Ja’Ha (Let’s go!)
Get the Flash Player to see this player.
Series of Documentaries on Paraguay
In each chapter we discover a place of Paraguay. The director (with camera in hand) and the driver of the program are two Cubans residing in Paraguay. The essence of this documentary is to rediscover common places, cities, towns, fairs, through a look at the little things of everyday life with humour, warmth and dynamism. On these trips, however, people can discover peculiar and unique characters in an incredible scenery. Contact between people and breaking down the boundaries are essential elements which stand out from the documentary. Caribbean rhythm and original music made by young Paraguayan talents (some recorded live) is the beautiful soundtrack not only of this documentary, also of in this country and Latin America in general, where music pumps in this land’s veins.
State of the project: research, development and pre-production completed. Completion and production of a pilot program in search of proposals for purchase or co-production.
Language: Spanish
Length: 24 chapters in 15 ‘
Production: Kinemultimedia
Director: Ricardo Alvarez
Script and design: Ricardo Alvarez, Javier López
Editing: Andrea Gandolfo
Production: Javier López
Tañarandy (Land of irreducible)
Get the Flash Player to see this player.
Tañarandy is a documentary about art and its role within a community, built on the experience of artist Koki Ruiz.
Tañarandy is a place that since the time of conquests is characterized by resistance to oppression and physical and cultural alienation.
Tañarandy portrays the dignity of those who cannot be subject to external circumstances, who speak of hope and of the infinite freedom of humanity’s spirit able to choose and create. Culture here is not a luxury but a fertile land for building a decent life. Ruiz is an artist who finds meaning to his career because he enters his community’s service. His origins and aspirations melt with the history of this area, a region of men and women of peasant origin.
Tañarandy is not just a physical place, it is a symbol of resistance.
State of the project: postproduction, with the support of Centro Cultural de España Juan de Salazar.
Director: Ricardo Alvarez
Screenplay: Silvana Nuovo
Production: Silvana Nuovo
Paraguay in the headlines
Get the Flash Player to see this player.
On August 1st, 2004, a supermarket in Asunción was burnt down by a fire. Inside there were about 1000 people of which approximately 400 died and 500 were wounded. Survivors and witnesses stated that the supermarket’s doors were intentionally closed to prevent customers from leaving without paying The two trials against the responsible people are reported on this documentary which strongly reveals Paraguay’s social disruption.
Genre: Documentary
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Italian, French, English
Duration: 88′
Production Year: 2008
Director: Ricardo Alvarez
Screenplay: Silvana Nuovo
Photo: Ricardo Alvarez, Paolo Nuovo
Editing: Andrea Gandolfo
Soundtrack: Wolfgang Krauch, Mike Cardozo
Production: Kinemultimedia with the support of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts
Awards and honors
«Observatorio de cine» Award as best documentary project, “Forum de producción documental” of Buenos Aires, DocBsAs2007
“51st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Dok Leipzig 2008″ selection
“X Festival Internacional de Documentales Santiago Alvarez In Memoriam 2009″ official selection
“12FMCE Festival de Málaga Cine Español 2009″ official selection
“V Festival Cinematográfico Internacional El ojo cojo 2009″ official selection
“41 Muestra de cine del Atlántico, Alcances 2009″ selection
“6° FICCO Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo de la Ciudad de México” official selection
National Premiere in 2009 by Canal 13
The land of no evil
Get the Flash Player to see this player.
After 35 years under Stroessner dictatorship and 17 of power and corruption lead by the Colorado Party (the only one allowed after the democratic transition), Fernando Lugo, a former bishop who ran for President, represents the hope to build a better future.
Internationally recognised as activist for Human Rights and discoverer of the Archives of Terror, Martin Almada leads a lonely and exasperated battle to expose the links between the old dictatorial system and the current corrupted democracy.
Guillermina Kanonnikoff, courageous activist and General Secretary of the Tekojoja Movement, accompanies Fernando Lugo in his path until the elections on April 20th.
Through the lives of these characters we discover a tragic and unknown side of Paraguay’s history, a nation which now seems to have all it takes to change its course.
Produced by Kinemultimedia, in co-production with Suttvuess and Troubled Productions.
Genre: Documentary Feature
Language: Spanish, Italian
Subtitles: Italian, French, English
Duration: 80′
Production Year: 2008
Director: Anna Recalde Miranda
Picture: Anna Recalde Miranda
Editing: Andrea Gandolfo
Production: Kinemultimedia with Suttvuess and Troubled Productions
Awards and honors
“FICG 24 Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2009″ official selection
Winner of festival “Hai visto mai Festa del documentario 2009″, Siena, Italy
“VLAFF 7 Vancouver Latin American Film Festival 2009″ official selection
“Festival de Cine Latinoamericano de Biarritz 2009″ official selection, France
“XXIV Festival del Cinema Latino Americano di Trieste 2009″ selection
“14th International Film Festival of Kerala” official selection
“5th India International Women Film Festival” official selection
Winner of festival “13th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival”
Ogwa
Get the Flash Player to see this player.
Ogwa is a Paraguayan artist whose name reports of his origins as son of an Indian Chamacoco and fighter of the Chaco War. This documentary is a brief portrait of this man who acted as a link between two cultures graphically conveying the myths and traditions of the Chamacocos oral tradition. Ogwa’s testimony alternastes with other peolple’s ones. These people had the chance to meet him.
The documentary ends with a trip to Bahia Negra in the Chaco, where Ogwa’s community and family live. Then the myth takes human forms and we can glimpse the difficulties and conflicts that a man with a peculiar destiny had to face.
Genre: Documentary short film
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: French, Italian
Duration: 26′
Production Year: 2006
Director: Ricardo Alvarez
Screenplay: Silvana Nuovo
Photo: Ricardo Alvarez, Daniel Cabrera
Editing: Andrea Gandolfo, Cam Tho
Original music: Songs Chamacocos
Production of Direction: Valérie Quinio
Production: Cifap, Kinemultimedia, with the support of Survivorship and the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Paraguay
Awards and honors
Official selection of “Festival de cine de Bogotá 2007″ participated by Enrique Grau Award for “Best Documentary about art”
“Festival de cine documental de Asunción 2007″, Asunción, Paraguay
“Festival de cortos Memoria e identidad de Obera 2008″, Misiones, Argentina
“Festival de los pueblos indígenas 2008″, Misiones, Argentina
“Lateinamerika Filmfestival Munster 2009″, Munster, Alemania
Documentaries
Institutionals
