Lawn is, above all, a tourist town. Main destination of visitors from the rest of Brazil, the city of Rio Grande do Sul Serra now has a new attractive. The Film Festival Museum was opened on the afternoon of Friday (26), the same day that begins the 44th edition of the event.
The development is located attached to the Palais des Festivals, next to the Church Saint Peter. Technological, but a collection of more than four decades, the space is a unique project and only museum attached to a film festival in the country.
The area of 584 square meters houses a unique material on the history the event and also of Brazilian cinema. Lawn is proud to have a film festival that takes place for 44 years uninterruptedly.
To get to the location, climb up a staircase, covered by a red carpet. On the walls are posters set that form a timeline on the lawn Festival, whose first edition took place in January 1973 in midsummer. Only after years the festival moved to the second half of the year, in winter.
The collection is the result of a search that lasted four months. personal and historical archives were rescued and today make up the museum material.
“We did a whole collection of the screening we found. They passed us around 10,000 documents telling the history of the festival, which rescued in several places. Private materials, personal, people who organized the festival in previous years. And we got a lot of content, posters of all editions, the technical file of all the films “lists the G1 Museologist Daniela Schmitt, who is also the curator of space.
on site they are also scattered electronic totems with research tools and games like memory game and a quiz about the festival. Not everything, however, is ready. There are devices to be connected and the intention of building wax statues representing artists like Maite Proenca, Zeze Motta and Lima Duarte, already in production stage to be presented at the beginning of next year.
“The idea is always adapting this space. We opened with a first garment, but in order to be always bringing new and attractive, to exit the stereotype that the museum is a place of old thing, “adds the curator.
The museum has the capacity to welcome 2 800 people. Admission costs $ 20 Monday to Friday and R $ 30 on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, but gramadenses not pay. The operation will be from 11h to 21h, but during the festival closes at 18:30 due to sessions and film activities.
At the exit, there is a coffee shop and a souvernis store in a glassed space shows a panoramic view of the city center and the Covered Street.
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