WALACHAI DOCUMENTARY for festivals and cinema theatersDigital format85 minSubtitles in Portuguese, English, Spanish and GermanDOCUMENTARY for TV Digital format52 minProduction on goingSERIES FOR TVDigital formatIn preparation WALACHAI is the continuity of the short film THE BOOK OF WALACHAI, also directed by Rejane Zilles. The short film portrays the story of the peasant and teacher Benno Wendling who wrote a whole book by hand, recording the history of the community. THE BOOK OF WALACHAI was exhibited at important Brazilian and international festivals, always welcome by both audiences and the press. WALACHAI is a little village of German origins located in the south of Brazil, and which seems to belong to a different time in history, so far away from the globalized world. The documentary which conception, screenplay and direction were by Rejane Zilles, presents us with the daily lives of this community and its neighboring villages of very particular names such as Jammerthal, Frankenthal and Batatenthal. Their inhabitants are simple peasants who have consistent humane values and live a fulfilling life within their simplicity. They manage to keep away from consumption mechanisms of our modern times. They communicate through an old German dialect nearly two hundred years old, nevertheless, little do they know about the Germany they descend from. They are all Brazilians e see themselves as such.Places with their very own culture, having preserved till this day and age their landscape, architecture and a language which are onto be modified by their latest generations of descendents. As time goes by, this lifestyle will be transformed and it all tends to fall into oblivion. However, at this very moment in time, it is all alive, with its characters walking by the streets and talking about their accomplishments and their feelings towards the advances of the world. ZILLES PRODUCTIONSThe company does film production, coordination of exhibition projects for cinema, film festival production and audiovisual festivals. Contracted by MPC & Associados, was one of the companies responsible for the implementation of the projects Cinema Br em Movimento and Imagens Brasil Telecom of exhibition of Brazilian films in alternative spaces across Brazil. Since 2005, it has produced Muestra de Cine de BrasilNoar annual festival of short Brazilian films in Barcelona. Since 2004, MIMO DE CINEMA em Olinda/Pernambuco which exhibits films with themes related to music, is produced by the company. In the cinema, it has produced the short film The Book of Walachai and the documentary Walachai.OKNA PRODUCTIONSOkna Productions is a bureau of cultural and audiovisual production. The company not only develops its own projects, but also establishes partnerships in which it contribute with production and executive production. Currently it has realized audiovisual projects for cinema and TV, among documentaries and fiction films of short, medium and feature length aiming at fomenting the growth of audiences of independent productions. Cultural resistance is a way of being in the rural community of Walachai. Natives freely speak an ancient dialect from the German region of Hunsruck. As of today, that is their mother language. Handed down orally, from generation until next, it has not been renewed, apart from