Rio de Janeiro intends to use Brazilian creativity to surprise and excite the world at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games and make a budget ten times lower than that set out London in his acclaimed coming-out party in 2012.
“ I would feel shame if it spent gastásemos London in a country where we need healing. I am very happy to not spend money like crazy , "said film director Fernando Meirelles , one of those responsible for the ceremonies.
"The creativity of Brazilian allow us to overcome budgetary constraints and present something that Brazil deserves,” executive director of the Rio 2016 opening ceremony, Abel Gomes said today at a press conference. The award-winning film director Fernando Meirelles ( “Cidade de Deus”), which will be one of those responsible for production, adding that a country like Brazil, which has still areas without basic sanitation can not “wasting” resources in a celebration of an event sports.


But the filmmaker added that creativity and experience that the country already has in organizing festivals such as Carnival will allow overcome the shortage of resources and present a comparable to the London ceremony. The British capital employed about 92 million euros among the four ceremonies 2012, opening and closing of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Meirelles said that Rio will have a budget ten times smaller.
The Organizing Committee of Rio 2016 announced it will recruit about 12,000 volunteers to participate in four ceremonies, opening and closing of the Olympic Games (Aug. 5 and Aug. 21, 2016) and the opening and closing of the Paralympics ( September 7 and September 18).
Volunteers, who will be required taste for music and dancing and qualities in performance and know cycling and skateboard, will be chosen in auditions this year and begin to participate in three weekly rehearsals from April.
The film director Andrucha Waddington , another of those responsible for the ceremony, said that the team chosen to produce the event can provide a very exciting ceremony and be proud to Brazil. Among the team members include Meirelles, whose film “Cidade de Deus” (2002) earned him nominated for an Oscar for best director in 2004 and is internationally known for films like “The Constant Gardener” (2005) and “Essay on blindness ”(2008).
Waddington was the director of the Brazilian-Spanish production “Lope , ” which won two Goya awards in 2012, and was released with “Eu, Tu, Eles” (2000), the best film at festivals in Cartagena and La Havana. Also part of the team film director Daniela Thomas , who has been co - director Walter Salles with films like “Linha de Passe”, “Foreign Land” and “O Primeiro Dia”. And the team full Rosa Magalhaes , popular art director samba schools and recognized for its parades in the Sambadrome, with whom he has won five titles of champion Carnival.
The four, along with Abel Gomes , participated in a press conference in which they declined to give further details on the project that launched not spoil the surprise, but anticipated some general guidelines. Meirelles explained that the intention is to show Brazil, for which consulted several specialists, but ultimately not all feel represented.
“In the ceremonies of Athens (2004), Beijing (2008) and London (2012), they showed the legacy of those three countries. Rio will show itself, will show the spirit of Brazilian joy. To lack of money is a sign of our popular face, "he said. For Magalhaes, Carnival, as the highest expression of Brazilian joy, will attend the ceremony and, despite limited resources, the luxury that characterizes the parades of the samba schools.
"It is inevitable (the presence of Carnival). It is what has the highest visibility in the world. It is impossible (not exist). It’s the party. Party is party, "he told Efe. Waddington said the party will have its own rhythm that prevent becomes boring as other ceremonies. He added that this rate will also be transmitted to the parade of delegations and their standard bearer in Rio de Janeiro give one of the biggest surprises in an opening ceremony.
"Forget the World (the criticized opening ceremony of the World Brazil 2014). We have to overcome that 7-1 (in relation to the rout suffered by Brazil in the semifinals against Germany). You have Brazilian popular culture and very daring, "he said.