WORLD SESSIONS SERIES Since 2010 Amaní Productions makes short documentary portraits about international artists, for screening at live concerts in the Netherlands, as part of World Connection's World Sessions series. The documentary approach is simple and set up to be shot in 1 or 2 days, showing a day in the artists personal and professional life. So far we finalized: • Netsayi (London) • Fatoumata Diawara (Paris) • Somi (NewYork) • Rupa & the April Fishes (San Francisco) • Gaby Moreno (L.A.) • Carminho (Lisbon) • IN PRODUCTION 2011: Gabby Young (U.K.) • Bombino • Marta Gomez (Barcelona) • Roland Tchakounte (Paris)
Overeind! Rumble in the streets of Eindhoven! Documentary by and year-long workshops for youths, on safety in the nightlife of Eindhoven. About young people, made by young people. Directed and tutored by Mano Camon. More info here: [ news ]
Cymbalom Legacy - The Soundscape of Miklós Lukács (Amaní productions 2007) Genre: Music documentary. This 45 min. film narrates about a particular and ancient instrument, the Cymbalom, and the music of Hungarian virtuoso Miklós Lukács. Miklós is a Roma, whose radical way of blending traditional gypsy tunes with classical harmonies, contemporary jazz and popular music is taking him and his cymbalom into new and exciting musical territory. Unsatisfied with the archaic approach the cymbalom is known for, Lukács decided to expand the horizon of this ancient instrument by dedicating himself to the exploration of what he likes to call his “infinite treasure chest".
written and directed by Mano Camón
The film, co-produced with Steve Weiss Music (U.S.A.) is narrated and subtitled in English. A complete Hungarian version is now also available.
Currently we are looking forward in finding partners in The Netherlands and throughout Europe for releases, screenings and broadcast. Information: soundscape@amaniproductions.eu
"Rehearsing Reality" an interactive docufragmentary by Nina Simoes.
The docufragmentary Rehearsing Reality introduces Forum Theatre created by Augusto Boal at the point of interaction with Brazil’s Landless Movement. Through this drama technique Rehearsing Reality exposes the marginal social conditions under which the Brazilian landless are forced to live and the attempts they are employing to reverse this situation.
Director, Producer, Camera, Researcher
Nina Simões
Video Editing and Korsakow System
Nina Simões
Mano Camón
The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003 Shadowsnake Films). Did the trailer and editing of interviews: over 200 min. of DVD bonus material. After editing the trailer for Dez Vylenz's extraordinairy documentary we soon started to work on the DVD extra's, now containing interviews with artists and colleages of Alan Moore, and several artists who worked on this feature documentary film.
"A psychedelic journey with the acclaimed writer as contemporary shaman having the power to transform conciousness and society"
Film is now for sale, info at www.shadowsnake.com
[ see the trailer ] (6.5 Mb)
EPK. For the promotion of performing artists like singers, bands, actors and dancers, diverse media are becoming more important: not only a website and a videoclip, but EPK, showreel and mini-doc or promo-doc. This let's the artist personally express his/her artistic points of view, showing a bit of the life behind the scenes along with moments of live performance of the artist. Nowadays an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) and such video on myspace or youtube is a very important public support for a record or live performance.
See Beáta Palya's 12 min. video as an example of a 'Promo-Doc'. Music and intervieuws.
Dance. Introdans celebrates it's 35th anniversary by bringing the famous 1932 ballet 'The Green Table' of Kurt Jooss to stage, accompanied live by two wings. Language: Dutch.
Video: [ Introdans ]
www.introdans.nlThe Empire of Juramidam (smirsh films 2003). In Brazil since many years a new christian church was founded, called Santo Daime, that since some ten years has also been spreading into Europe. This Amazone based church combines elements of indigenous, African and Christian religion and ritual, using a hallucogenic tea for communal prayers. Running into Irish filmmaker Colum Stapleton who was in a more advanced stage of making a film about this theme then I, was a 'synchronised' coincidence. In Amsterdam did camerawork for Colum Stapleton, during the visit of church leader Padriño Alfredo. The film has been finished, you can find info at:
Photo Doc: Faces of Brasil (Mano Camón, 2001) A photographic documentary series, which enjoyed a 3 month solo exposition in the city museum of Querétaro, Mexico, is about the variety of 'faces of brazil'. In a six month travel that led Mano from Amazone to Maranhão, and from Salvador to Rio, he met al kinds of people of different roots, surprisingly even gypsies, but all had one big thing in common: Dispite their extreme poverty, an undestructable joy for the little but happy things that life offers.
The series on Gypsies in Latin America will hopefully continue in the near future.
