This year's Short Film Festival offers the second edition of Cine Bike Ride, an activity that combines bike ride and outdoor short film screenings. This year, the bike ride will take place not only in São Paulo, but also in Sorocaba.

Moviegoers-cyclists leave the meeting point and ride their bikes to the screening spots where highlighted films from the festival get open-air projections. Some projections will be conducted by the Cine Solar Project, a Brazucah initiative powered by a van equipped with solar panels capable of generating all the energy needed for the screenings.

CicloColetivo, formed by former students of the Senac University Center Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual, which is supportive of the project, organizes this event.

ABD - Brazilian Association of Documentary and Short Film Makers – celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2013. It is a time to celebrate the decades of struggle for independent cinema and the renewal of its language, especially in the short film and documentary genres. ABD has always been a place of training for many filmmakers and cultural managers who were and are still active in the Brazilian audiovisual market.

In January this year, ABD’s São Paulo office elected a new board of independent filmmakers who brought a proposal for horizontal management for the entity. Besides the representation of short film and documentary makers, São Paulo filmmakers are now supporting independent production, including feature films. The aesthetic debate also returned to the agenda, alongside the usual political and institutional discussions.

ABD-SP wishes to integrate a vote for the future and the opportunity to think a new way of cinema and cultural policy making to the celebrations of 40 years of ABD. We invite all to participate in our activities and achievements in partnership with the São Paulo International Short Film Festival.

FILMMAKERS MEETING
AUGUST 26 (Mon) – 3PM – CINEMATECA BRASILEIRA
ABD-SP invites filmmakers attending the festival for a great round of conversation in which we discuss cinematographic politics, new forms of filmmaking and organization. A space to exchange ideas and strengthen our ties.

FREECINEMA ABD-SP
AUGUST 26 (Mon) – 7PM – CINEMATECA BRASILEIRA
A session celebrating the unusual! The films will be drawn during the event from a list of short films appointed by ABD-SP members. Let's talk openly about movies!

DVD SWAP EVENT
AUGUST 29 (THU) – 6:30PM – MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOMSpace where everyone can trade or sell DVDs of their films, contributing to the interaction between filmmakers and the dissemination of their work. Bring your films!

AUGUST 23 (FRI) – 6pm - MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOM

A discussion open to the public will be held with members of Ninja (Independent Narratives, Journalism and Action) concerning their approach to journalism and audiovisual in social networks and ways of replicating the experience of the network coverage that is being developed.

FROM AUGUST 24 TO 29 (except Monday) – 1PM TIL 5PM MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOM

Enhancing the exchange of experiences between national and foreign filmmakers and the audience, the Festival promotes informal discussions with participating filmmakers about the films being screened.

For those unable to attend, collective Mídia Ninja team will be streaming these debates. The exhibition will be made in full on the PosTV site
An edition of the debates will be also displayed in SescTV during the Festival. Check it out!

In construction

AUGUST 23 (FRI) – 8PM - MUSEUM OF IMAGE AND SOUND

With the support of TV Cultura and MIS, the release of the manual "Conservation and Restoration of Movies", by José Maria Pereira Lopes Marques and Silvia, will take place in the foyer of MIS.Even in times of digital media, it is always important to remember the need for conservation and restoration of audiovisual heritage on film.
José Maria Pereira Lopes has 45 years of working in television; his career is part of the history of Brazilian television. Having worked at Tupi, Excelsior and SBT, he is currently working as head of the TV Cultura image archive. He served 25 years as head of the Archive of the Museu da Imagem e do Som, in São Paulo (SP-MIS).

AUGUST 24 (SAT) – 3PM - MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOM

Connected with the history of the Kinoforum Workshops, this activity seeks to respond to the great interest shown by workshop attendees regarding the materialization of their ideas in cultural projects.

Creativity pulses through the veins of these young people who want to learn how to turn their ideas into viable projects that have power to compete for the various existing pro-culture subsiding bills.

To meet this demand, Criarte Comunicação e Cultura promotes the workshop "Basic Training for Cultural Projects", aimed at students and alumni of the Kinoforum Workshops, students, professionals and other interested people.

Renata Freire, graduated in Social Communication, producer and director of documentaries and partner owner of Criarte Communicação e Cultura, will conduct the event.

AUGUST 24 (SAT) – 6PM - MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOM

After the first edition of project BASE FILMS by Esmir Son, Mariana Bastos and Thereza Menezes, participants and organizers of the project meet with the public to talk about the dialogue in the creative process.

The project is inspired by international artist residencies, with a focus on developing cinema, short film, and feature film screenplays in fiction, animation or documentary, regardless of the stage of development.

The residency took place between 8/19 and 8/23, in a house in the mountains of São Francisco Xavier, São Paulo. Participants were free to work on their projects and manage their own time.www.residenciabase.com

Game Brazucah: 1st Meeting of the players of the Brazilian cinema game
AUGUST 25 (SUN) – 6PM - MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOM

The participants of the 1st Meeting of the players of the Brazilian cinema game get together and compete for prizes during the Short Film Festival. The game asks participants to disclose information about the Brazilian audiovisual together with the Network Brazucah, a screening and graduating network composed of students and teachers.

AUGUST 27 – 6:30PM - MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOM

Release of the box on Blu-Ray and DVD of "The Oblivion Trilogy" series composed of short films "Satori Uso", "Booker Pittman" and "Haruo Ohara", produced by Kinoarte (Londrina / PR) between 2005 and 2010, they won more than 50 awards. It is the first release of Brazilian short films on Blu-Ray.

AUGUST 28 - 6:30PM - MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOM

Organized by Sávio Leite, the book brings together stories that are being made quietly by several professionals committed to the development of thought about film animation in all its facets and as an inquisitive, visionary and imaginative cinema with the power to touch issues relevant to society.

AUGUST 29 (THU) – 16PM - MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOM

The members of the Itamaraty Award jury - international curators Maria Morata of the Berlin Film Festival and Alice Kharoubi of the Cannes Film Festival alongside Itamaraty representative José Roberto Rocha F ° - participate in an open debate in which the public will comment films they watched.

Filmmaker Matias Mariani, president of the Cultural Association Kinoforum will be conducting the event.

Shortie & Market is an event that brings together producers and exhibitors to discuss the diffusion of short films and their remuneration and will be held this year as a results action at a later date after the Festival, with the support of the Audiovisual Secretariat (National Cultural Fund.) Visit the Kinoforum website for information on the schedule.www.kinoforum.org

PARTNERSHIP WITH COLLECTIVES

As happens every year, the Festival takes part of its programming to areas outside the city center, in partnership with local groups. This year, the exhibits take place in Vila Prudente, in the East Zone, and Capão Redondo, in the South Zone, under the care of the collective Ecoinformação and ONG Capão Cidadão, respectively, with outdoor projections open to the public and free.The program was chosen by members of the collectives and is available at the Festival site.

22 to 24 August - 19:00
ONG CAPÃO CIDADÃO
Adress: José Messias Street, 1.000  - Capão Redondo – Phone: 5825-7603 
August 31th - 19HCOLETIVO ECOINFORMAÇÃO
Adress: Igreja Street, s/n – Vila Prudente - Phone: 3435-2655
CITY CULTURAL CIRCUIT- CINE Kinoforum

The Festival this year extends its programming to the East Zone of São Paulo, in partnership with the Department of Culture. A special program has been selected, focusing on themes dear to the enhancement of human relationships. It is intended to stimulate the dialogue between education and culture through the audiovisual language as well as to promote discussion and reflection.

The program is divided into four Centros Educacionais Unificados (CEUs) in the region of São Miguel Paulista and two newly opened cultural centers: the Centro de Formação Cultural Cidade Tiradentes and Centro Cultural da Penha.

PROGRAM
August 26th  – Três Pontes
August 27th – Parque Veredas
August 28th – Vila Curuçá
August 29th – Parque São Carlos
September first – Centro de Formação Cultural

Cidade Tiradentes e Centro Cultural da Penha

Project Kino Thought and Action is a new activity that’s starting to be developed by the Cultural Association Kinoforum, aiming to promote reflection on current reality through the audiovisual. The project is being launched with the Critical State program (see p. 96), a set of recent short films that instigate the debate on human rights issues.

As an offshoot of project Kinoforum Audiovisual Culture Point, which for three years (2010-2012) promoted workshops and programming as well as supported ascreening centers in various communities in the city of São Paulo, Kino Thought and Action seeks to promote screenings of short films followed by talks about citizenship, human rights and social issues in areas that are already developing debates, meetings and reflection on these themes.

In this edition of the Festival, Cine Olido and Espaço Itaú de Cinema sessions will be followed by discussions with guests and the action also takes place in partnership with the Movement in Defense of Slum Residents (MDF) and Editora FiloCzar, who participated in the selection of films and will be provoking discussions in the regions where they operate, respectively on the east and south of São Paulo.

CRITICAL STATE DEBATES
AUGUST 24 (SAT) – 5PM
MOVEMENT IN DEFENSE OF SLUM RESIDENTS - MDF
Rua Bispo Eugênio Demazenod, 463A – Vila Alpina  (East Zone / SP)

MDF’s main aim is to work on the base, visiting leaders and slum dwellers, organizing with them their main demands. Rescuing, defending and promoting slum dwellers’ citizenship, in its political, artistic, educational and religious scopes upon the tripod: Presence, Resistance and Solidarity.www.mdf.org.br

FILOCZAR PUBLISHING COMPANYAUGUST 25 (SUN) – 5PM
Rua Durval Guerra de Azevedo, 511 – Parque Santo Antônio (South Zone / SP)

We the Publishing Company FiloCzar aim to: encourage the perception of possible worlds to anyone; support situations that provide the taste for caring for yourself and others; implement actions that foster the collective construction of a new way of living that makes the pleasure of getting together something common; cultivate the taste for knowledge.www.editorafiloczar.com.br

Audiovisual schools of São Paulo are valuable partners of the Short Film Festival; many activities are carried out with them not only during the event but also throughout the year. The goal is to stimulate audiovisual students' contact with the short film format and their participation in the Festival, opening a channel of communication to the wishes and proposals of the new generation.
The work begins with a round of visits to schools in the first semester to present the activities and also to invite students to participate.

Each year, students from an institution get in charge of producing the making of the Festival, shooting footage and interviews throughout the event. This year, the Santo André Free School of Cinema, in the ABC Paulista, will take care of the event making of.

Students are also incorporated into our team as interns in different areas of action, working and living the routine of the event production. And many others participate as monitors, accompanying guests and the public over the nine days of programming.Also part of the activities, in partnership with educational institutions, are projects Short Review and Kino Nights (see opposite page), and the Students Showcase, whose films are indicated by schools.In 2013, the big news is the Program in Progress project, whose aim is to awaken the curatorial activity, geared mainly to film analysis and criticism. Groups of students from some universities will schedule a session up to 60 minutes in length for screening inside the university itself during the Festival, followed by a conversation with classmates.

Kino's Night
SCREENING - AUGUST 26 (Mon) – 9pm - CINEMATECA

One of the more traditional activities of the Short Film Festival, the Kino Night is an audiovisual contest held in partnership with schools in the state of São Paulo, which indicate four students in advance to participate in the event.

The activity sets off on Saturday, August 24, at 8:30 am at the Cinemateca Brasileira. Students meet and have breakfast together in order to get acquainted to the theme that should inspire their productions.

From there, they carry out their projects, which will be shown on the evening of August 26, Monday, at the Cinemateca Brasileira. The screening is free and open to the public.


Short Review
The Short Review Project, held annually at São Paulo International Short Film Festival since 2005, invites audiovisual school students to reflect on the possible visual aesthetics of the format.

This year's Short Review Blog becomes the main space of the workshop, enabling closer contact between filmmakers and texts written about their films during the event. The blog also promotes the interaction between the new workshop participants, indicated by the partner schools of the Short Film Festival, with veterans.

Film critic Heitor Augusto will coordinate the following activities:
*Monitoring of Brazilian and Latin American short film screenings
*Production of reflexive texts about the films, establishing dialogues with short films from other sessions
*Debates and conversations between filmmakers and workshop participants to be streamed online in partnership with the collective Fora do Eixo*Support for the critical evaluation of the contemporary production

AUGUST 29 (WED) – 7PM - CINE OLIDO

The Festival joins the Municipal Education and Culture Departments to discuss the use of the short film in the classroom. The debate takes place at Cine Olido, with the participation of José Fernando de Almeida, responsible for the Technical Guidance Board (DOT) of the Municipal Education Department of São Paulo, the body responsible for coordinating the pedagogical guidelines that guide professionals as well as schools of the Municipal Teaching network of São Paulo, and Alfredo Manevy, assistant Secretary of Culture of São Paulo.

This year, the Short Film Festival will have an intense schedule in the countryside of the State of São Paulo, with film screenings in Sorocaba, Votorantim and Ribeirão Preto, and for the third time also in Curitiba, PR.

In Ribeirão Preto, screenings will take place on September 7 and 8, always at 8pm at Cineclube Cauim, the biggest cine club in the country. The Cauim has been developing an important project of cinema popularization in the region for the last 30 years. Its room with 808 seats has received over 2 million people already. Projects are developed based on agreements with the City and the State Government and the through free sessions during the weekend.

For the cities of Sorocaba and Votorantim joint programming was developed with local partners and the four-day schedule (from September 12 to 15, 2013) begins with a Cine Bike Ride (see on p. 128). The schedule also takes place in the auditorium of the SESC, Oficina Cultural Grande Otelo, Seminário Archdiocesano’s Green Room, Senac’s Auditorium and Prof. Selma Martins Cunha School in Votorantim. Chats with guest directors, children's activities and an outdoor screening in Miguel Gregório Park, in the neighborhood of Santa Barbara, in partnership with Project 'Cinema Scene' held by the Sorocaba Department of Culture, will also take place. The Cine Solar Project, which conducts outdoor screenings from a truck equipped with 100% self-sustaining solar panels, will be part of the schedule.

The Sorocaba leg of the event has longtime partners like SESC, the Department of Culture of the State and the Government of the State of São Paulo, and this year Sabesp sponsors the event highlighting the schedule of the countryside of São Paulo. The Sorocaba and Votorantim leg of the event also has the collaboration of the Departments of Culture of Sorocaba and Votorantim.On September 20, 21 and 22, the Festival comes to Curitiba, where Caixa Cultural, a part of Caixa Econômica Federal, has welcomed it over the last three years. The schedule was still under preparation as this catalogue went to press, but you can check it out in our website: www.kinoforum.org.