Pirenópolis Doc
PirenópolisDoc – Brazilian Documentary Film Festival was born in 2015 with the aim of mapping and disseminating classic and contemporary documentary works produced in the five corners of Brazil. With artistic direction and curatorship by Fabiana Assis, the festival acts as a place to stimulate critical thinking and discussion about issues involving the diversity of the documentary genre.
The festival takes place at the historic Cine Pireneus, in the charming city of Pirenópolis, located in the heart of Brazil. Important Brazilian filmmakers such as Eduardo Escorel, Helena Solberg, Jorge Bodanzky and Vladimir Carvalho, among many others, have already passed through the festival.
In its last two editions PirenópolisDoc expanded its borders and carried out a series of activities focusing on the Ibero-American region: the “Noutras Falas” exhibition, which showed films from Portugal, Mozambique, Angola and Guinea-Bissau, in partnership with the Portuguese institutions Ao Norte and the Avanca Festival and the International Meeting of Photography, Cinema and Digital Arts, which in addition to the two institutions already mentioned, had the support of the University of Aveiro, Federal University of Goiás, State University of Goiás, Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, Association of Production and Audiovisual Animation (Portugal), CEMRI – Media and Cultural Mediations (Universidade Aberta de Portugal) and Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo.
Also in order to widen borders, PirenópolisDoc held, in 2018, the Ibero-America Connections: Constellation Guzmán exhibition, a retrospective of the career of renowned Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán.