Led by “Bacurau,” directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, and Marco Bellocchio’s “The Traitor,” both playing Cannes competition, Brazil has five movies selected for this year’s Cannes, seven if including Acid, the best result in living memory. It also makes Brazil Cannes’ fourth-biggest national cinema presence, after France (46 productions), the U.S. (11) and Belgium (nine).
One more title can be partly chalked up to Brazil: Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse,” produced by Rodrigo Teixeira at Sao Paulo-based Rt Features, which, extraordinarily enough, also has “The Invisible Life” and “Port Authority” in Un Certain Regard.
Yet most of these selections came on April 18, the same day that Christian de Castro, head of Brazil’s all-powerful film-tv agency head Ancine, recommended staff to halt new and recently approved incentive awards, in a memorandum leaked to the press.
Ancine contributes some $300 million a year into Brazil’s film-tv industries.
The...
One more title can be partly chalked up to Brazil: Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse,” produced by Rodrigo Teixeira at Sao Paulo-based Rt Features, which, extraordinarily enough, also has “The Invisible Life” and “Port Authority” in Un Certain Regard.
Yet most of these selections came on April 18, the same day that Christian de Castro, head of Brazil’s all-powerful film-tv agency head Ancine, recommended staff to halt new and recently approved incentive awards, in a memorandum leaked to the press.
Ancine contributes some $300 million a year into Brazil’s film-tv industries.
The...
- 5/16/2019
- by John Hopewell and Marcelo Cajueiro
- Variety Film + TV
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