A Brazilian Battalion in the Gothic Line
Filmmakers
Durval Lourenço Pereira
Director & Producer
Durval Lourenço Pereira is an audiovisual producer. He graduated in Film, Television and Media Studies, produced and directed the documentary, O “Lapa Azul” – Os homens do III Batalhão do 11º RI na II Guerra Mundial (2007) [The “Blue Lapa” - The men from the 3rd Battalion of the 11th Infantry Regiment in World War II], shown on several national and foreign TV channels, highlighting A&E/History Channel, RT- Russian Television and Netflix, among others. He is a photographer specialized in Fine Art Photography, and had his photos exhibited at the photography show, Making Art in Italy, in São Paulo (2011).
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Lieutenant Colonel of the Brazilian Army (Ret.), he was the military adviser in Brazil's Institutional Security Cabinet and has a Master's degree in Military Operations from the Escola de Aperfeiçoamento de Oficiais (1998) [Officer Training School]. He is a member of the Academia Campineira de Letras, Ciências e Artes das Forças Armadas [Campinas Academy of Sciences, Arts and Literature of the Armed Forces], and the author of the book, Operação Brasil – O ataque alemão que mudou o curso da II Guerra Mundial (2015) [Operation Brazil - The German attack that changed the course of World War II].
Interviews
Born in Jahu-SP, Marcus Carmo is a historian, a history teacher, researcher, actor and speaker, with special attention to the teaching career and research on the history of Brazil: the airman João Ribeiro de Barros; the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932; the Brazilian Expeditionary Force (BEF); and the Second World War.
Graduate in History (Bachelor) by the Faculdades Integradas de Jaú (2008), he is member of the Society Veterans 32-MMDC / Section Jahu; member of the Association of Expedicionários from Campinas - ANVFEB / Campinas-SP and Emeritus contributor of the Brazilian Army.
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Marcus Carmo
Original Soundtrack
Fernando Antonio Barreto Is graduated in Civil Engineer (Federal University of Ouro Preto) and has the courses of Guitar Classic (UFMG); Analysis and Musical Form (UFMG); and Gafieira Music, with Maestro Paulo Moura (Palace of Arts); Functional Harmony and jazz improvisation (Music Foundation BH); the Electronic Music Course in CEDEME; and Rithm Blues (Milano - Italy).
Worked eight years with publicity in Studio Cine Music of Franco Godi (Italy), and as arranger and producer in Italian Polygram, with songs recorded by the Italian singers like Pietra Montecorvino, Ornela Vanoni and the singer Rinaldo Donati (double album - Botanical Garden Ocean). In Brazil, he made the arrangement for the BMG on the CD of the singer Ana Carolina (Alguém Me Disse), and composed a music for the same CD (Tô Caindo Fora).
Currently he is the jingles and tracks producer of Studio Caraíva, in Juiz de Fora (MG), which made the tracks for the movie "O Menino Maluquinho 2" (making off), and also tracks for campaigns of Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo governments.
Fernando Barreto
Mastering
Nilo Barreto is formed at the Conservatory in classical guitar. He has the course of harmony and bass with Sergio Benevuto; the Studio Course in RIOMUSIC Botafogo School and the Course of Mixing and Mastering with Nando Costa.
He is working for 2O years in Caraíva Studio, in the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Nilo Barreto
CREDITS
Direção e Produção - Durval Lourenço Pereira
Entrevistas - Marcus Carmo
Animação e Edição - Insight Productions Brazil
Estúdio de Som - Caraíva Músic
Roteiro e Pesquisa Histórica - Durval Lourenço Pereira
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Masterização - Nilo Barreto / Caraíva Music
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Make-up - Juliane Lourenço
Música Original - Fernando Barreto
Arquivos
ANVFEB - Campinas
Arquivo Histórico do Exército
Arquivos pessoais dos veteranos entrevistados
Arquivo Major Elza Cansação Medeiros
Biblioteca Nacional
Centro de Comunicação Social do Exército
Escola de Inteligência Militar do Exército
Internet Archives
Monumento Nacional aos Mortos da II Guerra Mundial
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
U.S. Signal Corps
Tradução para a Língua Inglesa
Joy Cristina Gomes
João David Gomes (Revisão)
Decio Moreira (Revisão - EUA)
Realização
Insigth Productions Brazil
Com agradecimentos às entidades:
Archivio Fotografico Lucchese del Comune di Lucca
ANVFEB/Campinas
ANVFEB/Juiz de Fora
ANVFEB/Petrópolis
ANVFEB/São Bernardo do Campo
Centro Cultural da FEB
Clube Militar
Fórum Trabalhista de Araraquara
URP - Comune di Camaiore
Agradecimentos pessoais a:
Antonio Walter Santim
César Campiani Maximiano
Christiane Nazareth L. Pereira
Decio Moreira
Domenico Bertuccelli
Elza Cansação Medeiros (in memorian)
Francesca Puccini
Gerson Valle Monteiro Júnior
Giovanni Sulla
Guaraci Alfredo
Jairo Junqueira da Silva Filho
Marcus Carmo
Ricardo Lavecchia
Sérgio Milito Barêa
Vítor Santos
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