The films of Josafá Duarte in the backlands of Brazil: made by the people, to the people

• Autor(a) principal: de Oliveira, Paulo Passos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v6n2.522
• topic: Josafá Duarte; popular films; exhibition strategies.; Josafá Duarte; cinema popular; estratégias de exibiçãc

This paper presents producer, screenwriter, filmmaker and actor Josafá Duarte, resident of the district of Salgado dos Mendes, city of Forquilha, north side of the state of Ceará, Brazil. The second part of the paper addresses Josafá Duarte’s film shooting habits, focusing the interpersonal relationship within his work group. The third part discloses exhibition strategies to give his films visibility, particularly the use of digital media, the seizing of pirate DVD copies sold at newsstands and by street vendors, and the public exhibition of his films in distant districts and villages, using an old Kombi van provided by the City. In the fourth part of this paper, the type of films Josafá Duarte makes, the concept behind this type of film and some aspects of their making will be discussed. The conclusion is the history of Brazilian cinema should be re-assessed according to the importance of films made by small filmmakers in their communities. Methodologically, the research was based on four interviews, on observing the shooting of the short film “Escapei fedendo” (“I escaped stinking”, by Josafá Duarte 2017) and a field diary record, analysis of his blog e of his YouTube account. The paper is written using the life narrative technique.