Brazil’s film industry hits Berlin with a new stride in its step, bringing 46 producers and 80-plus films and projects, according to promotional org Cinema do Brasil, led by chairman André Sturm and manager, Maria Marta.
It is also in the process of receiving part of Brazil’s Paulo Gustavo Law funding, which is pouring RS2.8 billion ($571.1 million) into Brazil’s audiovisual sector, from rich states such as São Paulo to small town video stores.
Meanwhile, Brazil’s box office is beginning to return to pre-covid levels, as regional industries fire up in its Northeast and South.
At Berlin, São Paulo City film-tv agency Spcine, which has worked closely with Cinema do Brasil in recent years, is participating in a slew of activities, including AfroBerlin, aimed at bolstering Brazilian-African cooperation, the EFM’s Co-Production Market and Toolbox, a program focusing on diversity and inclusion, says Luiz Toledo, Spcine director of investments and strategic partnerships.
It is also in the process of receiving part of Brazil’s Paulo Gustavo Law funding, which is pouring RS2.8 billion ($571.1 million) into Brazil’s audiovisual sector, from rich states such as São Paulo to small town video stores.
Meanwhile, Brazil’s box office is beginning to return to pre-covid levels, as regional industries fire up in its Northeast and South.
At Berlin, São Paulo City film-tv agency Spcine, which has worked closely with Cinema do Brasil in recent years, is participating in a slew of activities, including AfroBerlin, aimed at bolstering Brazilian-African cooperation, the EFM’s Co-Production Market and Toolbox, a program focusing on diversity and inclusion, says Luiz Toledo, Spcine director of investments and strategic partnerships.
- 2/16/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
In bigger picture terms, the major highlights of Ventana Sur were a masterclass by Cannes head Thierry Frémaux and an impromptu speech by San Sebastián director José Luis Rebordinos, heads of the most important film festivals in the world and Spanish-speaking world, supporting the continued existence of Incaa. There words came after Argentinian President elect Javier Milei had vowed on the campaign trail to shutter Argentina’s state-backed film-tv agency if voted into power.
In industry terms, never has Ventana Sur been this big, its final attendance numbers sky-rocketing to 4,300, some 30% up on 2022, beyond even the wildest expectations of organizers, Cannes Marché du Film and the Incaa.
Put that down in part to new sections – Shoot the Book, Fantasmática, and Show Shorts – and enlargement of other sections, such as El Principio del Film and Solo Series. Latin America seems to have a bottomless well of new talent. The biggest reason,...
In industry terms, never has Ventana Sur been this big, its final attendance numbers sky-rocketing to 4,300, some 30% up on 2022, beyond even the wildest expectations of organizers, Cannes Marché du Film and the Incaa.
Put that down in part to new sections – Shoot the Book, Fantasmática, and Show Shorts – and enlargement of other sections, such as El Principio del Film and Solo Series. Latin America seems to have a bottomless well of new talent. The biggest reason,...
- 12/3/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based Urban Sales has swooped on international sales rights to Brazilian writer-director Carolina Markowicz’s awaited debut feature film “Charcoal” (“Carvão”), which is set for its world premiere at at Toronto’s prestigious Platform showcase before heading to San Sebastian for a Europe bow as part of its just-revealed Horizontes Latinos lineup.
Urban Sales has also shared with Variety a first look still from the film.
Distribution in Brazil is handled by Pandora Filmes, founded by André Sturm, which launched the country’s first classic film streaming platform Belas Artes in 2019, bringing big-name, cult, and regional classics to audiences nationwide.
Markowicz has written and directed six short films that have been selected by 400 festivals including Locarno, SXSW, Toronto and AFI. Her short film,“The Orphan,” a gritty tale about a young queer boy who tries to navigate his most recent adoption after being placed with a well-off conservative family, premiered...
Urban Sales has also shared with Variety a first look still from the film.
Distribution in Brazil is handled by Pandora Filmes, founded by André Sturm, which launched the country’s first classic film streaming platform Belas Artes in 2019, bringing big-name, cult, and regional classics to audiences nationwide.
Markowicz has written and directed six short films that have been selected by 400 festivals including Locarno, SXSW, Toronto and AFI. Her short film,“The Orphan,” a gritty tale about a young queer boy who tries to navigate his most recent adoption after being placed with a well-off conservative family, premiered...
- 8/11/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s deft three-story reflection on chance, the legacy of love and the contrariness of erotic desire, has clinched further key territory sales for its sales agent M-Appeal World Sales.
The new deal unveil comes as the feature has just been selected for this year’s Bafici festival in Argentina, one of the most important in Latin America.
Fast on the footsteps of clinching the top Berlinale 2021 Silver Bear in March 5’s Berlin prize announcement, “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” this week closed Spain with Enrique González-Kuhn’s Caramel Films, Brazil, with the Belas Artes Group, China with Jetsen Huashi Wangju (Changzhou) Cultural Media Co, and Hong Kong, for theatrical distribution, with Edko Films.
The deals add to strong first sales to France (Diaphana), Korea (GreenNarae Media), Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Taiwan (Andrews Films), Benelux (September Film) and StraDa Films (Greece).
Spain,...
The new deal unveil comes as the feature has just been selected for this year’s Bafici festival in Argentina, one of the most important in Latin America.
Fast on the footsteps of clinching the top Berlinale 2021 Silver Bear in March 5’s Berlin prize announcement, “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” this week closed Spain with Enrique González-Kuhn’s Caramel Films, Brazil, with the Belas Artes Group, China with Jetsen Huashi Wangju (Changzhou) Cultural Media Co, and Hong Kong, for theatrical distribution, with Edko Films.
The deals add to strong first sales to France (Diaphana), Korea (GreenNarae Media), Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Taiwan (Andrews Films), Benelux (September Film) and StraDa Films (Greece).
Spain,...
- 3/11/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In 2018, just 4% of funding applications for Brazil’s Fundo Sectorial do Audiovisual came from black filmmakers. This year, the two biggest Brazilian movies at Berlin, competition entry “All the Dead Ones” and Panorama player “Shine Your Eyes,” throw sharp focus on Brazil’s majority black community.
That’s no coincidence. Brazil has an extraordinary 13 features in major Berlinale sections, 19 films overall, an all-time record making it Berlin’s fourth-largest national presence following Germany, France and the U.S.
Explanations cut several ways. For Brazil, this year’s Berlinale presence marks a long-term revolution. Last century, Brazil remained largely turned in on itself, cut off from the rest of Latin America by its Portuguese language and own massive market.
Cinema was the same. “At the turn of the century, very few filmmakers — Caca Diegues, Walter Salles, Fernando Meirelles — looked to secure festival berths,” recalls André Sturm, who launched Brazilian export board...
That’s no coincidence. Brazil has an extraordinary 13 features in major Berlinale sections, 19 films overall, an all-time record making it Berlin’s fourth-largest national presence following Germany, France and the U.S.
Explanations cut several ways. For Brazil, this year’s Berlinale presence marks a long-term revolution. Last century, Brazil remained largely turned in on itself, cut off from the rest of Latin America by its Portuguese language and own massive market.
Cinema was the same. “At the turn of the century, very few filmmakers — Caca Diegues, Walter Salles, Fernando Meirelles — looked to secure festival berths,” recalls André Sturm, who launched Brazilian export board...
- 2/21/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
A new apocalypse now haunts Brazilian cinema. It’s one in a string of such upheavals over the past year including an envisaged 43% cut to the 2020 budget of Ancine, Brazil’s huge film-tv agency and motor of movie funding, which is already grinding almost to a halt.
Producers are still waiting to receive approved incentives.
“There are several producers, including ourselves, who have projects that won support from the [Pernambuco] regional fund in 2017 and 2018, but never received it,” says Desvia producer Rachel Daisy Ellis (“Divine Love”).
Independent productions are being strangled by the freeze. “It’s bleeding cinema, it’s bleeding culture. There is a sense of doom, an anemia regarding culture and cinema,” says Karim Aïnouz, director of “Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão.”
Now, Ancine is under threat of disappearing altogether.
On Feb. 19, a proposal will be voted on in congress that extinguishes existing public funds not ratified by the...
Producers are still waiting to receive approved incentives.
“There are several producers, including ourselves, who have projects that won support from the [Pernambuco] regional fund in 2017 and 2018, but never received it,” says Desvia producer Rachel Daisy Ellis (“Divine Love”).
Independent productions are being strangled by the freeze. “It’s bleeding cinema, it’s bleeding culture. There is a sense of doom, an anemia regarding culture and cinema,” says Karim Aïnouz, director of “Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão.”
Now, Ancine is under threat of disappearing altogether.
On Feb. 19, a proposal will be voted on in congress that extinguishes existing public funds not ratified by the...
- 2/21/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Another day, another streaming platform. As streaming giants the world over vie for international eyeballs — from Netflix to the upcoming Apple TV+ — one independent film distribution company in Brazil is looking to try something different.
Pandora Filmes, founded by filmmaker André Sturm in 1989 as Brazil’s first indie distributor of titles both foreign and domestic, as well as classic and contemporary arthouse movies, will launch Belas Artes on October 31, according to Variety. A first-of-its-kind for Brazil, the upcoming streaming platform will house classics from prominent directors, a la The Criterion Channel, plus cult favorites and recently released films. Though Pandora Filmes said that Belas Artes will focus on international films, the platform will serve as a home for Brazilian titles as well.
The announcement rises from a need, as identified by Pandora Filmes, for more international and independent films to be available for Brazilian audiences. Currently, Pandora operates the Petra...
Pandora Filmes, founded by filmmaker André Sturm in 1989 as Brazil’s first indie distributor of titles both foreign and domestic, as well as classic and contemporary arthouse movies, will launch Belas Artes on October 31, according to Variety. A first-of-its-kind for Brazil, the upcoming streaming platform will house classics from prominent directors, a la The Criterion Channel, plus cult favorites and recently released films. Though Pandora Filmes said that Belas Artes will focus on international films, the platform will serve as a home for Brazilian titles as well.
The announcement rises from a need, as identified by Pandora Filmes, for more international and independent films to be available for Brazilian audiences. Currently, Pandora operates the Petra...
- 10/17/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Brazilian distribution company Pandora Filmes was founded by André Sturm in 1989 as the country’s first independent distributor of foreign and domestic, classic and contemporary arthouse cinema.
Still pushing the envelope three decades later, Juliana Brito is representing the company at this year’s Lumiere Festival, looking for classic film titles to fill out the catalog of Brazil’s first-of-its-kind classic film streaming platform Belas Artes, which Pandora will launch on Oct. 31.
Over the past three decades the company has worked to grow independent film distribution in Brazil with re-releases of memorable classics as well as premiering award-winning contemporary international cinema.
“When I started Pandora 30 years ago, there were no independent distributors in the country,” Sturm told Variety. “So, we could screen a very limited number of ‘arthouse’ films. Films honored in Cannes, Berlin and other Festivals did not arrive.”
In 2003 Sturm teamed with O2 Filmes on a major renovation...
Still pushing the envelope three decades later, Juliana Brito is representing the company at this year’s Lumiere Festival, looking for classic film titles to fill out the catalog of Brazil’s first-of-its-kind classic film streaming platform Belas Artes, which Pandora will launch on Oct. 31.
Over the past three decades the company has worked to grow independent film distribution in Brazil with re-releases of memorable classics as well as premiering award-winning contemporary international cinema.
“When I started Pandora 30 years ago, there were no independent distributors in the country,” Sturm told Variety. “So, we could screen a very limited number of ‘arthouse’ films. Films honored in Cannes, Berlin and other Festivals did not arrive.”
In 2003 Sturm teamed with O2 Filmes on a major renovation...
- 10/17/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Brazilian promotional body will attend the Efm for the tenth consecutive year to talk up a slate of national films that includes Panorama selections Time Was Endless and Don’t Call Me Son.
Cinema do Brasil, which works with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency and has support from the audiovisual department of the Ministry Of Culture to champion home-grown fare, will be in Berlin representing a delegation of 32 companies.
Both Panorama entries will receive from Cinema do Brasil a $25,000 Sales Agent Support Award.
Don’t Call Me Son (Mae So Ha Uma, pictured) is Anna Muylaert’s follow-up to her widely admired 2015 Panorama winner and Brazilian foreign language Oscar submission The Second Mother.
The film premieres on Friday and tells of a teenage city boy who learns that the woman he thought was his mother is not his biological parent and goes on a search for his real family.
Time Was Endless...
Cinema do Brasil, which works with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency and has support from the audiovisual department of the Ministry Of Culture to champion home-grown fare, will be in Berlin representing a delegation of 32 companies.
Both Panorama entries will receive from Cinema do Brasil a $25,000 Sales Agent Support Award.
Don’t Call Me Son (Mae So Ha Uma, pictured) is Anna Muylaert’s follow-up to her widely admired 2015 Panorama winner and Brazilian foreign language Oscar submission The Second Mother.
The film premieres on Friday and tells of a teenage city boy who learns that the woman he thought was his mother is not his biological parent and goes on a search for his real family.
Time Was Endless...
- 2/9/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The support body attends Cannes this year promoting 31 companies as well as Cesar Augusto Acevedo’s Critics’ Week entry Land And Shade (La Tierra Y La Sombra) and João Paulo Miranda Maria’s short Command Action.
Cinema do Brasil – a partnership between the São Paulo’s Audiovisual Industry Guild and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency – will champion among other things the Pitching Training sessions.
South African producer and director Stefano Tealdi will lead the sessions on May 15 and presented similar sessions earlier this year through The Art Of Pitching workshop in Brazil.
Cinema do Brasil will promote two co-production meetings with Quebec and the Netherlands on May 17 and 18 and host a lunch on May 18 in partnership with the Ontario Media Development Corporation to honour six producers from Brazil and Canada.
Officers from Ancine, the National Cinema Agency Of Brazil, will issue a statement on co-productions with Latin American countries at a reception on May 18.
As...
Cinema do Brasil – a partnership between the São Paulo’s Audiovisual Industry Guild and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency – will champion among other things the Pitching Training sessions.
South African producer and director Stefano Tealdi will lead the sessions on May 15 and presented similar sessions earlier this year through The Art Of Pitching workshop in Brazil.
Cinema do Brasil will promote two co-production meetings with Quebec and the Netherlands on May 17 and 18 and host a lunch on May 18 in partnership with the Ontario Media Development Corporation to honour six producers from Brazil and Canada.
Officers from Ancine, the National Cinema Agency Of Brazil, will issue a statement on co-productions with Latin American countries at a reception on May 18.
As...
- 5/15/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Cinema do Brasil’s seventh International Distribution Support Prize has opened for applications at the Efm.
Eligible companies must have signed distribution agreements with Brazilian producers associated with the promotional body and submit international distribution plans.
Applicants must invest at least $25,000 – the amount of the award – in their distribution plans.
Cinema do Brasil is promoting six films in Berlin, five of which screen in official selection.
Festival entries include Drama Filmes’ Panorama opener Blue Blood by Lírio Ferreira and two other selections from that section: Bossa Nova Films’ Absence by Chico Teixeira and Gullane’s The Second Mother (pictured) from Anna Muylaert.
The roster includes Simio Filmes’ Forum selection Brazilian Dream by Marcelo Pedroso and Avante Filmes / FiGa’s Seashore by Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon.
The Pilgrim: Paulo Coelho’s Best History screens in the market.
“We are very happy to see the Brazilian cinema in one more relevant participation in a festival as important as the...
Eligible companies must have signed distribution agreements with Brazilian producers associated with the promotional body and submit international distribution plans.
Applicants must invest at least $25,000 – the amount of the award – in their distribution plans.
Cinema do Brasil is promoting six films in Berlin, five of which screen in official selection.
Festival entries include Drama Filmes’ Panorama opener Blue Blood by Lírio Ferreira and two other selections from that section: Bossa Nova Films’ Absence by Chico Teixeira and Gullane’s The Second Mother (pictured) from Anna Muylaert.
The roster includes Simio Filmes’ Forum selection Brazilian Dream by Marcelo Pedroso and Avante Filmes / FiGa’s Seashore by Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon.
The Pilgrim: Paulo Coelho’s Best History screens in the market.
“We are very happy to see the Brazilian cinema in one more relevant participation in a festival as important as the...
- 2/11/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Cinema do Brasil promoting several titles at the Rome Film Festival’s market.
Bring it Inside, It’s Very Nice Pra Xuxu and The Mountain are among the line-up of Brazilian films on offer at The Business Street during the Rome Film Festival.
Way, Act And The Wind, Duet and The Mystery Of Happiness round out the films that Cinema do Brasil is promoting at the event, which runs through October 21.
Brazil are Argentina are the subject of a spotlight during the market.
Brazilian films in official selection at the festival are Obra, When I Was Alive, Trash, Já Visto, Jamais Visto, Way, Act And The Wind and Jia Zhangke, Un Gars De Fenyang.
“The focus on Brazil is a great window for our films to the international industry, as well as a great opportunity to establish partnerships and showcase the quality of the Brazilian productions,” said André Sturm, CEO of Cinema do Brasil.
Bring it Inside, It’s Very Nice Pra Xuxu and The Mountain are among the line-up of Brazilian films on offer at The Business Street during the Rome Film Festival.
Way, Act And The Wind, Duet and The Mystery Of Happiness round out the films that Cinema do Brasil is promoting at the event, which runs through October 21.
Brazil are Argentina are the subject of a spotlight during the market.
Brazilian films in official selection at the festival are Obra, When I Was Alive, Trash, Já Visto, Jamais Visto, Way, Act And The Wind and Jia Zhangke, Un Gars De Fenyang.
“The focus on Brazil is a great window for our films to the international industry, as well as a great opportunity to establish partnerships and showcase the quality of the Brazilian productions,” said André Sturm, CEO of Cinema do Brasil.
- 10/20/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Cinema do Brasil is in town promoting two titles in the festival – Gregorio Graziosi’s Discovery entry Obra and Fernanda Salloum and Carolina Markowicz’s Short Cuts International selection Tatuapé Mahal Tower.
Superfilmes produced Obra (pictured) and FiGa/Br represents international sales, while Fulano Filmes produced Tatuapé Mahal Tower.
Representatives from Claraluz Filmes, FM Produções, Fulano Filmes, Mixer, Superfilmes, FiGa/Br, Rio Film Commission and the International Short Film Festival of São Paulo are attending Toronto.
Cinema do Brasil has the support of Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency Apex-Brasil and Brazilian National Film Agency Ancine.
“The [festival] is also a gateway into the North American market and presents an excellent opportunity to do business and meet potential partners, both in sales or co-productions,” said Cinema do Brasil CEO André Sturm.
Superfilmes produced Obra (pictured) and FiGa/Br represents international sales, while Fulano Filmes produced Tatuapé Mahal Tower.
Representatives from Claraluz Filmes, FM Produções, Fulano Filmes, Mixer, Superfilmes, FiGa/Br, Rio Film Commission and the International Short Film Festival of São Paulo are attending Toronto.
Cinema do Brasil has the support of Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency Apex-Brasil and Brazilian National Film Agency Ancine.
“The [festival] is also a gateway into the North American market and presents an excellent opportunity to do business and meet potential partners, both in sales or co-productions,” said Cinema do Brasil CEO André Sturm.
- 9/7/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Film-maker Kleber Mendoça, who won the Fipresci Prize at Rotterdam and Wroclaw’s New Horizons for his fiction feature debut Neighbouring Sounds in 2012, will be in Locarno next month as part of an almost 60-strong Brazilian delegation.
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
- 7/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Brazil’s promotional film body will showcase nine productions and a promo at the fifth Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires.
Brazil’s promotional film body will showcase nine productions and a promo at the fifth Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires.
The films taking part in this year’s edition include Thierry Ragobert, French-Brazilian Amazonia, Fernando Coimbra’s Rio Festival 2013 Redentor winner A Wolf At The Door, Hilton Lacerda’s Tattoo and The Boy And The World from Alê Abreu.
Cinema do Brasil’s line-up includes Caito Ortiz’s Freedom Station, Carlos Diegues’ Twenty, Lúcia Murat’s Memories They Told Me, Luis Otávio de Santi’s The Ship – A Trip With São Paulo Jazz Symphonic Orchestra and Joana Nin’s Captive Hearts.
“This event is a real opportunity to show the world the best productions of Latin American cinema,” said Cinema do Brasil CEO André Sturm.
Ventana Sur is set to run from December 3-6.
Brazil’s promotional film body will showcase nine productions and a promo at the fifth Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires.
The films taking part in this year’s edition include Thierry Ragobert, French-Brazilian Amazonia, Fernando Coimbra’s Rio Festival 2013 Redentor winner A Wolf At The Door, Hilton Lacerda’s Tattoo and The Boy And The World from Alê Abreu.
Cinema do Brasil’s line-up includes Caito Ortiz’s Freedom Station, Carlos Diegues’ Twenty, Lúcia Murat’s Memories They Told Me, Luis Otávio de Santi’s The Ship – A Trip With São Paulo Jazz Symphonic Orchestra and Joana Nin’s Captive Hearts.
“This event is a real opportunity to show the world the best productions of Latin American cinema,” said Cinema do Brasil CEO André Sturm.
Ventana Sur is set to run from December 3-6.
- 11/29/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Cinema do Brasil’s Distribution Award will grant up to $25,000 to 19 distributors from 18 countries to be invested in the launch of Brazilian films in their territories.
Brazil’s support body increased its allocation amount in 2013 to $290,000 to accommodate a larger number of proposals.
There were 37 in all and the winners are Jonathas’ Forest (Germany), Amazon (France), Bruna Surfer Girl (Slovenia-Croatia/Serbia-Bosnia-Montenegro-Kosovo), Buddies (Chile), Colors (France-Japan), Once Upon A Time Was I, Verônica (Poland), Reaching For The Moon (Germany-Austria-Switzerland), Today (Chile), My Sweet Orange Tree (France), The Moving Creatures (France), Who Cares (Germany), Southwest (Portugal), Tabu (Japan), Tropicália (Portugal) and Xingu (Us-Spain).
“The number of proposals from distributors submitted in the last two editions of the award – more than twice the number received in previous editions – demonstrates the significant increase in the interest on the distribution of Brazilian films by international companies, as well as a mature Brazilian production,” said Cinema do Brasil CEO André Sturm.
Amazon will represent...
Brazil’s support body increased its allocation amount in 2013 to $290,000 to accommodate a larger number of proposals.
There were 37 in all and the winners are Jonathas’ Forest (Germany), Amazon (France), Bruna Surfer Girl (Slovenia-Croatia/Serbia-Bosnia-Montenegro-Kosovo), Buddies (Chile), Colors (France-Japan), Once Upon A Time Was I, Verônica (Poland), Reaching For The Moon (Germany-Austria-Switzerland), Today (Chile), My Sweet Orange Tree (France), The Moving Creatures (France), Who Cares (Germany), Southwest (Portugal), Tabu (Japan), Tropicália (Portugal) and Xingu (Us-Spain).
“The number of proposals from distributors submitted in the last two editions of the award – more than twice the number received in previous editions – demonstrates the significant increase in the interest on the distribution of Brazilian films by international companies, as well as a mature Brazilian production,” said Cinema do Brasil CEO André Sturm.
Amazon will represent...
- 8/27/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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