O Rio que engole todos os rios

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Note of intent

In 2012, aftar finishing my cinema studies in São Paulo Brazil, I realized that I was not very suitable for Fiction Cinema Scenario in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Looking for a deeper relationship between camera and subject, I decided to stay 40 days in the Jungles where I directed a short:  La última frontera. Since then, I’ve made another short about the Syrian Civil War, Bashar, and a feature documentary about aftermath of the Arab Spring in Cairo, Egypt, and Aleppo, Syria. In the LatinArab Festival last year I was approached by Omar Mustafá with a project about registering the coltan mines in the DRC.

Synopsis

A cinematographic essay on the basis of reflexive documentaries (references: Werner Herzog, Germany, and Joshua Oppenheimer, USA) that approaches the conflict of the victims of the mine exploitation in North Kivu (Democratic Republic of the Congo) with the primary goal to restore the physical presence – socially and individually.

Visual concept

We will travel to the region and stay in the villages that surround the mines and live the daily routine of its inhabitants, registering the social universe around the coltan extraction. Later on, we shall approach workers that will be portrayed and interviewed individually. As the last works of the director, like The Revolution of the Year, filmed in Egypt and Syria, the narrative should be build along with the characters. The process involves investigating the imagination of the subject.