All articles by Elaine Guerini – Page 8
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Brazilian outfits forge Euro co-production on samba doc
ThreeBrazilian production outfits - Total Filmes, Buriti Filmes and Boca a Boca -have sealed a co-production deal with Gloria Films of France and Fado Filmes ofPortugal to produce music documentary Os Guardioes Do Samba (Guardians OfSamba). Thedeal was signed during the Rio Film Festival which ends on Friday with a ...
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Two Sons strikes a chord at Brazilian box office
Two Sons Of Francisco, a biopic about Brazilian country music duo Zeze DiCamargo & Luciano, has become the highest-grossing Brazilian film of theyear in its home territory. The film has topped thecharts for six weeks straight, grossing just over $10m (R$22.7m) since itsdebut on August 19, according to local distributor ...
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Rio festival expands market activities
The Rio Film Festival (Sept 22 -Oct 6) is expanding itsmarket activities and has now declared itself the largest industry gathering inLatin America. Some 900 film and TV distributors, producers, exhibitors,trade groups, festival programmers and film commissioners from around the worldhave registered to attend the event. More than 200 projects ...
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Brazilian admissions plunge in first half of 2005
Cinema admissions in Brazildropped 26% in the first six months of 2005, according to figures released byFilme B, a local film company specialised in compiling theatrical statistics. The total number of ticketssold fell to 41.7 million compared to 56.3 million in the same period lastyear.Total sales amounted to$125m (R$304.1m), a ...