Globo Filmes, the powerful film production arm of Brazil’s Globo, Latin America’s largest media company, has unveiled 11 new movie projects which join the biggest production slate of any company in Brazil.
Directors of new titles, all co-productions, range from star auteur Gabriel Mascaró, and celebrated doc director Eryk Rocha to multi-prized actor Dira Paes, who broke out in John Boorman’s “The Emerald Forest.”
Also in the cut is David Schurmann (“Little Secret”), who and Jean-Pierre Dutilleux whose 1976 “Raoni,” scored and was Oscar nomination and was championed by Marlon Brando.
Mascaró will direct “The Other Side of the Sky,” produced by Globo Filmes and Desvía Produções, a fantasy drama set in an alternative reality Brazil where anyone over 80 is confined to a colony, to help Brazil’s economic recovery. Rocha is prepping “Elza,” a doc portrait of legendary singer Elza Soares, Paes has in development her directorial debut,...
Directors of new titles, all co-productions, range from star auteur Gabriel Mascaró, and celebrated doc director Eryk Rocha to multi-prized actor Dira Paes, who broke out in John Boorman’s “The Emerald Forest.”
Also in the cut is David Schurmann (“Little Secret”), who and Jean-Pierre Dutilleux whose 1976 “Raoni,” scored and was Oscar nomination and was championed by Marlon Brando.
Mascaró will direct “The Other Side of the Sky,” produced by Globo Filmes and Desvía Produções, a fantasy drama set in an alternative reality Brazil where anyone over 80 is confined to a colony, to help Brazil’s economic recovery. Rocha is prepping “Elza,” a doc portrait of legendary singer Elza Soares, Paes has in development her directorial debut,...
- 5/18/2023
- by John Hopewell and Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
Titles include Alfonso Cuaron’s acclaimed Gravity and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
Thierry Ragobert’s Amazonia 3D and Heitor Dhalia’s Serra Pelada bookend the Rio Film Festival, set to run from Sept 26-Oct 10.
A rich line-up of films includes Alfonso Cuaron’s acclaimed Gravity, Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
Paul Schrader will receive a lifetime achievement award. Tribute screenings will include Schrader’s latest, The Canyons, as well as Cat People, American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters.
French director Claire Simon, due to present her recent feature Gare Du Nord, will also be the subject of a festival retrospective.
Festival top brass said that apart from the dozen traditional Rio Festival sections there will be three new arrivals: Tec Section exploring the impact of technology and the internet on privacy; Vanguard Expectation Section challenging conventional narrative; and Big Documentarians Panorama Section spotlighting recent work from...
Thierry Ragobert’s Amazonia 3D and Heitor Dhalia’s Serra Pelada bookend the Rio Film Festival, set to run from Sept 26-Oct 10.
A rich line-up of films includes Alfonso Cuaron’s acclaimed Gravity, Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grande Bellezza and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.
Paul Schrader will receive a lifetime achievement award. Tribute screenings will include Schrader’s latest, The Canyons, as well as Cat People, American Gigolo and Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters.
French director Claire Simon, due to present her recent feature Gare Du Nord, will also be the subject of a festival retrospective.
Festival top brass said that apart from the dozen traditional Rio Festival sections there will be three new arrivals: Tec Section exploring the impact of technology and the internet on privacy; Vanguard Expectation Section challenging conventional narrative; and Big Documentarians Panorama Section spotlighting recent work from...
- 9/12/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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