|
|
DIRECTORS` PROFILE
Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, both 29 years old, are two young directors from the new-new generation of Brazilian filmmakers that began their careers at the beginning of the 21st Century. They have worked together since college, co-directing two award-winning shorts (“Waterbound” and “His Name: The Clown”) that were presented in more than 50 film festivals around the world between 2003 and 2005, including Oberhausen, Tampere and Cork.
In 2005, Felipe Bragança directed a third award-winning short (“Jonas e a Baleia”) and started a prolific partnership with Karim Ainouz, as a screenwriter and assistant-director that began with “Suely in the Sky/Love for Sale” (Venice, 2006), through HBO’s “Alice”, to his latest feature project “Praia do Futuro.” Bragança is also the creative partner of Eduardo Valente and Helvécio Marins Jr, two directors of the current Brazilian New Wave Cinema.
Marina Meliande has also worked as a sound and film editor since college, editing more than 40 feature films and shorts. In 2007 she was selected for a two-year artistic residency at the Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, in France. This is where she started working with video installations as an extension to her work in cinema and to experiment with the new relation between an audience and gallery spaces.
Being part of a new generation of filmmakers, tired of the same “sixties nostalgic” ideals still focused on good part by the Brazilian authorial cinema, Bragança and Meliande developed together, since 2008, the Coração no Fogo (Hearts on Fire) Trilogy, as a way of questioning some realistic traditions in Brazilian movies.
The Coração no Fogo Trilogy consists of a digital experimental, no-budget musical called “The Escape of The Monkey Woman” (presented in competition at the 2009 Locarno Film Festival), “Desassossego”, a collective experimental film that unites ten young Brazilian filmmakers, with the artistic coordination of Bragança and Meliande (currently in post production), and “A Alegria (The Joy)”, the second film in the trilogy, and the riskiest of the group of poetic films. Bragança and Meliande believe they are like youth songs, being reinterpreted as Utopia and innovation in the panorama of Brazilian cinema.
|
english | português 
