TOM ZÉ astronauta libertado FEATURE DOCUMENTARY SPAIN, 2009 lenght: 90 SCREENING formats: HDCAM, DIGIBETA LANGUAGE: PORTUGUese SUB-TITLES: ENGLISH TECHNICAL CREDITS Director, Producer and film editor ÍGOR IGLESIAS GONZÁLEZ Director of Photography CRISTINA RODRÍGUEZ PAZ Main Camera DAVID DOMÍNGUEZ Sound ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ MÁRMOL, SERGIO DELGADO Production Manager Brasil MARISOL COSTA Production Manager Spain GERMÁN VALLEDOR Post-Production PAU VALIENTE, MARIANA VALENTE Music TOM ZÉ AND ASTURIAS WORKSHOP MUSICIANS ARTISTIC CREDITS TOM ZÉ, NEUSA S. MARTINS, RITA LEE, ZÉ MIGUEL WISNIK, LUIZ TATIT, MAESTRO JULIO MEDAGLIA, ROBERTO MAIA, TOM ZÉ S BAND, ASTURIAS WORKSHOP MUSICIANS

SYNOPSIS Tom Zé has not always occupied a position of comfort on the Brazilian music scene over the last fifty years or so. This film gives us the opportunity to get closer to this artist throughout his long labour of unceasing experimentation, in which he has had the courage to break with established moulds and always refused what is considered correct and commercial. For all the unpleasant ups and downs encountered along the way - from ostracism to concealment he has always been unflinching in his beliefs. Tom Zé s trip to Asturias (northern Spain) in 2008 serves as the narrative thread of this film, which delves into many aspects of his personality and career as an artist. From the Musical Experimentation Workshop he gave - the point of the trip - we are taken on a journey through his musical discoveries and his on-going research into music, since the seventies, when he began his work as a creator of instruments. His reflections, a very ample catalogue of archive images, coupled with glimpses of his many appearances in Sao Paulo and Europe as well as the opinions of important figures of Brazilian music constitute a brush that deftly paints a rich portrait of his life and his music, bringing us closer to this controversial and fascinating creator, surprising and endearing figure that he is. DIRECTOR S BIO-FILMOGRAPHY Ígor Iglesias González Born in Asturias, Spain, in 1973. Moved to Madrid in 1995, where he began his career as a technician in the world of cinema. For twelve years, he was involved in some twenty fiction feature films, alternating between assistant editing and video-assist. Has worked, among others, with the following directors: Pedro Almodóvar ( Volver ), Alex de la Iglesia ( Perdita Durango, La Comunidad ), Frederick Forrestier ( Asterix aux Jeux Olympiques ), Gonzalo Suárez ( El Portero ), Agustín Díaz Yanes ( Sin noticias de Dios ), Vicente Aranda ( Juana la loca, Carmen ), Ray Loriga ( Teresa ). In 2007, he decided to put his film technician s career on hold and return to Asturias to devote himself fully to the project he had begun the year before: a documentary feature on the Brazilian musician, Tom Zé. TOM ZÉ, Liberated Astronaut, is the fruit of three years work. It is Igor Iglesias Gonzalez s first film as director and producer, a very personal project, done through his own production company, Xique Xique Films.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS São Paulo International Film Festival 2009: Audience Award Best Int Documentary Gijón International Film Festival 2009 Asturias Film Festival 2010: Best Documentary Chicago Internacional Movies and Music Festival 2010 - OFICIAL SELECTION IN-EDIT BRASIL 2010 (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro) Uruguay Internacional Film Festival 2010 (Montevideo) Cine Las Américas Internacional Film Festival 20120 - OFICIAL SELECTION (Austin, Texas) Brazilian Music Fest TENSAMBA 2010 (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain) Coisa de Cinema Film Festival 2010 (Salvador de Bahía, Brazil) DOKU.ARTS 2010 Festival for Films on Art ( Ámsterdam) Message to Man Film Festival 2010 (San Petersbourg, Russia) MIMO Film Festival 2010 (Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil) CineMúsica Film Festival 2010 (Conservatória, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ) Mediu Güeyu Film Festival 2010 (Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain) Madrid Film Festival- 2010 - OFICIAL SELECTION Rio de Janeiro Internacional Film Festival 2010: O Brasil do outro 92Y TRIBECA: Cinema Tropical s Music+Film / Supported by Luaka Bop (NYC, 22 Sep 2010) Bogotá Internacional Film Festival 2010 - OFICIAL SELECTION: Special Jury Mention Warsaw Internacional Film Festival- DISCOVERIES (October 2010) Festival del Cinema Latinoamericano de Trieste - OFICIAL SELECTION (Italy, 23-31 Oct) CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER: Reel Music Film Series / Supported by Luaka Bop (17 oct-2010) ICA LONDON / Supported by The Wire Magazine (Londres, 29 Oct) Muestra Internacional Documental / Colombia (Bogotá, October 2010) IN-EDIT BARCELONA: EXCEDLENTS (Oct-Nov 2010) Miradas Doc- OFICIAL SELECTION (Oct-Nov 2010, Tenerife, Spain)

CONTACT: Ígor Iglesias González +34 678 63 07 50 igor@xiquexiquefilms.com www.xiquexiquefilms.com http://www.myspace.com/tomzeastronautalibertado http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=154998728313 TRAILER http://www.xiquexiquefilms.com/?page_id=70 TV CULTURA SÃO PAULO: WORLD PREMIERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s_eavxdy5q RADIO EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA INTERVIEW http://media0.rtve.es/resources/te_straves/mp3/5/5/1273042349355.mp3

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