Gilberto Gil

Me You Them movie trailer - starring Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia, Luis Carlos Vasconcelos, Nilda Spencer. Directed by Andrucha Waddington. Genre: Comedy Rating: PG-13

Like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque fled Brazil in 1970 after the ruling military government threatened him for his art. He spent a year in Italy and then returned to Brazil, continuing to write plays, novels, and music.

Legendary Brazilian pop star Gilberto Gil served as Brazil's minister of culture from 2003 to 2008, but long before that he was rocking the entire hemisphere with songs like this classic track from 1987.

One of Brazil's best-selling artists, Ivete Sangalo, teams up with Gilberto Gil for a live performance of their 2004 hit.

Gilberto Gil is not only one of the architects of modern Brazilian pop, but since 2003 he's also been Brazil's minister of culture. This track is taken from his 2004 concert film Electroacustico.

Trailer for the documentary RiP: A Remix Manifesto, which screened at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers. The film s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride. A participatory media experiment, from day one, Brett shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org, for anyone to remix. This movie-as-mash-up method allows these remixes to become an integral part of the film. With RiP: A remix manifesto, Gaylor and Girl Talk sound an urgent alarm and draw the lines of battle.

Me You Them -- A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.

Trailer for the documentary Beyond Ipanema, which screened at SXSW 2010. Beyond Ipanema is a mash-up of thoughts and ideas about the repeating cycle of discovery of Brazilian music in the world. Through interviews with David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, M.I.A., Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Z , Seu Jorge, Thievery Corporation, Bebel Gilberto, CSS, Creed Taylor and many others, BEYOND IPANEMA surveys the Brazilian music experience outside of Brazil. Artists, producers, DJs and critics analyze how the crosspollination of music styles, as well as sampling and globalization; have helped Brazil to secure a unique position in global culture. During the film s production, the crew witnessed the sale of the most expensive Brazilian record ever. An extremely rare 45' copy of a 1966 recording by the band O Seis, an early formation of the legendary group Os Mutantes, was tracked by the producers at the New York store Tropic lia in Furs. Owner Joel Oliveira was able to obtain the record from a Brazilian collector, in exchange for 200 rare albums. The film then shows the sale of the two-song record for $5,000 to an American-based Os Mutantes fan. The story of the 70 s psychedelic band from S o Paulo is one of the highlights of Beyond Ipanema: when production started, they had been retired for almost 30 years and had received international attention and praise from names like Kurt Cobain, David Byrne and Devendra Banhart. The film s crew witnessed their 2006 American tour, which culminated with a show for 30,000 people in Chicago s Pitchfork Music Festival.