director
Ana Rieper was born in Rio de Janeiro – Brazil, in 1975. She is a documentary filmmaker, with a master degree on Development and Environment. She graduated in Geography at the Fluminense Federal University, where she also studied Cinema for two years.
Ana has been working with audiovisual since 1998, date of her first documentary, “Saara”, about the immigrants from different parts of the world, who settled in downtown Rio de Janeiro, forming a community known as Saara. The film won many awards and was followed by other documentaries and anthropological videos, such as “Agradeço a Deus, a Meu Pai e ao Rio São Francisco”, “Xingó”, “Do Quintal da Nossa Casa à Baía de Guanabara” and “On the Stream”, about the population living on the banks of the São Francisco River.
Her short film “Veluda” won the Special Award in Mostra do Filme Livre 2006 and the short documentary “Another Land”, on the slum removal process in the city of Rio de Janeiro won the Special Award in the Pierre Verger Prize.
Filmography
►“MATARAM MEU GATO”, 35mm, 15 min., documentary, 2006.
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival – Festival do Rio, Brazil
São Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
Goiânia Mostra Curtas, Brazil
International Ethnograpfic International Film Festival – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Recine – Archive Film Festival
Tiradentes Film Festival
►“VELUDA”, DV, 7 min., documentary, 2005.
Special Award – Mostra do Filme Livre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cine Esquema Novo, Porto Alegre, Brazil
►“POSITIVISMOS”, DV, 23 min., documentary, 2005.
Val-de-Gras Museum, Paris, France
► “AFINANDO A LÍNGUA”, TV Futura, 13 programs with 30 minutes each, 2005 / 2010
► “NEM TODOS HOMENS SÃO IGUAIS”, DV, 8 min., essay, 2004.
►“NA VEIA DO RIO”, DV, 77 min., documentary, 2002.
Forumdoc.bh.2002, Brazil
V International Environmental Film and Vídeo festival – FICA, Goiás, Brazil
Première in 17 screenings in the Lower S. Francisco River for more than 5000 viewers
Cine Eco – International Environmental Cinema Festival of Serra da Estrela, Portugal
Doc Lisboa 2004, Lisbon, Portugal
Sasà Awards – International Environmental Film Festival - Italy
9a International Ethnographic International Film Festival – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
►“AGRADEÇO A DEUS, A MEU PAI E AO RIO SÃO FRANCISCO”, Betacam, 18 min.,
documentário, 1999.
►“SAARA”, Video, 28 min., documentary, 1998.
Best Film – II Ethnographic and Antropological Film Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Best Direction – I FESTCINE, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
6ª International Ethnographic International Film Festival – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
4º Brazilian Universitary Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
3º Curitiba Film Festival, Brazil
56th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Antalya, Turkey.
