Manaus Ágil tourism and culture of AmazonasThe screening of the feature film will be held at the Cine Teatro Guarany, attached to the Palácio Rio Negro Cultural Center, Centro. Admission is free.
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(Photos: Christian Bellotto)
This Saturday (03/09), starting at 6pm, the Art Film Club will present the unreleased work of Jimmy Christian, "Opal Amazon Connectionas part of the showcase of filmmakers from Amazonia. The screening of the feature film will be held at Cine Teatro Guaranyon Sete de Setembro Avenue, attached to the Palácio Rio Negro Cultural CenterCultural Center, Center of Manaus. The rating is 16 years and admission is free.
The Art Film Club is a program held by the State Secretariat of Culture (SEC), with film screenings on Saturdays, with the proposal to give visibility to the productions developed by local filmmakers.
Engaged in authorial cinema, Jimmy Christian, who is a photojournalist, took advantage of an old passion for cars and produced his first film during a trip to Brasília to pick up an Opala he had bought over the internet. "I have always been a fan of the car, ever since the 80's, when I went out to make out in the black Opala of the father of a friend of mine. It was love at first sight. As the years went by, the desire to own one got stronger and stronger. Then, in 2016, on the internet sales marketplace, I found a red 1975 Opala sedan," he relates.
The idea
Inspired by the classic "No Destination", by director Dennis Hoper, Jimmy wrote a script for a "Road Movie", a kind of film that takes place during a trip. He gathered his wife, his son and a friend and they decided to pick up the car in the Federal District. The return trip, now with the Opala, was along the Brasília-Belém and Belém-Manaus highways, for a total distance of 3,800 kilometers.
Due to lack of resources, the feature took two years to be edited. However, Jimmy discovered a video editing application and, on his cell phone, managed to complete the editing. "The incredible thing is that I thought I didn't have the film, but when I checked the images I realized I had done the right thing," he says.
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"Opal Amazon Connection
The synopsis
Jean Mola (Jimmy Christian), an unemployed and indebted photojournalist, decides to raise money by combining the useful and the pleasant: bring a 1975 Opala from Brasília to Manaus, do a journalistic story and pay off his debts. On the way, he meets his travel partner, "Blond Devil" (Evandro Menezes), a native of Paraíba who lost an eye in demonstrations.
Tired of politics, Diabo Loiro embarks with Jean Mola on an adventure, tearing up the roads of Brazil, passing through the states of Goiás, Tocantins, Maranhão, Pará, and Amazonas. The cast also includes artists Erivan Maquiné, Villy Gouveia, Christian Bellotto, and Marco Antonio Sampaio Esteves.
"Opala Amazon Connection" is a fiction Road Movie, with 93 minutes of duration, in color. The feature is directed by Jimmy Christian and produced by Artecontemporaneapura FILMS.
Service
Screening of the feature film "Opala Amazon Connection", by Jimmy Christian
Date/TimeMarch 9, Saturday, 6 pm
PlaceCine Teatro Guarany (Av. Sete de Setembro, annex of Palácio Rio Negro Cultural Center, Centro)
AdmissionFree
Rating:16 years old
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