The Pampas Unknown Desert
 Documentary, Brazil 2007, 25'45
Screenplay and direction: Carolina Berger
Producer: Álvaro de Carvalho Neto
Cast: Renato Pereira, Martimena Pereira, Damazia da Costa Marzulo, Ozial Pereira, Odilon Pereira, Juraci da Mota Marzulo, Geci da Silva e (menino - Lindomar da Silva)
Director of Photography: Pablo Escajedo
Editor and Postproduction: Emerson Paraná – CamongoLoco Comunicação
Assistant Director: Fabiano Foggiato Godinho
Original soundtrack: Pirisca Grecco
Sound design and mixing: Cristiano Scherer – KO Produções (KO Productions)
Assistant mix technician: Fernando Dimenor
Direct sound technician: Sanjai Cardoso
Musicians: Paulinho Goulart – accordion, Pirisca Grecco – acoustic guitar
Sound studio – soundtrack: Sonare Studios
Studio technician: Fábio Maus
Studio supervisor: Paulo Roveder
Research: Carolina Berger
English Review: Maria Adelaide Lanius – Yázigi Santa Maria
Translation: Fernando Cardoso de Freitas
Drivers: Honório Alves Aurélio, José Antonio Flores
In the very south of Brazil, in the Southeast border of Rio Grande do Sul state, where the main economical activity is agriculture and cattle raising, a community of small farm workers is struggling not to loose what remains of their small piece of land. The land inherited from their grand-father is the memory of a history of resistance, where the nature is the remembrance that man shouldn’t forget of taking care of the land. A threatened world, where generations have been sowing and reaping their own survival.
Director’s Filmography:
Co-director and screenplay
Movimentos (Movement, Color, 4’45’’, 2002,VHS, HI-8, Brazil
Versões (Version, Color, 25 min, 2003, Betacam SP, Brazil)
Director and screenwriter
- Documentary
Nossa Senhora (Holy Mary, S-VHS, 38 min, 2001, documentary, Brazil)
Clínica (Clinic, Color, 15min, 2006, Mini DV, Documentary, Argentina)
Pero mejores, no… (But not better… Color, 15’45”, 2006, Mini DV,
Documentary, Argentina)
Wonderful Images of love, life, and hunger (Color, 6min, Mini DV,
Argentina, Vídeo Letter, 2006)
Álbum (Album, 42 min, 2005, Mini DV, Documentary, Argentina)
Biography / Director
Born in Santa Maria, in the very south of Brasil, in 1979, Carolina Berger is journalist but since the first years of university she started working with cinema. Starting as script girl in short films and in a feature film, she also worked as assistant producer for television, and directed video clips for local bands produced by the Communitary Television TV OVO. She also participated as a member of 2 Cine-Clubs in her city, both part of cultural and cooperative organizations.
She started her work as a film maker with a documentary (Nossa Senhora, Holy Mary, 2001), on a very famous pilgrimage in her home town. In 2002 and 2003 have been working as Production Director and curator of the National Film and Video Festival Santa Maria Video e Cinema where she also participated, in 2006 as member of the jury. In 2002 and 2003 co-direct two independent documentaries – Movement and Version - on the World Social Forum, in Porto Alegre.
Actually she’s concluding her master in documentary film at Universidad del Cine, Argentina, where she made the video documentaries Album, Pero mejores, no (But not better…) and Clinica (Clinic). Actually she is working on her autobiographical documentary project, Yo quisiera volver…, (I wich I could have been there…) for the master and is researching the relation between personal cinema, documentary and home-movies.
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