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Walter Nunes de Vasconcelos Júnior - Director of Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil is pleased to receive, for the sixth consecutive year, the It's All True -International Documentary Film Festival, which is taking place simultaneously in Rio de Janeiro and in São Paulo. As the main event of its type in Latin America, the Festival continues with its high quality, showing new productions in the Brazilian and International Competitions and in the "State of Things" exhibition. The International Retrospective presents Frederick Wiseman, whose lenses have "insisted", for almost four decades, in bringing to the forefront the dropouts of America. As direct cinema in person, Wiseman, in his first visit to Brazil, will be participating in a debate with João Moreira Salles. With the showing of The Long Holiday, the event is also honoring Holland's Johan van der Keuken, who passed away in January. In the Brazilian Retrospective, the one being honored is Geraldo Sarno, whose work, since the '60s, has always focused on documenting Brazilian reality. As the center of attraction for exhibiting ideas and experiments, the CCBB is excited about these bold efforts. It's all true - including that which is between the photo shots of hurried journalistic and circumstantial records. The camera-eye of the true documentary filmmaker is what "gets into the documentary", but without distorting reality. Godard said, like one who resets the camera between takeSOUND: "photography is the truth. The cinema is the truth 24 times a second." The premises were correct and helped to corroborate the blague, which referred to what the French began to call the author's cinema - paradoxically fictional. In the context of reality, Godard's phrase highlights the camera in the service of the documentary. It's all true. And, sometimes, many more things spring up from the underpinnings of truth than we perceive as being true fiction. WALTER NUNES DE VASCONCELOS JUNIOR Director of Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil