The documentary “White Gold” reinforces and goes deep into the range of performance of Persona Films that is the historical scene, the shooting of this documentary should begin in October 2007. With 26 minutes of duration, the documentary will trail the path that marked the appearance of Sugar Mills in Brazil at the XVI century.
As part of the projects creation process “The Queen’s Orphans”, in phase of obtainment of resources, the documentary will be an autonomous project that will enrich the low Brazilian production based on the origins of our Country’s construction sustained in research full of historical data that will include the statement of specialists and the reenactment of scenes. The iconography of painter Frans Post, a great artist of his time will be central in the proposition of “White Gold”.
The challenge in which director Elza Cataldo proposes to do is to launch a singular look on the Brazilian history through women. The course of Branca Dias is the conductor wire of the script, marked by the disturbed life of this New-Christian, owner of a sugar mill in the XVI century that was accused to the Holy Office of the Inquisition under the accusation of Judaism.
Around of the sugar
Eduardo Galeano, writer of the book “The open veins of Latin America”, among other seminal works, calls attention to the leadership that Brazil occupied in the production of sugar until the mid XVII century. The Dutch funds financed in large part the sugar mill business, which was, in short, more Flamingos than Portuguese. Around the sugar mills, the colonial Brazilian society bloomed in Bahia and Pernambuco that only the discovery of gold in Minas Gerais would change.
The achievement of this historical film demands care of a deep research that way with the knowledge of the iconography and habits of the given era. The documentary project “White Gold” restates the aesthetic of that period already present in previous works of Elza Cataldo, particularly in the film “Rose Wine”. The language mindful to detail and the subtlety to the movements lead to a profile of visual delicacy that can be translated in singularity.
The great effort demanded in the historical films is one of the explanation to the restrict view of the audiovisual production in this area of Brazil. We are talking about an artistic gap based on a expressive demand, of the audiences in general such as the schools audience. The documentary ‘White Gold” might represent an instigating and innovative pedagogical instrument capable to preserve the Brazilian memory and to value national identity.
Sponsors through the State Law of Incentive to Culture of Belo Horizonte:
BDMG
Impacto Conservação e Limpeza
Banco Bomsucesso
Bonsucesso Distribuidora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários
Empresa Mineira de Hotelaria
Spress Informática
Master Turismo
