The International Academy of Cinema (AIC) Orientation Week, a cycle of lectures with filmmakers and actors on audiovisual creation that opens the school year of the school and of Filmworks – the Technical Course in Cinematographic Direction, reaches its 17th edition! The lectures take place from March 6th to 13th at the AIC headquarters in São Paulo.
The event, which is open to the public and free of charge, will receive actresses Naruna Costa, protagonist of the series Brotherhood (Netflix) and Sol Miranda, protagonist of the feature Rule 34, winner of the 75th Locarno Film Festival; filmmakers Cristiano Burlan, director of the award-winning film The motherit’s Moara Passoni, co-roterist of Democracy at the Edge, Oscar nominee for best documentary and director of Ecstasy; in addition to photographer and producer Gabriel Uchida, from the award-winning film Territorywinner at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
“It is a pleasure to resume our Orientation Week in person, one of the most traditional events on the AIC calendar, which over the years has brought great artists, beautiful ideas and important debates to the school, providing an exchange of experiences between professionals, students and the public. public in general, in an environment of celebration of audiovisual. This year, especially, we have a lot to celebrate, to build together”, says Flávia Rocha, director of communication at AIC.
Previous editions also had the participation of great national and international professionals. To learn a little about the history of AIC events and see the filmmakers who have been at the school over nearly two decades, visit our guest speakers page.
Pre-register using the form below and come early to secure your spot. Event subject to capacity.
SCHEDULE
- Tuesday, 06/03 – Naruna Costa
17:30 screening of the first episode of the series Brotherhood
7:30 pm Chat with the actress - Fourth, 08/03 – Passoni Mill
5:30 pm show Ecstasy
7:30 pm Chat with the Director - Fifth, 09/0 – Cristiano Burlan
5:30 pm show essay on failure
7:30 pm – Chat with the Director - Sixth, 10/03 – Sol Miranda
17:00 – chat with the actress - Monday, 02/13 – Gabriel Uchida
5:30 p.m. exhibition of Territory
7:30 pm – Chat with the producer
Get to know your guests better
Naruna Coast
Naruna began her acting career at UTT (União Teatral Taboão); she is the founder of Espaço Clariô de Teatro, in Taboão da Serra (SP), with which she starred in the play People’s Hospital. Among her works, the role of Elza Soares in the musical Garrinchadirected by American director Bob Wilson, and Holes – or the Wind Is Enemy from Picumãwhich earned him the APCA Award for Best Director.
On TV, the actress participated in the cast of Telecurso and soap operas such as Dance Dance Dance (Bandeirantes), Modern Times, Foolish Heart e God Save the King (Globo Network). Acted in the series Task force (Globo), Hate Routes (Universal) and The Secret Life of Couples (HBO).
In cinema, Naruna adds films like Today I want to go back alone, Love in Sampa, Toro, Cano Serrado and Marighella, directorial debut of Wagner Moura, which was selected for the 2019 Berlin Film Festival.
Naruma can be seen in the series Cologneshown on the Brazil channel, and All the Women of the Worldboth available on Globoplay.
The actress is the protagonist, alongside Seu Jorge, of the first and second seasons of the series produced by Netflix, Brotherhood. Naruna will also be in Rota 66a Globoplay series inspired by the book of the same name by Caco Barcellos, with no premiere date yet.
Naruna Costa is now in the cast of All Flowersa soap opera by João Emanuel Carneiro shown on Gloplay, which premiered in October 2022 and became a huge success with the public.
Gabriel Uchida
Gabriel Uchida was born in Valinhos – São Paulo (Brazil), graduated in Journalism and started photographing in 2008. After that he has worked in several places such as Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, USA, Germany, Turkey, Ethiopia and Namibia. His photos have already been published in over 30 countries and he has had exhibitions in Germany, Ethiopia and Brazil. In 2018, Uchida won the first place photography award at the World Water Forum and also at “Ojo a La Amazonia – FAO/UN”. Since 2016 he has lived and traveled through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest to photograph indigenous peoples and environmental issues.
Uchida is one of the film’s producers. The Territory (2022), by the American Alex Pritz. The documentary, winner at the Sundance Festival 2022, and dozens of international awards, presents the struggle of Brazilian indigenous peoples against deforestation in the Amazon.
Passoni Mill
Moara is a director, screenwriter and producer. Graduated in social sciences from USP, she has a master’s degree in screenwriting and directing from Columbia University, for which she received the Milena Jelinek Memorial Award, a master’s in documentary theory from Unicamp and in documentary cinema from FGV. She studied Philosophy-Aesthetics at Paris 8, Communication and body arts at PUC-SP and screenwriting and documentary at EICTV-Cuba. Moara was co-writer and associate producer of the Oscar-nominated film for best documentary Democracy at the Edge (2019) (Sundance/Netflix Originals). Script contributor at Elm and the Seagull (2015) and associate producer of Elena (2012), all directed by Petra Costa. Your rehearsal film Ecstasy (2020) was released in the official competition of CPH:DOX, which marked Moara as “one of the important names of today” in the audiovisual world. The film received several awards including the ABRACCINE Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival in 2021, and was screened at festivals such as MoMA Doc’s Fortnight and Visions du Réel. In 2020 Moara was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. She is an alumni of Torino Script Lab, Cine Qua Non Lab and La Femis-Cannes Production Atelier.
Christian Mock
Burlan (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1975) is a film and theater director and professor. He was a student and teacher at AIC. He made more than 20 films, including Tetralogy in Black and Whitemade up of the films One Man Symphony (2012), Amador (2014), Hamlet (2014) e Fome (2015), awarded at the Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro. your documentary They Killed My Brother (2013) was the winner of the Festival It’s All True 2013 and, in the same year, won the award from the official jury and critics at the 40th Sesc Festival of Best Films and the Governor of the State of São Paulo award for Culture. Before the end (2017) won the APCA Special Jury Prize in 2018, the year it also debuted Elegy of a Crime (2018), at the É Tudo Verdade Festival, raising awards. The movies Construction, they killed my brother e Elegy of a crime make up the Mourning Trilogy, in which he addresses the tragic history of his family. In 2020, the series premiered Paulo Freire, a man of the world carried out by SescTV. His fiction feature film, The mother, whose protagonist is the actress Marcélia Cartaxo, participated in the Malaga Festival, where she won the Supporting Actress award, at the Gramado Festival she received the awards for Direction, Actress. The fiction feature film is in the process of being finalized Ulysses and the documentary Antunes Filho, from the eye to the heartcarried out by SescTV.
Sol Miranda
Sol is an actress, educator, cultural producer, co-founder of Cia. Theater Emu. As an actress, she acted in the shows Salina (The Last Vertebrae)), Mercedesof which he also signs the dramaturgy alongside Cássio Duque, asleep, The Samba Fever, Intore – Dance of the Heroes e nor the verb, in which he also did the direction and dramaturgy. Conceived and directed water holes or On the Stones were Born as Basican adaptation of the short story “Olhos d’Água”, by Conceição Evaristo, with poetry by Elaine Freitas and Tati Vilella.
As a producer, she worked with Domingos de Oliveira, was Lázaro Ramos’ assistant in 2019 and participated in events at Cufa (Centra Única das Favelas).
His film work includes the docudrama As long as I live, Mourning!a participation in the new film version of the literary classic Great Sertão: Veredasby Guimarães Rosa, adapted by Guel Arraes and Jorge Furtado, still without a release date, and the feature Rule 34by Julia Murat.