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Making of the Movie-Manifest: Behind the World
On April 3rd, after the first round at Globo, in the early afternoon, we went for thes eond round, at Columbia Pictures, at the Nações Unidas Avenue. Corposinalizante and the TV Brasil camera crew were looking for place to hang the poster and found a wall, right beside the building.
We left it behind and went to the entrance of the building, when the Columbia Picture’s security guards, as well as the ones from Globo, looking a bit confused, blocked the cameras. Me, Alex and Amarilis went into the building’s reception. While we were talking to the lady, Leo, Lorran and Luciana held up poster with my picture on it.
Lorran, doubling as reporter, asked someone about the poster: We Want Subtitles in National Films, while Alex tried to talk to the receptionist without success. The receptionist seemed to not let him call up and even asked: Do you have an appointment?
We sat down and even while we waited the security guards wouldn’t leave us alone. We got a call saying that the Columbia directors weren’t in the building, there wasn’t anyone responsible there to greet us. [I doubt it, I even bet that they were hiding, but let’s leave it at that…]
We went to the side of the building to hang the poster, everything was perfect, and we posed for the picture. So we finished the second round and went on to the last one…
…oh, and on that round we had with us Célio Turino, Secretary of Cultural Programs and Projects of the Ministry of Culture (MinC). The man himself, who loved the Corposinalizante team.
The dusk was coming when we stopped at Augusta Street. I knew no one wanted to carry the glue jar because it was heavy, we didn’t use half of it, so I carried it. The rest of the group brought the tray, brumes and the last poster. The Augusta Street is smaller and busier than the last two streets where we hanged the posters and it was very difficult to find a wall that seemed “free”, there wasn’t any, only small stores. Then we found a beautiful and small white wall, property of the bank in front of Cine Sesc.
We decided to risk it than to look for another place. When we were in front of the bank, I thought: This isn’t going to work. I’m glad it did! When we put it up, everything was quick, so no one would catch us.
From what I saw, there was a security guard inside the bank looking at us, I thought he would approach us, as it had happened other times. He walked in the direction of the bank’s entrance, no one from Corposinalizante noticed, just me, but I’m glad he went back to where he was, everything okay, the hanging of the poster was over, we used a lot of glue, but there was still a lot to end the gallon.
We went back to front of Cine Sesc, there wasn’t any security guards, the work was easier, one artist invited us to take some pictures and be featured in a movie, we said yes, we knew he was an Australian photographer, some participated and then we started to interview the public inside the movie theater. We even interviewed the Australian photographer and his interpreter, it was very interesting.
When we looked back to see how the poster with Leo’s picture was, it was still there (how lucky!). The sun was already setting, we sat on the sidewalk to rest and someone bought some popcorn.
But the owner of Cine Sesc was not present…
Felipe Lima
Pictures: Cibele Lucena
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