Private Project

Anhangabaú

Anhangabaú is an inventive documentary about the symbolic constructions of a city in dispute. The film narrates three conflicts in the city of São Paulo. An artistic occupation that suffers a threat of repossession, a theatre group performing on the streets the desire of constructing an ecological park and the Guarani Myba, a indigenous community that struggles to protect the last holdover of the atlantic rainforrest in the city that won't stop growing.

  • Luis Fernando Blini Martins
    Director
    Lufe Bollini
  • André Luís Bittencour Garcia
    Writer
    André Luís Garcia
  • Rafael Ribas Avancini
    Producer
    Rafael Avancini
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Anhangabaú
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Social, Environmental, Artistic, Politic
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 25 minutes
  • Production Budget:
    100,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Luis Fernando Blini Martins

Graduated in audiovisual realizations in Unisinos between 2004 and 2009, specialized in direction and film editing. His universitary short film “Os Boçais” has been selected in various festivals around Brazil such as Festival Internacional de Curtas de São Paulo in 2010 and was prized in the Gramado Cine Video as best universitary gaúcho fictional short film. Among 2012 and 2013 released the short films “Confissões de Um Ex-Astro Mirim” and “Toda La Puta Vida Igual”.

In 2014 introduced in São Paulo his fourth short film “Fantasma Da Saudade No Vale da Morte". Awarded as best shot underground film in Lisbon International Film Festival, best short film in Festival Internacional de Cinema na Fronteira and second best movie in We Love Paris Film Festival, all in 2016. In 2017 releases the feminist documentary “Yomared” winner in three categories in the 45º Festival Internacional de Cinema de Gramado: best music, best editing, best actress and also honorable mention in the Festival Internacional de Cinema Na Fronteira in 2017. In the same year was chosen as third best short gaúcho film by the Associação de Críticos de Cinema do Rio Grande do Sul (ACCIRGS)

Created the argument, co-directed, acted and edited the 25 minutes series “Ruas em Transe” that was released in the beginning of 2018 in the TV Brasil. In 2019 published the short film in super 8 “La Danza Invisible” that was drafted in the Festival Cèfalu (Itália) and the Lift Off Global Network (Inglaterra). In this same year was jury in the short films in the Festival Internacional de Cinema da Fronteira.

In 2020 there was an retrospective of his short films in the Redenção room by the students of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre. His first feature film as director and editor, Anhangabaú, was selected in 2018 for the Canal Futura pitching in Rio de Janeiro and in 2019 for the market meeting in the I Sur Fronteira in Porto Alegre. The first cut of the movie was analyzed by Jordana Berg in the Rough Cut of 2020 DocSp. The movie is situated in phase of finalization.

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Director Statement

Brasil faces a negative political, social and cultural transformation since the coup that overthrew Dilma Rouseff in 2016 and with the election of a far-right president in 2018. The several housing settlements, the violence, the police and the thousands homeless and constant reforms that aim to kick out the poorer for the peripheries are the universe in which we are inserted living in the center of the city.
We are ocular witnesses of the events, characters and social struggles in a direct and indirect way. I participated actively in the artistic settlement Ouvidor 63 since the opening of its doors and i am an resident artist of the Vale do Anhangabaú since 2012, our tematic trigger.
The desire to reveal these movements for the world, searching for launching bridges to these conflicts, finding poetic crossroads take us to a cinematic survey that lasted 4 years (from 2016 to 2020, before the pandemic in Brazil). Distinct conflicts that cross the contemporary crisis in the city; the gentrification e the property speculation inserted in the life of the artists and the indigenous communities in the biggest city of Latin America.
Anhangabaú is a poetic and essayistic documentary about a city in a secular dispute about territory, a big metaphor of the visible and invisible fights that happen all around Latin America and the world. It was in the Vale do Anhangabaú where initiated the european colonization in São Paulo and is, until today, stage to its consequences. The movie has the purpose to bring light to these narratives, that the civil society, the artistic class and the original people continue to struggle during the govern of Bolsonaro.