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MATA

Documentary. 80 min. Directed by Fabio Nascimento & Ingrid Fadnes. 2020. Brazil - Norway

Towards the expansion of the eucalyptus plantations, a farmer and an indigenous leader stand as resistance and reveal the impact of monoculture on the environment and traditional ways of life. The enemy can also be green.

Fábio Nascimento

Fábio Nascimento is a documentary photographer and filmmaker who has worked for National Geographic, Greenpeace, Doctors without Borders, The New York Times, producing stories about people, nature and science. Brazilian, where he studied journalism, and subsequently film theory at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, and a Master degree in documentary film at Paris VIII, France. In addition to directing documentaries, he is also a photographer and editor, has also a background in music and, as a result, composes the soundtracks for many of his films. In recent years, he has divided his time between projects ranging from tropical forests to the poles, working on all continents and embarking on ships across the globe.

FILMOGRAPHY

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2011 Silence 63 (short doc)

2014 Our Painting (short doc)

2016 Development Refugees (short doc)

2020 The Great Turn (short doc)

2020 Mata (feature doc)

Ingrid Fadnes

Ingrid Fadnes (Oslo, 1983) is journalist and researcher. For more than a decade she worked in between Central America and Brazil with social and political issues related to indigenous and rural movements. She is a radiodocumentarist and MATA is her first film.

FILMOGRAPHY

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2020  MATA (feature doc)