BirdWatchers
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| Directed by | Marco Bechis |
| Produced by | Amedeo Pagani Marco Bechis Fabiano Gullane Caio Gullane |
| Written by | Marco Bechis Luiz Bolognesi |
| Starring | Claudio Santamaria Alicélia Batista Cabreira Chiara Caselli |
| Music by | Andrea Guerra |
| Cinematography | Hélico Alemão Nagamine |
| Edited by | Jacopo Quadri |
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Rai Cinema Karta Film Gullane Filmes |
| Distributed by | 01 Distribution (Italy) Paris Filmes (Brazil) |
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104 minutes |
| Country | Italy Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese Guarani English |
| Budget | €3 million[2] |
| Box office | $7,263[3] |
BirdWatchers (Italian: La terra degli uomini rossi ) is a 2008 Brazilian-Italian drama film directed by Marco Bechis. It depicts the breakdown of a community of Guarani-Kaiowa native Indians whilst attempting to reclaim their ancestral land from a local farmer.
Cast
- Claudio Santamaria as Roberto
- Alicélia Batista Cabreira as Lia
- Chiara Caselli as Beatrice
- Abrísio da Silva Pedro as Osvaldo
- Ademilson Concianza Verga as Irineu
- Ambrósio Vilhalva as Nádio
- Matheus Nachtergaele as Dimas
- Fabiane Pereira da Silva as Maria
- Eliane Juca da Silva as Mami
- Nelson Concianza as Nhanderu
- Leonardo Medeiros as Moreira
- Inéia Arce Gonçalves as maid
- Poli Fernandez Souza as Tito
- Urbano Palácio as Josimar
Production
The film was shot in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul[2] over ten weeks in 2007 with a cast whose most members had never acted before and without use of a script.
The songs "Sacris solemnis" and "O gloriosa virginum" were composed by the Italian Jesuit Domenico Zipoli who went to South America to live at the Jesuit Reductions.
Awards
- 2010 One World Media Award in the Drama category, by unanimous vote of the jury.[4]
See also
References
External links
- Official BirdWatchers film website
- Guarani Survival Fund – Guarani fund launched with an appeal at the end of the film
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). BirdWatchers – La terra degli uomini rossi at IMDb
- Guardian review by Tom Phillips, retrieved 11/09/09
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