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BLOOD STAINED GOLD

Sandro Neiva & Alessandro Silveira Film Direction.43 min, 38 s. VT documentarySynopsis:

Blood Stained Gold

is a vt documentary which approaches socio-environmental consequences from gold mining activities in Paracatu ( Minas GeraisState, in Brazil) as from 1987. The Canadian industrial group initiated its activities intown in 2007 – under the approval of legally constituted environmental agencies – aiming to extend the mining expansion project for an extra 30 year period. The Paracatuinhabitants are left with enormously exposed wounds due to open pit mining activitiesin the urban site, plus the resulting toxic dust affecting and disintegrating the nowvisibly ailing traditional land users.File images and testimonies were originally captured in film and super –VHS permeatedthroughout the film with mini- VD contemporaneous images and testimonies format.Testimonies have been taken from some of the people who live in the miningsurrounding area and are, for sure, the mostly affected ones by the resultingconsequences, plus the testimony of a company CEO, a geologist, a MD PhD and alsofrom the Goias State Criminal Justice State Prosecutor.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Interview, Narrative, Script and AssemblySANDRO NEIVA Photography DirectionALESSANDRO SILVEIRA Art DirectionWALESCKA MARTINS Editing and FinishingDHIEGO SANTANA Old file images and interviewsALESSANDRO SILVEIRA LightingARCANJO DANIEL FONSECA ProductionFÁBIO CASTRO RAMOSARCANJO DANIEL FONSECA Trailer MARCOS COSTA Still PhotographyMOACIR GUERINO SoundA Missa da Terra Sem Males (

The Mass for The Land with no Evil

)Concierto de Aranjuez – Adágio (Aranjuez Concert – Adage)Type Of NegativeAmorphisMurro no Olho (

A Punch in the Eye

)Additional ImagesThe Corporation – Marck Achbar documentary film, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan Photos from the Paracatu History Museum and Paracatu Public Archives General DirectionSANDRO NEIVA Sandro Neiva & Alessandro Silveira 2008 – 43 MIN – COLOR

BLOOD STAINED GOLD

OFF 01

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Paracatu is located in the NW of Minas Gerais State, 200 kilometersaway from Brasília. Portraying majestic colonial baroque estate houses, this 90thousand inhabitant city was founded over 200 years ago and it was alreadyfamous in the XVIII century due to the gold rush cycle. No sooner had the newsabout Paracatu gold spread around the then province of Minas Gerais, thousandsof various social class adventurers and all types of immigrants rushed to the site.For years to come the Paracatu currency had been gold dust.

DIOGO SOARES RODRIGUES (Paracatu ex mayor) – Whenever one talks aboutParacatu, the memory of gold miners come to our minds. They were then referred to asgold glimpsers, not gold miners.JOSÉ FERREIRA GOMES (mining company neighbor) – Gold was the substanceflowing in Paracatu through the informal gold diggers (the “garimpeiros”). Most of thelocal population owes its raising to informal gold diggery or to gold derived activities.DIOGO SOARES RODRIGUES (Paracatu ex mayor) – The Portuguese found out therewas gold in Paracatu and the city came from its exploration. Gold diggers came fromdifferent areas of the State to specifically mine its gold.

OFF 02 –Exactly as at the time of the dominant Portuguese Crown the goldproduced in Paracatu still keeps on flowing to overseas hands. For the Paracatuinhabitants wounded land surface from open pit mining, chemical rejects depot -where once there were beautiful valleys and unpolluted creeks and streamssurrounded by attractive mountain skylines - we now have buried poison, toxicdust and an ailing population.

OFF 03 –Portuguese and their allies, the English, in colonial times, have beenreplaced by the transnational Canadian KINROSS which runs the Rio ParacatuMineração, have been exploring gold in Paracatu since 1987.To follow: “Blood Stained Gold” card. A SANDRO NEIVA & ALESSANDROSILVEIRA documentary film composition.

DIOGO SOARES RODRIGUES (Paracatu ex mayor) – The news spread on Paracatuhaving much gold to be mined the Rio Paracatu Mineração S.A. installed itself in townand much gold have they been removing out. Very little, indeed, remains in Paracatu. NICOLAU ANTÔNIO DE OLIVEIRA (mining company neighbor) – Now RPMinstalled itself above our heads and damaged everything around. INTERVIEWER – How does it feel to have RPM as a neighbor? RÔNIA MARIANO (mining company neighbor) – It is horrible, an absurd, such anaffront, total lack of respect! They threaten us anyway they manage to do it.