Brazil Film Festival 2011 - Prospectus

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Brazil Film Festival presents the best of themost recent Brazilian cinema productions,while enthralling the audience in a vibrantcross-cultural atmosphere. Along with itsaward winning feature and short lms,the Festival brings to the Australian publica variety of genuinely Brazilian culturalmanifestations and energy.

Festival Goals.• To showcase and promote Brazilian

cinema across Australia.• To create opportunities for future

partnerships in the lm industry betweenBrazil and Australia.

• To promote cultural exchange and

understanding through cinema.• To dazzle and touch the Australian public

with the rhythms, colours and melodyof Brazilian cinema.

• To present the best and most awardedof the recent feature and short lmproductions from Brazil.

Background.

Brazil Film Festival is part of Brazil Visual,an international circuit of Brazilian lmfestivals sweeping Europe, North Americaand Asia. The Festival inaugurated in

Australia in 2009, showcasing in Sydney the

most awarded of the latestBrazilian cinema productions.

For four nights, the Festivaltouched and dazzled the public

with some of the best short andfeature Brazilian lms of 2008

and 2009. In 2010, the success of the previous year took the Festival

to Melbourne and Brisbane, where itimmediately conquered a captive audience,and over 1,500 people attended the Festivalin all three cities. In 2011, Brazil FilmFestival is again doubling in size, with more

lms, more sessions, and now also yingacross the country to Perth and Adelaide.

Festival Program.• The lm program is curated directly from

Rio by the Festival’s Creative Director,

Alex Heller.• Prior to each night, the Festival offers

Brazil Lounge, a genuinely Brazilianatmosphere, featuring Brazilian music,arts and drinks.

• Brazilian short lms open the scene foreach session’s main feature.

• The Festival is of cially launched inSydney by the Consul-General of Brazil,

and in every other city by a notableauthority regarding Brazil. In 2010, Dr.Ralph Newmark, Director of the Institutefor Latin American Studies (ILAS) at La

Trobe University, launched the Festival inMelbourne.

• Screen short lms each evening prior tothe main feature in every session.

• Opening and Closing night parties in each

city enthrall the public with live Brazilianbands, food and drinks.

INTRO. BRAZIL FILM FESTIVAL BRINGS TO AUSTRALIA THE IMAGES,

SOUNDS, SCENTS AND FLAVOURS OF BRAZIL THROUGH CINEMA.



PROGRAM.

Venues.

Brazil Film Festival is proud partner of PalaceCinemas, which will screen its lms in all cities.

Dates.

Sydney 14 – 21 NovemberMelbourne 15 – 21 NovemberBrisbane 16 – 20 NovemberPerth 17 – 20 November

Adelaide 18 – 20 November

Weekdays 6:00pm and 8:00pmWeekends 2:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:00pm and 8:00pm

Mon14

Tue15

Wed 16

Thu 17

Fri 18

Sat 19

Sun 20

Mon 21

Sydney

Melbourne

Brisbane

Perth

Adelaide



The Festival is targeted at people of all nationalitiesand age groups interested in cinema in general, and

in Brazilian culture in particular. A high quality culturalevent such as this attracts anyone interested in lm and

cinematography. This includes the media, artists, directors,critics and other professionals, as well as fans.

The members and leaders of the Brazilian communities in Australia are loyal patrons of the Festival, bringing with themthe authenticity of a genuinely vibrant Brazilian environment.

PUBLIC.



In Queensland, the Festival attracts a youthful audience in theirmid 20s and 30s from all around Brisbane and all the way overfrom the Gold Coast.

In New South Wales, the Festival brings together its youngestaudience from all around Sydney, with people travelling to attendfrom as far as North Narrabeen, Fair eld and Botany Bay.

In Victoria, the Festival counts with its most mature audience,bringing to Melbourne people from all around Port Phillip Bay.

MELBOURNE AUDIENCE RESULTS. Age

10%

10%

5%

25%

25%

23%

2%

SYDNEY AUDIENCE RESULTS. Age

7%

11%

2%

31%

33%

15%

0%

BRISBANE AUDIENCE RESULTS.

Age

8%

8%

3%

26%

34%

20%

18–24

25–29

30–34

35–44

45–54

55–64

65+ 0%

18–24

25–29

30–34

35–44

45–54

55–64

65+

18–24

25–29

30–34

35–44

45–54

55–64

65+



Brazil Film Festival attractscoverage from a wide spectrum of media channels

Newspapers & Magazines

• Sun Herald

• Courier Mail

• TimeOff

• FilmInk

• MX

• Scene

• MCV

• Beast

• Radar

• Falamos Português

MEDIAEXPOSURE.



Radio/TV

• SBS Radio

• UBI World TV

• C31 TV

• Eastside Radio

• Joy 94.9 FM

• Northside 99.3 FM

• 3ZZZ 92.3 FM

• PBS 106.7 FM

• 3CR 855 AM

• 3RRR 102.7 FM• 2SER 107.3 FM



MEDIAEXPOSURE.

Websites & Social Networks

• SBS Films

• ABC

• Inside Film

• What’s On – City of Sydney

• Flight Centre

• Two Thousand

• Three Thousand

• CitySearch

• koffee

• Victoria Online

• novanation

• Visit Melbourne

• What’s On List

• Upcoming

• Sydney Showcase

• Inner West Live

• Only Melbourne

• Weekend Notes

• That’s Melbourne

• Brisbane 247

• facebook

• twitter

• website

• orkut



Brazil

• MTV

• Jornal do Brasil• Estado de São Paulo

• Repórter Diário

• Globo

• Terra

• O Dia

• abc

• UOL

• iG

• Fator



“Embarque Imediato” (Now Boarding)

A stewardess thwarts a dreamer’s clandestine escape,and falls in love.

Genre Comedy Year 2009Duration 86 minutes

Directed by Allan Fiterman. (Living the dream)

The comedy count with a stellar cast:

Marília Pêra ( Central Station, Pixote)José Wilker ( Man of the Year)

Jonathan Haagensen (City of God).

FILMS. FILMS FEATURED AT THE 2010 FESTIVAL.



“Pachamama”

Directed by Eryk RochaRecipient of multiple awards and directed by

Glauber Rocha’s son, Eryk Rocha, Pachamamatells the story of the director’s journey throughthe Brazilian Amazon rainforest on his way toPeru and Bolivia, where he encounters the realityof people historically cut-off from the politicalprocess of their own country and that, for the

rst time, are attempting to have a say in the

“Dzi Croquettes”

Genre Documentary Year 2010Duration 110 minutes

Directed by Tatiana Issa and Raphael AlvarezBrazil’s most internationally awardeddocumentary in history tells the journeyof the group Dzi Croquettes in the early70´s. The DziCroquettes were an infamous

Brazilian dance-theatre group at the heartof the 1960s Tropicália cultural movementand used imagination, irony, and humour toconfront Brazil’s violent dictatorship - and inthe process revolutionized the nation’s gayrights movement and changed the languageof theatre and dance for a generation. Thisstar-studded lm features testimonials not onlyby some of the greatest names in Brazilianentertainment but also by Liza Minnelli,the croquettes’ ‘godmother’ herself!Not to be missed...

Winner of...

Best Documentary 2009 - Cineport Festival

Of cial Selection 2009 - Festival del Nuevo Cine Havana Latin

American Film Festival at Los Angeles

Winner of 11 including...

Best Documentary

2009 - Rio International Film Festival2009 - São Paulo International Film Festival

2010 - Toronto GLBT International Film Festival

Of cial Selection

2010 - Frameline International GLBT Film Festival

2010 - Tribeca Film Doc Series

outcome of their own fate. The title of the lm, Pachamama, is a word thatmeans “Mother Earth” to certain groupsof Native Americans, and refers to thebucolic goddess of the rural workers.

A meditative lm that also revealssocial movements and moments oftenobscured from outsiders.

Genre Documentary Year 2010Duration 105 minutes



Winner of...

Best Feature2009 - Santa Maria Luso-BrazilianFestival

Best Actor

2009 - FestCine Goiania

Best Sound Design 2009 - FestCine Goiania

“Histórias de Amor Duram Apenas 90 Minutos”

(Love Stories Last Only 90 Minutes)Genre Romantic Comedy

Year 2010Duration 93 minutes

Director: Paulo Halm (Who Killed Pixote?)

Stars : Caio Blat (The Year My Parents Went on Vacation,Carandiru)

Hugo Carvana (Tropical Dreams)

Daniel Dantas (Chronically Unfeasible)

Maria Ribeiro (Elite Squad).

Zeca is a young writer living in Lapa. He has spent years writing anovel. He just can’t seem to nish and gets by on handouts from hisfamily and lives a strained relationship with beautiful and successfulwife Julia. Everything seems to change, though, when he starts tosuspect that Julia is cheating on him with a sensual and irtatious

Argentinean woman, Carol. Will this be enough to shake Zeca out of his writer’s block?

MOREFILMS.



“Lula, O Filho do Brasil” (Lula, The Son of Brazil)

Genre Drama based on a true story Year 2010Duration 128 minutes

Director: Fábio Barreto ( “ O Quatrilho”)

Stars: Glória Pires (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes)

Juliana Baroni (Chrystal Moon)

Lucélia Santos (Under One Roof)

This emotionally involving, ctionalized biopic about Brazilian presidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva, widely known as “Lula,” focuses on his poorchildhood in the interior of Pernambuco, and especially on the integrity andcommitment of his mother, played by the incomparable Pires.

Archival newsreel footage cleverly enhances the recounting of Lula’sformative years as a union organizer.



“Embarque Imediato” (Now Boarding)

A stewardess thwarts a dreamer’s clandestine escape,and falls in love.

Genre Comedy Year 2009Duration 86 minutes

Directed by Allan Fiterman. The comedy count with a stellar cast – Marília Pêra (“Central doBrasil”, Central Station), José Wilker (“O Homem do Ano”, Man

of the Year) and Jonathan Haagensen (“Cidade de Deus”, Cityof God).

FILMS. FILMS FEATURED AT THE 2009 FESTIVAL.

“O Signo da Cidade” (Sign of the City)

Director: Carlos Alberto Riccelli (They Don’t Wear Black-Tie)

Stars: Bruna Lombardi (The Prince)

Juca de Oliveira (Where Have You Been)

While stars and planets move through the sky of São Paulo, randomlyshooting their magic, men and women ask what will become of theirdreams and desires. Gil is married and alone. Lydia irts with danger.Josialdo was born to be a woman. Mônica just wants to do well in life.

In her night radio show where she answers anonymous listeners, theastrologer Teca sees herself between her own problems and the wishesof others. Little by little, fate weaves everyone together in its own web. Inthe struggle to break their isolation and nd the way to redemption, thesepeople will discover the transforming power of solidarity.

“Pindorama” - The True Story of the Seven Dwarves

A wandering family that made out of joy its product,

out of tricks its job. Charles, Zuleide, Gilberto, Cleide,Rogério, Claudio e Lobão are the seven dwarfs, all of them sons of the mythical Pindoba, the smallest andfunniest clown in the world. Together, they form thePindorama Circus, going from town to town in theNorth of Brazil. An exemplary place which carries insidesimplicity and humanity, fun and bravery. In their world,every one wants to be a dwarf and all this makes thePindorama world something new, completely differentfrom everything that surrounds it.

Directed by Roberto Berliner, Lula Queiroga, LeoCrivellare



“Alucinados” (Riding High)

Alucinados (Riding High) is a psychological thriller about a crime that hasbecome common in today’s Rio de Janeiro. The lm takes us into the mostdramatic day in the life of Julia, a housewife who is kidnapped in her armoredcar by Case and Sapeca, two young men from Rio’s slums. What seemsat rst sight to be a con ict between rich and poor turns into a much morecomplex plot linking the characters’ past and present.

Director: Roberto Santucci (De Pernas pro Ar)

Stars: Tarcísio Filho (Tips from a Seducer)

Silvio Guindane (Stolen Dreams)

Mônica Martelli (Cheating in Chains)

Camila JAM tells the story of a young woman struggling tobecome a writer. Her life is hernarrative. Camila is intense andbrave. She wants her literature

“Nome Proprio” (Camila JAM)

Awards

Best Actress

2009 - Cinema Brazil Grand Prize

Best Film, Best Actress, Best Art Direction2009 - Gramado Film FestivalBest Actress 2008 - Prêmio Qualidade Brazil

to be an act of revelation. It isa lm about Camila’s passionand her effort to support it. It’sabout how her character facesthe abyss, and what she getsfrom it is her strength to exist. Ittries to represent the subject of abandonment in its complexity. Itseeks a character without history,therefore what happens to her,doesn’t really matter. CapturingCamila in her movement is whatreally matters: living in her time,taking responsibility for her

choices, suffering her distress,her contradictions, giving herself.With Camila, we want to look ata brave and complex woman,capable of throwing herself froma cliff and developing from this

journey the support she needsto exist. We want to subtract anyepic meaning from her existence,

and remove any traces of itfrom the lm’s narrative. Thuscreating a time in which the moralcontent doesn’t matter. Moral is

impregnated in the being [not inthe narrative]. Moral blossomsfrom the scars originated inher process of giving herself absolutely, and vertiginously.Camila is radical and consciouslyalone. She has no past anddoesn’t want to know her future.

The only thing that matters is herpath. The act of writing is heridentity. It is a lm about Camila’squest for redemption, obsessivelybuilding and destroying herself.Lonely. Her unconditional quest

is for affection, for intimacy. Thisexistential experience incarnatesher body.

Director: Murilo Salles(“Dona Flor e Seus DoisMaridos”)Stars:- Leandra Leal (The Man Who

Copied)- Frank Borges(“Queridos Amigos”)- Luciano Bortoluzzi(14 Bis)



SOCIAL &ENVIRONMENTAL AwARENESS.

Social matters.Brazil is a country of enormous wealth butequally enormous inequality. Brazil FIlmFestival is a socially conscious event, asit is an initiative of the Brazil Foundationof Australia. Brazil Foundation of Australiais a not-for-pro t, non-governmentalorganization for international cooperation,headquartered in Australia.

The Foundation raises funds and developscampaigns to inform and mobilise investorsinterested in contributing to transformingsocial realities in Brazil. The Festival makesan annual contribution to social projects inBrazil from its proceeds, and features lmsportraying the social challenges the countryendures.



Environmental matters.Brazil exudes the most biodiverse ora inthe world, which is under heavy duressfrom deforestation for logging, pasture andmonoculture. Brazil Film Festival is sensitiveto Brazil’s environmental problems, andis determined in raising awareness of thepublic to these issues. The Festival is alsoa carbon neutral event and uses recycledmaterials in all its printing.



BRAZIL VISUAL.

Australia

• Sydney

• Melbourne

• Brisbane

• Perth

• Adelaide

New Zealand

• Auckland

• Queenstown• Wellington

USA

• Austin

• Houston

• New Orleans

BRAZIL FILM FESTIVAL IS A MEMBER OF THE BRAZIL VISUAL CIRCUIT OF

INDEPENDENT BRAZILIAN FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD. THE CIRCUIT

INCLUDES THE CITIES BELOW:

Portugal

• Lisbon

• Coimbra

• Porto

• Braga

• Faro

Belgium

• Brussels

Luxembourg



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