Feira central de Campina Grande e arredores - Campina Grande' s Central Market and nearby

TEMPO DE FÉRIAS, TEMPO DE DEIXAR AS FILMAGENS, PROJETOS, EDIÇÃO, ESTUDOS, ISSO E AQUILO, ENFIM, O QUE FAÇO O ANO TODO, PARA RELAXAR E RECUPERAR ALGUNS HOBBIES, COMO A FOTOGRAFIA. SEGUEM ALGUMAS IMAGENS QUE REGISTREI HOJE NA FEIRA CENTRAL E CERCANIAS. QUERIA IR TAMBÉM POR CABARÉS, MAS HOJE O CLIMA ESTAVA MEIO TENSO, POIS RESOLVI EVITAR COMPLICAÇÕES (INÚTEIS, POR SINAL).

  

HOLIDAY TIME, TIME TO LEAVE MY DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTIONS, PROJECTS, EDITING, STUDIES, THIS AND THAT, IN OTHER TERMS, TIME TO LEAVE WHAT I USUALLY DO DURING THE (WHOLE) YEAR, AND RELAX, GETTING BACK TO SOME OF MY FAVOURITE HOBBIES, LIKE PHOTOGRAPHY. BELOW, YOU CAN FIND SOME OF THE PICTURES I'VE JUST TAKEN (THIS AFTERNOON) IN THE CENTRAL MARKET OF CAMPINA GRANDE (BRAZIL). I WANTED TO TAKE SOME PICTURES IN THE WHORE HOUSES, BUT I FELT THAT TODAY THE ATHMOSPHERE WAS QUITE "NERVOUS", SO I DECIDED TO AVOID ANY PROBLEMS! 

MAS FIM DO ANO, ALÉM DE SER TEMPO PARA RELAXAR, É O MOMENTO DE SE REPENSAR NAS COISAS, NAS CONQUISTAS, NO QUE DEVEMOS MELHORAR (SEMPRE) ETC ETC. AMANHÃ OU SEGUNDA FAREI UM RESUMÃO SOBRE 2012, MAS DESDE JÁ, PARA QUEM SEGUNDA ESTIVER LONGE DOS MONITORES DE COMPUTADOR OU SMART PHONE, APROVEITO PARA DESEJAR MEUS VOTOS PARA UM 2013 RICO EM SAÚDE, PAZ, DISPOSIÇÃO, BOM HUMOR E MUITAS REALIZAÇÕES!

BUT THE END OF THE YEAR, FURTHER THAN BEING TIME TO RELAX, IT'S TIME TO THINK AGAIN ABOUT THE THINGS, THE ACHIEVEMENTS, AND WHAT WE HAVE TO IMPROVE (ALWAYS) ETC ETC. TOMORROW OR MONDAY, I WILL MAKE A BRIEF CONSIDERATION ABOUT 2012, BUT I ACTUALLY TAKE A CHANCE TO WISH A WONDERFUL 2013 TO THOSE WHO, ON MONDAY, WILL EVENTUALLY BE FAR FROM THEIR PC'S MONITOR OR THEIR SMARTPHONE. I WISH YOU A NEW YEAR FULL OF HEALTH, PEACE, GOOD WILL, NICE MOOD AND MANY ACHIEVEMENTS!

ONE LOVE,

RICCARDO MIGLIORE

FELIZ NATAL!

Nossos votos para um Feliz Natal!

Natal é antes do que mais nada, uma chance anual para se reintegrar com a criança que está dentro de nós. Natal é coisa de criança. O próprio Jesus já falou, tanto sobre a necessidade de nós, adultos, aprendermos com as crianças, como sobre o fato das crianças serem criaturas de Deus, quer dizer, sagradas. Quanto à primeira, a gente cresce, aprende coisas, armazena informações, evolui em alguma profissão, vai afinando sua técnica, torna-se menos ingênuo, mais isso e aquilo, mas...a verdadeira sabedoria inclui aquela simplicidade, vitalidade, disposição, alegria, criatividade, genuinidade, enfim, características "infantis" por excelência. Crescemos e quem, antes de nós, já foi reprimido para se tornar adulto, vem dizendo para a gente: não seja infantil, seja adulto. Concluindo, seja adulto, mas não perca o contato com a criança que está dentro de você. Isso é o que desejo a tod@s @s amig@s neste Natal 2012. Que a paz, a felicidade e o espírito VIVO e genuíno de sua criança interior possa lhe acompanhar, não apenas nestas festas, mas o ano todo.  
 
Pensei em baixar uma foto da internet, depois lembrei desta minha imagem, já tinha divulgado por aqui, mas enfim, a reutilizo por bem expressar o que tentei colocar com as palavras. FELIZ NATAL!

Assistam meus documentários online de graça

Car@s Amig@s e leitores/as,





Meu doc "Seu cavaco, dom bandolim e o choro de mestre Duduta na Rainha da Borborema (Master Duduta and Friends)" foi selecionado pelo Festival internacional online "Humanity Explored". Breve histór

ico de participações em festivais e eventos de cinema: O filme foi lançado em abril 2011 no Festival Internacional de Documentários É tudo Verdade (It's all true), Mostra Estado das coisas, na Cinemateca Brasileira (SP), e foi selecionado/exibido em outros ótimos eventos de cinema Brasil afora, como In-Edit Brasil (SP), Festival Guarnicê (MA), Festival Cinesul (RJ), Mostra de Cinema Popular Brasileiro (RJ), Mostra Internacional do filme etnográfico (RJ), Rassegna Brasile cinema contemporaneo (Milão, Itália), e em outubro deste ano foi exibido na California/EUA pela Tiburon Film Society. Honra grande ao se tratar de um filme, tanto para mudar, produzido sem patrocínios ou apoios financeiros. Quem quiser assistir e votar, use o link abaixo. Mais uma vez, obrigado pela força e pelo apoio.

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/10510/Seu-Cavaco--Dom-Bandolim-e-o-Choro-De-Mestre-Duduta-Na-Rainha-Da-Borborema

Meu doc (curta) "Era uma vez na cidade atômica" também foi selecionado e está à disposição online para quem quiser assistir, no link:

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/10309/Era-Uma-Vez-na-Cidade-At--mica--Once-Upon-a-Time-in-the-Atomic-City-

"Era uma vez na cidade atômica" este ano participou dos seguinte festivais, entre outros:  Uranium International Film Festival (RJ), Mostra do Filme Livre (RJ/SP/DF), Festival Chico (TO), Cinema com Farinha (PB), Curta no Almoço (RJ) (...). 

Watch my documentaries online on "Culture Unplugged" (FOR FREE)

Dear friends and readers, 

I'm glad to announce that my documentaries "Seu Cavaco Dom Bandolim e o Choro de Mestre Duduta na Rainha da Borborema" (Master Duduta and Friends) and "Era uma vez na cidade atômica" (Once upon a time in the atomic city), have been selected and are online on Culture Unplugged' s Film Festival "Humanity Explored.
You can watch them for free, without commercial ads and  can also vote on them, following this web link:

 
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/10510/Seu-Cavaco--Dom-Bandolim-e-o-Choro-De-Mestre-Duduta-Na-Rainha-Da-Borborema

Riccardo Migliore and Thaíse Carvalho (Directors) at It's all true (International Documentary Film Festival, April 2011).

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/10309/Era-Uma-Vez-na-Cidade-At--mica--Once-Upon-a-Time-in-the-Atomic-City-

 
Thanks a lot for your kind support and i hope you'll appreciate my documentaries, considering they've been self produced with NO FINANCIAL SUPPORT AT ALL (neither private nor governmental).

AQUI VALE TUDO (A FIGHTING TRADITION) - a feature documentary by RICCARDO MIGLIORE

AQUI VALE TUDO  (A FIGHTING TRADITION)

 A feature documentary by Riccardo Migliore

Picture/Art design by Riccardo Migliore

Synopsis in English

The film presents various MMA fighters from Campina Grande, as we’ve been filming them for over one year. The city is the source of many fighters since the time of Master Ivan Gomes, an international athlete who didn’t lose one single fight between more than 230. We show the daily struggles of today’s fighters from Campina Grande, anyone with a different background and personality, therefore, this documentary emphasizes social and human complexity. Their professional achievements also vary, as the film includes athletes like Jean “White Bear” Silva, former Cage Rage’s champion; veterans like Edson “Paredão”, who already fought against tough guys as Junior dos Santos (Cigano), or Forrest Griffin; And Brazilian Top Team's golden kid Toninho "Fúria". While Campina keeps on producing young champions like Isac Almeida, Puma, JP Santos, Stênio, Mumbuca, Ceará, Digão and Rogério Souza. 

 

Technical details:

Shooting Format: DV

Sound: stereo

Time: 71 minutes (and 49 seconds)

Exhibition formats: BETA SP, DV, DVCAM, digital

Written, shot, photographed, produced, directed and edited by Riccardo Migliore

Music by: DJ Hunter (Nila Araújo).

Picture/Art design by Riccardo Migliore

The film is about the following athletes:

Jean “white bear” Silva, Edson Paredão, Valderi Silva, Puma, Toninho Fúria, Kell Santos, Isac Almeida, Thiago Macedo, Vanderlan Targino, João Paulo Santos, Stênio Barbosa, Rodrigo Mumbuca, Rogério Souza, Fábio Sapo, Jefferson Fibiru, Rodrigo Digão Silva, Rodrigo Bomba, Rômulo, Waldson Samurai.   

Jean Silva (Former Cage Rage Champion) and Riccardo Migliore (Director)

Riccardo Migliore’s biography:

Born in Milan, Italy (1977), lives in Brazil since 2004. Independent documentary maker, recently has been awarded for the best medium lenght film in the 6th South America Human Rights Film Festival (6a Mostra de Cinema e Direitos Humanos na América do Sul http://www.cinedireitoshumanos.org.br/2012/rio_de_janeiro_premiados.php),with the documentary "Barras e barreiras, retrato de Kelly Alves (Kelly Alves, portrait of a transexual)". Since March 2010 is working as a freelance advisor for the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, Secretary of the Audiovisual. Directed various low budget documentaries, many of them selected in either national or international film festivals like, between others: It's all true/International Documentary Film festival/State of Things (2011); Cineport – International Portuguese Speaking Countries Film festival (2007, 2011), In-Edit Brasil/International Music Documentary Festival (2011), 6ª Rassegna Brasil Cinema Contemporaneo (Milan, Italy 2011), Zanzibar International Film Festival (2007), Cinesul – Latin America Film Festival(2011), Mostra Internacional do filme etnográfico/International Ethnographic Film Festival (2009), Cine Documenta (2010, 2011), Festival Prêmio Roberto Rossellini/Roberto Rossellini Award Festival (Italy, 2004), 2nd International Uranium Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro, June 2012). In Milan he studied Arts (Highschool at Liceo Artístico I) and Filmmaking (Scuola del Cinema, TV e Nuovi Media – Fondazione Scuole Civiche di Milano, 1997-98 and 2001-2003), and worked for a few production companies like Mercurio Cinematografica. Participated of workshops with international professionals of the film Industry, like Gianfilippo Pedote, Gianni Squitieri, Bruno d’Annunzio, Renzo Rossellini, Mohammed Kalari, Yesim Ustaoglu, Marcélia Cartaxo, Ralf Tambke between others; And also taught in workshops such as: introduction to photography, filmmaking and non-fiction films (UFCG, 2008-2009). Recently graduated in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), researching Visual Anthropology and actually is submitting for a Master Degree in Social Communication, researching "mise-en-scène" in local documentaries (Paraíba, Brazil).

Toninho Furia (BTT), Riccardo Migliore (Director/Producer) and Kell Santos (TFT)

Riccardo Migliore’s Filmography:

1. Documentary  "Nguso Ngana Abundo -  negritude que beleza", 2005; 2. Documentary "Ingá-Cheio d' água", 2006; 3. Documentary "A bruxa da Flor de Ouro", 2006; 4. Documentary  "Cantou o galo e gemeu a ema" , 2007; 5. Documentário  "A casa louca" , 2007; 6. Documentary  "Bons auspícios, amor que engorda (good wishes, feeding love)", 2008; 7. Documentary "Talhado" de José Aderivaldo (as a Director of Photography); 8. Documentary "A batida da Lua Nova", 2009; 9. Fiction/Exp. "Luzes de uma noite (shining bright night)", 2009; 10. Documentary  "A cultura do Repente:   uma vídeo-interação com os poetas populares de Campina Grande", 2010; 11. Fiction/Exp. "A chave da maré(The tide's key)", 2010; 12. Documentary "De repente é poesia", 2010; 13. Documentary "Seu Cavaco, Dom Bandolim e o Choro de Mestre Duduta na Rainha da Borborema (Master Duduta and friend)", 2011; 14. Documentary "Barras e Barreiras, Retrato de Kelly Alves (Kelly Alves, portrait of a transexual)", 2011; 15. Documentary "Era uma vez na cidade atômica (Once upon a time in the atomic city)", 2011; Documentary "Aqui Vale Tudo (A Fighting Tradition)", 2012. 16. Documentary "Such a musical heritage", 2012/2013 (works in progress).

Riccardo's new doc "Such a musical heritage" about Benedito do Rojão

Happy and satisfied about the sequence i've shot yesterday with Mr Benedito at the real whorehouse (closed since a few decades) where the finest musicians from Paraíba and other Brazilian states used to performe at the time (during the '40s and the '50s, particularly). Officially, the place was a Casino, and only the city's "elite" used to be guests at the "Eldorado". Politicians, lawyers, doctors and rich farmers, used to be there all the time. In the same road, located in the heart of Campina Grande's main open air market, there were at least four or five music shows at the same time. But the "Eldorado" was the main place. Casino and whorehouse at the time, today is the home of a few drunkards, and yesterday, one of them kindly let us in. 

I took these pictures outside the place, approximately at 5pm, after we shot a good video sequence inside and outside the place, with the sweet, deep, lovely light of 4:30pm. 

The documentary has the international title "Such a musical heritage", because Mr Benedito was a friend and the pupil of "Jackson do Pandeiro", one of the best Brazilian musicians ever. Jackson used to take young Benedito (14 years old at the time) in the whorehouse, where he used to play with his band, and sometimes let the kid to play a part with them. Benedito do Rojão still produces his music under the influence of Jackson' s forró, rojão, samba, coco, and many other Brazilian musical styles.

 

The documentary will be ready by February or March 2013. Any info, please feel free to contact me:

tanofb@gmail.com

Cheers!   

 

  

 

Documentário "Cabra macho do rojão" de Riccardo Migliore (fotos)

Benedito do Rojão volta ao Eldorado, Casino/Cabaré/Casa de show de Campina Grande (PB), onde "Jackson do Pandeiro" se exibia e de vez em quando lhe dizia: "Vai garoto, toca um pedaço com a gente!".

Muitas histórias no "Eldorado", onde à época (anos '40 e '50) se exibiam os melhores músicos da região, prestigiados pela elite campinense.

Hoje foi como levar o mestre Benedito, amigo e discipulo de Jackson do Pandeiro, numa viajem pelo tempo, de volta à época na qual o cabaré era um local de todo respeito...e da música boa!!! 

Graças ao "morador" do prédio, um alcoolatra cujo nome, infelizmente desconheço, tivemos a oportunidade de entrar no local, pelo que a viagem no tempo foi efetiva, intensa, para meu "cumpadi" Benedito do Rojão, acompanhado pela doce, linda, majestosa luz de Campina às quatro e meia da tarde.

Estas fotos a gente tirou às 17 hs, depois ter filmado a "volta" de Benedito do Rojão ao local onde literalmente, se inspirou para se tornar um exímio herdeiro da tradição iniciada pelo grande Jackson do Pandeiro.

A produção (que já está a bom ponto), continua, e a previsão para o lançamento do filme (um doc de média ou longametragem) é fevereiro/março 2013. 

Fotografias de Riccardo Migliore (Todos os direitos reservados - all rights reserved).

My documentary "Master Duduta and friends" was screened in California, US

It's with such a honor that i let my friends and the readers of this blog to know about the screening of my documentary "Master Duduta and friends" (Riccardo Migliore & Thaíse Carvalho, 2011), in Sausalito, California, USA, on October the 2nd, 2012. Actually, it's the first time that one of my productions is exhibited in the US. Thanks to the Tiburon Film Society for the selection and the demonstration of esteem. 

Anybody interested in purchasing the documentary for broadcasting, pay-per-view, video-on-demand, or whatever form of exhibition? The film is being distributed worldwide by Elo Company (http://www.elocompany.com/catalogo/catalogo.php?ID=569). Feel free to contact Margot Brandão: margot@elocompany.com or elo3@elocompany.com. Elo's phone number's 0055-11-3023.0173.   

My considerations: It's a simple documentary that i've made (with the help of Ms Thaíse Carvalho, journalist/TV reporter) without any grant, sponsorship or whatever kind of co-production. As Glauber Rocha used to say, it's that kind of "an idea in mind and a camera in hand"-like-stuff. Of course, Master Duduta's fine "chorinho" (also called "Brazilian Jazz"), helps the documentary to be appreciated by the audience, so it compensates the lack of financial support in terms of production and post-production.

Master João Ribeiro "Duduta"

Well, to have such a no-budget production selected by a film society like Tiburon's, it's a reason of a great pride, by one side, and of a great gratitude with the TIFF's staff, by the other.

Riccardo Migliore and Thaíse Carvalho, @ the 16th It's all True - International Documentary Film Festival

 

Finally, i'm definitely satisfied considering the film's career, started in March, 2011, in S.Paulo, Brazil, in the context of a festival where i always wanted to be selected "one day", since i was studying filmmaking in Milan, in 2001! That selection in the "non-competitive" State of Things session of "IT'S ALL TRUE" (10 films only, and along with an IDFA winner documentary) is still a reason of a huge pride or, said in other terms, it was like a good dose of oxigen that is still giving me some kind of relief in the tough road of professional filmmaking. It would be tough anyway, if i could just "fight", or let's say, compete, with equal means. But it's fucking hard while, to let some recomended pricks to appear like the "great ones", others just like me, are systematically kept below-the-water-like, with no sponsorship or stuff like that. Eight years that i'm living in Brazil and i'm still producing on my own, with no sponsorships at all, not even by my university (UFCG). 
 
<sup>That reminds me a passage of the Holy Bible, that goes like:

3:13</sup>each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is. ^3:14If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward 

(The first Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 03:13, 03:14).

That's why the fact of "Master Duduta and Friends" being selected and screened in the US by the Tiburon Film Society, is another great pleasure, satisfaction and a reason to go on, keep on doing in this unfair struggle of making my way in the realm of professional documentary making...even after all!

Riccardo Migliore - Independent Filmmaker

 

More info:

http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/filmInfo.php?film_id=7848

http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/contactInfo.php?contact_id=14488

http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/tiburonFilmSociety.php