Videos
Drinking Water for Africa
2016 Teaser/movie from the project "Trinkbescher für Trinkwasser", Village's wells in Ivory Coast.
Project from Global Nature Fund (GNF), Bonn / Germany
Directing, shooting and editing: Raissa Ladeira
Runtime: 2'52"
In cooperation with the football club Hannover 96 and the supporters club "Rote Kurve", the objective of the project is to ensure an access to sustainable drinking water for the population and to reduce diseases related to unhealthy water.
With a support from a local partner, ADER, the images were produced over two months of fieldwork in Ivory Coast while monitoring the project at divers Toura's villages at 18 Mountains' region.
Drinking Water for Africa
Hawó, Karajá's canoe
"Hawo, canoa karajá"
2012 Master's Thesis Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Anthropological Cinema and Documentaries.
Directing, shooting and editing: Raissa Ladeira
Runtime: 42'29"
Field research among traditional canoe builder, living on the Bananal Island (Ilha do Bananal) Mato Grosso, in Brazil.
Of the indigenous origin and extremely rooted in Brazilian culture, the traditional monocoque canoe, is built by carving a single tree trunk.
The documentary « Hawó, canoa Karajá » invites you to follow Karajá’s masters canoe builders, from the felling of the tree, the emergence of the canoe when sculpting the trunk, until the navigation on the river.
From 35 mm to digital cinema
"Du 35 mm au numérique"
2011 Master's work Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Anthropological Cinema and Documentaries.
Directing, shooting and editing: Raissa Ladeira
Runtime: 9'45"
At the cinema Sept Parnassien in Paris, the projectionist José Bonillo fallows new technical challenges in his profession. What was at first rather craft with 35mm projection, has become rather programmed with digital.
In one hand it is shown the complexity of the machine at the time from the film, particularly its long trajectory during the projection and the work of assembly and dismantling it. On the other hand, it is shown how the digital support is compact and practical. Nevertheless, doubts flow in the air about social changes in the profession of a projectionist.
In that time...
"Naquele tempo..."
2009 Bachelor's Thesis University of Brasília
Social Communication, expertise in Audiovisual
Direction, boom operator, editing: Raissa Ladeira
Runtime: 28 minutes
The documentary is based on the oral memories of the character Zeca Amorim - 93 years lived at the edge of the Tocantins River, county of Carolina, in Brazil. It contextualizes his living to the historical and cultural characteristics of this inside lands region. In that time family farming, navigation and small trades were their main subsistence and economic activities.
The invisible Candangas' saga
"A Saga das candangas invisíveis"
2008 Bachelor work University of Brasília
« The invisible Candangas’ Saga »
Direction: Denise Caputo
Research, Film editor: Raíssa Ladeira
Runtime: 15 minutes
The trajectory of women on the margins of official history: the prostitutes who arrived in Brasília yet at the time of its construction in the late 50s, guided by a dream of a new Brazil. The characters tell us about the expectations, difficulties, frustrations and the daily life of the firsts prostitutes of the capital of the country.
2006 - 2013 OLHO filmes
Brasília, Brazil
OLHO filmes is a producer based in Brasília, Brazil. Their documentaries are based on anthropological and ethnographic values with an artistic approach. The main subjects are directed to the culture and the relations between human and nature.
Among the projects carried out are those that transmit social and cultural practices, knowledge, memories, traditions and rituals.
Important customers: Ministry of Culture (Brazil); National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN Brazil); Ministry of the Environment (Brazil); Goias Anthropology Museum (Brazil); Ministry of Health (Brazil); EMBRAPA, IAO, Associations and NGOs.
My activities
Handle cameras to produce broadcast quality image;
Handle sound recording equipment to produce broadcast quality sound;
Editing work and post-production;
Photography still;
Field research;
Work on collaborative film projects in terms of research, conception and elaboration, management and delivery;
Producing a budget and ‘pitch’ films to funders.
Trailler-Percursos Divinos Caminhos Diversos
Trailler-Percursos Divinos Caminhos Diversos
Trailer Sob o Signo da Poesia
Trailler_Ritxoko
Ilha de São José
Demeter Gärtnerhof Decker
2013 WWOOFing in Bühl-Weitenung, Germany
Directing, shooting and editing: Raissa Ladeira
Runtime: 3'45"
This video is a personal realization of this WWOOF experience. It shows some of the activities of the Demeter certified farm from planting to the sale at a local market and at their own bio shop.
London trip
2015 Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)
Scientific English M1
Coordinator: Philip Hindley
Asst. coordinator: Sarah Kislingbury
Camera: Students from the MNHN (Master 1)
Editing: Raíssa Ladeira
Music: London Calling - The Clash
Baby genius (E and Lang) - Electro-Shock Blues
Runtime: 6 minutes
Normally at the first year from the master degree, the MNHN organize a trip to London for the students from the scientoific English classes. This is an opportunity to visit the Natural History Museum and the house of Charles Darwin.
Requested by the teacher, I vonluntary edited this video with the images made by the others students and me.
