Tag: Brazilian films
By Ciara Long, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – From April 19th until the end of the month, Rio and São Paulo will host documentary film festival 'É Tudo Verdade', in a selection of cinemas across both cities. Showing...
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On August 5th, the Do Brasil Para o Mundo (From Brasil to The World) film festival began at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janerio (CCBB-RJ). Continuing through...
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Beginning Tuesday, June 14th, Caixa Cultural in Centro will host the twelveth edition of the film series, Mostra Curta no Almoço (Short Film Screenings During Lunch). Continuing through Friday,...
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Highlighting cinema that explores issues faced by contemporary society, the film screening and lecture series Cinema Político: O poder da imagem (Political Cinema: The Power of Image) will begin...
By Chesney Hearst, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After hundreds of screenings of over three hundred films in more than thirty theaters throughout the city of Rio de Janeiro, the sixteenth edition of Festival do Rio, the...
By Sarah Brown, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A new online channel of film distribution has opened many doors for independent filmmakers in Brazil. Online platform Canal O Cubo founded by filmmakers Fariano Cafure and Thiago Fraga, allows...
By Chesney Hearst
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The International Club Rio (InC) will continue its speaker series with the panel discussion, "A Night in Noir: The Reality and Fiction of Crime in Brazil" on Thursday, April 18th. Panelists for...
By Chesney Hearst, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Held in Odeon Petrobras, in Cinelandia, the gala award ceremony for Premiere Brasil, the competitive section of Festival do Rio, brought the 14th edition of the Rio International Film Festival...
By Sibel Tinar, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO – So much has been written, said, photographed and filmed about favelas, especially in Rio de Janeiro where some twenty percent of of the city population calls them home, that it has...
By Sub Editor, Lindsay Spratt
RIO DE JANEIRO - The Brazilian Ministry of Culture announced its candidate to represent Brazil in the 2010 Academy Awards last Friday. The film is 'Salve Geral' (General Rescue) and it beat off...
