Rio Film Festival
‘Neon Bull’ Sweeps Rio Film Festival Awards
Gabriel Mascaro's tale of rural Brazil took home 5 Redentors, including best film and screenplay.
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‘Future June’ (‘Futuro Junho’): Yamagata Review
Maria Augusta Ramos relegates football to the background with a documentary charting the travails of Brazil’s surging middle class in the run-up to the World Cup soccer competition in 2014.
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‘The Absent’ (‘Los Ausentes’): Morelia Review
The latest of Mexican avant-garde director Nicolas Pereda ("Summer of Goliath", "Greatest Hits") is set in Oaxaca and involves an old man being forced out of his home
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Rio Film Fest: ‘Blue Blood’ Tops Premiere Brazil Competition
Lírio Ferreira's film picked up three Redentor awards; 'Point Blank,' 'Absence' and 'Obra' followed with two each
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Rio Film Fest: ‘Xenia’ Wins Rio’s First LGBT Prize
Panos H. Koutras’ film topped the new Felix Awards
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Rio Film Fest: Latin American Producers Discuss Ways to Boost Business For Local Films
“We need to start thinking beyond our borders"
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Rio Film Fest: City Pours New Funds Into Audiovisual Industry
Rio's investment agency RioFilme announced five new incentives at RioMarket.
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Rio Film Fest: MPA Study Calls for New Policies for Brazil’s Film Industry
Figures show big potential interrupted by tax exemptions, piracy and theater shortage, among other problems
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Rio de Janeiro: RioMarket Brings Hollywood Professionals to Talk Business
The biggest meeting of the LatAm audiovisual industry kicked off Wednesday with a conference by 'The Walking Dead' executive producer Gale Anne Hurd
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Rio Film Fest to Honor Mexican Cinema and Offer New LGBT Prize
‘Salt of the Earth’ will be the 16th edition's Opening Film
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The Life After (La vida despues): Morelia Review
Mexican director David Pablos casts Maria Renee Prudencio as a distraught mother and Americo Hollander and Rodrigo Azuela as her teenage sons.
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‘City of God –- 10 Years Later’ Co-Director on Where the Stars of the Brazilian Hit Are Today (Q&A)
Co-director Luciano Vidigal tells THR his documentary explores the artistic impact of the film and also revisits the actors, some of whom are struggling to make ends meet: "I was sad, but I thought that people needed to see that."
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