Presentation

It’s a great honor for CINUSP – “Paulo Emílio” from the University of São Paulo and for It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival to organize the XIII Visible Evidence. This first edition in South America follows a rich path that has been constructed since 1993 in Duke University, and successively conducted by The University of Southern California, Harvard, Northwestern, San Francisco State, University of Walles (Cardiff), and recently passing by Utrecht (2000), Brisbane (2001), Marseille (2002), Bristol, (2003) and Montreal (2005).

Visible Evidence is an international colloquium dedicated to the documentary culture in film, video and other media. Analyses and discussions reach a broad field, which include culture, esthetics, ethnography, history, pedagogy, sociology, politics and other areas of knowledge.

The extraordinary value of these meetings for the development and exchange of international studies about documentary can be measured by the collection of books that are being published by University of Minnesota Press. Later this year, three new books will be added to the eighteen volumes already released, extending the collection to fascinating new approaches on fake documentarie, the aborigine production in Australia and the Japanese contemporary documentary.

The panel’s selection process counted with the contribution colleagues of various Brazilian universities like the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, the Federal Fluminense University, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the State University of Campinas, the Federal University of São Carlos, and the University of São Paulo.

The conferece will take place at Cinemateca Brasileira (Brazilian Film Archive) in São Paulo, Brazil, from August 6 to 10 and at Memorial Getúlio Vargas, in Rio de Janeiro, in two final sessions of screenings and debates on August 12. Besides this extensive and rich panel’s program, the XIII Visible Evidence will have the opportunity to screen some remarkable documentaries recently shot in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, and also some unseen material from Orson Welles’s unfinished Brazilian documentary, “It’s All True” (1942).

We welcome and wish an exciting conference to all participants, national and international, academics, filmmakers, students and other documentaries lovers.