Cinemateca Brasileira will pay tribute to Orson Welles in April as one of many events worldwide marking the centennial of the late filmmaker’s birth.
The annual It’s All True Festival, named after Orson Welles’ first documentary, the unfinished It’s All True, runs April 9-19 in São Paulo and April 10-19 in Rio de Janeiro.
“Three celebrations will drive the focus of our festival: The centennial of Orson Welles’ birth,… (Brazilian documentarian) Vladimir Carvalho’s 80th birthday and the It’s All True Festival’s 20th edition. It gives us the opportunity to examine two masters’ contribution to documentary production as well as to evaluate the last two decades of the documentary genre in Brazil and throughout the world,” said Amir Labaki, founder and director of the It’s All True Festival.
The 1993 documentary It’s All True – Based On An Unfinished Film by Orson Welles and Welles’ 1973 film essay F For Fake will be screened several times during the festival.
Organizers have not announced speakers, however, film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum noted on his website that he would deliver the opening lecture at the Welles conference at the festival on April 14.
Photos taken by the late Chico Albuquerque during the shooting of It’s All True will be exhibited during the festival. A box set with 25 photos taken during those shootings and selected by his son, Ricardo Albuquerque, will be issued.
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