In Minas Gerais, Brazil, bell sounds set the pace of life announcing the time for work, rest, prayer and celebration. Over 40 different bell rings are nominated as part of the Brazilian Intangible Cultural Heritage. The bell ringers have transformed the bell rings over the centuries and have mixed their colonial origins with the strong African heritage in Brazil. The documentary is a poetic representation of the religious everyday experience.
Marcia Mansur
Co-founder and director of Estúdio CRUA, Marcia Mansur is an anthropologist, producer and documentary filmmaker. Marcia is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology and artist in residency at Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo. She has collaborated with institutions such as “Video in the Villages”, aimed at supporting indigenous people through audiovisual resources, “RioFilme”, a government agency for Rio de Janeiro audiovisual development and “UnionDocs”, Brooklyn, assisting the production of CoLab, a year long training program for media artists that has produced an interactive documentary project. Her previous short films have been screened and awarded in festivals in Brazil and Italy.
Marina Thomé
Marina Thomé is a photographer and documentary filmmaker. Holds a master’s degree in Creative Documentary (UAB – Barcelona, Spain) and Communication, Art & Technology (UBA – São Paulo, Brazil). Marina works as a researcher and producer of documentary content for multimedia platforms and has studied photojournalism and storytelling at International Center of Photography (ICP, NYC). Her recent productions include the feature film “The Sound of Bells”, presented in festivals like XXVII Festival Biarritz Latin America (France, 2017) and 42º Margaret Mead Film Festival (USA, 2018), “Alzira E – Aquilo que eu nunca perdi”, a cine-biography about Alzira Espíndola, a Brazilian singer and composer, to be released in 2020, and “The Dual Nature of Light” a transmedia project in development which won the Biarritz Amerique Latine Film Festival pitching to participate in the Lizières Residency (France, 2019).