Kinoforum Workshops of audiovisual

Arroz, Feijão, Cinema e Vídeo

Contact: Vanice Deise da Silva
Phone: 55 11 8402 3625 / 55 11 7352 7470 / 55 11 3979 3891
E-mail: arrozfeijaocinemaevideo@yahoo.com.br
Address: Rua Joaquim Pimentel, 30 – apt. 22-B
Cohab Taipas/Conjunto Residencial Elisio Teixeira Leite
ZIP CODE: 02815-100 – São Paulo/SP

Formed by ex-students from the Brasilândia Kinoforum Workshop in 2003. They were granted with the VAI sponsorship (Cultural Initiatives Valuation Program), for their project called “Rolê na Quebrada” (“Walk on the Wildside”). On its first year, this audiovisual sensibility project made a video workshop and a fanzine which culminated on a final event full of artistical presentations and the screening of short films made during the “Rolê na Quebrada” and other workshops around the Taipas neighborhood.

The Arroz, Feijão, Cinema e Vídeo made the following short-films: “Mãe na Obra” (Mother at work) and “Arroz, Feijão e Macarrão” (Rice, Beans and Pasta), both shown on the Developing New Looks program at the 15th São Paulo International Short-Film Festival in 2004; “A Jogada” (The Move), shown on the Developing New Looks program in 2005; and “Taipas da cabeça aos pés"(Taipas from top to toes), shown on the Developing New Looks program in 2006. On the KinoOikos Program in 2007, they presented the vídeo: “Algo inusitado” (Something unpredicted), a video made in one of the workshops the group held in their goal neighborhood.

Filmagens Periféricas

Rua Arnaldo Bonaventura, 411
Cidade Tiradentes – São Paulo/SP
ZIP CODE: 08470-210
Phone: (011) 9877-8886 Negro JC
Phone: (011) 9908-3995 Montanha
Phone: (011) 6849-5233  Sede
E-mail: filmagensperifericas@hotmail.com
Website: www.filmagensperifericas.org (Under Construction)

Filmagens Periféricas is a group which objectives introducing all audiovisual formats in the suburbs and in a near future creating a communitarian TV in the Tiradentes neighboorhood.
In 2006, it taught a video workshop at the Itaú Cultural which resulted on the “Augusta ao Gosto” (Augusta at you liking), selected on the Developing New Looks program and winner of the Porta-Curtas Prize.

Nowadays, it develops the Suburb Cinema Project exhibiting outdoors Brazilian cinema and video to the public in the Tiradentes neighborhood for free. The average audience to one exhibiton is 120 people. We intend to spread all over the 20 counties in the Tiradentes Neighborhood. After the screening there is a debate between the movie-makers and the audience.

MUCCA – Mudança com Conhecimento, Cinema e Arte

Contact: Vânia Silva
Phone: (11) 7308-7528
E-mails: mucca_cinema@yahoo.com.br, vaniasilvalab@yahoo.com.br
Address: Rua Durval Guerra de Azevedo, 705
Parque Santo Antônio
ZIP CODE: 05852-440 – São Paulo/SP

MUCCA sprang after a Kinoforum Workshop held in the Casa dos Meninos (Children’s Center), in the beginning of 2004. It is focused on itinerant free screenings. In April 2006, MUCCA was granted with the VAI sponsorship, a program from the Municipal Government Secretary of Culture and in 2007 it was allowed to use its equipments. In this way it was able to develop the following projects:

Curta o Ponto (Enjoy the Bus Stop): Short-film screenings on São Paulo’s South Zone bus stops intended to enable the contact of common workers to movies which leads them into reflection. 
Otoniel Mota Municipal School: Invited by the school principal, MUCCA began a project of screening and supporting teachers to make them acquainted with short-films, broadening their repertoires, and thus enabling this resource use in the classroom.
Projeção Festival de Direitos Humanos (Human Rights Exhibition Festival): MUCCA was one of the itinerant exhibition poles of the 1st Human Rights Exhibition Festival, which took place from May 13th  to 20th  and on which there was the possibility to make three screening with the festival theme. Community Cinema: in the partnership of the Associação Cultural Kinoforum in June, MUCCA made a soccer court screening on a shanty-town in the Ibirapuera Neighborhood, screening the full-length feature film Jardim Angela, from Evaldo Mocarzel.

Dragão-Blasé Produções

Contact: Giovani Barros / Vanessa Reis
Phone: 55 11 30622908
e-mail: dragaoblase@gmail.com

Dragão Blasé Producões is an independent group of study, experimentation and film making. The group was formed, after participating on the Kinoforum Workshop in 2005, due to the need of its members to keep on producing cinema, from a free joint, with neither theoretical nor aesthetical guidelines or fixed politics, but instead of that, opened to the possibilities of audiovisual creation.

Its first vídeo:“Exercício 1” (Exercise 1), by Marcus Vasconcelos, was exhibited on the Kinoforum Developing New Looks program at the 17th International Short Film Festival, on the 20th Paulista Audiovisual Show, on 2007 Free Film Show, on the Brazilian Universitarian Cinema Festival and it won the Best Experimental Video Award on the 1st Independent Video Show / 5th Mato Grosso Universitarian Cinema Festival in 2006. “Do Livro de Viagens” (Travel Book), from Vanessa Reis, is the second short-lenght film from Dragão-Blasé and it was exhibited o segundo curta da Dragão Blasé e on the 2007 Virada Cultural, on the Cinemateca screening room, in Sao Paulo and in the KinoOikos Program at the 18th Sao Paulo Short-Film Festival. At final cutting: “Uma canção de dois humanos” (A song of two humans) from Giovani Barros is at a final stage.

Since July 2007, Dragão Blasé and inhabitants of the Jd. São Remo Shanty-town, together with the partnership of the Associação Cultural Kinoforum, make free Brazilian films screenings open to the general public and for free.

Grupo Ecológico e Cultural Tio-Pac

Contact: Cláudio Nunes (Tio Pac)
Phone: 11 8378-1570
E-mail: tiopac@bol.com.br

The Grupo Ecológico e Cultural Tio-Pac was founded on May 1st, 2002 and has as a main goal to promote social integration of marginalized and socially excluded people, expanding its programming to these families through leisure, culture, events, communication and ecology. Establishing sponsors and partnerships with Universities, government offices, non-governmental organizations and centers of excellence in similar fields.

Developing its activities, the group searches the well-being of all races without any kind of prejudice or discrimination and providing a free public service. The institution may also create free community service unities to execute its activities aiming its self-sufficiency, through all possible and licit means and also applying its operational result, in its entirety, on the development of institutional objectives. 

The Ecological and Cultural Group Tio-Pac develops in partnership with the solidarity capability program, sponsored by the SEPP (Partnerships and Participation Special Secretary) and the CMDCA (Municipal Counseling on Children and Adolescents’ Rights) a project for technical studies on the audiovisual area for 35 young people from the age of 16 to 17. These studies consist on creating a professional group in the video production area, in all artistic fields, as well as, pedagogical and institutional ones. All members are inhabitants in the Cohab Cidade Tiradentes.

NERAMA - Núcleo de Estudos e Realização Audiovisual Monte Azul

Contact: Luciano Oliveira (Project representative)
Phone: 11 2182 3906 / 11 9181 2635
E-mail: nerama@gmail.com / anjos.oliveira@gmail.com

NERAMA is constituted of young students who comprehend cinema as a form of expression and communication. It was founded in 2001 and it has produced innumerous integration activities, democratizing the access to exhibition, studying and making of the audiovisual language. Producing artistically alternatives to value the national culture and giving new points of view to social, historical and human issues. Their main deeds were:
 
Exhibition:
The 1st Overview on the Brazilian Cinema Overtake in the Monte Alegre Cultural Center in 2005 with 14 films, free admittance and over 3000 viewers; The 2nd Overview on Brazilian Cinema in 2006 exhibiting 17 films. Quebrada Cinema Show, in partnership with independent groups articulated through the Quebrada Cinema Forum – the first suburb film show in the Sao Paulo Cultural Center. And in partnership with the groups Cine Becos and MUCCA, it shows short-length videos in bars and other meeting centers in the Jd. São Luiz Neighboor.

Making:
Um Monte em Mim (A hill on me), doc, 4’, 2004; Gota Serena (Serene Drop), doc, 1’30’’, 2005; Linha Contrária (Opposite Line), fic, 10’, 2006, won the Enjoy the Short Film Best Movie Award on the Developing New Looks program at the 17th São Paulo Internacional Short Film Festival. The prize was the distribution of the vídeo throughout Brazilian Festivals, and Poeira (Powder), exp, 5‘, 2007, awarded by Enjoy the Short Film on the KinoOikos program at the 17th São Paulo Internacional Short Film Festival in 2007.

Study:
 DOCTV, 2001, lenght: 4 months – A documentaty course turned to the members of NERAMA and taught by Paulo Alcoforado. Introduction to the Audiovisual Workshops at Centros Educacionais Unificados (C.E.Us) in the neighborhoods of Casa Blanca and Campo Limpo in 2004, it also took 4 months. Aimed at young people between the ages of 16 and 25 from the Jd São Luis and Campo Limpo neighborhoods. 
CineEscola Workshop, 2005, 4 weeks lenght, Charles De Gaulle State School, Jd. Ibirapuera Neighborhood. It was turned to students from 16 to 18 years old.
FABICINE – The Wonderful Cinema Factory. A huge event in 2006 monthly done in the Jd Antártica COHAB on the north zone of São Paulo.

NCA - Núcleo de Comunicação Alternativa

Contact: Daniel Fagundes
Email: ncanarede@gmail.com
Website: www.ncanarede.org
Blog: www.ncanarede.blogspot.com
Phone: 7687-5486 / 7180-7707 / 9514-8730 / 8542-6245

The NCA is an association of young people acting in diverse midia production areas. It was created in 2006 due to the impulse of São Paulo´s south zone students coming from workshops in the media field. Its main goal is the social-cultural enrichment of low income communities through a new communitarian information conception where a sampler, more direct, artistic and differently focused language is applied. Thus communicating the suburbs with the world and vice-versa using the Video, the Photography, the Press, the Internet and the Radio as tools, providing a series of diffusion activities.

2005, videoclip “A ilha” (The Island) from Nação Zumbi, directed by Fernando Solidade Soares, 2nd place in the contest “You are the director”.

2006, “Imagens de uma vida simples” (Images of a simple life), in partnership with CIA Teatral Sansacroma, winner of the “Criando Asas” Prize, from the Instituto Criar de Cinema e TV and Red Bull.

2006, “Paralelo: Espasmos de Realidade” (Parallel: spasm of reality); em 2007, exhibited on the I Philosophy Week from the Universidade São Camilo and selected to the competitive show from the 1st Human Rights Festival – Entretodos,
In partnership with Cinebecos (Organization of Independent Communicators) it was invited to be the official itinerant exhibitors of the productions selected by the festival, a great achievement for the group and the communities where the videos are shown.

2007, granted by the Municipal Government Cultural Secretary with the VAI sponsorship for their Popular Video Library Project which is a space where the many different communities can access the independent and alternative productions making free loans. The project acknowledges the suburban film makers

2007, videoclips: “Dupla-face” (Double-face) from Rap Pacíficos and “Evolutionary” from rapper Salles.

2007, Daniel Fagundes teaches a digital photography workshop in the cultural space F.A.C.A.