MustSee 5 years!
The idea of a website dedicated to cinema, culture, entertainment and social criticism, created and developed on the North Coast of Rio Grande do Sul, emerged in the first months of 2020, as a result of a partnership between professor and researcher Álvaro Nicotti and Agência Zaga, now based in Porto Alegre and Imbé. The year 2020 was marked by the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil — a historic moment in which millions of people were confined to their homes to contain the spread of a virus that overwhelmed hospitals and claimed thousands of lives every day.
The quarantine imposed by the pandemic changed the habits of a large part of the population, including an increase in the consumption of films and television series. However, it was soon realized that television programming, including that on subscription TV, was repetitive, with an emphasis on blockbusters and productions with strong commercial appeal.
At the same time, streaming platforms were beginning to gain traction among the general public, but their vast catalogs were not easily navigated. Thus, TemQueVer was born, with the aim of exploring and commenting on the films available on various streaming platforms — from the giant Netflix to the alternative and transformative Bombozila.
TemQueVer was not limited to being just a platform for recommending alternative films to those shown on television. The site also proposed to carry out critical analyses of the works, based on the content covered, provoking reflections and debates about their connections with social reality.
What is TemQueVer today?
After five years of development, growth, new partnerships and adaptations, TemQueVer has expanded its scope. If the site was initially dedicated to recommending and analyzing films from different social perspectives, today it represents much more.
TemQueVer is part of the Os Incompreendidos network, made up of pages, websites and film critics from all over Brazil. Several members have contributed — and continue to contribute — with texts, analyses and reviews. Film criticism has become a central part of editorial content, understood as "a genre of opinion-based and cultural journalism that, after its popularization over the years, has consolidated itself among the customs of the press" (Guedes, 2020).
In addition to the seventh art, TemQueVer began to promote cultural events, spaces and productions, mainly from the North Coast of RS. It also publishes, in full, texts, short stories and poems by authors and cultural producers from the region.
The site also plays an important role in the educational field. TemQueVer provides a space for students from schools on the North Coast to publish reviews and analyses of films, series and games, as well as to promote artistic productions in different languages originating from the school community.
Education and culture: a powerful mix for quality productions on the North Coast of RS
The goal of TemQueVer is to promote cinema, culture, entertainment and social criticism through film reviews, analyses and critiques. At the same time, it seeks to value and disseminate local culture, promoting events and publications by authors and artists from the region, in addition to bringing audiovisual productions from around the world to the public on the northern coast.
Cinema — through films, documentaries, series and animations — as well as education and sports, is a powerful tool for social transformation. Even though we live in a society guided by the logic of capital, which transforms everything into a commodity, cinema can play a counter-hegemonic role, especially when produced by those who seek to transform the world through cinematic language.
TemQueVer believes in the educational and cultural potential of the North Coast. More than just promoting cinema and culture, the site works to integrate these dimensions, with the conviction that, with incentives — especially from the government — it will be possible to promote quality works with a social function in multiple areas.
In public schools and for the sustainable development of the North Coast
TemQueVer is not just a movie website. It is a project that produces culture and fosters transformative educational practices. It works within schools, organizing film screenings and festivals of short films produced by students from the region. In partnership with collectives and institutions, it produces audiovisual productions that portray and reflect the coastal region.
The website also integrates and supports MOVLN - Unified Movement in Defense of the North Coast, which defends a sustainable development model for the region and opposes projects that disregard the impacts of climate change, prioritizing the well-being of local populations and environmental preservation.
TemQueVer Itinerant Cinema Club
The TemQueVer Itinerant Film Club was created as a counterpart to the Paulo Gustavo Law. The project, conducted collaboratively, demonstrated the transformative potential of culture when it is accessible and democratic. Composed of four stages, the Film Club promoted sessions and debates on the seventh art in different spaces in the municipality of Imbé, with the aim of deepening the relationship between cinema and critical reflection.
A stream full of life
A stream full of life is a poetic socio-environmental short film, produced by TemQueVer in partnership with NIDI (Image and Dance Center of Imbé), Pomar Poético and Quintal Aroeira.
The film presents the biodiversity present in the watercourse of Avenida Frederico Westphalen and in Alamedas dos Eucaliptos, in Imbé-RS. From a perspective that defends sustainable development as an alternative for the region, the work brings together experts in development, engineering, environment and childhood, to question projects that put local fauna and flora at risk.
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