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Mixture and Invention Doc. Vídeo . Color . 68’ . 2002
About the film

A Superfilmes and TV Cultura & Arte/MINC co-production.

Synopsis

Brazil, despite all the vicissitudes of its formation, has much to say to the world. "Mixing and Invention", a documentary of 68 minutes, offers a kaleidoscopic immersion in Brazilian culture, both diverse, lush and suffered, unique experience on planet Earth.Including images collected in Brazil, archive material, testimonies of privileged interpreters of country, literature and music, Mixture and Invention reveals a plot of a Brazilian message for the future.

Director Isa Grinspum Ferraz

Isa Grinspum Ferraz was born in Recife in 1958. Graduated in Social Sciences and Philosophy by the University of Sao Paulo. She is screenwriter, documentarist and curator of exhibitions and multimedia museums. Collaborated with the famous brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi and with the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro.

Has directed the series Brazilian People, based in Darcy Ribeiro's work, Interpreters of Brazil and The value of Tomorrow. The last one was exhibited by Fantastico, a news program from Globo TV channel. In 2011 has realeased the feature lenght film Marighella

Ferraz has also directed the medium lenght films Lina Bo Bardi, O Milagre do Pão, A Cidade não pára and Darcy Ribeiro:Um vulcão de Ideias.


 

Crew

Director

Isa Ferraz


Screenplay

Antônio Risério, Isa Grinspum Ferraz and Marcos Pompéia


Executive Producer

Zita Carvalhosa


Directors of Photography

Adrian Cooper, Carlos Ebert and José Guerra


Editors

Idê Lacreta and Vânia Debs

 
 
 
 
 
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