Ágora: onde todos iam para ouvir

Abstract

The present work is the technical report of the documentary “ÁGORA: Where everyone went to listen”, which contains accounts of founders and people involved in the creation and execution of "Califórnia da Canção Nativa". The documentary works with affective memories linked to places and music, and encompasses the festival's objectives; also brings reports about the work involved in its creation and the difficulties faced during its trajectory. The documentary is concerned with being a space for important voices in the history of California, listening to people of advanced age, whose story is important to be preserved. We sought to work on an appropriate temporality for the speech marked by the affective memory of the interviewees, with respectful handling of the data obtained, considering the preciousness of preserving reports that could be lost over time. With the montage of reports and videos about important moments in California, the documentary allows the viewer to follow the journey of the event that became the mother of nativist festivals in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. In this report, we bring the bibliographical research used as a basis for the production of the documentary, the explanation about the agenda, and also the description of the processes of production, realization and editing of the report. In the second part of the report, we use clippings from the documentary to explain some of the characteristics of the final product.