ROLEIROS

SWAPPERS
Documentary | DV | 2003 | 15 minutes
Independent production

SYNOPSIS: People at the swap market in Ceilândia recover bartering as an economic alternative: an affair for the police or a question of survival?

Watch the film: Vimeo

- Shown in 15 festivals in Brazil and abroad, including Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Cuba, 03), Cinesul (São Paulo and Rio, 03), Jornada da Bahia (Salvador, Brazil, 03) and Cine Ceará (Fortaleza, Brazil, 03)
- Awards: best video at the Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul (03); best video (audience award), Cultural Expression Award (official jury) and honorable mention (ABD&C/RJ), at the Festival Brasileiro de Cinema Universitário (Rio, 03); honorable mention at the Goiânia Mostra Curtas (03); best sound at the Santa Maria Cinema e Vídeo (03), to Francisco Craesmeyer; best documentary (audience award), at the Mostra Universitária de Vídeo (Brasília, 03)

Directed and produced by: Guilherme Bacalhao
Research: Breitner Tavares, Guilherme Bacalhao
Director of photography: André Carvalheira
Editor: Sérgio Raposo