OLD GOLD, NEW WORLD

OURO VELHO MUNDO NOVO

By Lírio FERREIRA, Claudio ASSIS

JUREMA FILMES - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2020

Cláudio Assis and Lírio Ferreira walk along the border between Pernambuco and Paraíba to show the importance of poetry in local popular culture.

    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Director(s)
    • Lírio FERREIRA, Claudio ASSIS
    • Producer(s)
    • Camila VALENÇA (CAMILA VALENÇA (INDEPENDENT))
    • Synopsis
    • Old Gold, New World is an anthropological kaleidoscope that reflects the rich, fertile and luminous poetry of a border zone between the Pernambuco backlands of Pajeú and the backlands of Cariri in Paraíba, more precisely at the junction of the arid region of Serra do Teixeira and the wild contours of the legendary Pajeú River. There, infinite poetry naturally emerges in its multiple forms, which can be oral, written, sung, metrical, carved, sculpted, rhymed, challenged…