EVENTS

BETO VALENTE & ANDRE SAMPAIO

escapulaRio, 2004 14’23’’- DV / Pal

Read more: Escapulario Script (extracts)

Directors:
Beto Valente and Andre Sampaio

Camera :
Beto Valente

Editors :
AndrÈ Sampaio and LoÔc de Quellennec

Producers:
Inventarte (Brazil) and camÈra du monde (France)

Synopsis:

What is a scapulario, this necklace that almost every carioca wears? An Amulet, a protection?
This documentary presents a poetical introduction to this mystery, wandering around one of the most beautiful cities in the world, disconvering its original and sincere characters.


Beto Valente

Born on the 27th of April 1967, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.        Lives and works in Paris since 2001.        Director, scriptwriter, poet , cameraman

Beto Valente

Andre Sampaio

        Creates in July 2002 the independent production caméra du monde, producing institutional videos (ONG, Associations.), documentaries, and authorial pieces.
         In 1996, he works as a cameraman for the CECIP (popular images creation centre) with the director of documentary films Eduardo Coutinho.
         Between 1991 and 1999 he makes several independent videos and collaborates in a number of short-films.
         From 1991 to 1996 he completes his BA in History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
         From 1989 to 1993 he studies at the visual art school Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro where he works with the artists Beatriz Milhazes, Astrea El Jaick and Charles Watson,
         Fomer member of Grupo Boato, a musical/performative group, active in the carioca scene between 1989 and 2000.
         Wrote lyrics that were recorded by Cidade Negra, Ney Matogrosso, Osvaldo Pereira and Pedro Luis e a Parede, among others.

         Principal personal films:

        _ Subtitles , fiction, 6', 2004. Production Les ScénarriMobiles, camera du monde (France) and Inventarte ( Brazil);
         - Sarava,(with Dado Amaral ) fiction, 14', 2004. Production Caboclo Filmes, Pela madrugada, Inventarte and camera du monde (Brazil- France);
         _ Road Movie Familial, fiction, 12'50", 2004. Production Les ScénarriMobiles, camera du monde (France) and Inventarte ( Brazil);
         - The Master, the monk and myself , fiction, 7'50'', 2004. Production: Inventarte - caméra du monde, Paris;
         - Escapulario (with André Sampaio), documentary, 14', 2004. Production: Inventarte - caméra du monde, Rio de Janeiro, Paris - DV;
         - Ceci n'est pas un pape ( This is not a pope), art video, 2'27'', 2004. Production: caméra du monde, Paris - DV;
         - Quelle belle femme (What a beautiful women), fiction, 15', 2003. Production caméra du monde, Paris - DV ;
         - VIP « very incroyables parisiens », 8', 2002. Production caméra du monde, Paris - DV;
         - Boato - uma autodefinitude (Boato - a self definition), experimental, 12', 1991. Independent Production, Rio de Janeiro - 16mm;

Exibitions and Festivals 2004:
         OHNE KOHLE Internationales Indépendant Video-und Filmfestival
with the film " The Master, the monk and myself"- Austria -Vienna
         Art and Déchirure Festival with the film " Memoires d'un Névropathe"- Rouen- France
         Waterwords Projects with the Worlds Poetrys - Antwerpen, Belgium / Rome, Italy
         Espaço Cultural Sergio Porto with the film " Sarava" - Rio de Janeiro- Brazil
         Uguanda with the brazilian artist Marssares - Tabernacle -London
         Cosy Universe ( Brazilian Multimedia Art Display) - London ( 30 october 2004) with the films Sarava, The master , the monk and my self and This is not a pope
         Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival

Main awards:

        - Popular Award for the film Boato - uma autodefinitude, 3 Festival Curta Adoidado, Rio de Janeiro- Brazil
        - Panda for the film Boato - uma autodefinitude, Rio Cine
        - Festival / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992
        - Film Revelation for the film Boato uma-autodefinitude, 13th international cinema journey of Bahia Salvador, Brazil, 1992

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       Andre Sampaio
       Born in Rio de Janeiro on the 5th of September of 1975
        Formation
        -Studied Cinema at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF).
         -Masters in Social memory at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), under the title “AlÙ, alÙ cinema” (memory, culture and language on the relationship between Cinema and Radio, between 1930 and 1940)

        Main Works

        - 1996 As a sound technician and editor, made the short features “The Xupeta Clown” 16mm (1996/ Bronze Medal in the CINE ART’97 –
11th International KurzFilmFestival, Germany, 1997)
        - 1997 “Controversy: Noel Rosa x Wilson Batista” 35mm (1998/ Outstanding Cultural Expression and Best Film by Popular Jury in the 4th Uni Cinema Festival of Rio de Janeiro
         - 2001 Edition, both image and sound, of the 35mm short-film “O velho, o Mar e oLago” (The old man, the sea and the lake). Production: Imagem bruta and Marcelo Maia. Direction: Camilo Santos Cavalcante.
Award for the best edition ( Silver Tatu ) on the 28th Jornada de Cinema da Bahia.
        - 2004 Conception, direction and edition of the “video window”, exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, for the exhibition Rua dos Inventos (Street of inventions), by Gabriela Gusmao. Production: Inventarte, wich was sponsored by IBM through the Brazilian Ministry of Culture.

Further info:
Beto Valente
E-mail: cameradumonde@yahoo.fr
Tel: 0033 1 43492924 / 0033 6 82201356 Paris, France.