A Jangada de Welles (Welles’ Raft) will be screened at the CineOP film festival next month.
The CineOp festival is set for September 3-7 in Ouro Preto, Brazil.
The 75-minute documentary looks at Welles’ aborted wartime South American movie, It’s All True; filming in Fortaleza, the drowning death of national hero Manuel “Jacare” Olimpio Meira during the shoot; the repressive Getúlio Varga regime; and the Ceará fishermen’s struggle for labor rights and housing.
A Jangada de Welles was written and directed by Brazilian filmmakers Petrus Cariry and Firmino Holanda.
The Fortaleza-born Cariry has made such movies as Quando o Vento Sopra and O Grão. Holanda is a professor of film studies at Universidade Federal do Ceará and author of the book Orson Welles no Ceará. The pair collaborated in 2004 on O Cidadão Jacaré (Citizen Jacaré), which looked at the 61-day journey of the four jangadeiros.
A Jangada de Welles had its world premiere on October 26, 2019 at the 43rd annual International Film Festival in São Paulo.
It has not yet been shown in the U.S. Its producers told Wellesnet before the COVID-19 pandemic they were looking for showings at North American festival and a possible streaming ddeal.
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