In “Medusa,” the latest film from Brazilian director Anita Rocha da Silveira, the main character and a gang of her female friends don creepy white masks to attack other women in the street whom they deem to be “promiscuous.”
Silveira draws amply from both fictional and real tales of women-on-women violence to portray a snake pit society where religion, toxic masculinity and right-wing politics intertwine in an all-too-familiar fashion.
“Medusa” invokes the most famous depiction of the Gorgon: the Caravaggio painting in which she is emitting a deathly scream, blood spurting from her severed head. However, Medusa is not “scared or terrified,” according to Silveira, but rather “pissed.”
Silveira’s film is about that scream.
“For me, it represents releasing this anger that women have been putting aside for years, for generations. We can release this anger that we have to keep inside because you’re told you can’t speak out loud,...
Silveira draws amply from both fictional and real tales of women-on-women violence to portray a snake pit society where religion, toxic masculinity and right-wing politics intertwine in an all-too-familiar fashion.
“Medusa” invokes the most famous depiction of the Gorgon: the Caravaggio painting in which she is emitting a deathly scream, blood spurting from her severed head. However, Medusa is not “scared or terrified,” according to Silveira, but rather “pissed.”
Silveira’s film is about that scream.
“For me, it represents releasing this anger that women have been putting aside for years, for generations. We can release this anger that we have to keep inside because you’re told you can’t speak out loud,...
- 7/11/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
The 2021 Sheffield Doc/Fest will open with the European premiere of Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s “Summer of Soul” and close with the world premiere of Mark Cousins’ “The Story of Looking.”
“Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” explores the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which celebrated African American music and culture, and promoted Black pride and unity.
“The Story of Looking” is a fresh look into the world’s complexities, contradictions and beauty. Cousins will also be in conversation, live-streamed from Sheffield, about his personal relationship to film and images.
Both films will also simultaneously premiere in cinemas around the U.K.
“We’re honored to premiere our film on the closing night of Sheffield’s acclaimed Doc/Fest,” Cousins said. “We hope it will send audiences and delegates back out into the world with hearts aglow and fresh eyes.”
“We wanted to open and close with...
“Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)” explores the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which celebrated African American music and culture, and promoted Black pride and unity.
“The Story of Looking” is a fresh look into the world’s complexities, contradictions and beauty. Cousins will also be in conversation, live-streamed from Sheffield, about his personal relationship to film and images.
Both films will also simultaneously premiere in cinemas around the U.K.
“We’re honored to premiere our film on the closing night of Sheffield’s acclaimed Doc/Fest,” Cousins said. “We hope it will send audiences and delegates back out into the world with hearts aglow and fresh eyes.”
“We wanted to open and close with...
- 4/22/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
UK documentary festival Sheffield Doc/Fest (June 4-13) will open with the European premiere of Questlove’s acclaimed Summer Of Soul, which scooped the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance this year. The doc chronicles the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival and will be released by Searchlight Pictures and Hulu this summer (in cinemas and on Disney+ Star in the UK).
The festival will close with The Story of Looking, the latest documentary from prolific filmmaker Mark Cousins. This time out, Cousins turns his lens to looking at the world’s complexities, contradictions and beauty in the context of people’s long confinements at home and constant assault from images. Cousins will also appear in conversation at the event.
In a first for Doc/Fest, the event will also screen its opening night (June 4) and closing (June 12) simultaneously in cinemas around the UK. At present, venues are set to re-open...
The festival will close with The Story of Looking, the latest documentary from prolific filmmaker Mark Cousins. This time out, Cousins turns his lens to looking at the world’s complexities, contradictions and beauty in the context of people’s long confinements at home and constant assault from images. Cousins will also appear in conversation at the event.
In a first for Doc/Fest, the event will also screen its opening night (June 4) and closing (June 12) simultaneously in cinemas around the UK. At present, venues are set to re-open...
- 4/22/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Brasilia, Jan 23 (Ians) Chinese telecom giant Huawei has hired former Brazilian President Michel Temer as an advisor as the auction for next-generation 5G wireless networks approaches in the country, ZDNet reported.
The Covid-19 pandemic delayed the auction of Brazil's 5G auction, originally set for March 2020. It is now expected to be held early this year.
Huawei confirmed the appointment of Temer, a constitutional law professor and lawyer, in a statement, saying that the company was "committed to transparency with all stakeholders," said the report on Friday.
The appointment of Temer comes at a time when the company is getting threats of getting banned from supplying 5G equipment in several countries due to security perceptions.
The appointment of Temer gains significance in view of his proximity with current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
In his current role Temer will be tasked to offer legal advice on 5G implementation in Brazil.
However, Huawei...
The Covid-19 pandemic delayed the auction of Brazil's 5G auction, originally set for March 2020. It is now expected to be held early this year.
Huawei confirmed the appointment of Temer, a constitutional law professor and lawyer, in a statement, saying that the company was "committed to transparency with all stakeholders," said the report on Friday.
The appointment of Temer comes at a time when the company is getting threats of getting banned from supplying 5G equipment in several countries due to security perceptions.
The appointment of Temer gains significance in view of his proximity with current Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
In his current role Temer will be tasked to offer legal advice on 5G implementation in Brazil.
However, Huawei...
- 1/23/2021
- by IANS
- GlamSham
Beginning not least with the cancellation of the Olympic Games in Japan, 2020 has been a year unprecedentedly devoid of sporting events. Though there’s been a slow return to normal there’s still no live audience, stadiums are mostly empty, and many athletes were left to hang up hopes after endless training. Enter “Rising Phoenix,” “McQueen” team Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s . While it doesn’t capture the same excitement of a live competition, the filmmakers damn well try, intercutting intelligently art-designed interviews with flashy visual symbolism, ethereal reenactments, and frequently nail-shredding archival footage from Paralympic Games of the past.
Narrated by Paralympics advocate Prince Harry, “Rising Phoenix” will probably introduce you to some of the Paralympics’ most famous figures, and the disabilities that have become a tremendous asset in their respective fields, from skiing while blind and fencing in a wheelchair. You may recognize Tatyana McFadden, a Russian-American Paralympic celebrity who,...
Narrated by Paralympics advocate Prince Harry, “Rising Phoenix” will probably introduce you to some of the Paralympics’ most famous figures, and the disabilities that have become a tremendous asset in their respective fields, from skiing while blind and fencing in a wheelchair. You may recognize Tatyana McFadden, a Russian-American Paralympic celebrity who,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Some documentaries can feel like primers, skimming the surface and inviting viewers to look further into a subject. Maria Ramos' deep dive into the trial that surrounded the impeachment of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is anything but and definitely not for dabblers - but for those with more than a passing interest in the corruption and misogyny which, in part, led to Jair Bolsonaro's rise to power, it's compelling viewing. If you are looking for an accompanying documentary to fill in more of the backstory, Petra Costa's The Edge Of Democracy is a good place to start.
Ramos - who has a history of examining the justice system in her country with films including Behave and Justice - does briefly set the scene with intertitle cards explaining that, following her re-election in 2014, Rousseff found herself embroiled in claims surrounding fiscal decrease and farm subsidies. It's quickly apparent that these claims were largely devised.
Ramos - who has a history of examining the justice system in her country with films including Behave and Justice - does briefly set the scene with intertitle cards explaining that, following her re-election in 2014, Rousseff found herself embroiled in claims surrounding fiscal decrease and farm subsidies. It's quickly apparent that these claims were largely devised.
- 8/19/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Maria August’s somewhat dry chronicle of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment is a reminder that democracy can sometimes be undermined from within the system
In 2016, the impeachment trial of Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, began. She was accused of breaking budgetary laws, but in the midst of the ongoing Operation Car Wash corruption scandal, her supporters argued that the real motivation behind the proceeding was political, not legal. In this film, completed before Bolsonaro’s rise to power, director Maria August takes us back through the strangely staid series of rulings. Is a coup is still a coup when it follows “due process”?
Ramos’s wholly observational technique – no interviews, no narration – assumes a good deal of prior knowledge on behalf of the audience. We’re left to infer the identities and allegiances of key players, yet some international parallels are recognisable, even when the particulars of Brazilian politics are not.
In 2016, the impeachment trial of Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff, began. She was accused of breaking budgetary laws, but in the midst of the ongoing Operation Car Wash corruption scandal, her supporters argued that the real motivation behind the proceeding was political, not legal. In this film, completed before Bolsonaro’s rise to power, director Maria August takes us back through the strangely staid series of rulings. Is a coup is still a coup when it follows “due process”?
Ramos’s wholly observational technique – no interviews, no narration – assumes a good deal of prior knowledge on behalf of the audience. We’re left to infer the identities and allegiances of key players, yet some international parallels are recognisable, even when the particulars of Brazilian politics are not.
- 8/12/2020
- by Ellen E Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
2019 Oscar-nominated “The Edge of Democracy” filmmaker Petra Costa and Switzerland’s Visions du Réel Film Festival weren’t going to let a global pandemic stop them from hosting a highly anticipated masterclass on Thursday.
For nearly three hours the filmmaker fielded questions from moderators Delphine Jeanneret of the Geneva University of Art and Design, Giona Nazzaro, member of the selection committee for Visions du Réel, and an eager audience of streamers around the world.
Below, five takeaways from the day’s talk.
“The Edge of Democracy”:
While the class covered years of Costa’s career, from time spent in the theater to studying anthropology in the U.S. and her earlier films, most of the day’s talk was focused on 2019’s Oscar-nominated documentary “The Edge of Democracy.”
Examining the impeachment trials of Dilma Rousseff, the imprisonment of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and election of Jair Bolsonaro...
For nearly three hours the filmmaker fielded questions from moderators Delphine Jeanneret of the Geneva University of Art and Design, Giona Nazzaro, member of the selection committee for Visions du Réel, and an eager audience of streamers around the world.
Below, five takeaways from the day’s talk.
“The Edge of Democracy”:
While the class covered years of Costa’s career, from time spent in the theater to studying anthropology in the U.S. and her earlier films, most of the day’s talk was focused on 2019’s Oscar-nominated documentary “The Edge of Democracy.”
Examining the impeachment trials of Dilma Rousseff, the imprisonment of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and election of Jair Bolsonaro...
- 5/1/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
On one level, you could take Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ “Bacurau” as a serious political work about the exploitation of rural communities, the callous indifference of government and the damaging role of America around the world.
Or you could forget about that stuff and take it as a garish, bloody shoot ‘em up, an exercise in the Western genre where the wild west is actually northeast Brazil and the rising body count tends to obliterate whatever thoughtful points the film’s co-directors may be making.
In fact, “Bacurau” is all of those things at once. It makes points about community and exploitation, and then it splatters those points with blood, sets them to blasting sci-fi music and dares you to remember what those points were in the first place. It’s disturbing and messy, a fever dream for a disturbing and messy time in Brazil. And occasionally, it’s a lot of fun,...
Or you could forget about that stuff and take it as a garish, bloody shoot ‘em up, an exercise in the Western genre where the wild west is actually northeast Brazil and the rising body count tends to obliterate whatever thoughtful points the film’s co-directors may be making.
In fact, “Bacurau” is all of those things at once. It makes points about community and exploitation, and then it splatters those points with blood, sets them to blasting sci-fi music and dares you to remember what those points were in the first place. It’s disturbing and messy, a fever dream for a disturbing and messy time in Brazil. And occasionally, it’s a lot of fun,...
- 3/12/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Director Petra Costa and producer Joanna Natasegara didn’t expect their acclaimed documentary The Edge of Democracy to earn an Oscar nomination. But when they tuned in for the announcement, watching from different points on the globe, they were in for a welcome shock.
“We were both screaming and I am not ashamed to say that we were,” Natasegara acknowledges. “We were very, very surprised. But we’re halfway across the world from each other. Actually, I had my [four-month-old] baby strapped to my front and woke him up, I was so overjoyed. He was not that pleased.”
This is the third Academy Award nomination for Natasegara; she won in 2017 for producing the short documentary The White Helmets, directed by Orlando von Einsiedel. She will attend today’s Oscar Luncheon in Hollywood with the Brazilian-born Costa.
“It’s her first time. It’s the team’s first time. So I get...
“We were both screaming and I am not ashamed to say that we were,” Natasegara acknowledges. “We were very, very surprised. But we’re halfway across the world from each other. Actually, I had my [four-month-old] baby strapped to my front and woke him up, I was so overjoyed. He was not that pleased.”
This is the third Academy Award nomination for Natasegara; she won in 2017 for producing the short documentary The White Helmets, directed by Orlando von Einsiedel. She will attend today’s Oscar Luncheon in Hollywood with the Brazilian-born Costa.
“It’s her first time. It’s the team’s first time. So I get...
- 1/27/2020
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
An impeachment trial that divides the country. Large crowds chanting to "lock up" their right-wing candidate's political opponent. And the rise of an authoritarian leader who threatens to undercut democracy and the rule of law. Sound familiar?
In Netflix's The Edge of Democracy, nominated for best documentary feature, Brazilian writer-director Petra Costa delves into her country's messy political history — and in the process presents a dark "distorted mirror" of the myriad crises facing the U.S. today. With remarkable access to former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer — as ...
In Netflix's The Edge of Democracy, nominated for best documentary feature, Brazilian writer-director Petra Costa delves into her country's messy political history — and in the process presents a dark "distorted mirror" of the myriad crises facing the U.S. today. With remarkable access to former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer — as ...
- 1/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
An impeachment trial that divides the country. Large crowds chanting to "lock up" their right-wing candidate's political opponent. And the rise of an authoritarian leader who threatens to undercut democracy and the rule of law. Sound familiar?
In Netflix's The Edge of Democracy, nominated for best documentary feature, Brazilian writer-director Petra Costa delves into her country's messy political history — and in the process presents a dark "distorted mirror" of the myriad crises facing the U.S. today. With remarkable access to former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer — as ...
In Netflix's The Edge of Democracy, nominated for best documentary feature, Brazilian writer-director Petra Costa delves into her country's messy political history — and in the process presents a dark "distorted mirror" of the myriad crises facing the U.S. today. With remarkable access to former presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff and Michel Temer — as ...
- 1/24/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warning For U.S. Seen In Director Petra Costa’s Oscar-Contending Documentary ‘The Edge of Democracy’
When filmmaker Petra Costa was two years old her native Brazil returned to civilian rule after more than two decades of dictatorship. For her, government of the people, by the people and for the people felt like the natural order.
“I grew up believing that democracy was my birthright,” Costa tells Deadline. “My parents had dedicated most of their life fighting against the military dictatorship in Brazil and I was born more or less at the time that they—together with hundreds of thousands of people—managed to reestablish democracy and I believe both democracy and I grew and became stronger together.”
But in recent years Brazil and many other nations around the world—including, arguably, the United States—have retreated from democratic norms. Costa explores the alarming developments in her home country in the Netflix documentary The Edge of Democracy, one of the best reviewed nonfiction films of the...
“I grew up believing that democracy was my birthright,” Costa tells Deadline. “My parents had dedicated most of their life fighting against the military dictatorship in Brazil and I was born more or less at the time that they—together with hundreds of thousands of people—managed to reestablish democracy and I believe both democracy and I grew and became stronger together.”
But in recent years Brazil and many other nations around the world—including, arguably, the United States—have retreated from democratic norms. Costa explores the alarming developments in her home country in the Netflix documentary The Edge of Democracy, one of the best reviewed nonfiction films of the...
- 12/9/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Petra Costa’s second feature documentary, “The Edge of Democracy,” tells the story of the rise of democracy following years of military dictatorship in Brazil — and the corruption threatening its very existence. Costa’s story is personal, too, as she chronicles her own coming of age alongside her country’s democracy.
Costa’s parents were revolutionaries who fought against the dictatorship, but other family members benefited from the system of bribes and corruption that have been in place for decades.
“I really had the feeling that I was reaping the fruits of their struggle, of their lifetime work. And that gave me the freedom to do films that are more psychological, more [intimate], more poetic because I felt that work of guaranteeing democracy and fighting against social inequality was done and I took it for granted,” she explained following a screening of the film at the International Documentary Association’s annual screening series in Los Angeles.
Costa’s parents were revolutionaries who fought against the dictatorship, but other family members benefited from the system of bribes and corruption that have been in place for decades.
“I really had the feeling that I was reaping the fruits of their struggle, of their lifetime work. And that gave me the freedom to do films that are more psychological, more [intimate], more poetic because I felt that work of guaranteeing democracy and fighting against social inequality was done and I took it for granted,” she explained following a screening of the film at the International Documentary Association’s annual screening series in Los Angeles.
- 12/9/2019
- by Jean Bentley
- Indiewire
For Petra Costa, the personal is political and the political is personal in her latest documentary “The Edge of Democracy.” Currently streaming on Netflix, the film chronicles the rise and fall of democracy in her native Brazil as the country has backslid into authoritarianism with the 2018 election of President Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right, pro-torture former military officer. That followed the imprisonment and impeachment of his two democratic predecessors, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, respectively, revealed in the film to have been engineered by shady government officials.
As Costa, 36, notes in the doc, she and Brazilian democracy are almost the same age, and the past three years have made her realize how she — and others — have taken democracy for granted.
“I grew up believing democracy was my birthright, achieved from a lifetime of my parents fighting against the military dictatorship in Brazil that lasted from ’64 to the mid-80s,...
As Costa, 36, notes in the doc, she and Brazilian democracy are almost the same age, and the past three years have made her realize how she — and others — have taken democracy for granted.
“I grew up believing democracy was my birthright, achieved from a lifetime of my parents fighting against the military dictatorship in Brazil that lasted from ’64 to the mid-80s,...
- 11/7/2019
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
You are invited to attend our Q&a discussion with four of film’s top documentarians who now compete for Oscars and more. Our event is on Tuesday, November 5, at 7:00 p.m. at the Landmark Theater at 10850 W. Pico Blvd. in Los Angeles. Admission and parking are free. Academy and guild members will get priority seating.
To RSVP, make your reservation here: https://goldderbydocumentarypanel2019.splashthat.com/
Gold Derby managing editor Joyce Eng will moderate this “Meet the Film Experts” panel with the following contenders for 2019/2020 awards consideration:
Petra Costa represents Netflix for “The Edge of Democracy”
The film explores one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history, combining unprecedented access to Presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. Costa has had other awards contenders with “Elena,” “Olmo and the Seagull” and “Undertow Eyes.”
Feras Fayyad represents NatGeo for “The Cave”
This film follows a dedicated team of female...
To RSVP, make your reservation here: https://goldderbydocumentarypanel2019.splashthat.com/
Gold Derby managing editor Joyce Eng will moderate this “Meet the Film Experts” panel with the following contenders for 2019/2020 awards consideration:
Petra Costa represents Netflix for “The Edge of Democracy”
The film explores one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history, combining unprecedented access to Presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff. Costa has had other awards contenders with “Elena,” “Olmo and the Seagull” and “Undertow Eyes.”
Feras Fayyad represents NatGeo for “The Cave”
This film follows a dedicated team of female...
- 10/22/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Petra Costa’s powerful documentary charts the state’s descent into populism and the fraying of its democratic fabric
Brazilian actor-writer-director Petra Costa is known for mining her personal and family history for material. Her first feature, Elena, turned her search for her absent older sister into a deeply evocative documentary about loss, familial love, rivalry and displacement as it flutters between São Paulo in Brazil and New York City.
Costa’s latest documentary, The Edge of Democracy, finds her intersecting the personal and political on an even bigger public stage, and in the process documents a crisis erupting in slow motion at the heart of Brazilian politics. Thanks to extraordinary access to figures at the centre of the story – former leftist Workers’ Party presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Aka Lula) and Dilma Rousseff, as well as rightwingers Michel Temer and current president Jair Bolsonaro – Costa manages to craft...
Brazilian actor-writer-director Petra Costa is known for mining her personal and family history for material. Her first feature, Elena, turned her search for her absent older sister into a deeply evocative documentary about loss, familial love, rivalry and displacement as it flutters between São Paulo in Brazil and New York City.
Costa’s latest documentary, The Edge of Democracy, finds her intersecting the personal and political on an even bigger public stage, and in the process documents a crisis erupting in slow motion at the heart of Brazilian politics. Thanks to extraordinary access to figures at the centre of the story – former leftist Workers’ Party presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Aka Lula) and Dilma Rousseff, as well as rightwingers Michel Temer and current president Jair Bolsonaro – Costa manages to craft...
- 6/21/2019
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
There’s a right-wing candidate who unexpectedly rose to power on a wave of nationalist anger despite a history of making rude and racist comments. A woman from a left-wing party vying to become the country’s first female leader. Cries to not just defeat politicians, but to lock them up. Rampant corruption growing out of campaign financing. A country “divided into two irreconcilable parts,” in the words of one observer.
The country in question, by the way, is Brazil, and the observer is filmmaker Petra Costa, whose sobering documentary, “Edge of Democracy,” premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. And if the echoes of the United States are unmistakable and disquieting, that was no doubt the point of Sundance giving the film a coveted opening-night berth.
But it’s not the only reason to give the film a prime timeslot. “Edge of Democracy,” as sprawling and occasionally confusing as it can be,...
The country in question, by the way, is Brazil, and the observer is filmmaker Petra Costa, whose sobering documentary, “Edge of Democracy,” premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. And if the echoes of the United States are unmistakable and disquieting, that was no doubt the point of Sundance giving the film a coveted opening-night berth.
But it’s not the only reason to give the film a prime timeslot. “Edge of Democracy,” as sprawling and occasionally confusing as it can be,...
- 6/19/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
American viewers watching Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy” — an angry, intimate, and haunting portrait of Brazil’s recent slide back into the open jaws of dictatorship — might find it morbidly fitting that the nation’s capital is one hour ahead of Washington D.C.; for all the specificity of Costa’s doc, her film can’t help but feel like a preview of what might be coming for us.
To a certain extent, that seems to have been Costa’s intention, and we her target audience. There’s a reason why her plaintive and poetic narration is delivered in English, and why her broad overview of Brazil’s political scandals is pitched at viewers who are learning about them for the first time. This is a movie that seems as if it was always meant to be exported — a cautionary tale that was sold to Netflix so that...
To a certain extent, that seems to have been Costa’s intention, and we her target audience. There’s a reason why her plaintive and poetic narration is delivered in English, and why her broad overview of Brazil’s political scandals is pitched at viewers who are learning about them for the first time. This is a movie that seems as if it was always meant to be exported — a cautionary tale that was sold to Netflix so that...
- 6/18/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The Edge Of Democracy Netflix Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Petra Costa Screenwriter: Petra Costa Cast: Dilma Rousseff, Michel Terner, Eduardo Cunha, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 6/6/19 Opens: June 19, 2019 Medical science has become so complex that Herodotus would scarcely […]
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- 6/14/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
From “The Brink” to “Knock Down the House,” documentary filmmakers clearly have populism on the mind. This year’s Sundance Film Festival was dominated by portrayals of these transformative movements, ranging from the far right to the far left, that have a chokehold on global politics. The latest addition to the canon is Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy,” and the director stays true to form by applying a personal touch to a political crisis.
The film, which screened on opening night at Sundance, chronicles the rise and fall of democracy in Brazil from 1985 to the present day. “The Edge of Democracy” has been lauded for its intimate take on a global epidemic. By limiting her focus to the Brazilian crisis and the way it has affected her own life, Costa keeps everything on a human scale, albeit one with obvious worldwide implications.
The official synopsis from Netflix reads:...
The film, which screened on opening night at Sundance, chronicles the rise and fall of democracy in Brazil from 1985 to the present day. “The Edge of Democracy” has been lauded for its intimate take on a global epidemic. By limiting her focus to the Brazilian crisis and the way it has affected her own life, Costa keeps everything on a human scale, albeit one with obvious worldwide implications.
The official synopsis from Netflix reads:...
- 6/5/2019
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The 2019 Cannes Film Festival ended in triumph for Brazil’s Kleber Mendonça Filho, who shared the festival’s Jury Prize with co-director Juliano Dornelles for their dystopian western “Bacurau.” (The film tied with French police thriller “Les Misérables.”)“Bacurau” follows a remote village fighting for survival against invasive forces; now, Mendonça Filho faces another surreal battle back home.
Two weeks before the festival, the Brazilian government announced a 30-day ultimatum for Mendonça Filho to return roughly $500,000 that it provided for this 2012 debut, “Neighboring Sounds.” According to multiple reports in the Brazilian press, the funding was meant to wholly finance the film. However, the government maintains that Mendonça Filho’s final budget was about 50% higher than the maximum allowed under the program.
The filmmaker has been appealing the decision in court ahead of the June 3 deadline. He characterized the government’s latest decree as an attempt to capitalize on his recent publicity at Cannes,...
Two weeks before the festival, the Brazilian government announced a 30-day ultimatum for Mendonça Filho to return roughly $500,000 that it provided for this 2012 debut, “Neighboring Sounds.” According to multiple reports in the Brazilian press, the funding was meant to wholly finance the film. However, the government maintains that Mendonça Filho’s final budget was about 50% higher than the maximum allowed under the program.
The filmmaker has been appealing the decision in court ahead of the June 3 deadline. He characterized the government’s latest decree as an attempt to capitalize on his recent publicity at Cannes,...
- 5/29/2019
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa belongs to the many who fear that Jair Bolsonaro’s election as President of Brazil represents the beginning of the end for the country’s democracy, three short decades after the fall of the military dictatorship that held power from 1964 to 1985. In her documentary The Edge of Democracy, which had its world premiere at Sundance a couple of weeks after Bolsonaro’s inauguration on the 1st of January 2019, she probes how the country could replace the Workers’ Party of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whose presidency brought Brazil to unprecedented levels of social and economic prosperity, with a former army captain whose political views and stated ambitions amount to nothing less than fascism.
The film begins on the 7th of April 2018, the night that Lula is arrested for money laundering and corruption. It then jumps back in time to the final years of the dictatorship...
The film begins on the 7th of April 2018, the night that Lula is arrested for money laundering and corruption. It then jumps back in time to the final years of the dictatorship...
- 5/14/2019
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
How the hell did we get here? It’s a question that political liberals are asking themselves in many parts of the world, reeling as they are from a global tilt to the right that has yielded the tumultuous Trump presidency, the ceaseless, squabbling chaos of Brexit and, albeit less prominently in international headlines, Brazil’s submission to the oppressive ultra-conservatism of new president Jair Bolsonaro. The question tends to be asked rhetorically, with thrown-up hands and a plangent note of exasperation. Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa, however, actually seeks to answer it. “The Edge of Democracy,” a sprawling, transfixing documentary essay on her country’s far-right takeover, painstakingly maps the chain of events that brought the previous government to its knees.
This urgent, unabashedly partisan account makes unhappy sense of the upheaval in Brazil — though aggrieved left-wing viewers in the U.S., the U.K. and beyond can hardly fail...
This urgent, unabashedly partisan account makes unhappy sense of the upheaval in Brazil — though aggrieved left-wing viewers in the U.S., the U.K. and beyond can hardly fail...
- 4/25/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
A slow cook process on a hot button topic, Petra Costa‘s third feature film was a Sundance Institute invitee for the 2018 Documentary Edit and Story Labs selections and feels apropos with the recent change of government in Brazil. She gave us Elena (2014), Olmo And The Seagull (2016), and now Impeachment — a Cinereach project that could mirror the future of American political landscape.
Gist: An epic tragedy of corruption and betrayal, Impeachment is a behind-the-scenes look at the ousting of Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff. With privileged access to the president and other key politicians, the film unravels like a political thriller in what is not only a defining moment for Brazil but also a fable of our times.…...
Gist: An epic tragedy of corruption and betrayal, Impeachment is a behind-the-scenes look at the ousting of Brazil’s first female president, Dilma Rousseff. With privileged access to the president and other key politicians, the film unravels like a political thriller in what is not only a defining moment for Brazil but also a fable of our times.…...
- 11/21/2018
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s controversial “Aquarius” continues to stir big emotions, even months after its debut at the Cannes Film Festival.
At a special preview of the film at New York City’s Angelika Theatre on Thursday evening, the film was greeted by a group of protesters who turned out in support of the film and its creator, who has been very vocal about his opposition to Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff’s recent impeachment — perceived as many to be part of a coup — and continuing a conversation started earlier this year.
Read More: ‘Aquarius’ Political Controversy Clouds Brazil’s Oscar Submission
The film follows 65-year-old Brazilian widow Clara (Sonia Braga), a former music journalist who is set on living out the rest of her days in the apartment complex where she grew up. Although she pledges to stay in the apartment until she dies, her plans are waylaid...
At a special preview of the film at New York City’s Angelika Theatre on Thursday evening, the film was greeted by a group of protesters who turned out in support of the film and its creator, who has been very vocal about his opposition to Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff’s recent impeachment — perceived as many to be part of a coup — and continuing a conversation started earlier this year.
Read More: ‘Aquarius’ Political Controversy Clouds Brazil’s Oscar Submission
The film follows 65-year-old Brazilian widow Clara (Sonia Braga), a former music journalist who is set on living out the rest of her days in the apartment complex where she grew up. Although she pledges to stay in the apartment until she dies, her plans are waylaid...
- 10/14/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Brazilian director David Schurmann’s film was selected over Aquarius by one vote, prompting some social media protests.
On the morning after the gala screening of Little Secret at the 18th edition of Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival, the Brazilian director David Schurmann packed his bags to travel to Los Angeles. Schurmann is to meet awards consultant Steven Raphael, who has been hired (via Skype) to help him with his film campaign for the 89th Academy Awards.
Little Secret was chosen last month as the Brazil’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film, after beating its rival, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, by one vote only (the result was five to four). The choice made by Brazil’s Oscar selection committee further fuelled the controversy around Aquarius and led to protests on social media against Little Secret.
“Although at that time no one had seen our movie yet, we were attacked...
On the morning after the gala screening of Little Secret at the 18th edition of Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival, the Brazilian director David Schurmann packed his bags to travel to Los Angeles. Schurmann is to meet awards consultant Steven Raphael, who has been hired (via Skype) to help him with his film campaign for the 89th Academy Awards.
Little Secret was chosen last month as the Brazil’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film, after beating its rival, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, by one vote only (the result was five to four). The choice made by Brazil’s Oscar selection committee further fuelled the controversy around Aquarius and led to protests on social media against Little Secret.
“Although at that time no one had seen our movie yet, we were attacked...
- 10/12/2016
- by elaineguerini@terra.com.br (Elaine Guerini)
- ScreenDaily
The official submissions for the foreign language Oscar are in from around the world, and the Academy has deemed a record 85 eligible to compete. Last year, 81 submissions were released theatrically in their home countries between October 1, 2014 and September 30, 2015. (This year’s deadline for submissions was October 3, 2016.)
Several Academy foreign committees comprised of members from all the branches will whittle down the films to a shortlist of nine and finally, five Oscar nominees. (Last year’s winner was Cannes prize-winner “Son of Saul,” directed by Hungarian Lazlo Nemes.) Many countries pick films that do well on the festival circuit as their strongest Oscar contender; others do not.
Politics often intervene: Brazil’s submission was expected to be Cannes competition film “Aquarius,” starring Sonia Braga, but it was embroiled in controversy over filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s support of outgoing impeached president Dilma Rousseff. Bruno Barreto’s Brazil selection committee went...
Several Academy foreign committees comprised of members from all the branches will whittle down the films to a shortlist of nine and finally, five Oscar nominees. (Last year’s winner was Cannes prize-winner “Son of Saul,” directed by Hungarian Lazlo Nemes.) Many countries pick films that do well on the festival circuit as their strongest Oscar contender; others do not.
Politics often intervene: Brazil’s submission was expected to be Cannes competition film “Aquarius,” starring Sonia Braga, but it was embroiled in controversy over filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s support of outgoing impeached president Dilma Rousseff. Bruno Barreto’s Brazil selection committee went...
- 10/12/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The official submissions for the foreign language Oscar are in from around the world, and the Academy has deemed a record 85 eligible to compete. Last year, 81 submissions were released theatrically in their home countries between October 1, 2014 and September 30, 2015. (This year’s deadline for submissions was October 3, 2016.)
Several Academy foreign committees comprised of members from all the branches will whittle down the films to a shortlist of nine and finally, five Oscar nominees. (Last year’s winner was Cannes prize-winner “Son of Saul,” directed by Hungarian Lazlo Nemes.) Many countries pick films that do well on the festival circuit as their strongest Oscar contender; others do not.
Politics often intervene: Brazil’s submission was expected to be Cannes competition film “Aquarius,” starring Sonia Braga, but it was embroiled in controversy over filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s support of outgoing impeached president Dilma Rousseff. Bruno Barreto’s Brazil selection committee went...
Several Academy foreign committees comprised of members from all the branches will whittle down the films to a shortlist of nine and finally, five Oscar nominees. (Last year’s winner was Cannes prize-winner “Son of Saul,” directed by Hungarian Lazlo Nemes.) Many countries pick films that do well on the festival circuit as their strongest Oscar contender; others do not.
Politics often intervene: Brazil’s submission was expected to be Cannes competition film “Aquarius,” starring Sonia Braga, but it was embroiled in controversy over filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho’s support of outgoing impeached president Dilma Rousseff. Bruno Barreto’s Brazil selection committee went...
- 10/12/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Vitagraph Films will be touting Sonia Braga for Best Actress at next year’s Academy Awards.
Following Brazil’s controversial decision to select David Schurmann’s drama Little Secret to represent the country at the 89th Academy Awards over Aquarius, the latter’s director, Kleber Mendonça Filho, has confirmed that his film’s U.S. distributor Vitagraph Films will launch an Oscar campaign for Sonia Braga in the hopes of securing a best actress nomination.
“They are going to try and push Sonia,” confirmed Mendonça Filho at the Zurich Film Festival. Aquarius opens in the U.S. on 14 October after its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival.
Mendonça Filho revealed that the campaign will kick off in two weeks with a dinner in Los Angeles. This follows the protests and controversy that have surrounded Aquarius since it debuted to acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival.
On the red carpet at Cannes, the filmmakers...
Following Brazil’s controversial decision to select David Schurmann’s drama Little Secret to represent the country at the 89th Academy Awards over Aquarius, the latter’s director, Kleber Mendonça Filho, has confirmed that his film’s U.S. distributor Vitagraph Films will launch an Oscar campaign for Sonia Braga in the hopes of securing a best actress nomination.
“They are going to try and push Sonia,” confirmed Mendonça Filho at the Zurich Film Festival. Aquarius opens in the U.S. on 14 October after its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival.
Mendonça Filho revealed that the campaign will kick off in two weeks with a dinner in Los Angeles. This follows the protests and controversy that have surrounded Aquarius since it debuted to acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival.
On the red carpet at Cannes, the filmmakers...
- 9/25/2016
- ScreenDaily
Indigo Film crime series, Vr firsts, Sally Potter multimedia musical and Dilma Rousseff drama among projects heading to the Lido.
As Venice seeks to ramp up its industry profile, the festival’s market head Pascal Diot has revealed further details of how this year’s inaugural ‘Venice Production Bridge’ (September 1-5) will work.
Extra funds have been set aside by the Biennale for the initiative which, as reported earlier this year, will incorproate the existing market strands, among them Final Cut and the Gap Financing Programme.
“What we want to do with the Production Bridge is to offer as many services as possible to producers,” Diot explained. “(Paolo) Baratta [president of la Biennale di Venezia] was keen on the market. He has been a great support. That’s why when, for the 5th anniversary, we decided to propose something more, he said ‘yes’ right away.
More than 1700 accredited industry delegates are due to attend the festival. High-profile Us delegates...
As Venice seeks to ramp up its industry profile, the festival’s market head Pascal Diot has revealed further details of how this year’s inaugural ‘Venice Production Bridge’ (September 1-5) will work.
Extra funds have been set aside by the Biennale for the initiative which, as reported earlier this year, will incorproate the existing market strands, among them Final Cut and the Gap Financing Programme.
“What we want to do with the Production Bridge is to offer as many services as possible to producers,” Diot explained. “(Paolo) Baratta [president of la Biennale di Venezia] was keen on the market. He has been a great support. That’s why when, for the 5th anniversary, we decided to propose something more, he said ‘yes’ right away.
More than 1700 accredited industry delegates are due to attend the festival. High-profile Us delegates...
- 8/31/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
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In scoring news, Jóhann Jóhannsson will reteam with Denis Villeneuve to score Blade Runner 2, while Carter Burwell will reteam with Todd Haynes to score Wonderstruck.
Louis Garrel visits The Criterion Collection closet:
New York Film Festival 2016 has announced their Shorts line-up, along with Explorations, featuring Mimosas, The Death of Louis Xiv, The Ornithologist, and more.
Todd Solondz recounts the making of Welcome to the Dollhouse at The Guardian:
I started writing Welcome to the Dollhouse around the time of that first film. I couldn’t think of any American films that dealt in any serious way with childhood. Children in American films were either cute like a little doll or evil demons.
In scoring news, Jóhann Jóhannsson will reteam with Denis Villeneuve to score Blade Runner 2, while Carter Burwell will reteam with Todd Haynes to score Wonderstruck.
Louis Garrel visits The Criterion Collection closet:
New York Film Festival 2016 has announced their Shorts line-up, along with Explorations, featuring Mimosas, The Death of Louis Xiv, The Ornithologist, and more.
Todd Solondz recounts the making of Welcome to the Dollhouse at The Guardian:
I started writing Welcome to the Dollhouse around the time of that first film. I couldn’t think of any American films that dealt in any serious way with childhood. Children in American films were either cute like a little doll or evil demons.
- 8/29/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The fallout of Brazil’s turbulent politics has caught up with the selection of the country’s Oscar candidate. Three contenders have withdrawn from the race in support of Cannes entry “Aquarius,” the latest from director Kleber Mendonça Filho, who started protesting in Cannes last May the ongoing impeachment of suspended Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, which he has called a coup d’etat.
Three candidates for Brazil’s Oscar nomination bid –Gabriel Mascaro’s Venice-winner “Neon Bull,” Anna Muylaert’s “Don’t Call Me Son,” and Aly Muritiba’s “To My Beloved,” have refused to participate in the race to become Brazil’s Oscar submission in the aftermath of Rousseff’s impeachment, which is having rippling effects on a politically outspoken local film scene.
The directors’ are protesting the make-up of the committee that will choose the Brazilian representative at the Academy Awards, after the Ministry of Culture invited a...
Three candidates for Brazil’s Oscar nomination bid –Gabriel Mascaro’s Venice-winner “Neon Bull,” Anna Muylaert’s “Don’t Call Me Son,” and Aly Muritiba’s “To My Beloved,” have refused to participate in the race to become Brazil’s Oscar submission in the aftermath of Rousseff’s impeachment, which is having rippling effects on a politically outspoken local film scene.
The directors’ are protesting the make-up of the committee that will choose the Brazilian representative at the Academy Awards, after the Ministry of Culture invited a...
- 8/27/2016
- by Agustín Mango
- Indiewire
NBC sent Today's Matt Lauer, Meredith Vieira and Hoda Kotb to anchor the Opening Ceremony for the 2016 Rio Olympics. And as John Oliver observed on Last Week Tonight, their coverage was a bit depressing.
"The buildup to the Rio Games has been turbulent, with Brazil experiencing a massive recession, protests in the streets and a Zika outbreak," Oliver said. "On Friday, NBC urged us to forget all that and focus on the Opening Ceremony ... The centerpiece of any Opening Ceremony is the Parade of Nations: that inspirational moment where athletes...
"The buildup to the Rio Games has been turbulent, with Brazil experiencing a massive recession, protests in the streets and a Zika outbreak," Oliver said. "On Friday, NBC urged us to forget all that and focus on the Opening Ceremony ... The centerpiece of any Opening Ceremony is the Parade of Nations: that inspirational moment where athletes...
- 8/8/2016
- Rollingstone.com
During its coverage of the Olympics’ opening ceremony Friday night, NBC aired an interview with two of the event’s co-directors, Brazilian filmmakers Fernando Meirelles (“City of God”) and Daniela Thomas (“Paris, je t’aime”)—though it’s unclear if anyone from the network was listening. Meirelles and Thomas explained the purpose behind the performance, which was to avoid the host nation’s usual navel-gazing (“talking about their belly buttons,” as Meirelles put it) in favor of global issues, connecting the history of Brazil to the specter of climate change.
Perhaps he meant that the navel-gazing would be reserved for NBC: With “Today Show” talent emceeing the spectacle at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã Stadium and Bob Costas plugging The Golf Channel from the main set, the telecast had the feeling of an especially expensive presentation at the Television Critics Association’s biannual get-together, laying on the salesmanship a little strong.
Perhaps he meant that the navel-gazing would be reserved for NBC: With “Today Show” talent emceeing the spectacle at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã Stadium and Bob Costas plugging The Golf Channel from the main set, the telecast had the feeling of an especially expensive presentation at the Television Critics Association’s biannual get-together, laying on the salesmanship a little strong.
- 8/6/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Indiewire
With the Olympic Games less than a month away, athletes and spectators headed to Rio de Janiero are concerned by the growing number of problems cropping up in the city. Most recently, a group of Brazilian scientists discovered a drug-resistant "super bacteria" growing off of the city's beautiful beaches. Researchers believe the bacteria, found in Guanabara Bay, entered waterways from surrounding households and hospitals. "Every time you get some water in your face, it feels like there's alien enemy entering your face. I keep my nose and my lips closed," German Paralympic sailor Heiko Kroger told CNN. This comes only days after human body parts,...
- 7/6/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
Zika virus. Pollution. Economic and political instability. Security fears. Doping allegations. Athletes dropping out. One crisis after another is plaguing the Olympics in Rio, which are set to begin in Brazil in just over six weeks. The latest development came Wednesday when top golfer Rory McIlroy announced he would not compete for Ireland due to Zika fears. "My health and my family's health comes before everything else," McIlroy said in a statement. "Even though the risk of infection from the Zika virus is considered low, it is a risk nonetheless and a risk I am unwilling to take." ZikaThe threat of Zika,...
- 6/22/2016
- by Hilary Shenfeld, @HilaryShen
- PEOPLE.com
Zika virus. Pollution. Economic and political instability. Security fears. Doping allegations. Athletes dropping out. One crisis after another is plaguing the Olympics in Rio, which are set to begin in Brazil in just over six weeks. The latest development came Wednesday when top golfer Rory McIlroy announced he would not compete for Ireland due to Zika fears. "My health and my family's health comes before everything else," McIlroy said in a statement. "Even though the risk of infection from the Zika virus is considered low, it is a risk nonetheless and a risk I am unwilling to take." ZikaThe threat of Zika,...
- 6/22/2016
- by Hilary Shenfeld, @HilaryShen
- PEOPLE.com
Maya & Marty on Tuesday were joined by nearly four dozen of stage and screen’s biggest stars for a performance in support of the Lgbt community of Orlando, Fla.
RelatedNBC Fall Premiere Dates: Chicago Fire‘s October Start, Blindspot‘s Wednesday Relaunch and Others
Victor Garber (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), Megan Hilty (Smash), Sean Hayes (Will & Grace), Andrea Martin (Difficult People), Titus Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and B.D. Wong (Law & Order: Svu) were among the notable TV actors who took part in a performance of Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” The song was recently...
RelatedNBC Fall Premiere Dates: Chicago Fire‘s October Start, Blindspot‘s Wednesday Relaunch and Others
Victor Garber (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), Megan Hilty (Smash), Sean Hayes (Will & Grace), Andrea Martin (Difficult People), Titus Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and B.D. Wong (Law & Order: Svu) were among the notable TV actors who took part in a performance of Burt Bacharach’s “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” The song was recently...
- 6/22/2016
- TVLine.com
Maya Rudolph and Martin Short came in like a wrecking ball on Tuesday with the debut of their new variety show Maya & Marty on NBC. Was it the best time ever or the biggest loser?
RelatedThe Voice: 8 Easy Fixes to Stop the NBC Juggernaut’s Ratings Slide
The new variety hour (whose title fails to mention third cast member Kenan Thompson) featured special guests Bernie Sanders Larry David, Tom Hanks, Miley Cyrus, Kate McKinnon, Steve Martin, Jimmy Fallon and the cast of Broadway’s Shuffle Along for a debut episode that felt an awful lot like Saturday Night Live...
RelatedThe Voice: 8 Easy Fixes to Stop the NBC Juggernaut’s Ratings Slide
The new variety hour (whose title fails to mention third cast member Kenan Thompson) featured special guests Bernie Sanders Larry David, Tom Hanks, Miley Cyrus, Kate McKinnon, Steve Martin, Jimmy Fallon and the cast of Broadway’s Shuffle Along for a debut episode that felt an awful lot like Saturday Night Live...
- 6/1/2016
- TVLine.com
This has been a fun, and weird, and uneven, and sometimes upsetting (Remember when He Who Shall Not Be Named hosted?) season, and it has been a pure joy to write about it, in both good times and bad. But as the great Nelly Furtado once sang, all good things come to an end, and so tonight we witness Season 41’s swan song-- guided by Fred Armisen, famous for his own run on SNL, his musical skill on Late Night with Seth Meyers, his IFC shows Portlandia and Documentary Now, and that time we let him play Obama because he was the most ethnic cast member SNL had. Cold Open: Hillary Clinton celebrates her inevitable victory while drinking at a bar with a slightly bitter Bernie Sanders. The two set aside their differences for a dance together. When people talk about how much better SNL was when it was first starting out,...
- 5/22/2016
- by Emilie Sowers
- Hitfix
The cast and crew of Aquarius, a highly-regarded Brazilian film in Cannes, held aloft banners proclaiming ‘A coup took place in Brazil’ and ‘We will resist’ at the official premiere
The cast and crew of Aquarius, an acclaimed Brazilian drama in competition at Cannes have used the film’s official premiere to mount a protest as what they see as a coup in their country.
Writer-director Kleber Mendonca Filho, along with his cast and crew, climbed the steps to the Palais in Cannes before revealing a selection of banners apparently objecting to the recent impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff.
Continue reading...
The cast and crew of Aquarius, an acclaimed Brazilian drama in competition at Cannes have used the film’s official premiere to mount a protest as what they see as a coup in their country.
Writer-director Kleber Mendonca Filho, along with his cast and crew, climbed the steps to the Palais in Cannes before revealing a selection of banners apparently objecting to the recent impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff.
Continue reading...
- 5/17/2016
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
The symbolic Olympic Flame in Ancient Olympia has been lit and the official countdown to the 2016 Summer Olympics is fewer than 100 days - but the political turmoil in Brazil has some wondering about the safety and preparedness of this year's Games. The Brazilian Senate voted early Thursday to place President Dilma Rousseff on trial for illegally manipulating fiscal accounts. The vote automatically suspends her from office. Officials say her possible impeachment may not have a direct impact on the 2016 Rio Games - however demonstrations and public turmoil have the potential to complicate Olympic events. Here's what you need to know...
- 5/12/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
The symbolic Olympic Flame in Ancient Olympia has been lit and the official countdown to the 2016 Summer Olympics is fewer than 100 days - but the political turmoil in Brazil has some wondering about the safety and preparedness of this year's games. The Brazilian Senate voted early Thursday to place President Dilma Rouseff on trial for illegally manipulating fiscal accounts. The vote automatically suspends her from office. Officials say her possible impeachment may not have a direct impact on the 2016 Rio Games - however demonstrations and public turmoil have the potential to complicate Olympic events. Here's what you need to know...
- 5/12/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
[[tmz:video id="0_2t28j3bu"]] You're about to get all the patriotic feels from Mma legend Wanderlei Silva ... who is so Stoked to finally be an American citizen that he gave an Epic Pro-usa Rant to TMZ Sports. Silva was out at Lax when he proudly displayed his brand spanking new citizenship papers to us ... and explained why he thinks America is the dopest country on the planet. He also Ripped embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ... saying her leadership is...
- 4/24/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Fresh off the success of his series Narcos, producer and director Jose Padilha is setting his sights on another real-life scandal. His next streaming project will be an ongoing series based on Operation Car Wash (or Operação Lava Jato), a continuing investigation into corruption at the highest levels of the Brazilian government.
Streaming giant Netflix, clearly pleased with Narcos, has already backed the currently untitled show. Padilha’s vision for the project will apparently have it cover the various facets of the scandal, including its background and the upcoming trials of top politicians and corporate figures.
Due to the journalistic requirements of the ongoing series, Padilha sought out Netflix as a relatively unbiased source of funding:
“This project will follow the judicial investigators in their journey to unveil the largest corruption scheme that Brazil has ever witnessed. It was fundamental for the series to be produced in an impartial way,...
Streaming giant Netflix, clearly pleased with Narcos, has already backed the currently untitled show. Padilha’s vision for the project will apparently have it cover the various facets of the scandal, including its background and the upcoming trials of top politicians and corporate figures.
Due to the journalistic requirements of the ongoing series, Padilha sought out Netflix as a relatively unbiased source of funding:
“This project will follow the judicial investigators in their journey to unveil the largest corruption scheme that Brazil has ever witnessed. It was fundamental for the series to be produced in an impartial way,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Andy L. Kubai
- We Got This Covered
Kenya may pull out of this year's Rio Olympics due to concerns over the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil. "Obviously, we are not going to risk taking Kenyans there if this Zika virus reaches epidemic levels," Kipchoge Keino, chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee, said, according to the Guardian. The outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus has been linked to microcephaly, a birth defect marked by an abnormally small head. Public health officials in Brazil are investigating more than 4,000 cases of suspected microcephaly following a Zika outbreak that began to plague the nation in May. Kenya's Olympic committee sought to clarify Keino's comments,...
- 2/9/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
Kenya may pull out of this year's Rio Olympics due to concerns over the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil. "Obviously, we are not going to risk taking Kenyans there if this Zika virus reaches epidemic levels," Kipchoge Keino, chairman of the Kenyan Olympic Committee, said, according to the Guardian. The outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus has been linked to microcephaly, a birth defect marked by an abnormally small head. Public health officials in Brazil are investigating more than 4,000 cases of suspected microcephaly following a Zika outbreak that began to plague the nation in May. Kenya's Olympic committee sought to clarify Keino's comments,...
- 2/9/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
Game on! The 2014 FIFA World Cup got off to an exciting start today with a star-studded opening ceremony and tons of colorful performances. Jennifer Lopez, Pitbull and Brazilian star Claudia Leitte were all on hand to sing "We Are One" for the crowd shortly before the first game of the tournament began at Corinthians Arena. Over 62,600 people were in attendance at Thursday's big ceremony, including Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Un Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and FIFA president Sepp Blatter. And just before hitting the stage in São Paulo, J.Lo shared an Instagram video of herself dancing around backstage. At the end of the adorable clip, the mother of two says,...
- 6/12/2014
- E! Online
President Obama and other world leaders gave powerful tributes in front of almost 100,000 supporters on Dec. 10 in Johannesburg, South Africa to remember the amazing life of Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela led an extraordinary life for 95 years, so it’s only appropriate that on Dec. 10, countless world leaders — including President Barack Obama and South African President Jacob Zuma – honored Mandela during a massive memorial service in the pouring rain. And even though not all of Mandela’s supporters could be there, plenty of celebrities, such as Kanye West, spoke out on Twitter. What did they say?
Nelson Mandela’s Memorial: President Obama & Other Presidents Speak Out
President of South Africa Jacob Zuma spoke to his country and gave a powerful speech that addressed Mandela’s legacy. Below is an excerpt of his speech:
Never before has our country celebrated a life as we are doing with that of Madiba. We do...
Nelson Mandela led an extraordinary life for 95 years, so it’s only appropriate that on Dec. 10, countless world leaders — including President Barack Obama and South African President Jacob Zuma – honored Mandela during a massive memorial service in the pouring rain. And even though not all of Mandela’s supporters could be there, plenty of celebrities, such as Kanye West, spoke out on Twitter. What did they say?
Nelson Mandela’s Memorial: President Obama & Other Presidents Speak Out
President of South Africa Jacob Zuma spoke to his country and gave a powerful speech that addressed Mandela’s legacy. Below is an excerpt of his speech:
Never before has our country celebrated a life as we are doing with that of Madiba. We do...
- 12/10/2013
- by Ivy Jacobson
- HollywoodLife
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