Blue Spaceship Stewardship SchoolCiclo Sustainable Kiahkeya present: Gaia Connection--Introduction to Permaculture and Plant Knowledge Retreat in Brazil, July 17th -25th.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
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Joao Amorim, is a Brazilian Director focusing on animation and documentary
film making. He is currently based in New York.
Joao has worked world wide as an industrial designer,
animator, and Animation Supervisor for many years prior to directing.
He was the Animation Director for "Chicago
10", Brett Morgen's feature doc. that opened Sundance 2007.
He has also directed commercials for BMW, Panasonic, Oceana,
among others.Joao also Directed many Short films such as "Ferrets for
Freedom", (a political short on Ferrets and Giuliani, and current youtube
hit with over 200.000 viewers), and the award winning "Don't get Charged
up", (on the recycling of Batteries), among others.
In 2007 he worked as animation director on the documentary "Footsteps in Africa".
Also
in 2007 Joao directed the short, “Toward 2012”
featuring Author Daniel Pinchbeck.This project has lead to the
production of the animated web
series “Postmodern times”, produced by iclips.net, and focusing on
issues
around consciousness and sustainability. The series gave birth to a
film production studio with the same name: "Postmodern Times LLC".
He is currently working on “2012, Time for change”, his first feature
documentary, highlighting ideas on sustainability and consciousness.
Furthermore Joao lives in-between New
York’s East
Village and Chapada dos Veadeiros,
Brazil. In Chapada Joao
has been developing a permaculture project, putting sustainability in to
action.
