Cinemacomo Show of Tiradentes ‘Saved’ Cidade Mineira, according to the event director of the 28th edition of the Film Festival takes place until Saturday, 1st, with film screenings and various training programs

THE 28th Tiradentes Cinema Show Inaugurated the Brazilian audiovisual calendar of 2025. The event started on January 24 and runs until February 1, bringing together filmmakers, critics, researchers, culture professionals, academics, students and spectators in Minas Gerais.

The program is free and presents to the public the diversity of Brazilian film production in more than 100 films in premieres and thematic shows.

In 2025, the event reached its 28th edition. The director of Universe Production and coordinator of Tiradentes Cinema Show, Raquel Hallak D’Angeloremembered how the festival was born and transformed the city: “YVES ALVESwho was Globo’s regional director, kind of discovered Tiradentes, saved Tiradentes – Tiradentes was an abandoned city,I was listed 100 years abandoned“.

Second HallakTourism of the Minas Gerais city was, until the late 1990s, welcomed by a hotel founded by English and the famous Padre Toledo restaurant. Alves idealized a cultural center whose inauguration was the kick of Tiradentes Show.

“I presented a project to install a cinema in the auditorium to have a regular schedule, recovering a projector from a country town. At that moment, theaters were all becoming churches … Minas Gerais is a state of 853 municipalities. Today, just over 60 have a movie theater.So, we brought a projector from Montes Claros, from a cinema that was disabled, “he said Hallak the Rolling Stone Brazil.

She continued: “Yves He said: ‘We will open the center with this movie show in January, which is the city’s birthday, but you have to continue to have a programming all year round. “

Yves He conceived this cultural center, he saved the music band, he created a theater group, he created a picture house, he opened a library, he invested a lot in Tiradentes.

Thus, Tiradentes began to permeate a circuit formed by the São Paulo International Film Show, Rio Festival and other giants, such as the Gramado Film Festival and the Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema.

To Raquelthe differential of Tiradentes Show is in the investment in training: “This generated a lot of strangeness, because we had a festival addiction, which was to show and reward, display movie and reward. “

From the first edition, to this day, 28 years later, the Show It remains for the same purpose: to be the great ally of Brazilian cinema. Today is the largest contemporary Brazilian cinema event in formation. It was the first festival to offer workshops, showing that, to foster the audiovisual industry, you have to invest in training, education.

Hallak He also highlighted the economic and social impacts of the event on the city. “FHi the event of the discovery of the city’s tourist vocation. ANDa city very without identity, I had a museum that didn’t even work, “he said.” PWe broke the city to Brazil, to the world. “

Tiradentes, where there was gold exploitation, is also known for religious tourism and baroque architecture, from the eighteenth century.

“When we started, [Tiradentes] It had 400 beds. HOJE has more than five thousand, “he exemplified.” city ​​is also a case of this dialogue,of this connection of tourism with cultureand job creation. “

In addition to the screening of movies and awards, the Tiradentes Show It has workshops, laboratories, workshops, debates and a residence program. Learn more by clicking here.

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