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Tarabatara Doc . 35mm . Color . 23' . 2007
Synopsis

“Why have I never lived in just one place? Because I feel bad. I feel very bad breathing the air of just one place”. Tarabatara is a moment of everyday life showing the charm of a gipsy family in the northeast of Brazil. The documentary captures moments of pause and rest in the nomadism of the gipsies. The old man and his memories, the women and children of the group, the way they talk and their gestures, looks and chores.

Director Julia Zakia

Julia Zakia has a Cinema Studies degree by the School of Arts and Communication - University of Sao Paulo (ECA - USP). Since then, she has directed five short-films, selected by the most important festivals around the world. She had the oportunity to accompany the portuguese cinematographer Eduardo Serra, assisting him during the shootings of  Blood Diamond, directed by Ed Zwick in Mozambique.

 

In 2007 she recieved the "Estímulo Prize" for short-films, granted by the São Paulo State Government  in order to develop the documentary short TARABATARA, about a gipsy family living in the state of Alagoas.

 

From the experience of living with this gipsy family she wrote the script of RIO CIGANO, her first feature film. 

 

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:

RIO CIGANO (DCP-fiction-90'-2015)

PEDRA BRUTA (35mm –fiction-8’-2009)

TARABATARA (35mm-documentary-23’-2007)

A ESTÓRIA DA FIGUEIRA (35mm-fiction-17’-2006)

O CHAPÉU DO MEU AVÔ (video-documentary-29’-2004)

Crew

Director

Julia Zakia


Executive Producer

Patrick Leblanc


Assistant Director, Still Photogtapher, Production and Camera

 Laura Mansur

 

Screenwriter

 Julia Zakia


Cinematographer

 Julia Zakia


Editor

Hélio Villela and Julia Zakia


Production Manager

Guilherme César


Sound Editing

Guile Martins

Festivals

  • I Festival de Cinema de Triunfo - Best Photography Award
  • VII Festival Internacional de Cine Documental del Outro Cine – Equador 2008 Feminina fest
  • 20th Rencontres Cinémas D'Amérique Latine de Toulouse 2008
  • 14º Festival de Cinema e Vídeo de Cuiabá
  • Festival Internacional de Documentários 2008
  • Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro 2007
  • Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte
  • 19º Curta Kinoforum - Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de São Paulo
  • 8º Goiânia Mostra de Curtas
  • Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico 2008
  • 15 Vitória Cine Vídeo 2008
  •  6ª Mostra de Cinema Documentário de Ipatinga 2009, 
  • "Cinema Verite" 3rd Iran International Documentary Film Festival 2009, 
  • 7th Asiana International Short Film Festival 2009



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