The End of The Endless - 2001

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The End of The Endless - 2001

O Fim do Sem Fim [The End of The Endless] is a feature documentary film that has as scenery the upcoming disappearance of some jobs and professions in Brazil. It composes an immersive picture about the creative geniality and the resistance against new cultural forms and technological trends.

By discussing the finality and the expected end of some process evolved in some kind of handwork nowadays, the substitutions that contemporary life promotes are discussed with great originality by the professionals workers. Experts in not so useful activities, they play in the film their own roles in real life.

Direction and editing: Beto Magalhães, Cao Guimarães e Lucas Bambozzi
Production company: Diphusa/ Bananeira Filmes/ Cinco em Ponto
Co-prodduction: Diphusa – digital media + aRT e Bial Cultura e Arte e Cinco em Ponto
Executive Producers: Vânia Catani e Lucas Bambozzi
Producer: Beto Magalhães
Research: Gibi Cardoso
Original soundtrack: O Grivo
Sound recording: Marcos M. Marcos
Assistant: Gibi Cardoso
Art: Júlio Dui
Video photography: Beto Magalhães e Lucas Bambozzi
Super-8 photography: Cao Guimarães e Lucas Bambozzi
16mm photography: Cao Guimarães
Duration: 92’00”
Screening format: 35mm
Capture format: 16mm/ Super-8/ mini DV
Aspect: 1:66
Sound: Dolby Digital

AWARDS

GNT PRIZE FOR LANGUAGE RENOVATION
- Competição Brasileira (Júri Oficial) VI É Tudo Verdade – Festival Internacional de Documentários. São Paulo. 2001.
BEST FILM EDITING
- XI Cine Ceará. Fortaleza, 2001.

LE PRIX GEORGES DE BEAUREGARD FOR INNOVATOR FILMS
- Competição Internacional do XII Festval International du Documentaire – Marseille. França, 2001.

CINEMA INDIRETO PRIZE
- Júri oficial do forumdoc.bh.2001 –5º Festival do Filme Documentário e Etnográfico. Belo Horizonte, 2001.

FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS
- 43o Festival Internacional de Documentários “Dei Popoli”. Florença, Itália- 2001.
- XXVII Festival do RioBR 2001.Rio de Janeiro-RJ, 2001.
- Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo. São Paulo-SP, 2001
- Festival de Cinema de Recife. Recife-PE, 2002.
- 8o Vitória Cine e Vídeo. Vitória-ES, 2001.
- XXV Conferência Mundial do Input (InternationaI Public Television Screening Conference) Rotterdam- Holanda.
- Doc Point- Helsinki Documentary Film Festival. Helsinki, Finlândia. 2002.
- IV FICA- Festival Internacional de Cinema e Vídeo Ambiental. Cidade de Goiás- GO. 2002.

O-nao-fim-do-sem-fim
por Moacyr Laterza

O Fim do Sem Fim
por Paulo Santos Lima