Tracking The Cultural Convoy

Category: documentary
(Color-NTSC / 25 min. / Brazil - 2008)

Synopsis: Dance, music, circus, opera and theater everywhere in the state of Paraná.  The Cultural Convoy was an unusual project that transformed nine buses into stages and traveled through 399 towns from 1999 to 2002, with three thousand spectacles seen by more than two million people. Goulart's camera tracked unique and precious moments of a successful cultural project undertaken in Brazil.

Production: Goulart Filmes
Executive producer: Marcelo Nigri
Producers: Ivy Goulart and Marcelo Nigri
Director and screenwriter: Ivy Goulart
Assistant director: Antonia Gama
Director of photography: Sergio Vieira and Ivy Goulart
Art director: Ivy Goulart
Editing: Leandro Meneguiti
Camera operator: Ivy Goulart
Narrator: José Wilker
Music: Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque, Rosy Greca, Enéas Lour and Hélio Sant’Ana
Art designer: Luciane Nard
Translation: Marcelo Nigri

Screenings

Showings:

• Brazilian Endowment for the Arts – Goulart’s Films (New York, May 2008);
• Brazilian-American Cultural Institute (BACI) – Goulart’s Films (Washington, DC, January 2008).

Festivals:

• Agulhas Negras Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro, November 2009);
• MEMOSTRA 2009 – Special Session for the 100th Film Screened (Curitiba, Brazil, September 2009);
• 19th São Paulo International Short Film Festival (São Paulo, August 2008).

TV:

• TV Câmara – Olhares (2009);
• TV Câmara – Curtas na TV (2008).

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