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Trippy Dunes

TRIPPY DUNES talks about the reinvention of joy in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the first half of the '70s, a cultural moment that reverberates throughout Brazil to this day. Through alternative models of creation and tools, a generation of artists from the city of Rio de Janeiro expressed their ideas and resisted the military government and its fierce censorship.

  • Olívio Petit
    Director
  • Olívio Petit
    Writer
  • Roberto Moura
    Producer
  • Renata Catharino
    Film Editor
  • Sérgio Mekler
    Film Editor
  • Guga Millet
    DoP
  • Rodrigo Sampaio
    DoP
  • Benhur Machado
    Production Sound
  • Pedro Moreira
    Production Sound
  • Axel Lischke
    Production Sound
  • Kiti Soares
    Production Designer
  • Sérgio Mekler
    Music by
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Dunas do Barato
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Feature
  • Genres:
    Surf, Historical, Brazil, Hippies, Music, Art, Protest, Human Rights, Dictatorship, Totalitarism
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 30 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 12, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil, United States
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    19:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Netflix Brazil
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Olívio Petit

OLÍVIO PETIT (DIRECTOR), making his feature film directorial debut, has a Bachelor's degree in Social Communication from ECO UFRJ, majoring in Advertising, Publicity, and Public Relations. He studied screenwriting with Alberto Salva, João das Neves, and Braulio Pedroso, and scenography with Luiz Carlos Ripper. He was filmmaker Silvio Tendler's assistant director between 1980 and 1984 – including in the feature film "JANGO," award winner at CNBB and the Gramado Festival.

Petit transitioned to the small screen, where he directed one of Manchete network children's programs between 1988 and 1991. As Executive Editor, Editor-in-Chief, and Artistic Manager of the SPORTV channel, Petit was primarily responsible for the creation and production of the shows the channel produced and aired between 1991 and 2003, including the broadcasts of major events such as the Olympic Games, the Soccer World Cups, and live broadcasts of extreme sports events in Brazil and abroad.

During his tenure as Endemol Globo's Production Director, Petit was responsible for creating formats for the Dutch company and supervised the production of Endemol programs for TV networks such as Globo, Bandeirantes, SBT, Midiaset (Italy), and TF1 (France).

Petit created and directed Multishow cable channel's reality show "MINHA PRAIA" for two seasons in 2009 and 2010.

For Massangana Filmes, Olívio Petit wrote SPORTV's show "SURF ADVENTURES" from 1995 to 2000. Petit has also directed the documentary "Brasil Surf Doc" in 2012 and the series "Dunas Do Barato" in 2018.

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Director Statement

TRIPPY DUNES
The 1960s had changed the course of the western world. The Baby Boomers couldn't stand the obligatory social mores, controlling ethics, and veiled hypocrisy that dictated the ways of humanity anymore. The youth of America demanded an end to the Vietnam War. French students set fire to the streets to end the tradition. In Swinging London, mind-blowing outfits and lysergic acids indicated, through behavior, hope in the Age of Aquarius.

In Brazil, the youth wanted to be part of those times, but they faced a repressive military dictatorship, which denied them the right to freedom of opinion, vote, and ideological diversity. Many joined the armed combat. Others dedicated themselves to trying to change the world through art. In Rio de Janeiro, the latter group transformed a construction of sanitary modernization into a bunker of cultural resistance. That is how the Ipanema Pier came about, the cultural melting pot that would cook up mass information for later distribution to those rich in spirit.

All gathered under the excuse of the novelty of surfing, fine artists, musicians, actors, designers, poets, and thinkers plotted a cultural antagonism in a neighborhood that was already universally acknowledged thanks to its famous Girl from Ipanema.

A new way of making art took shape then and would explode in a great movement with no flags or rules. As splashed on the walls of the Sorbonne, what mattered was that it was forbidden to forbid. There, in those days, the dream would never end.