Super Festivais do GRIFE: produção, circulação e formação de cineastas no Super8 brasileiro (1973-1983)

Abstract

This research is the analysis of the trajectory of Super National Festivals of Super8 film, an initiative of the Group of Independent Filmmakers Experimental Films (GRIFE) of São Paulo, of its first edition in 1973 until 1983, when the festival ends. The idea is to give an overview of this important chapter of Brazilian cinema, which has not aroused great interest among researchers of cinema. To this end I make use of extensive documentation and critical fortune composed around the national superoitista production as articles in newspapers and magazines, exhibitions catalogs, etc., as well as historical documents related to the realization of GRIFE’s Super Festivals.