“Battle of Rabbit Town is basically two personal stories that mirrors challenges found all over Brazil. This link between the personal and the political fascinated us from the beginning.
But eventually showing the lives and hopes of Carlos and Clovis and the community of Coelhos became paramount to us. Because they show the human aspects of a political reality, in both its beauty and brutality.”
CHRISTIAN PAGH
Director
ABOUT BATTLE OF RABBIT TOWN
Duration: 55 min
Format: 4:3 Letterbox
Standard: PAL DVD
Subtitles: English
Sound: Stereo
Copyright: Denmark 2008
With Carlos Santos do Radio
& Clovis Dindaõ
Director Christian Pagh
Co-director Thomas Bøttcher
Camera Christian Pagh
Sound Thomas Bøtcher
Editing Christian Pagh
Music Matthew Dougherty
Post-production Boaz Heller
Produced by UiWe/
Pagh Production
SUPPORTED BY
Danida
Danish Ministery of Education
MS Danish Association of International Co-operation
Danish Video Workshop
Haslund Film
CHRISTIAN PAGH, Director
Christian Pagh is trained in film production from New York University (2003) and Paris Université 8 (2000). Holding an MA in Modern Culture & Philosophy, Christian has made range of short films, art projects and cultural initiatives in both Denmark and abroad. He as acted in the feature films L'auberge Espagnol (The Spanish Appartment) and Les Poupées Russes (The Russian Dolls) by French Director Cedric Klapish. Currently Christian is working with cultural planning, concept design and visual communication in his company UiWe in Copenhagen, DK. Battle of Rabbit Town is his first feature length documentary.
THOMAS BØTTCHER, Co-director
Trained in journalism & history from Roskilde University, Denmark and the University of Salamanca, Spain. Thomas has worked intensively with political journalism in both Denmark and abroad. Currently he is working for the magazine for The Danish Association of Masters and PhDs.
Original idea by Christian Groes-Green
Based on
“Contesting the Moralities of Leadership” “
by Morten Nielsen
CHRISTIAN GROES-GREEN, Consultant
Christian was part of the original development of the Rabbit Town project and part of the first trip to Recife. As an anthropologist Christian Groes-Green has done extensive fieldworks in Brazil and Mozambique on issues ranging from indigenous peoples, political participation and discriminatory practices to lately masculinity, sexual cultures and peer education in HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa
Learn more about his research here: http://www.ifsv.ku.dk/ansatte/beskrivelse/?id=20243
The Making
The two Danish directors spent several months in Coelhos, making the film an intimate character portrait as well as a political drama.
An insiders cronicle the film borrows from a critical, anthropological tradition and uses a film language inspired by fiction. Rather than a talking-head film, the spectator is invited right in middle of the Battle of Rabbit Town.
The film is an independent production, supported by range of agencies.
The team
