Audiovisual preservationist with 19 years of professional experience in cultural heritage management and the audiovisual market. Bachelor in Film Studies (Fluminense Federal University - UFF, Brazil) and Master in Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image (Universiteit van Amsterdam - UvA, the Netherlands). After the MA, worked for one year at the EYE Filmmuseum. From 2016 to 2020 worked at the Cinemateca Brasileira. Currently is the co-curator of the audiovisual preservation symposium of the film festival CineOP - Mostra de Cinema de Ouro Preto (since 2017) and gives lectures on cinema and audiovisual preservation.
A preservação audiovisual no Brasil e a crise da cinemateca brasileira
A Cinemateca Brasileira (CB) é a principal instituição de patrimônio audiovisual do Brasil e, em 2020, passa por sua pior crise.
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In 1974, Sérgio Ricardo’s A Noite do Espantalho, shot entirely in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, was shown at the New York Film Festival. It was not until forty five years later, when Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Bacurau came to the New York Film Festival in 2019, that Ricardo returned to New York City, this time through song.
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This past September, the staff of Limite had the opportunity to conduct an interview with the Workers of the Cinemateca Brasileira (Trabalhadores da Cinemateca Brasileira) , the collective representing the archivists and staff of Brazil’s largest film archive, who have been fighting for nearly an entire year for the survival of this vital institution.
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The following interview took place with archivist Hernani Heffner on July 4th, 2020. Heffner has been working at Rio de Janeiro’s historic Cinemateca do MAM since 1996 and is one of Brazil’s most important film archivists.
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