40° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARIES COMPETITION
DRY GROUND BURNING
by AdirleyJoana QueirosPimenta
Country: Portugal
Year: 2022
Duration: 153'
Léa tells the story of the Gasolineiras de Kebradas, as it echoes through the walls of Colmeia, the women’s prison of Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil.
Biography
film director
Joana Pimenta
(Portugal) is a filmmaker from Portugal. Her latest film, An Aviation Field, premiered in competition at the 69th Locarno Film Festival, and was screened in the Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Rotterdam, CPH:Dox, Rencontres Internationales, Oberhausen, Valdivia, Mar del Plata, Edinburgh, among others, and received the Jury Award for Best Film in Competition at Zinebi ’58. She has a PhD in Film and Visual Studies and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University, where she currently teaches filmmaking and is Interim Director of the Film Study Center and a filmmaker associated with the Sensory Ethnography Lab.
FILMOGRAFIA
As Figuras Gravadas Na Faca Com a Seiva Das Bananeiras (cm, doc, 2016), An Aviation Field (cm, doc, 2016), Rádio Coração (coregia Adirley Queirós, cm, doc, 2018), Mato seco em chamas (coregia Adirley Queirós, doc, 2022)
Adirley Queirós
is a filmmaker from Brazil. His latest films are Once it was Brasilia (2017), which premiered at the 70th Locarno Film Festival where it received the Special Mention Signs of Life, and White Out Black In (2014), which was widely screened and won more than 20 awards in Brazil and abroad. His work has been screened at Lincoln Center, Museum of the Moving image, the ICA London, Pacific Film Archive, and featured in publications such as Artforum, Cinemascope, and Cahiers du Cinéma. Adirley’s films have had theatrical releases in Brazil, the U.S., the UK, Argentina, and Portugal, among other countries, and are currently screening in the Criterion Collection channel.
FILMOGRAFIA
Rap, O Canto da Ceilândia (cm, doc, 2005), Dias de Greve (doc, 2009), Out of Green (doc, 2010), A Cidade é Uma Só? (doc, 2011), Um Homem que Voa: Nelson Prudêncio (tv, doc, 2013), Branco Sai, Preto Fica (doc, 2014), Era uma Vez Brasília (doc, 2017), Rádio Coração (cm, doc, 2018), Mato seco em chamas (coregia Joana Pimenta, doc, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“I was remembering the time… That I got wrapped up in some crazy shit with my sister Chitara. My sister made history in Sol Nascente. That was in 2019. I’d just got out of prison for drug charges. My sister asked me to be a part of this crazy scheme she was caught up in. She got a hold of a map of underground oil pipes. She got it and then... she bought a lot in Sol Nascente. The oil pipes ran right under her land. She started making a lot of money with that. Her, Andreia, China… They made a lot of money. So I started working with them. She took me to the lot, where she built a huge structure. Really huge, it was crazy, dope as hell. She taught me how it all worked… How to get the oil from underground, and turn it into gasoline, and all that shit… And she set up a deal with the motoboys, they would buy gasoline from her… She refined the gasoline there, and they bought it off her… Besides the motoboys, Chitara also had a spot at the P.Norte market a stand where she sold her gasoline. And a bunch of other shit. Chitara also got mixed up in politics. She made history… We had Sol Nascente on lock, we fucked things up. We really fucked things up.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joana Pimenta. FILM EDITING: Cristina Amaral. SOUND: Francisco Craesmeyer. CAST: Joana Darc Furtado, Léa Alves Da Silva, Andreia Vieira, Débora Alencar, Gleide Firmino, Mara Alves. PRODUCER: Adirley Queirós. PRODUCED: Cinco Da Norte, Terratreme Filmes.
CONTACT:
Terratreme Filmes - Nevena Desivojevic nevena.desivojevic@terratreme.pt
