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Inara C.

Amsterdam, Netherlands21 reviews

$1000 - $1500 / Day

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Top Services

  • Documentary DP

    18 reviews
  • News Shooter / Video Journalist

    2 reviews
  • Non-Fiction Film Director

Equipment

Video

  • DSLR or equivalent

Audio

  • Wireless lavalier mic
  • Shotgun mic

Miscellaneous

  • Stabilizer
  • Sliders
  • Dolly

About Inara

I am a Japanese-Brazilian documentary filmmaker based in the Netherlands who has been telling nonfiction stories for 12 years. I promote empathy and raise awareness of human rights and environmental issues through stories in which people are protagonists of their own narratives. I am currently working on the feature-length documentary "Where is Nihon?", which was selected by Logan Nonfiction Program and was also a finalist at the Sundance Documentary Fund 2021 and the Berlinale Talents Doc Station 2022. My works include “Yzalú - Rap, Feminism and Blackness”, a CineB Solar winner and finalist at Semana Paulistana do Curta-Metragem (a City Hall of São Paulo’s competition); “Raam”, which won the CineSud’s SHIFT Film Festival Audience Award; and “Volta na Quadra,” winner of the NETLABTV Audience Award and sponsored by Folha de S. Paulo. Through my production company, I created short documentaries, series, video reports and campaign videos for companies and organisations such as Greenpeace, Avaaz, Google, C&A Foundation, Folha de S. Paulo, GOL, Marie Claire, Revista AzMina, Equal Times, Storyhunter, among others. I also produced, filmed and directed the Brazilian stories for the Riot Games’ international documentary series “Legends Rising”, during two seasons. I started my career as a video journalist at Folha de S. Paulo, the largest Brazilian newspaper, and at the publishing companies Globo and Abril — being one of the talents of the training program “Abril Journalism Course”. I received my degree in Social Communication and Journalism from the State University of Londrina in Brazil, studied documentary filmmaking at UnionDocs in New York, and have a specialized degree in cinema and video from Anhembi Morumbi University in Sao Paulo. Moreover I also did other courses focused on impact documentary, cinematography, editing, script writing and entrepreneurship.

Top Projects

  • Da Seiva ao Sangue

    • Documentary DP
    • Video Editor - Documentary
    • Non-Fiction Film Director

    "Illegal logging is gigantic, violent and destructive," says Giselda, a resident of a reserve in Rondônia. She is one of the forest defenders who live under continuous threats for counteracting the interests of a lucrative and devastating supply chain.

  • Video bio - Inara Chayamiti

    • Documentary DP
    • Video Editor - Documentary
    • Non-Fiction Film Director

    I’ve completed 10 years of stories! Stories connect, reveal, provoke, transgress our own self in an encounter with the other, in an encounter with the world. To celebrate this decade of encounters, I made a video bio showing my audiovisual trajectory.

  • #IAMazonia

    • Documentary DP
    • Video Editor - Documentary
    • Non-Fiction Film Director

    "The Amazon is our mother. You care for your mother, you protect her, you don't negotiate her away." - Sonia Guajajara directed by Nana Queiroz and Inara Chayamiti storyline and production: Nana Queiroz and Avaaz team director of photography and editor: Inara Chayamiti additional footage: Inara Chayamiti/Greenpeace More videos here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6543995

  • Marie Claire - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    • Video Editor - News
    • News Shooter / Video Journalist
    • Non-Fiction Film Director

    Video that is part of a series that I did for the Marie Claire Brasil's anniversary with the feminist writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. More videos here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5919007

  • Yzalú - Rap, Feminism and Blackness

    • Documentary DP
    • Production Company
    • Video Editor - Documentary
    • Non-Fiction Film Director
    • Colorist

    The short documentary shows Yzalú’s journey as a rapper while being a physically disabled black woman from the outskirts of the megalopolis of Sao Paulo, discovering feminism and fighting racism through her music. The movie approaches her most famous song, "Mulheres Negras", which became an anthem among black feminists in Brazil. It was selected by eight festivals between 2018 and 2019: in-Edit Brazil, São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Curta Kinoforum), MIMO Festival, Semana Paulistana do Curta-Metragem, Mostra das Minas, Festival International Du Film Sur Le Handicap (France), Mostra Itinerante Livre de Cinema and Mostra Internacional Audiovisual Curta O Gênero. The film was also awarded by CineB Solar, an itinerant film circuit that takes cinema to communities and universities in Brazil. Directors and producers: Inara Chayamiti and Mayra Maldjian Editor: Inara Chayamiti Director of Photography: Inara Chayamiti Sound (interview and performance) and additional camera and lighting (performance): Flavio Guedes Beauty: Letícia Rocha Yzalú’s producer: Camila Vaschi Production company: Rua Filmes Runtime: 19min 28s Year: 2018

All Services

Pre-Production

  • Creative Director
  • Production Company

Production Support

  • Non-Fiction Film Director
  • Commercial DP
  • Documentary DP
  • News Shooter / Video Journalist

Post-Production

  • Sound Mixer
  • Colorist
  • Video Editor - Commercial
  • Video Editor - Documentary
  • Video Editor - News

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