Private Project

One archive, two crafts

Two filmmakers and a historian are presented to the archives related to Inês Etienne Romeu (1942-2015), the only known survivor of the house of death and the last political prisoner to be released in 1979. These archives are the axis of a discussion with them about the issues of their crafts when they aproach records from the past and the possible relationships between filmmaking and historiographical works.

  • Maria Julia Andrade
    Director
  • Maria Julia Andrade
    Writer
  • João Paulo Mektarian
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Um Arquivo, Dois Ofícios
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    História, Direitos Humanos
  • Runtime:
    30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Maria Julia Andrade

Maria Julia Andrade, from São Paulo, began her career in 1993 in cast production for advertisement. In feature films, she worked with directors such as Walter Salles (Linha de Passe) and Ugo Giorgetti (Boleiros, Cara ou Coroa and Uma Noite em Sampa). In 2017, she enrolled in History at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), leading her career to the field of documentary. In 2018, she directed the short film “In Search of Alzira”, at the Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary Brazilian History (CPDOC-FGV), based on the personal archive of Alzira Vargas do Amaral Peixoto. During college, she had the opportunity to work for two years at the Public Archives of the State of São Paulo (APESP), which aroused even more the desire to work with documentaries combining History and Cinema. In 2021, she directed the short film “One Archive, Two Craft”, as a conclusion work for the History course at UNIFESP, in which uses the archive of Inês Etienne Romeu as an instrument to debate the craft of historians and filmmakers. In 2022, she made with Rodolfo Junqueira the film “Photo Revolution of April” based on images of two Portuguese photographers from April 25, 1974, held in custody at the Mario Soares and Maria Barroso Foundation.

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