAi?? ClA?udio Ribeiro and Maria do Espirito Santo were shot to death outside their house in the Amazonian state of ParA?.Ai??This documentary tells the story of their brutal murdersAi??and the political and civil unrest at the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. ItAi??follows the protagonists affected by illegal logging – the heavily armed men of Brazil’s environmental protection agency who track the illegal timber mills, the militant squatters of Brazil’s Landless Movement (MST), modern day slaves who toil in the mills, shining a lighton the lawless, violent atmosphere that permeates the town locals call ai???MarabA?laai???. 
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Saturday 12/07 (Kids day)Ai??
2pm – Ai??The wave – Party at Pororoca.Ai??Ai??Directed by CA?ssio Tavernard. Short movie animation. 15min
The wave tells the story of a party organised by local fish and other river animals at the bottom of the Amazon as they wait for the passage of ai???pororocaai??i??, a tidal wave that occurs once a year when the sea meets the river forcing a great wave along the length of the Amazon, As the river creatures party happens down below, two surfers attempt to tame the pororoca wave.
