With movies to all types of people and exhibitions in three different places, and no charging for tickets, free workshops about stop motion animations, debates with producers and artists, activities in the remaining quilombola village Tabuleiro dos Negros, exhibitions spaces for the local entrepreneur, and musical shows at Praça 12 de Abril.
During a week, Penedo Cinema Circuit created learning opportunities, promoted leisure, networking opportunities and questioning by means of audiovisual, stimulating the interest by the creative economy that made Penedo an UNESCO’s Creative City, in the cinema category.
The side activities are part of the circuit that made its 13th edition in 2023, consolidating Penedo in the most relevant events in Brazil’s cinema, with highlights to the exhibition of shorts and long films at Praça 12 de Abril, at the Conventions Center (former Cine São Francisco) and Cine Penedo, reopened at the event’s opening.
“I’m from a time when Penedo had two working movie theaters, so I grew up watching movies. Bringing it back to us is a wonderful thing.” said the psychologist Luciana Gonçalves to the reporter Maurício Santana, one of the responsibles to the journalistic covering of the 2023 Penedo Cinema Circuit edition.
There were more than 100 short films at the schedule which also had 14 long films at its schedule over seven days of event which also included a cinematographic pre-production workshop, taught by the actor and director Francisco Gaspar, and the introduction to stop motion workshop, taught by the university Professor and filmmaker Andréa Paiva, who became a director on behalf of Circuito Penedo de Cinema.
“If it weren’t for the CIrcuit, today I wouldn’t be an audiovisual creator. In2011, I was an spector. In 2016, I took part in a workshop and, in 2023, I am here, ministering workshops for the event that made me who I am today.” said Andrea to Mauricio Santana.
All of the journalistic covering of Penedo Cinema Circuit is available in the event website and also at Rádio Ufal webpage, with interviews taken by Lenilda Lima.
Video: Felipe Cavalcante
Text: Fernando Vinícius, with assisting of Penedo Cinema Circuit
Photos: Nathália Bezerra, Kamylla Feitosa, Adriano Arantos and Bruno Vieira (Penedo Cinema Circuit)
Originally posted by Fernando Vinícius on 11/21/2023
Translated by Denner Sabino