Rejeito
by Pedro de Filippis
REJEITO
2023 / Portuguese / Documentary / 75 min / 2K / Color
Enquadramento Produções | Here and Elsewhere (USA)
DIRECTOR AND CINEMATOGRAPHER Pedro de Filippis
PRODUCERS Leonardo Mecchi, Bronte Stahl, and Tarsila Nakamura
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Davit Giménez
SOUND DESIGN Daniel Nunes
EDITING Luiz Pretti
SOUNDTRACK Paulo Santos and Gustavo Cunha
SELECTIONS AND AWARDS
Cinéma du Réel (France)
Hot Docs (Canada)
IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Camden Film Festival (USA)
CineEco (Portugal)
Panorámica - Stockholm Latin American Film Festival (Sweden)
Cinéma sous les étoiles (Canada)
Festival Brésil en Mouvements (France)
Indie Memphis Film Festival (USA)
Terra di Tutti Film Festival (Italy)
FICA - International Festival of Environmental Film (Brazil)
Best Director
Rio Film Festival (Brazil)
CineBH International Film Festival (Brazil)
SYNOPSIS
After the largest mining dam breaks in history, further dam collapses threaten millions in Brazil. A state counselor confronts the government's modus operandi, while dam refugees resist the mining companies' abuses in their threatened communities.
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Pedro de Filippis is a filmmaker from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His debut short, Os Pêssegos da Cornicha (2009), underlines his research on post-colonialism and won the Best Documentary award at Mostra Minas and Cinecipó festivals, being also shown in Mexico and Argentina. He was selected for the European MFA program Doc Nomads, through which he directed documentaries in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium during the two years of the program. Pedro is also a Logan NonFiction and Points North Fellowship alumni. In 2021 he was nominated for the Global Emerging Filmmaker prize by Netflix and IDA. Rejeito is his first feature.
