“Made in Dafen” is a feature film that discusses the nature of Art. Filmed on location in Dafen, district of Shenzhen, Southeast China, it presents a place that is home to hundreds of painters with a very unique characteristic in common: they have specialized in copying to enormous detail the great masters of art, such as Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Vermeer, Monet and many others. They have studied with great depth their lives, styles, brush strokes and colours of choice. The result is an international market of millions of dolars, spanning from China to many other countries around the world. But lately, Dafen has attracted a different kind of artist – people searching their own voice and Art, changing the landscape and igniting a new controversy about what we call Art. (1×73′)
Credits:
Director: Eduardo Rajabally
Original Idea: Ana Cláudia Streva
Writer: Guilherme Aguilar
Researchers: Gianluca Mateo Infante (China) & Guilherme Aguilar
Director of Photography: Fábio Knoll
Sound: Moisés Brasil
Editor: Paulo Mattos
Post-Production Coordinator: Marcello Martins
Post-Production: Michelle Jorás
Music: Mandril
Graphic Designer: Rodrigo Araújo
Producer & Translator (China): Sophia Shek
Producer: Erica Suzumura
Executive Producers: Bianca Corona & Moisés Gouveia
Producers: Fernando Dias & Maurício Dias
Produced by: Grifa Filmes
Channel: Arte 1
