Lázaro Ramos’s debut, in which a hardline government issues orders to deport Brazil’s Black population to Africa, moves from satire to survivalism
A chilling believability creeps into this dystopian debut from actor-turned-director Lázaro Ramos that’s hard to shake off. It’s set sometime in the near future, where a hardline government in Brazil issues an order to deport the country’s entire Black population “back to Africa”. What’s so unnerving is that the order is the latest in a series of policies to make Brazil a hostile environment for people of colour – and these policies don’t feel a million miles from reality.
It begins in satirical mode. Antônio (Alfred Enoch) is a thoughtful young human rights lawyer filing injunction after injunction against a new government department. This is the Ministry of Return, which has introduced a voluntary scheme offering Black people a one-way ticket to...
A chilling believability creeps into this dystopian debut from actor-turned-director Lázaro Ramos that’s hard to shake off. It’s set sometime in the near future, where a hardline government in Brazil issues an order to deport the country’s entire Black population “back to Africa”. What’s so unnerving is that the order is the latest in a series of policies to make Brazil a hostile environment for people of colour – and these policies don’t feel a million miles from reality.
It begins in satirical mode. Antônio (Alfred Enoch) is a thoughtful young human rights lawyer filing injunction after injunction against a new government department. This is the Ministry of Return, which has introduced a voluntary scheme offering Black people a one-way ticket to...
- 7/11/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
Lissette Feliciano’s coming-of-age drama Women Is Losers to close festival on June 6.
The world premiere of 7th & Union will open the 2021 20th anniversary Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (Laliff) at the Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on June 2.
Anthony Nardolillo directed the Broken English production, starring Mexican actor Omar Chaparro in the story of two men who pursue their dream of providing a brighter future for their family. Ruben Islas’ Grandave Capital financed the feature.
Lissette Feliciano’s directorial debut and coming-of-age drama Women Is Losers set in 1960’s working-class San Francisco will close the festival on June...
The world premiere of 7th & Union will open the 2021 20th anniversary Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival (Laliff) at the Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on June 2.
Anthony Nardolillo directed the Broken English production, starring Mexican actor Omar Chaparro in the story of two men who pursue their dream of providing a brighter future for their family. Ruben Islas’ Grandave Capital financed the feature.
Lissette Feliciano’s directorial debut and coming-of-age drama Women Is Losers set in 1960’s working-class San Francisco will close the festival on June...
- 5/6/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Executive Order Review — Executive Order (2020) Video Movie Review, an Elo Company movie written and directed by Lázaro Ramos, co-written by Lusa Silvestre, and stars Alfred Enoch, Taís Araújo, Seu Jorge, Adriana Esteves, Renata Sorrah, Mariana Xavier, Pablo Sanábio. In this video review, I talk about the new political drama film Executive Order. This [...]
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- 4/10/2021
- by Alex Srednoselac
- Film-Book
This is a story, set in the near future, of the ethnic cleansing of Brazil. The federal government has decided to send the black population back to Africa. Three individuals try to resist and fight for their rights. The movie is directed by Lazaro Ramos, a renowned actor from Bahia, Brazil who found fame in soap operas and movies…
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- 11/16/2020
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Madrid — Brazilian TV giant Globo, the biggest media company in Latin America, will join the ranks of international streaming platforms on Jan. 19, launching its over-the-top Globoplay service in the U.S’s booming subscription video streaming market.
Priced at $13.99 a month, Globoplay’s launch marks the first move in international expansion for the Ott service, and rolls off the creation of a burgeoning line in original production at Globoplay, one of the fastest growing domestic production powerhouses in Latin America:
A fremium Svod service in Brazil which bowed in 2015, and now boasts 22 million unique visitors a month, making it the biggest Brazilian streaming service by a large head, Globoplay released eight original productions in 2019, often international length series.
That figure will rise to 16 in 2020, between titles produced at Estúdios Globo and co-productions with Brazil’s independent sector, Raphael Corrêa Netto, Globo director of international businesses, told Variety.
Recent Globoplay Originals,...
Priced at $13.99 a month, Globoplay’s launch marks the first move in international expansion for the Ott service, and rolls off the creation of a burgeoning line in original production at Globoplay, one of the fastest growing domestic production powerhouses in Latin America:
A fremium Svod service in Brazil which bowed in 2015, and now boasts 22 million unique visitors a month, making it the biggest Brazilian streaming service by a large head, Globoplay released eight original productions in 2019, often international length series.
That figure will rise to 16 in 2020, between titles produced at Estúdios Globo and co-productions with Brazil’s independent sector, Raphael Corrêa Netto, Globo director of international businesses, told Variety.
Recent Globoplay Originals,...
- 1/17/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Brazilian director Karim Ainouz has long been a favorite of the Lima Film Festival; it’s an association that goes all the way back to the 2003 premiere of his first full-length feature, Madame Satã, which netted a Best Actor award for star Lázaro Ramos, and a Best Cinematography nod for Walter Carvalho. Sixteen years later, with more films and television stints under his belt, Ainouz is once again back in the Festival and in competition with The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, a film which confirms the director as an elder statesman of contemporary Brazilian cinema. In 1940s-50s Rio de Janeiro, the titular Eurídice (Carol Duarte) has an unbreakable bond with her sister Guida (Julia Stockler), as they both grow up with their traditionalist parents....
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- 8/14/2019
- Screen Anarchy
From Brazilian director and screenwriter Sérgio Machado comes the drama “Heliopolis” (although in English-language territories, it’ll be released as “The Violin Teacher”). The film stars Brazilian superstar Lázaro Ramos as Laerte, a talented violinist, who has to give music lessons to teenagers at… Continue Reading →...
- 6/10/2016
- by Tambay Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Brazilian television is very white, but most Brazilians aren’t. Brazil’s population is more than 50 percent black, but the television news and entertainment shows rarely reflect such diversity. So when a “black” television show debuts, it’s groundbreaking. And when Brazil’s top black female and male actors star in it, it’s a miracle. Two weeks ago Globo television premiered “Mister Brau,” a weekly comedic show starring Lázaro Ramos and Taís Araújo as a successful pop music couple. They are also married in real life. Lázaro Ramos' 15-year career has spanned movies, television and theater. International audiences probably know him from the dark historical...
- 10/7/2015
- by Kiratiana Freelon
- ShadowAndAct
From Brazilian director and screenwriter Sérgio Machado comes the drama "Heliopolis" (although in English-language territories, it'll be released as "The Violin Teacher"), which is set to close the ongoing 68th Locarno Film Festival this Saturday night, August 15. The film stars Lázaro Ramos as Laerte, a talented violinist, who has to give music lessons to teenagers at Heliópolis’ public school after failing to be admitted to the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra. Despite the difficulties he faces in his new teaching position, the transforming power of music and the friendship arising between the professor and his...
- 8/11/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Last week Monday, at the 41st International Emmy Awards, during which trophies were handed out to TV productions from six countries, out of 36 nominees representing 19 countries (including first-timers Angola and Uruguay), the telenovela award went to Brazil's Lado a Lado (Side By Side), which tells the story of two women - one a descendant of slaves and the other from an aristocratic family - who become friends in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 20th century. The Brazilian telenovela, produced and broadcast by Rede Globo, ran from September 10, 2012 to March 8, 2013. It co-stars 2 Afro Brazilian actors who've been in the news lately: Camila Pitanga and Lázaro Ramos....
- 12/3/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The 37th Toronto International Film Festival® will roll out the red carpet for hundreds of guests from the four corners of the globe in September. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Rian Johnson, Noah Baumbach, Deepa Mehta, Derek Cianfrance, Sion Sono, Joss Whedon, Neil Jordan, Lu Chuan, Shola Lynch, Barry Levinson, Yvan Attal, Ben Affleck, Marina Zenovich, Costa-Gavras, Laurent Cantet, Sally Potter, Dustin Hoffman, Francois Ozon, David O. Russell, David Ayer, Pelin Esmer, Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Andrew Adamson, Michael McGowan, Bahman Ghobadi, Ziad Doueiri, Alex Gibney, Stephen Chbosky, Eran Riklis, Edward Burns, Bernard Émond, Zhang Yuan, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Newell, Miwa Nishikawa, Margarethe Von Trotta, David Siegel, Scott McGehee, Gauri Shinde, Goran Paskaljevic, Baltasar Kormákur, J.A. Bayona, Rob Zombie, Peaches and Paul Andrew Williams.
Actors expected to attend include: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jackie Chan, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Bill Murray, Robert Redford,...
Actors expected to attend include: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jackie Chan, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Bill Murray, Robert Redford,...
- 8/21/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Watching soap operas in Kabul
If you truly want to understand what a nation is thinking, look at what it’s watching on TV. An especially clear example has emerged in Afghanistan, where broadcast television was banned after the Taliban took power in 1996. Since the regime fell in 2001, however, television has flourished.
Wazhmah Osman, an Afghan native who came to the United States when she was 10, wrote a chapter about Indian and Iranian soap operas on Afghan TV, titled ”Trashy Tastes and Permeable Borders,” that was just published in a new book, ”Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age.”
Katie Couric: Challenges To Come
Ed Martin writes: "Katie Couric certainly has her work cut out for her during the year ahead. Launching a new daytime talk show is a difficult enough task under the best of circumstances. To do so on a network at a time when its...
If you truly want to understand what a nation is thinking, look at what it’s watching on TV. An especially clear example has emerged in Afghanistan, where broadcast television was banned after the Taliban took power in 1996. Since the regime fell in 2001, however, television has flourished.
Wazhmah Osman, an Afghan native who came to the United States when she was 10, wrote a chapter about Indian and Iranian soap operas on Afghan TV, titled ”Trashy Tastes and Permeable Borders,” that was just published in a new book, ”Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age.”
Katie Couric: Challenges To Come
Ed Martin writes: "Katie Couric certainly has her work cut out for her during the year ahead. Launching a new daytime talk show is a difficult enough task under the best of circumstances. To do so on a network at a time when its...
- 6/10/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
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