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Bay Of All Saints

USA 74 min.

Sunday, October 14, at 11:30 a.m.
Theatres at Canal Place 1
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Director, Editor
Annie Eastman
Cinematographers
Annie Eastman, Gustavo Gelmini, Marcela Bourseau
Producers
Diane Markrow, Davis Coombe
Director Bio
Annie first came to the water slums of Bahia, Brazil in 1999 to work with a grassroots arts and education organization called GRUCON. She worked and resided in this neighborhood for 18-months, learned Portuguese and co-directed a short documentary to support GRUCON’s work. Later she worked as Associate Producer and Translator on THEY KILLED SISTER DOROTHY, a feature-length documentary that follows the aftermath of a Catholic nun’s assassination in the Brazilian Amazon (HBO Films, nominated for National Emmy 2010). Annie also worked as Assistant Editor and Production Coordinator on THE LAST CAMPAIGN OF GOVERNOR BOOTH GARDNER (HBO Films, nominated for an Academy Award 2010); IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA (Toronto Film Festival 2007, broadcast on PBS and BBC).

Synopsis

In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of families are about to lose their homes. BAY OF ALL SAINTS is a lyrical portrait of three single-mothers living in the water slums during this crisis. Their individual stories of poverty unfold through visits from Norato, their big-hearted refrigerator repairman, born and raised in the palafitas. As these women rise to fight for their future, they begin to see the bay in a whole new light.

Links

http://www.bayofallsaints.com

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