Art/Dissemination: Carlos Eduardo Conceição • LISA Scientific Dissemination Scholarship
Revision: Vanessa Munhoz • LISA Communication
Published: 03/18/2025
Amazon Film Course: An Immersion in the Region’s Audiovisual Production
Audience: Researchers, producers, students and everyone who is interested in the cinematic richness of the Amazon.
Objective: The course offers a deep reflection on recent transformations in Amazon cinema, exploring the cultural and identity diversity of Amazonian filmmakers. Focusing especially on documentary productions, the course highlights the social, cultural and aesthetic issues that define cinema in this rich and plural region.
Period of Realization: from 02/04/2025 to 16/04/2025
Hourly Load: 15 hours
Places: 5 to 50 students
Certificate: For those who have 75% of attendance
Detailed Schedule 🎥
Session 1: History and Cinema of the Amazon (17/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
Silvino Santos and the Amazonian discursive/visual tradition (Sávio Luis Stoco) and Amazonas, o Maior Rio do Mundo (1920).
Session 2: The Amazon Seen through the Lens of "Others" (19/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
Iracema, a transa amazônica e Amazônia S/A (Pindorama Filmes, 2015).
Session 3: Social Projects, Cinemas and Amazonias (24/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
Cinema de beiras (Liendria Marla Malcher) and ÃGAWARAITA (2022, Priscila Tapajowara).
Session 4: The Amazon Seen through the Lens of the Amazonids (26/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
As Amazonas do Cinema Paraense (Alexandra Conceição) and Lendas Vidas (Anna Karla Lima, 2024).
Session 5: Representations of the Amazon in Fiction Films (31/03/2025)
Reading and Filmography:
Images of the Amazon in International Cinema (Gustavo Gonçalves) and Matinta (2017) and Covato (2020).
Complementary Bibliography: A selection of readings on cinema, environment, and cultural resistance, including works by Adrian Cowell, Gustavo Ferreira, and more.
Coordination: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikji
Ministrants: Ester Paixão Corrêa and Diego Alano de Jesus Pereira Pinheiro
Registrations open from 19/03/2025 to 25/03/2025 through the Apollo System
For more information visit: https://sce.fflch.usp.br/node/6016