Production

About / Who are we

HORS CHAMP Productions was launched in 2011. It’s aim is to produce films, organize film screenings, together with public debates and lectures. It is meant to be a platform for reflections on the language of film. HORS CHAMP appreciates films off the mainstream, not recognized but exceptional. It proposes new forms and new meanings in film it is producing.

Maoro da Rocha Pitta is the founder and director of HORS CHAMP Productions. He graduated from Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts Department at the Univesity Paris 8 (Vincennes, Saint-Denis) in 2002 and Anthropological Cinema at University Paris 10 (Nanterre) in 2007.

Films

Jurema

(short film) – about „reality“ of a certain bar in a port town.

Documentary film – JUREMA – was made after an accidental encounter of four individuals in a bar in Old Recife, and is focused on an authentic personage: Teresie Cristine. This meeting happened as an occasion to show various dimmentions of everyday live. The film transcends the borders of what’s beeing shown.

The film was shot in a city of Recife in 2000, but the editing was realised only in 2005. It was shot on a HDV camera, and edited on Final Cut Pro.

  • Production year: 2000/05
  • Director: Maoro da Rocha Pitta
  • Country: Brazil/France
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Technical Specs: Hi8
  • Runtime: 16 minutes

Festivals and film screenings

  • 9 Documentary Film Festival FORUMDOC.BH 2005 – Special recognition of Jury (Brasil).
  • Curta Circuito Film Club Screenings – Open Screeing – Belo Horizonte – MG – 2007 (Brasil)
  • CINUSP, Univeristy if São Paulo (USP) – SP Brasil
  • X ABANNE – Anthropologist Meeting of North-North East (region Nordeste) and Equatorial Anthropologist Meeting (UFS) – Aracaju – SE – 2007 – (Brasil)
  • X Meeting on Social Science – Center for Philosophy and Human Studies (CFCH) UFPE – 2007 (Brasil)
  • 15 Natal Film Festival (Brasil)

Orixas

Orixas

(documentary) – about a daily live of a community of a Candomblé temple.

Documentary film Orixás – with the use of special modes of film expression presents rituals which anticipate every candomblé in a temple of deities in brasilian North-East region. It’s a look directed to symbolic values of the “povo de santo” (“saint’s people”) who are in a symbiotic relationship with nature. The daily life of the terreiro’s community is lived closely by the day of the Toque para Oxum (Beat for Oxum), a river’s deity.

The film was shot in Grande Recife region in 2007. It was made on Sony camera and edited on Final Cut Pro.

  • Production year: 2008
  • Director: Maoro da Rocha Pitta
  • Country: Brazil/France
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Technical Specs: Digital Video (HDV)
  • Runtime: 45 minutes

Festivals and film screenings

  • Mostra de filmes do El Museo Regional Cuauhnáhuac – Palacio de Cortés – 2011 – (México)
  • 12º Festival do Filme Documentário FORUMDOC.BH 2008 – Menção Honrosa do Júri (Brasil)
  • Projeção no Colóquio International Francofone sobre La Théorie Durandienne de L’imaginaire – Université Saint Paul – 2012 – Ottawa – (Canada)
  • Mostra de filmes da VIII Semana Cultural DA FACE: A Cultura Afro-Brasileira – 2010 – (Brasil)
  • Festival do Filme Etnográfico do Recife – 2009 – (Brasil)
  • 13a Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnográfico – 2008 – Rio de Janeiro – (Brasil)