Urubu Cine is a film club initiative dedicated to the exhibition, promotion, and digitization of Brazilian short films made between 1965 and 1990. This period marks the era of "Brazilian short filmmaking," a movement of filmmakers who fought aesthetically, politically, and economically for the valorization of the national short film—a format continually neglected by exhibition circuits and the historiography of Brazilian cinema.

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Born at the Cinemateca do MAM in 2018, the film club operates across various fields: volunteer work in film review and cataloging at the cinematheque, scanning of paper documentation, mapping films in public and private collections, text production, screening of films on celluloid in sessions and showcases, holding debates and interviews, presenting work at seminars, and, finally, film digitization.

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Programmer: Lucas Parente
Graphic design: Helena Lessa
Documentation: Helena Lessa and Ian Schuler
Copy revision: Alexandre Gouin and Lucas Parente

 

We organized a total of 8 sessions at the Cinemateca do MAM/RJ. Each session was dedicated to a short-filmmaker, accompanied by a short introductory text and followed by a debate. Below we provide some historical information gathered during the organization of the sessions.

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18-04-2019 – ANTÔNIO MORENO

23-05-2019 – SÉRGIO PÉO

13-06-2019 – MARIA LUIZA ABOIM

14-08-2019 – ROBERTO MOURA

20-09-2019 – OCTÁVIO BEZERRA

11-10-2019 – OS TESOUROS DA CINEMATECA

29-11-2019 – JOSÉ INÁCIO PARENTE

18-05-2022 – JOSÉ SETTE DE BARROS