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IFFR presents: O porto

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Channel: International Film Festival Rotterdam – IFFR · 2014 · Film & Animation

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With the World Cup coming to a feverish end soon, four young filmmakers show us another side of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro as we don't know it. 

A city haunted by permanent progress. One port on top of the other. One city on top of the other. Emptied urban spaces reveal a political project of capitalistic exploration, which is camouflaged with an idealised discourse on progress that repeats itself over the course of our history.

O porto was part of the Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films at IFFR 2014. 

Since 1999, Clarissa Campolina (1979, Brazil) has been making films and installations. She also works as an editor. She studied Communication and was educated in Fine Arts.  

Julia De Simone (1982, Brazil) was educated in Creative Documentary. In 2011, she made her feature film debut with Bildungsroman. De Simone also produces series for the Brazilian television. 

Luiz Pretti (1982, Brazil) is part of the production company Alumbramento, where he regularly works with his brother Ricardo. He was awarded the Cinema of the Future Award for the film Road to Ythaca (2010) at the film festival of Buenos Aires.

Ricardo Pretti (1982, Brazil) started his film career as an editor on films by directors including Sérgio Borges, Ivo Lopes Araujo and Marcelo Grabowsky. He made his directorial debut in 2008. He is one of the founders of Operation Sonia Silk, where he wrote and directed Rio Belongs to Us, supported by the Hubert Bals Fund.

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