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These have been really busy days for PanTV, with several new shows already up at www.pantv.ca !

You can catch interviews with Brazilian Olympic gold medalist, César Cielo, who came to Canada to carry the Vancouver Olympics Torch, and Gal Costa, one of the most important Brazilian singers, who came recently to Toronto for a show at Massey Hall. Those two interviews are part of the latest 7News.

On the lastest Panorama, you find a coverage of bars in São Paulo. We went out at night to Bar e Boteco Praça, at the neighbourhood of Vila Madalena, to talk to Brazilians and Canadians about their opinions about bars in that city that never sleeps. The show is really interesting and, at the end, we also talk about the traffic in São Paulo and a different option to go out instead going to a bar with friends. Oh yeah.

At PanTV, you can also watch the latest Gravando!, with a debate about hosting major sporting events, and the similarities and differences between Brazil and Canada. On the discussion, we talk about the 2007 Pan-Am Games in Rio, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, 2014 Brazil FIFA World Cup, 2015 Toronto Pan American Games, and the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.

Hope you watch all those shows and have fun! See you soon.

Tags: bars, césar cielo, gal costa, gold, music, olimpic games, olympics, São Paulo, show

Just like winter and great summers, PanTV always comes back.

I’m really sorry for being away for this long, but several other projects and issues through these past months kept me a bit away from PanTV. During this time, we were also working and testing the new website, blogs, concepts, the whole user interaction experience, to the point we now feel confident that things are ready to be launched again!

So here I am, with a brand new show for you in which I visit a Brazilian “feira livre”. In the show, you can catch charateristics and curiosities of this Brazilian tradition, including the vending stalls and its vendors, with food and drinks typical from “feiras” such as the Brazilian pastel and garapa, the sugar cane juice.

The show was recorded last January while in Brazil, in my native city of Santo André, and there are more of those to come! Hope you enjoy it and get ready for more shows. In the meantime, check our blogs, other content, and I’ll be back on screen in 2 weeks with another Gravando!, and much sooner than that with another post here.

Buckle up and I see you soon!

This has been another busy week of reformulation for PanTV. To help us with that, I got really sick with flu and couldn’t quite get what I wanted done. But hey, almost March already, which means winter is flying by and PanTV will soon be back with new shows!

And this past Thursday was another important date for us. We went to Caju to be interviewed for Canada Contacto, a TV show produced in Canada for the Omni channel that also airs over the world on the Portuguese RTP International network. It was our first interview for a traditional TV station (by traditional I mean not online) and hey, you can watch the shows from anywhere you are! I’ll post the date here when I get to know the date it airs!

Have a great long weekend and Valentine’s Day!

Tags: Caju, Canada, international, interview, Omni, Rogers, RTP, TV

Today’s Toronto Star brings an article about the integration of Brazilian immigrants in Toronto, highlighting PanTV’s mission and initiative.

The half-page article focuses on the initiative of Brazilians that work hard by themselves to integrate themselves and other Brazilians without governmental help or external support, utilizing PanTV’s proposal as an example of the Brazilian do-it-yourself approach.

Sandro Miranda comments on the differences of what is published and promoted to prospective immigrants and what is offered to newcomers in Canada. Felipe Scarpelli talks about the challenges of integrating a community that is isolated, and where many people intentionally close their eyes to what the Canadian society has got to offer.

You can read the full article online or on the GTA section of the February 5th, 2008, Toronto Star. Thanks to Lesley Ciarula Taylor.

Tags: adaptation, Brazilians, Canadians, community, GTA, immigration, integration, newcomers, PanTV, Toronto Star

Brazilian Studies Seminar
Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC)
York University

Presents

Sandro Miranda and Felipe Scarpelli on February 04th 2009

Celebrating and reflecting on the first anniversary of Pan TV

Created in 2008 by a group of professionals from various areas, including journalism, photography, music, radio and television, the PanTV team approaches daily issues in a different and innovative way of education and entertainment. PanTV’s mission is to promote the integration between the English and Portuguese-speaking population in Canada through an online video/TV channel.

For the Portuguese speakers, it presents Canada in a way many viewers have never seen, while bringing information about Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries to our English-speaking public. Director and host of PanTv’s Panzine, Sandro Miranda and director and host of PanTv’s Panorama, Felipe Scarpelli will be sharing their thoughts and insights about the challenges they faced throughout its first year of production.

Furthermore, they will elaborate on the content and the style of PanTV’s webcast programs  that deal with relevant topics involving Canada and Brazil. We encourage participants to visit PanTV’s website prior to Sandro’s and Felipe’s  talk, to stimulate discussion and feedback: www.pantv.ca

Location of the seminar:
Room 280 York Lanes
4700 Keele St.
Canada  M3J 1P3
Toronto ON
Canada
Time: 12:30 to 2:30pm

Thanks to Brigitte Grossmann Cairus for the opportunity.

Tags: Brazil, Brazilian, Brazilian Studies Seminar, Felipe Scarpelli, integration, PanTV, presentation, seminar, York University

Have you checked the latest edition of PanTV? Two great new shows are up!

First, Panorama shows you a coverage of the second Brazilian Film Festival of Toronto, from… guess.. Toronto, Canada! We went to film screenings, cocktails, parties, ceremonies and bring you a coverage of the event interviewing directors such as Cesar Fernando de Oliveira, Gilberto Scarpa, Halder Gomes and Igor Pitta Simões. In addition, we talked to organizer Barbara De La Fuente and the Brazilian band Donna Lolla, who came specially for the Brazilian Film Festival. Don’t forget to check the full edition of Panorama on PanTV, and get ready for some serious culture and intensive laughs.

Panzine, the other show on PanTV, brings a discussion about immigration and integration. Sandro Miranda talks to Jose Tufy Cairus, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu researcher, Brigitte Cairus, Brazilian Studies Seminar coordinator at York University, as well as Shaolan Zhao, traditional medicine practitioner, to understand how the immigrants’ adaptation and integration process works, how long it takes, it difficulties and what one can do to become integrated to society.

Hope you all enjoy the show, questions and comments are welcome and I’ll see you soon! This is Felipe Scarpelli.

Tags: Barbada de la Fuente, Brazilian Film Festival of Toronto, Cesar Fernando de Oliveira, cinema, Donna Lolla, Felipe Scarpelli, festival, film, Gilberto Scarpa, Halder Gomes, Igor Pitta Simões, movie, Panorama, PanTV, Panzine

A tip for all of you, Brazilian culture lovers out there. Get ready for this year’s Brazilian Film Festival of Toronto, which is happening this weekend in T.O!

The festival goes from Thursday to Sunday at Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor St. West, in the Bloor x Bathurst area. There are 16 Brazilian productions, including ‘Not By Chance’, ‘My Name Isn’t Johnny’, ‘1958 – The Year The World Discovered Brazil’, and a short film festival called Up to 3.

For a full list of films and events, check their official website. I also remind you that all screenings have English subtitles, so there’s no reason not to go!

Don’t forget to also check the festival official parties, including shows with the Brazilian band Donna Lolla in bars and clubs of Toronto. PanTV will be present in cocktails, screenings and parties covering the event. I’ll see you there!

Tags: Brazil, Brazilian, cinema, exhibition, festival, film, movie, Toronto, watch

The latest edition of Gravando!, uploaded today on PanTV brings a discussion about food. Price, quality, cultural differences, possible risks and benefits related to eating are debated in a dynamic and interesting way.

The debate is anchored on Brazilian immigrants’ experiences in Canada. What are the differences between eating habits in Brazil and Canada? What are the options for someone who just arrived in Toronto? How can you prepare healthy food without taking a lot of time and money?

Felipe Scarpelli, Sandro Miranda and Marcelo Paolinelli look for answers and share experiences with the viewers, and you, as always, can participate by sending us suggestions, critics and ideas. Check the latest edition of Gravando! and I see you soon!

Tags: Add new tag, cost, cultural, culture, difference, eating, food, Gravando!, immigration, life, living, PanTV, safety

If you are interested in Brazilian events, parties and festivals in Toronto, you can’t miss the latest edition of  Panorama on PanTV. Celebrating Brazilian Independence Day, the most recent edition of PanTV shows a bit of Brazil from Canada. The show starts with the celebrations of September 7th (Brazilian Independence Day) at Toronto’s City Hall. After that, we head to the Brazilfest, an annual summer festival in Toronto that happened at Sunnyside Beach. Still in this edition, we checked the Brazilian Heat, a Brazilian-themed night at Canada’s biggest nightclub, The Guvernment.

This Panorama edition is filled with Brazil but that’s not all. There’s humours, interviews, curiosities and much more. You can’t miss it!

The other show of this PanTV’s edition, Panzine, analyses the commercial relations between Brazil and Canada. Sandro Miranda interviews film directors and business men to understand why Brazil and Canada relations are at their highest. Among the interviewees are the directors Bruno Barreto and Daniela Thomas, who were in Toronto to promote their movies Last Stop 174 and Linha de Passe at the 2008 TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival).

Check these shows at PanTV’s website and I see you all in the next Gravando!, which airs on October 15!

Tags: Brazilfest, Brazilian Heat, business, cinema, community, event, film, Panorama, relation

The Warped Tour is big. It’s bigger than big! It’s a rock tour with daily shows that runs for almost two months. There are more than 100 bands playing every day in 10 different stages. The tour travels throughout the whole US and Canada, and guess what? We were there!

Panorama’s edition featuring the 2008 Vans Warped Tour is online starting today! Fifteen minutes of music, backstage, interviews, and lots of fun with the bands playing on the tour. The show is great! I believe this is our best edition yet for one ironic reason – the bands are the ones running the show!

Check our interviews with Pennywise, Reel Big Fish, Against Me!, From First to Last, Story of the Year, The Color Fred (ex Taking Back Sunday) and We the Kings! I’ll see you there!
On the other show of this edition, Panzine, Sandro Miranda brings a report on bycicles and how they are been used as means of transportation in Toronto. The benefits and disadvantages of this new trend in Canada’s largest city! Check that out!

Tags: interview, music, Panorama, PanTV, punk, rock, show, Warped Tour