

In a forest of gigantic trees, Oquirá a six year old indigenous girl, will challenge her destiny and learn to understand the cycle of life.
About the film
“Way of Giants” is an animated short film by director Alois Di Leo. It is a poetical search for purpose and reason that follows the story of Oquirá, a six year old indigenous girl, as she confronts the cycle of life and the concept of destiny. The film explores the forces in nature and our connection with the earth and its elements.
Music plays an important role in the story. A master of ancient Andean music, Tito la Rosa, was brought from Peru to São Paulo to compose and record the score using handmade Inca and Andean instruments — most of which La Rosa and his son manufactured following Andean traditions.
“Way of Giants” took two years to produce and was completed in March, 2016. It was financed by Sinlogo Animation; a São Paulo government grant, “Prêmio estimulo 2014”; and a crowdfunding campaign that helped bring Tito La Rosa to Brasil.
The film will premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival as part of the Official Selection in June 2016.
Technical Info
Format: Scope 2.39
Year: 2016
Country: Brazil
Duration: 11’52”
Sound: Surround 5.1
Screening Format: DCP 24fps
Technique: 2D Digital Hand Drawn Animation
No Dialogue
Directed, Produced and Written by
Alois Di Leo
Animation
Tiago Rovida
Henrique Lobato
Original Music by
Tito La Rosa
Editing
Helena Maura
Alois Di Leo
Sound Design and Mix
Daniel Turini e Fernando Henna
Additional Music
Gustavo Monteiro
SINLOGO Animation is a creative studio that develop works focused in character design, illustration and animation.
Since it was founded in 2005, SINLOGO has been in more than 70 international festivals including Cannes, London film festival, Hiroshima and Stuttgardt Animation Film Festival and created more than one hundred projects in São Paulo and around the world.
We are simply passionate about animation.
Alois Di Leo was born in Lima, Peru and raised in São Paulo, Brasil where he founded the animation studio SINLOGO.
He graduated with an MA in animation direction at the NFTS in London. His short animated film “The Boy Who wanted to be a Lion” has played in several festivals around the world such as Cannes, Hiroshima, Annecy, São Paulo, and won a few awards including the Lotte Reiniger Award at the “Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film.”
At the moment he is writing his first feature film.
Executive Producer
LIa Nunes
Bruno Di Leo
Art Direction
Alois Di Leo
Tiago Rovida
Henrique Lobato
Cinematographer
Alois Di Leo
Character Design
Tiago Rovida
CGI and Background painting
Gabriela Gomes
Clean Up Supervisor
Henrique Lobato
Lead Animation Assistants
Flávia Godoy
Maria Fernanda Peters
Animation Assistants
Apolo Longhi
Livia Serri Francoio
Mariana Yovanovich
Juliana de Lucca
Roberto Zachow
Samuel Lobo
Ôlêkrãm Yânda
Thais Uzan
Storyboard
Henrique Lobato
Compositing and After Effects
Alois Di Leo
Voices
Flavio Bellini
Elias Jamil Freua
Helga Gremmelspacher
Sophia Lobato dos Santos
Teodora Moser
Sound Editing Assistants
Cauê Shimoda, Mariana Vieira
Ambience Editing
Henrique Chiurciu
Effects Editing
João Victor Coura e Sérgio Abdalla
Sound Studio
Confraria de Sons & Charutos
Recording Studio
BRC Estúdios
Sound Engineers
Bruno Cardozo e Lucas Weingaertner
Mixagem Cinecolor
Ariel Henrique
Audio Manager Cinecolor
Cláudio Avino
Post-production Coordinator
Marina Herrador
Color Grading
Psycho’n Look
Project supervisor
Alessandra Casolari
Marcio Pasqualino
Colorist
Marcio Pasqualino
Editors
Carllos Luís Alves
João Paulo Geraldo
Uillian Mendes
Project Coordinator
Suelen Teixeira
Bruna Keren
Customer Relationship Manager
Paula Barone
Customer Relationship Assistant
Luana Daminelli
Executive Producers
Maísa La Cava Mendonça
Thanks to everyone who helped fund the music for this film through our crowdfunding:
Camila Pancich, Paul Cabeza & Magali Di Leo
Carol Gorini & Danilo Grimaldi
Dana Christoforou
Daniel Greco
Diego De Souza
Dimos Vrysellas
Emília Freua
Fernando Bastos
Filipe Grimaldi
Gustavo Braceiro Barlati
Helder Prando
Helga Gremmelspacher
Igor B Bernardes
Igor e Oliveira
Ivan Abujamra
Janaina Torres
Jens Blank
Kurt & Brigitte Schläpfer
Leonardo Salvio
Leandro T G Mendes
Lucas Albuquerque Tonon
Luiza F Pagliari
Magdalena Osinska
Marcelo Martins
Marcelo Santos
Mariana Yovanovich
Mario Neto
Martín Schmidth
Mauricio Orey
Michelli Provensi
Pedro Ferreira
Rosemarie Lobato
Rodrigo Castilho
Shawnee Gibbs
Sutheera Theeraworaphan
Tyler Liechty
Vito Di Leo
Vito & Emma Di Leo
Yara Fukimoto
Alice, Lea & Claudio Di Leo
Andre Luiz V Silva
Andre M Forni
Anna Benner
Anna Caiado
Antenor & Angela Rovida
Apolo Longhi
Bruna Menezes
Bruno Di Leo
Meg Lú, Cacau, Lio e Max
Camila Alves dos Santos
Jéssica Aline Rovida
Alex Di Leo Zachow
Manoela Zachow
© Sinlogo Animation 2016