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transFORMING the LANDSCAPE

This short film deals with the urgency of LISTENING, SPEAKING, making collective DECISIONS and ACTIONS for the future transFORMATION of a landscape, through the engagement between local people and institutions, all responsible for that transFORMATION. Each place has its landscape, an inhabited space that contains characteristic natural and cultural elements created and experienced by its inhabitants. The landscape is where nature, city, people, and their experiences meet. A deep understanding of the landscape is crucial to guide a sustainable future as a collective and systemic fact. We can only really understand the landscape by talking to the people who live in it and experience it.

PARATY is a WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE SITE that has been under pressure, whether by the excessive exploitation of tourism, or uncontrolled urban growth, among other factors that negatively impact its landscape. The risk of landscape degradation means the possible loss of resources, quality of life, and the landscape's essence.

Given its value to the local people, Brazil, and the world, it is worth asking:
Whose landscape? For whom? The future is TODAY. transFORMING is necessary!

  • Raquel Tardin
    Director
  • Paulo Maia
    Director
  • Beatriz Gomes
    Writer
  • Laís Lima
    Writer
  • Júlia Daher
    Writer
  • Paulo Maia
    Producer
  • Raquel Tardin
    Producer
  • Beatriz Gomes – Editing
    Credits
  • Laís Lima – Editing
    Credits
  • Júlia Daher – Editing
    Credits
  • Laís Lima – Translation and subtitles
    Credits
  • José Luiz de Avellar Borges – Editing and sound
    Credits
  • Victor de Almeida Costa – Editing and Art
    Credits
  • Luís Perequê – Music
    Credits
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    transFORMAR a PAISAGEM
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes 22 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 24, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    12,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • None
Distribution Information
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Director Biography - Raquel Tardin, Paulo Maia

RAQUEL TARDIN is a Brazilian architect and urban planner, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), an expert member of the ICOMOS-IFLA international Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL). Her expertise area is on systemic landscape planning and sustainable urban development. She is a first-time filmmaker who sees the potential of a short documentary as a powerful instrument to build collective environmental, social and urban awareness through community engagement to achieve more sustainable and resilient societies.

PAULO MAIA is a Brazilian linguist, Ph.D., Lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and Coordinator of the Multimedia Education Group – Faculty of Linguistics. His works show the importance of filmmaking as an instrument to build knowledge, give voice to less fortunate people, and link university and community. Furthermore, his filmography states the value of traditional communities' practices and the urgency of raising social issues, mainly related to exclusion and inequalities.

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Director Statement

This short film came from the urgency of providing room for the "landscape voices" to be heard, fostering a genuinely positive social, environmental, and urban transformation with particular attention to the traditional people of a place.

It was produced at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ – Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism – FAU / Postgraduate Programme in Urban Planning – PROURB
in partnership with the Multimedia Education Group / Faculty of Linguistics.