Drifter | Cao Guimarães

Three lonely drifters follow different paths on the roads of northeastern Minas Gerais, Brazil. A film about the connections between walking and thinking, in which the ever-changing nature of things turns life into a place of mere passing.

Direction, cinematography and editing: Cao Guimarães
Production company: Cinco em Ponto
Executive and line producer: Beto Magalhães
Assistante producer: Gibi Cardoso
Characters: Gaúcho, Nercino e Paulão
Character research: Pedro Motta, Gibi Cardoso e Beto Magalhães
Art: Hardy Design
Editing assistant: Aline X.
Cinematography assistant: Alexandre Baxter
Original soundtrack: O Grivo
Sound recording: O Grivo
Images: Cao Guimarães
Additional images: Beto Magalhães
Duration: 80’00”
Screening format: 35mm
Capture format: HDV

AWARDS

BEST DIRECTOR
- Festival Internacional do Rio 2007, Brasil

BEST FILM
- Forumdoc.bh.2007 – 11“ Festival do Filme Documentário e Etnográfico. Brasil

LADY HAMARIGUADA DE ORO – BEST FILM
- 9º Festival Internacional de Cine – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

FESTIVALS AND EXHIBITIONS

PREMIERE
- 27ª Bienal de São Paulo. Brasil.

WORLD PRÉMIERE
- 64th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, Itália
OFFICIAL SELECTION
- Rio International Film Festival 2007, Brasil
- Indie2007 – Mostra Mundial, Brasil
- 31º São Paulo International Film Festival, Brasil
- CPH:DOX 08 Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Dinamarca
- forumdoc.bh.2007 - 11º Festival do Filme Documentário e Etnográfico, Brasil
- Festival Tertio Millennio, Itália
- 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam - Holanda
- Mostra do Filme Livre 2008 – Brasil, RJ
- Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo de la Ciudad de Mexico - FICCO, México
- 2008 Miami International Film Festival - Estados Unidos
- Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival – Ilhas Canárias
- 2008 Sydney International Film Festival – Austrália
- Era New Horizons International Film Festival - Polônia
- XXVI Festival Internacional de Cinema do Uruguai – Uruguai
- Câmera Mundo – Festival de Cinema Independente – Holanda
- Premiere Brazil NY 2008 - Museu de Arte Moderna – Estados Unidos
- 61st Locarno International Film Festival – Suíça
- 15th Valdivia International Film Festival - Chile
- 22nd Leeds International Film Festival – Reino Unido
- 7th Discovering Latin America – Reino Unido