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Born in Bad Wörishofen, Germany, in 1945. He was one of the most versatile authors in contemporary cinema. The more than 40 titles of features and series, produced since 1969, marked the German cinema by showing Fassbinder’s unique, irreverent and critical style. He lived for his unstoppable creativity, also working as an author and writing his own scripts for cinema and theater. Among his most important works are Love Is Colder than Death (1969), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973), Chinese Roulette (1976, 8th Mostra), Despair (1978, 35th Mostra), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978, 4th Mostra), the miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, 9 th Mostra), Veronika Voss (1982), winner of Golden Bear at Berlinale, and Querelle (1982). Died in Munich in 1982 at the age of 37.

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Born in Bad Wörishofen, Germany, in 1945. He was one of the most versatile authors in contemporary cinema. The more than 40 titles of features and series, produced since 1969, marked the German cinema by showing Fassbinder’s unique, irreverent and critical style. He lived for his unstoppable creativity, also working as an author and writing his own scripts for cinema and theater. Among his most important works are Love Is Colder than Death (1969), Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1973), Chinese Roulette (1976, 8th Mostra), Despair (1978, 35th Mostra), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978, 4th Mostra), the miniseries Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, 9th Mostra), Veronika Voss (1982), winner of Golden Bear at Berlinale, and Querelle (1982). Died in Munich in 1982 at the age of 37.

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Tatiana Issa – She was born in São Paulo but spent the majority of her childhood in Europe. Daughter of the production designer Américo Issa, she began her acting career at the age of seven. She played the heroine Ceci in O Guarani (1996), based on the classic novel by José de Alencar. She studied Theatre, Film, History of Art, Languages and Literature in countries such as France, Italy, England, Austria, Germany, and USA. She began her directorial career with the American short film Medusa, made together with Raphael Alvarez. Dzi Croquettes is her first feature-length film. Raphael Alvarez – He was born in Rio de Janeiro. He’s worked on adverts, theatre plays and TV soaps from a very young age. He moved to New York to improve his acting career. He studied Acting, Theatre and Production at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He acted in musicals on Broadway such as West Side Story, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Jesus Christ Superstar. He also studied Editing, Direction, and Photography at the New York Film Academy and Singing at the Broadway Dance Center. Dzi Croquettes is his first feature-length film as a director.

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Egresada de la Universidad Central de Venezuela como Licenciada en Artes Mención Cine. Se ha desempeñado como Script y Asistente de Dirección en cortos y largometrajes, así como en unitarios y miniseries de TV. En 1994 realizó su primer cortometraje, “Todas las Mañanas, el Autobús”, para el proyecto “Caracas, 10 Desencuentros” de 7x1 cortometrajes. Dicho cortometraje le valió el premio Monseñor Pellín (1995) como “Producción Cinematográfica del Año: Por la Defensa de la Vida y del Ser Humano” y el Premio de L’Azzienda di Promozione Turistica del Festival de Montecantini Terme, sección “Propuestas” (Italia, 1996). Asimismo, fué galardonado con el Primer Premio, compartido con toda la serie de 7x1, en la sección Videoamérica del Festival de Trieste (Italia, 1996). Actualmente cursa el último semestre del Master en Dirección de Cine en la Universidad de Nueva York. Es beneficiaria de la beca Tisch School of the Arts Full Scholarship y del Peter D. Gould Foundation Award por méritos académicos.

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Pedro Cezar Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1966, Cezar is a journalist, writer and has two poetry books published. He is the author of the film Trocando as Bordas, which mixes surf and poetry. Ricardo Bocão Ricardo Bocão has worked with TV production and content for 21 years. He debuted as a TV presenter in the popular program Realce in 1983. He was a professional surfer and the first Brazilian to be invited three consecutive years for the Quicksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau, a big wave championship in Hawaii. Antonio Ricardo Antonio Ricardo is a surfer, TV presenter, director and producer and a documentary maker of films for the youth public. At 17, he became editor for the surf magazine Realce, which was turned into a TV program in 1983 and became the first adventure sports program on Brazilian TV. Since then, he has produced over 4,000 new TV programs, including the documentary The History of Surf in Brazil. Today, Antonio Ricardo produces and presents four programs for the SporTV channel: Extra, WQS, Final Heat, and Rip.

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Ricardo Darín - He was born in 1957, in Buenos Aires. His parents were actors. He acted for several years in TV series, such as “Alta Comedia” and “Estación Retiro”. One of his most important roles in a feature during this period was in Perdido por Perdido (1993), Alberto Lecchi’s debut as a film director. Then he played in features like The Lighthouse (1998), Same Love, Same Rain, selected for the 27th Mostra, and Nine Queens (2000). In 2001, he played in Son of the Bride, followed by Kamchatka (2002), Moon of Avellaneda, which participated at the 29th Mostra, as well as The Aura, and XXY (2007), by Lucía Puenzo, selected for the 31st Mostra. La Señal is his first feature as filmmaker. Martín Hodara - Born in 1967, he works in Advertising. His first experience in movies was with the short Alicia (1987), written, directed and produced by him, as well as the following short Estare Esperando (1991). He was assistant-director in features like The Lighthouse (1998), by Eduardo Mignogna, Nine Queens (2000) and The Aura, by Fabián Bielinski, selected for the 29th Mostra. La Señal is his first feature.

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Richard Glatzer - Born in New York, in 1962. He has a doctorate in American Literature by the University of Virginia and published a book of essays about Frank Capra. His first feature as director was Grief, in 1994. In partnership with Wash Westmoreland, he made the controversial feature The Fluffer (2001). In 2004, he wrote and directed a committed documentary Gay Republicans, awarded the Prize from the Public for Best Documentary by the American Film Institute Festival. Wash Westmoreland - Born in Leeds, in the UK, 1966. He graduated in Politics by the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He moved to the US and made his first short film, Squishy Does Porno! (1994). He was the director for pornographic films. His experience in the adult film industry, contributed to his conceiving The Fluffer (2001) his first feature as director.

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Rob Epstein nasceu em New Brunswick, Nova Jersey, em 1955. Começou a trabalhar em cinema aos 19 anos, com o documentário World is Out. Em 1984, realizou The Times of Harvey Milk(seleção da 9ªMostra), que recebeu o Oscar de Melhor Documentário, três Prêmios Emmy e o Prêmio da Crítica de Nova York. Três anos depois, Epstein fez Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt, que participou de vários festivais internacionais e ganhou um Emmy de Melhor Trilha Sonora. Jeffrey Friedman nasceu em Los Angeles, em 1951. Trabalhou como desenhista de produção e montador - assinando, por exemplo, a edição de Touro Indomável, de Martim Scorsese. Sua parceria com Friedman começou no documentário The Times of a Harvey Milk, onde atuou como montador. A parceria prosseguiu em Common Threads e Where Are We?, que participou dos festivais de San Francisco, Chicago e Sydney.

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Robert Altman nasceu em Kansas City, em 1925. Depois de servir como piloto durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, dedicou seu tempo a aprender cinema, rodando filmes industriais para a Kansas City Calvin Company - comandada pelo pai de seu co-roteirista, Frank Barhydt. A carreira comercial começou com episódios para a televisão em séries como Alfred Hitchcock Presents e Combate. Em 1970, foi aclamado pela crítica internacional pelo excelente M*A*S*H*, que já trazia sua marca registrada: desafiar e desestruturar gêneros cinematográficos, no caso os filmes de guerra. Mais tarde fez o mesmo com o western, em Jogos & Trapaças (McCabe and Mrs. Miller) com os filmes biográficos, em Vincent & Theo, e com a própria Hollywood, no criativo O Jogador (The Player). A guerra foi retratada ainda pelo diretor em O Exército Inútil (Streamers), adaptação da peça de David Rabe. Até mesmo o mundo dos quadrinhos foi visitado por Altman, que colocou nas telas as aventuras do herói Popeye. Nos filmes Nashville, Prêt-à-Porter e Short Cuts, o diretor cria um panorama de histórias paralelas e tramas congruentes para dar sua visão do mundo moderno. A 9ª Mostra exibiu o seu Secret Honour, de 1984, que devassava Richard Nixon. Nos seus 29 anos de carreira, Altman já realizou 30 longas-metragens.

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Born in Quebec in 1957. At the age of 17, he began studies at the Quebec Conservatory of Dramatic Art. After a journey to pursue studies in Paris, he returned to Canada and wrote and directed productions for the Repére Theater. From 1982 to 1993, he was artistic director to the French Theatre of the National Arts Center in Ottawa. As from 1994, he started with his own group, Ex Machina, editing multimedia productions interweaving arts, history, and science. One of his most internationally renowned theater productions, The Seven Streams of the River Ota was performed in Brazil in 2004. As from 1995, Lepage began to direct films based on his plays such as Le Confessional, that opened the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Festival this year. He then filmed Le Polygraphe (1996), No (1998), and his first film in the English Language, Possible Worlds (2000).

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Born in Breslau, Germany, in 1873. Famous expressionist filmmaker from silent movie era, he made his first short movie, Die Waffen der Jugend (the youth guns, translated from German), in 1913. For 25 years, during his career as a film director, he released around 50 movies, but it was with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, considered the first expressionist movie, that eternalized his name. Wiene directed many other influential expressionist films, but also made movies in different styles and genres, including Crime and Punishment (1923), an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s homonymous book. Following the rise of Nazism in Germany, Wiene, who was of Jewish descent, fled into exile and settled in Paris. There, he continued to make movies, and even tried to film a new version of Caligari with Jean Cocteau. His last film, Ultimatum, was released in 1938, the same year of his death in Paris, France.

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Born in Vinã del Mar in Chile on 1969. He studied audiovisual communication at the Arcos Professional Institute in Santiago, Chile. An audiovisual communicator and radio broadcaster, Artiagoitia was production producer, technical producer, and camera assistant for more than 100 commercials at Filmocentro Cine, 1991 through 1996. In 1997, he developed television programs for Channel 2; Maldita Sea, El Compra Huevos and Arriba las Manos. He was responsible for creation and animation of the radio program La Jaula del Mono, Los Bacalaos Daos, El Chacotero Sentimental, and El Club del Cangrejo, from 1994 until 2007. In 1999, he participated as executive producer, actor, and script consultant for a feature - El Chacotero Sentimental, directed by Cristian Galáz. He directed and wrote Las Historias del Rumpy, with 21 short fiction films for the program Noche de Juegos, for the Chile National Television. Radio Corazón, his first feature, was awarded a prize for best plot at the Lisbon Festival Hola in 2008.

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Born in 1932 in Nova Friburgo, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, he began his career in film during the early 50s as a production assistant at Atlântida Studios, working with directors such as Watson Macedo, José Carlos Burle, and J.B. Tanko. He made his first films in the same studio, Rico Ri à Toa (1957) and No Mundo Lua (1958). He also directed Cidade Ameaçada (1960), Um Candango na Belacap (1961), O Assalto ao Trem Pagador (1962) – an absolute classic in the Bazilian thriller genre –, Selva Trágica (1964), and the film trilogy starred by Brazilian rock singer Roberto Carlos: Roberto Carlos em Ritmo de Aventura (1968), Roberto Carlos e o Diamante Cor-de-Rosa (1970), and Roberto Carlos a 300 km por Hora (1971). He was also the president of the National Syndicate of the Cinematographic Industry and the first filmmaker to direct Embrafilme during the 70s.

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There are 70 thousand families today in Bolivia whose lives depend exclusively on cultivating the ancestral coca leaf. This practice has been considered illegal now for twelve years, and the U.S. monitor applying of the law and exert economic and military pressure. The Bolivian government militarized the Chapare zone and embarked on a plan to eradicate coca plantations by force, having failed in a plan for alternative development that attempted to substitute coca for other agricultural produce. Although they were promised, the incentives to diversify the harvest were never applied. The great danger today is the Colombia-zation of the conflict with the sudden rise of a guerrilla to defend the right to plant coca, in accordance with religious, medical, and social tradition that shaped the culture of Bolivia and of neighboring countries. We must discover the real reasons for this confrontation and what interests lie hidden behind the agents involved.

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In anticipation to the commemorations for the centenary of his birth - in 2006 - Mostra is paying tribute to the great Italian director by showing a short film, My Dad is 100 Years Old, with a plot by his daughter, Isabella Rossellini (She designed the poster for the 29th Mostra). The film, directed by Guy Maddin, focuses on a magic journey through time in which Isabella reminisces over her father and discusses his ideas on cinema with producer David Selznick, and directors Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, and Charles Chaplin, with all the interviews done by herself. The 29th Mostra programming also includes the film considered the starting point for neo-realism: Roma, Open City (1945). The father of Italian neo-realism, a movement that flourished subsequent to the Second World War and that influenced film making worldwide, was born in Rome, Italy, on May 8, 1906. The son of a wealthy architect and sculptor, Rossellini became interested in cinema through the influence of his grandfather who, at the time, owned a movie theater. When his father`s fortune was confiscated by the fascist regime in 1931, he began, three years later, to make films in earnest with themes characterized by humanistic poetry and a great deal of interest in historical issues. Rossellini`s first feature, The White Ship (1941) was made to order by the Navy. During the war, he made other films for official propaganda, all the while, in secret, recording all of the activities of the Resistance. He made use of this material in the film Roma - Open City, a realistic portrait of the German occupation. The precarious conditions in which he filmed, the poor quality of the negatives utilized, second-rate laboratory services, and obsolete editing equipment lent a raw touch to this feature, stripped of formality, of great critical depth, that eventually became an artistic landmark. The film laid the bases for neo-realism with amateur actors in the cast and scenes shot on real location all of which enhances the documental nature of the narrative. Neo-realism came forth from the rubble of World War II. The movement lent voice and image to the Italian people, at that time, having to cope with the devastating effects of fascism. In a dry, cutting tone, Rossellini shows a populace led to the limits of its needs at the time of the German occupation in a film that is also a tribute to those who endeavored to undermine the Nazi forces. The next year, he filmed Paisá (1946), with a script by Federico Fellini, in which he directed non-professional actors. In the shape of news reports, the feature shows life in Italy, immediately after the country was liberated, with a query into the significance of war to the Italians. Both Roma, Open City and Paisà went beyond the Italian context, and decisively influenced all of international cinema post-war. Rossellini lent continuity to reconstituting life in films on subjects such as religion and the feeling of liberty, such as Germany - Year Zero (1947). On a totally non-conventional theme, the film tells the story of a boy, Edmund Koeler, in Berlin, destroyed as it was in 1945. Edmund kills his father and then commits suicide. The boy is about 13 years old and is driven to parricide by a sentence uttered by a teacher in a Nazi school - "The weak must give up their place so the strong may live". Next came Stromboli (1949) - Rossellini`s first partnership with Ingrid Bergman who was later to become his wife, Francis, God’s Jester (1950), No Greater Love (1952), Voyage to Italy (1953), and India (1958). Rossellini came to Brazil in the fifties with intent to adapt Josué de Castro`s book "Geografia da fome", to cinema. The reasons that prevented him from making the film remain controversial, but it is common knowledge that there was a great deal of pressure against his making the film by those who thought it was not in good taste to show poverty in Brazil abroad. Rossellini once again took up his patriotic themes in films such as General della Rovere (1959), Viva l`Italia (1961), and Vanina Vanini (1961). He was part of a montage of theater plays and, as from 1964, devoted himself to directing and producing for TV. He died in Rome, on June 3, 1977.

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Born in South Carolina (USA), she grew up in the north of up-country Florida and in southeast Georgia. She began to write and to direct short films when she was still at Florida State University where she studied English Literature and Theater. She began as a playwright for theater (comedies and drama off-Broadway) and focused on audiovisuals as from 1980. She worked as a photographer for local newspapers, for a TV news program and for the Florida Game and Fish Commission. She then began to write and to produce educational films. She is better known for her work as scriptwriter, mainly for her adaptations of Little Women (1994), The Perez Family (1995), Matilda (1996, written in partnership with her husband Nicholas Kazan), Practical Magic (1998) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). She directed a short film, The Red Coat (2003). The Jane Austen Book Club is her first feature.

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Rodrigo Meirelles - He was born in 1976. From 1994 until 1998, he studied at the University of São Paulo School of Engineering and in 2001 and 2002, Film Directing at the UCLA Film Extension in Los Angeles. He is publicity film director for O2 Films. He was assistant director for Oficina dos Atores (2003), a documentary on preparing the cast for City of God, by Fernando Meirelles. He directed short films Wake Up (2002), Murphy and ALNorte (both in 2003). He was executive producer for Cosmopolis (29th Mostra). Patricia Oriolo - Majored in radio and TV by FAAP. Since 1991, she has acted in the main Brazilian TV broadcasters as editor, script writer and agenda coordinator. Since 1996, she has worked with corporate communication in videos and events. She was responsible for research and production of the documentaries O Povo Ribeirinho do Amazonas (1995) and Mesa Brasileira (1996) and script writer for Formação Musical em São Bernardo do Campo (2006). She assists as script writer in the GNT Mothern series. Juarez Malavazzi Jr. - Majored in Film Production and Directing at the New York School of Cinema and in Civil Engineering at the Mogi das Cruzes University (SP). He directed short films Home More or Less (1991), Diabolo Bionda (1992) and Los Indios Tabajaras (2005-2006). He was assistant director to the feature Hans Staden (1999), by Luis Alberto Pereira and several publicity films from O2 Films.

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Julia Bacha Co-script writer and editor of the documentary Control Room (2004), on Al Jazeera, the Arab television broadcasters. Born in Brazil, she went to New York in 1998 to study history and politics at Columbia University. In the course of her studies, she became interested in documenting life in the Amazon and in the mountains of Cuba and Jamaica. She was assistant to Bruno Barreto in O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta (2005). Ronit Avni Founder and director of Just Vision, a non-profit organization endeavoring to persuade Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace. She has co-produced short films on video in collaboration with filmmakers from Senegal, the United States, and Brazil working for Peter Gabriel´s human rights organization Witness. She wrote and produced a documentary, Rise, with the Afghanistan Revolutionary Women´s Association, awarded prizes in festivals in South Korea and Canada. Encounter Point was awarded the Prize for Best Documentary at the San Francisco Festival.

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Jorge Guimarães Born in 1957, in Rio de Janeiro. Producer and director of cinema and television, he has been involved in surf and in martial arts since his teens in the Rio de Janeiro south side. In 1979, he went to California, where he lived for thirteen years, studying English and working with the surf industry. He came back to Brazil in 1993, and began to produce and direct a weekly TV program on martial arts. In 2002/3, he was one of the creators of the Tow in World Cup TV program. The documentary Tow in Surfing is the result of all of these years of experience in and out of water. Rosaldo Cavalcanti Born in Recife, Pernambuco, in 1963. He graduated in cinema and is producer and director for cinema and television. To dive, fish, and swim were always an important part of his childhood. As a teenager, he lived in Rio de Janeiro, when surfing became an essential part of his life. He began to work as a journalist in 1982, publishing articles on surf in several national and international magazines. In 2002/2003, he was one of the creators and producers of Tow in World Cup TV program. The result of this experience is the documentary Tow in Surfing.

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WORLD DAY FOR AUDIOVISUAL HERITAGE 27th October In 2010, the Cinemateca Brasileira and the 34th São Paulo Film Festival join forces to celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, presenting the public with a selection of Brazilian films in new copies or ones restored by the Cinemateca. On the 27th of October 1980, the Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images was founded in Belgrade, during the 21st Unesco General Conference. The organization’s initiative sought to bring to the attention of society and of governments the need for urgent action to assure the preservation of cinematic, televisual, and radiophonic material from around the world. In 2005, Unesco announced the 27th of October as being the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. Since then, the date has come to be celebrated by Cinematheques and film archives, with the support of the International Federation of Film Archives. The selection chosen for the programme brings together classics and rarities from popular Brazilian Cinema – from erotic comedies to police dramas, from science fiction to westerns. On top of this, in celebration of the centenary of Bahian Cinema, São Paulo will host its first ever screening of a restored copy of Tocaia no Asfalto (1962), by Roberto Pires, one of Bahia’s most distinguished filmmakers. In commemoration of another centenary this year, that of Corinthians football club, there will also be a screening of a restored copy of O Corintiano (1966), by Milton Amaral, a comedy starring Mazzaropi. Both films were restored by the Cinemateca Brasileira during the 2007 Restoration Programme, sponsored by Petrobras. SCHEDULE: Ainda Agarro esta Vizinha, by Pedro Carlos Rovai (1991) Bonecas Diabólicas, by Flávio Nogueira (1975) Gregório 38, by Rubens da Silva Prado (1969) Na Senda do Crime, by Flaminio Bollini Cerri (1954) O Corintiano, by Milton Amaral (1966) Os Desclassificados, by Clery Cunha (1972) Tocaia no Asfalto, by Roberto Pires (1962).

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Director and script writer, he began his career writing and directing a short film, Struggle, in 2002, the same year in which he entered into partnership with Anna Boden. This association yielded, among others, an award-winning documental short film Have You Seen This Man? (2003). Gowanus, Brooklyn (2004) was awarded the Prize for Best Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary, Young Rebels (2005), a co-production between the United States and Cuba, was the first feature directed by Ryan (with Boden). Half Nelson, his second film, was awarded the Special Prize from the Jury and Special Mention from the Young Jury at the 2006 Locarno Film Festival, in addition to different prizes at the following festivals: San Francisco (Prize from the Foreign Press), Seattle (for Actor), Philadelphia (Directing), and Nantucket (Script).

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43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA