Natan machado palombini biography of michael

          Once I knew what my elements were and who I was gonna use—Jorge [Machado] and Natan [Machado Palombini], who I would take to a specific location.

        1. Pedro González-Rubio's barely feature-length film is the sunny high-def record of the Caribbean fishing trip of a boy (Natan Machado Palombini) and his Mexican.
        2. In home video footage we see Natan as a baby, standing assisted by Roberta in an idyllic backyard, and then being swept around in a joyous dance.
        3. Natan Machado Palombini, whose response to such queries was to run wind sprints up and down the aisles.
        4. Summary: "Jorge has only a few weeks before his five-year-old son Natan leaves to live with his mother in Rome.

          5. In home video footage we see Natan as a baby, standing assisted by Roberta in an idyllic backyard, and then being swept around in a joyous dance.!

          Straight off, Adam Nayman deserves some kind of commission for convincing a small squadron of film journalists to catch Pedro González-Rubio's sophomore feature Alamar (To the Sea, 2009) at its last public screening at the Isabel Bader.

          Boasting its world premiere in TIFF's Visions sidebar, Alamar was already part of my scheduled coverage of this year's Latin American fare, but it's always heartening to share a viewing experience with such accomplished journalists as Andrew Tracy, Danny Kasman, Darren Hughes, Girish Shambu, Richard Porton and Dan Sallitt.

          Talk about fraternity! Though I didn't quite agree with Nayman (or Danny Kasman at The Auteurs) that Alamar was the "find of the festival"--for me that honor fell to Oscar Ruiz Navia's El Vuelco del Cangrejo (Crab Trap, 2009)--I could certainly understand their shared enthusiasm for Alamar's pellucid simplicity.

          "Pedro González-Rubio," Kasman writes, "has found a documentary subject and turned it into a