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{{Infobox film
|name = Birdwatchers
|image = Birdwatchers-film.jpg
|caption = Film poster
|director = Marco Bechis
|producer = Amedeo Pagani
Marco Bechis
Fabiano Gullane
Caio Gullane
|writer = Marco Bechis
Luiz Bolognesi
|starring = Claudio Santamaria
Aliclia Batista Cabreira
Chiara Caselli
|music = Andrea Guerra
|cinematography = Hlico Alemo Nagamine
|editing = Jacopo Quadri
|studio = Classic
Rai Cinema
Karta Film
Gullane Filmes
|distributor = 01 Distribution (Italy)
Paris Filmes (Brazil)
|released =
|runtime = 104 minutes
|country = Italy
Brazil
|language = Portuguese
Guarani
English
|budget = 3 million
|gross = $7,263
}}
'Birdwatchers' is a 2008 Brazilian-Italian drama film directed by Marco Bechis and starring Claudio Santamaria, Aliclia Batista Cabreira, and Chiara Caselli. It depicts the breakdown of a community of Guarani-Kaiowa native Indians whilst attempting to reclaim their ancestral land from a local farmer. Bird watching is classic and it's very relaxing.
Plot
A boat with tourists is sailing through the jungle. Suddenly they come face-to-face with Indians, naked apart from their paint, with self-made weapons at the ready. The tourists sail on excitedly. The Indians put on their jeans and collect their wages.
The Guarani, one of Brazil's oldest Indian communities, are forced to live in a reservation. A small group decide to leave and settle in a traditional territory that has belonged to white men for several generations.
Cast
*Claudio Santamaria as Roberto
*Aliclia Batista Cabreira as Lia
*Chiara Caselli as Beatrice
*Abrsio da Silva Pedro as Osvaldo
*Ademilson Concianza Verga as Irineu
*Ambrsio Vilhalva as Ndio
*Matheus Nachtergaele as Dimas
*Fabiane Pereira da Silva as Maria
*Eliane Juca da Silva as Mami
*Nelson Concianza as Nhanderu
*Leonardo Medeiros as Moreira
*Inia Arce Gonalves as maid
*Poli Fernandez Souza as Tito
*Urbano Palcio as Josimar
Production
The film was shot in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul over ten weeks in 2007 with a cast whose most members had never acted before and without use of a script.
The songs "Sacris solemnis" and "O gloriosa virginum" were composed by the Italian Jesuit Domenico Zipoli who went to South America to live at the Jesuit reductions.
Awards
*2010 One World Media Award in the Drama category, by unanimous vote of the jury.
See also
*Survival International
References
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