Pitching Paradiso Looks to Brazil s North-East and Exciting Next Gen Filmmakers (EXCLUSIVE) yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Black Movie set to unspool in 100% digital form
DAU. Degeneration by Ilya Khrzhanovskiy and Ilya Permyakov
Faced, like countless other cultural events, with the restrictions that have been introduced as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Geneva’s Black Movie Independent Film Festival (22-31 January) has decided to shed its skin without, however, losing a shred of the irreverent spirit we so closely associate with it. Indeed, for its 22
nd edition Black Movie intends to make its full film programme available online for the public, as well as meetings with directors (pre-recorded) and round tables.
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‘Macunaima,’ from ‘Alligator Girl!’ Director Felipe Braganca, Enrolls Zahy Guajajara, Denilson Baniwa (EXCLUSIVE) Variety 1/8/2021
Brazilian writer-director Felipe Bragança, whose “Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl!” played Sundance and Berlin in 2017, has enrolled a team of cutting edge Brazilian indigenous artists to realize movie “Macunaima,” his contemporary reimagining of one of the most important novels in Brazilian literature.
Zahy Guajajara, a poet, actress (“The Brothers”), who formed part of the motorbike gang in “Alligator!,” and indigenous activist, has boarded “Macunaima” as a script collaborator, and the movie’s co-director. Denilson Baniwa, a visual artist and another indigenous activist, will serve as a visual consultant and collaborator.