“Why have I never lived in just one place? Because I feel bad. I feel very bad breathing the air of just one place”. Tarabatara is a moment of everyday life showing the charm of a gipsy family in the northeast of Brazil. The documentary captures moments of pause and rest in the nomadism of the gipsies. The old man and his memories, the women and children of the group, the way they talk and their gestures, looks and chores.
Julia Zakia has a Cinema Studies degree by the School of Arts and Communication - University of Sao Paulo (ECA - USP). Since then, she has directed five short-films, selected by the most important festivals around the world. She had the oportunity to accompany the portuguese cinematographer Eduardo Serra, assisting him during the shootings of Blood Diamond, directed by Ed Zwick in Mozambique.
In 2007 she recieved the "Estímulo Prize" for short-films, granted by the São Paulo State Government in order to develop the documentary short TARABATARA, about a gipsy family living in the state of Alagoas.
From the experience of living with this gipsy family she wrote the script of RIO CIGANO, her first feature film.
DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
RIO CIGANO (DCP-fiction-90'-2015)
PEDRA BRUTA (35mm –fiction-8’-2009)
TARABATARA (35mm-documentary-23’-2007)
A ESTÓRIA DA FIGUEIRA (35mm-fiction-17’-2006)
O CHAPÉU DO MEU AVÔ (video-documentary-29’-2004)
Director
Julia Zakia
Executive Producer
Assistant Director, Still Photogtapher, Production and Camera
Laura Mansur
Screenwriter
Julia Zakia
Cinematographer
Julia Zakia
Editor
Hélio Villela and Julia Zakia
Production Manager
Guilherme César
Sound Editing
Guile Martins
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