RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - "This movie generated 800 direct and indirect jobs." With this sentence in the final credits, 'Bacurau', one of the most celebrated national films of the year, winner of the Jury Prize in Cannes, left a clear message to the government of Jair Bolsonaro, who during the first year of his mandate canceled funding approvals due to the content of the movies produced, threatened to extinguish the National Film Agency (ANCINE), removed the Federal Culture Incentive Law (Rouanet Law) and made ideological appointments to strategic positions in the incentive to the arts.
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