All articles by Elaine Guerini – Page 7
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Production - Films and talent - Brazil's balancing act
Brazil's new generation of directors and producers are faced with a difficult challenge: how to combine arthouse sensibility with a desire for international recognition.Since most Brazilian productions are funded by the territory's tax shelter system - which means they can fully fund their films by offering tax breaks to private ...
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Elite Squad to open Rio International Film Festival
Rio International Film Festival (Sept 20 - Oct 4) will open with the highly anticipated Jose Padilha's Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite).It will give an explosive start to an event which will screen more than 300 films from 70 countries over 35 venues, including outdoor screenings on he famous Copacabana ...
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Brazilian admissions steady but ticket price rise boosts sales 4%
Brazilian cinema admissions in the first six months of 2007 matched the figures for the same period last year, with attendance up only 0.15%. Box-office sales, however, rose 4% thanks to increase in ticket prices. According to Filme B, a local film company that reviews theatrical market numbers, Brazil's total ...
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Palme d'Or winner: Anselmo Duarte
The 87-year-old Anselmo Duarte is the only Brazilian who has picked up the top prize at Cannes with The Given Word in 1962, when the unknown director nabbed the prize from under the noses of Michelangelo Antonioni (The Eclipse), Robert Bresson (The Trial Of Joan Of Arc) and Luis Bunuel ...
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Stray Dog takes best film at Cine PE - Festival do Audiovisual
Stray Dog (Cao Sem Dono) is the big winner of Cine PE - Festival do Audiovisual, one of the most important and prestigious Brazilian film festivals. The event, basedin Recife (the sunny Northeast of the country), awarded as best film the drama about a guy in the middle of an ...
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Latin American locations: Brazil
Despite its beautiful scenery and cheap costs, Brazil's violent image has hampered it in attracting international productions. This is something the newly created Brazilian Film Commissions Association (Abrafic) hopes to rectify.Set up last November and made up of 13 regional commissions, the organisation has been developing a strategic plan to ...
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Brazil - The away game
Brazilian film-maker Cao Hamburger first began to think about The Year My Parents Went On Vacation, which just played in Competition at Berlin, while living in London in 2001."All the cab drivers I spoke to knew by heart the Brazilian soccer team that won the World Cup in 1970," says ...
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Brazil's 2006 box office figures released
According to figures released by Filme B (a local film company that reviews theatrical market numbers), despitefalling viewing trendsbox office sales were up 3.2%, reaching R$694.9m ($324.6m) as a result of an increase in ticket prices (up 7% from the previous year). Brazil's cinema attendance dropped an estimated 3% in ...
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Brazil announces new tax break for local TV, change to screen quotas
Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has sanctioned a law that creates a new fund for local films and makes adjustments to the country's existing Audiovisual Law.The new law gives TV stations a tax break previously only available to foreign film distributors based in Brazil. The Audiovisual law now ...
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Brazil to discuss creating film commission
The 39th BrasiliaFilm Festival which opened yesterday and runs through Nov 28,will host a seminar about film locations in Brazil. The seminar will be an open forum for discussionsthat revolve the future of the regional film commissions and the possible creationof a Brazilian Film Commission to foster local film production.At ...
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Sao Paulo boasts best of Brazil alongside wide world programme
The 30thedition Sao Paulo International Film Festival (Oct 19 - Nov 2)is to screen more than 360 films from more than 50 countries. The event willopen with the documentary The US vs John Lennon, by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, andclose with the restored version of Macuna'ma (1969), by Joaquim ...
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US to remake Brazil hit If I Were You
USA'sClifford Werber Productions and Brazil'sTotal Entertainment will produce the English language remake of the romanticcomedy If I Were You (Se Eu FosseVocê), the most successful Brazilian film of the year. Produced by Total, inassociation with Lereby, Fox Film do Brasil and Globo Filmes (the film arm ofleading Brazilian broadcaster Globo ...
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Sao Paulo to host new film market Aug 23-25
Anewly created film market in Sao Paulo has been set up to boost thebusiness of Brazilian audiovisual industry. The numbers are still very modestwhen compared to the largest American and European film markets but the first InternationalFair of the Cinema and Audiovisual Industry (FIICAV) expects its 150 exhibitorsto attract 15,000 ...
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Brazil box-office up 12% during first half of 2006
Brazil's box office sales totaled $154.4m (Brazilian Real 340.8m) in the first six months of 2006, registering a 12.1% increase over the same period last year, according to figures released by Filme B, a local film company that reviews theatrical market numbers. The average ticket price reached $3.51 (BRL 7.73), ...
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Brazilian cinema launches new promotional arm in Cannes
Brazilian cinemawill have a stronger presence this year at Cannes film market. Besides GrupoNovo de Cinema e TV, the production, distribution and sales company thattraditionally represents the country at Marche du Film, the largest worldwidemeeting-place for film business was chosen for the first promotional action of ProgramaCinema do Brasil.This program ...
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Brazil to keep the same screen quota system from 2005
The Brazilian National Cinema Agency(Ancine), an organ of the Ministry of Culture, will keep the screen quotasystem in place to protect local production against Hollywood hegemony in 2006.The system will ensure that a local film theatre with one single screen showsBrazilian movies for at least 35 days of the year ...
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Brazil's box-office takings drop by 17.5%
Brazil's box office dropped an estimated 17.5 % in 2005,according to figures released by the local film distributors' union. Thecountry's sales amounted approximately $278.9m (R$ 633m), signaling the end of six years of market growth, pushed partially by the expansion of the exhibitionsector that today totals about 2,000 screens as ...
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Two Sons breaks Brazilian box office records
BrenoSilveira's Two Sons of Francisco has overtaken Carandiru tobecome the highest grossing Brazilian film in its home territory in the last 20years. Thebiopic about country music duo Zeze Di Camargo &Luciano has sold 4.8m admissions and grossed $10.6m (R$34m) since itsdebut on August 19, according to local distributor Columbia TriStar. ...
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Good Night to open, Potemkin to close Sao Paolo
The 29th annualSao Paulo International Film Festival will kick off on Oct 21 with GeorgeClooney's Good Night, And Good Luckand close with the restored version of The Battleship Potemkin accompanied by the local Jazz Symphonic Orchestra onNov 3.Some 350 films from morethan 50 countries will screen at the event which ...
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City, Aspirins win top Rio prizes
Sergio Machado's CidadeBaixa (Lower City) won the best fiction feature prize at the RioIntrernational Film Festival and Marcelo Gomes' Cinema, Aspirinas E Urubus (Cinema, Aspirins And Vultures) took home the festival's second, the special jury prizeat the festival's closing ceremony tonight (Thursday). The awards were handed outthe Odeon BR theatre, ...