Nossa Coluna Social preparou um super material e entrevista para essa semana!!
Está faltando menos de uma semana para mais uma edição do HBRF,o Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival que acontece aqui em Los Angeles no Egyption theatre do dia 1 à 5 de Junho.
Todo ano o festival é um sucesso, atinge suas metas que e' trazer um publico novo, diversificado para prestigiar os filmes e talentos Brasileiros.O proposito é sempre o mesmo, divulgar o a nossa cultura, o nosso cinema para aqueles que não conhecem e reforçar os que conhecem!
O HBRF trará muitas surpresas para sua terceira edição, esse ano tem um gostinho todo especial.Ninguem melhor do que a Talize Sayegh, fundadora e produtora executiva do festival para dar mais detalhes e informações do que será o evento este ano.
Lembramos que o festival está a procura de volutários para trabalhar nos 5 dias do evento. Por favor entrar em contato com a Heidy Han para mandar sua application:
Email: han.heidy@hbrfest.com!
Entrevista Exclusiva com Talize Sayegh:
Giselle Claudino: Talize, primeiramente gostaria de saber se está excited para mais um ano de festival?
Talize Sayegh: Sim ,sempre um grande prazer e felicidade está fazendo o HBRFEST.
Giselle Claudino: Conversando com você descobri que para que esse festival aconteça com sucesso todo ano e' preciso muitos meses de preparação, de trabalho intenso seu, acordando no meio da madrugada para falar com o Brasil e negociar detalhes do festival. Pode dividir com a gente um pouco dessa preparação?
Talize Sayegh: E' tudo o que voce falou acima e um pouco mais. Realmente para se fazer um festival ou qualquer outro evento tem que ter muita dedição e o mais importante, amor pelo o que faz,principalmente amor pelo seu país, pois a intenção do Hollywood Brazilian Film Fesival e' abrir as portas da cidade de Hollywood para que nossos filmmakers Brasileiros possam entrar!
Giselle Claudino: Na sua opinião, qual a intenção principal do festival todo ano?
Talize Sayegh: Fazer nosso cinema brasileiro ser realmente reconhecido na terra do cinema mundial. Mostrar que Brasil tem great cineastras, maravilhosos escritores e grandes talentos. Mostrar que e' fascinate a historia do nosso cinema.
Giselle Claudino: Bom, estou sabendo que esse ano o festival traz algumas surpresas bem legais, uma delas é que o publico poderá assistir selected films for free. Qual a ideia dessa sua iniciativa?
Talize Sayegh: A nossa iniciativa foi devido a economia, queremos que o publico não se preocupe com dinheiro e que possa desfrutar deste maravilhoso cinema brasileiro.Gostaria que o público conheça de verdade o que e' o cinema independente do nosso país e aprender a amar esta cultura tão fascinante.
Giselle Claudino: Tem mais surpresas que devemos esperar para o HBRF este ano?Quem está vindo do Brasil este ano??
Talize Sayegh: Sim temos supresas, mas não posso contar senão não é supresa. Temos confirmados a presença da belíssima e super talentosa atriz Mariana Ximendes, e outros que nao posso anunciar agora.As surpresas serão todas reveladas no RED Carpet dia 1 de Junho.Ainda da tempo de comprar o ingresso e comparecer. Vai ser realmente muito bom ver estes artitas apoiando HBRFEST. Para finalizar, queremos que o Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival seja a vitrine para o cinema Brasileiro. Queremos contar com o apoio de nossa comunidade, pois sem este apoio não temos forças para continuar. Amamos nosso Brazil que 'e um sucesso.É isso ai pessoal!
3rd Annual Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival, um festival de cinema Brasileiro pra você!
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| Max Fercondini, Talize Sayegh, Reynaldo Gianecchini e Rodrigo Santoro - HBFFEST 2010 |
Wednesday 6/1 – 8 PM – Opening Night
Official Competition – Narrative Features
Riscado (Craft) – Opening Film
Brazil 2010, 85’, HD/16mm
West Coast Premiere
Director Gustavo Pizzi and Actress Karine Teles in attendance.
With the expressiveness of a golden-age Hollywood star, Karine Teles gives a tour-de-force performance as a talented actress who struggles through life with small, humiliating jobs to make ends meet, until she gets what may be her big break. Director Gustavo Pizzi, who co-wrote the script with Teles (his real-life wife), says that RISCADO (Craft) is a film about “searching for the sky that is melting outside while we aresweeping the floor.” Pizzi portrays the cruelty of the competitive world in which we live, and heightens the drama not by resorting to exaggerated scenarios, but by picking the
perfect protagonist: an actress. Acting from deep within, Teles beautifully portrays the life of someone who must contain her constant fear of time’s passing, her insecurity that a mastery of her own craft may not be enough, and the gnawing feeling that each day of auditions and casting calls becomes another day lost in the struggle for success.
Directed by Gustavo Pizzi
Produced by Cavi Borges, Gustavo Pizzi, Daniela Santos
Screenplay: Gustavo Pizzi, Karine Teles
Cinematography: Paulo F. Camacho
Editor: Gustavo Pizzi
Sound: Felipe Mussel
Music: Lucas Vasconcellos
Cast: Karine Teles, Camilo Pellegrini, Dany Roland, Otavio Muller
Festivals & Awards:
Best Actress – 2010 Rio Int’l Film Festival
SXSW, Cartagena, Guadalajara, Houston, Jerusalem, MoMA NY
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/user/figafilms#p/a/u/1/KTByxrQJubs
Official Competition – Short Films
Recife Frio (Cold Tropics)
Brazil 2010, 24’, 35mm - in Portuguese, Spanish, English
Director Kleber Mendonça Filho in attendance.
An unusual climate change turns Recife, in tropical northeastern Brazil, into a cold and damp environment. A foreign TV documentary examines the effects this change has brought upon a culture that has always lived under the bright sun.
Directed by Kleber Mendonça
FilhoProduced by Emilie Lesclaux
Screenplay: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cinematography: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Pedro Sotero
Editor: Emilie Lesclaux, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cast: Andrés Schaffer, Jr. Black, Lia de Itamaraca, Rodrigo Rizla,
Festivals & Awards:
Best Film – Rio Int’l Shorts Film Festival
IndieLisboa, Clermont-Ferrand
Thursday 6/2 – 7PM
A Fuga da Mulher Gorila (The Escape of the Gorilla Woman)
Brazil 2009, 82’, HD
US Premiere
Co-director Felipe Bragança in attendance - part 1 trilogy
This musical road movie tells the story of two sisters (played by Flora Dias and Morena Catonni) who decide to embark on a journey through the state of Rio de Janeiro in an old kombi van. Along the way, they offer a lift to an actor (Alberto Moura Jr) who also wants to visit the state, and together, the trio organizes a spectacular show in which one of them transforms into a gorilla and threatens the audience.
Directed by Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande
Produced by Duas Mariola, Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande
Screenplay: Felipe Bragança
Cinematography: Andrea Capella
Editor: Marina Meliande
Sound: Marina Meliande
Cast: Flora Dias, Morena Cattoni, Alberto Moura Jr., Pedro Freire
Festivals & Awards:
Best Film - 2009 Tiradentes Film Festival
Locarno, Mexico City, Manilla
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaZcquyLPWY
A Distração de Ivan (Ivan’s Distraction)
Brazil 2010, 17’, HD
Producer Gustavo Pizzi in attendance
Ivan is an eleven-year-old boy. He lives with his grandmother in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Amidst his everyday tricks and squabbles with friends, he will mature.
Directed by Cavi Borges, Gustavo Melo
Produced by Gustavo Pizzi
Screenplay: Gustavo Melo
Cinematography: Paulo Castiglioni
Editor: Fernanda Teixeira
Cast: Rodrigo da Costa, Luciano Vidigal, Mirian Pérsia
Festival: 2010 Cannes – Semaine de la Critique
Thursday 6/2 – 9 PM - Hors Concours
A Alegria (The Joy)
Brazil 2010, 100’, 35mm
Los Angeles Premiere
Co-director Felipe Bragança in attendance - part 2 trilogy
THE JOY is a fairy tale about youth and courage. THE JOY tells the story of 16-year- old Luiza, who is tired of hearing about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin João is shot in a poor neighborhood and disappears in the middle of the night.
A few weeks later, while alone in her apartment in a middle class neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Luiza finds a mysterious guest waiting for her in the living room: João, as a ghost, asking her to be hidden there.
Directed by Felipe Bragança & Marina Meliande
Produced by Duas Mariola Filmes, Arissas Multimedia & RT/Features
Executive Producer: Lara Frigotto
Screenplay: Felipe Bragança
Cinematography: Andrea Capella
Editor: Marina Meliande
Music: Lucas Marcier
Cast: Tainá Medina, Junior Moura, Flora Dias, Rikle Miranda
Festivals & Awards:
2010 Cannes – Directors’ Fortnight
Brasilia, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Toulouse, Prague
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9YJCcYi2mQ
O Divino, De Repente (Divino Freestyles)
Brazil 2010, 6’, 35mm
Ubiraci Crispim de Freitas, a real character aka Divino, sings 'repente' songs and tells us about his life. An unusual documentary with animated subtitles. DIVINO FREESTYLES is a short-film produced with handmade animation techniques: flipbook, cartoon, rotoscope, pixilation and stop motion - plus live-action scenes shot in Super 16.
Directed by Fábio Yamaji
Produced by Ana Luiza Pereira
Screenplay: Fábio Yamaji
Cast: Ubiraci Crispim de Freitas (Divino)
Festivals: Guanajuato, Tempere, Sao Paulo
Friday 6/3 – 5 PM
Desassossego (Never Quiet - film of wonders)
Brazil 2011, 63’, HD
North America Premiere
Co-director Felipe Bragança in attendance - part 3 trilogy
The project was an initiative of the directing duo Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande, who sent a ‘letter of concern’ to inspire the participants. In it, a 16-year-old girl wrote about her dreams, which have been translated by the directors into films about love, youth and the possibilities of cinema. The final result is a frenzied crossover of styles filmed in Super-8, VHS, HD and mini-DV. Pure poetry, a joy to see and balsam for the soul. NEVERQUIET is the final part of the trilogy Hearts on Fire by Bragança and Meliande, of which all three parts, The The Escape of the Gorilla Woman and The Joy, can also be seen for the fisrt time in one event at this year’s Festival.
Directed by Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande, Karim Aïnouz, Ivo Lopes Araujo,
Gustavo Bragança, Helvécio Marins Jr., Clarissa Campolina, Caetano Gotardo Soares,
Raphael Mesquita, Leonardo Levis, Carolina Durão, Andrea Capella, Marco Dutra &
Juliana Rojas.
Produced by Duas Mariola
Associated Producers: Arissas Multimidia, Teia, Blum Filmes, Dependent Films,
Alumbramento Filmes and Filmes do Caixote.
Festival: Rotterdam, Janela - Recife
Chantal Akerman de Cá (Chantal Akerman from Here)
Brazil/Belgium 2010, 61’, HD - in English & French
North America Premiere
This documentary features an English spoken, uncut interview with the prestigious Belgian director. We hear Akerman’s reflections on her own work and method – especially Hotel Monterey (1972) and Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080
Bruxelles (1975)–, as well as the influence of directors such as Jonas Mekas and Michael Snow, her relation with Proust’s novel (which she adapted in La Captive in 2000), and her failed attempt to venture into a more commercial filmmaking; all that in 60 minutes It is clear –right from the framing, which is a wink to the interviewee’s style, to the previous work on the questions– that directors Gustavo Beck and Leonardo Ferreira both have a genuine interest in the life and work of Akerman; who, even if she does not always satisfy the curiosity of her interviewers, shows herself in her idiosyncrasy, whether that means lighting a cigarette in a non-smoking building, or assessing the errors and successes of her filmography.
Directed by Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Luiz Ferreira
Produced by Filmes do Beck, Enquadramento produções
Cinematography: João Atala
Editing: André Mielnik
Sound: Fernando Henna, Rafael Benvenuti
Festivals:
Bafici, FIDMarseille, Viennale
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B6vz8vODtw
Friday 6/3 – 7:30 PM
Estrada para Ythaca (Road to Ythaca)
Brazil 2010, 70’, HD
North America Premiere
Co-director Guto Parente in attendance
Four friends –played by the four directors– have recently lost a fifth one. After a night of heavy drinking, they decide to travel to the mythical Ithaca. They don’t seem to be looking for a real place, but rather for something that has been with them since the beginning of the film, something that involves friendship or, more precisely, the spirit of those lines by Kavafis which open and close the film: “As you set out for Ithaca you should hope for your road to be a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery / Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon - don’t be afraid of them: / you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body”. And that’s the spirit that is –luckily– discovered in the film’s form, which deliberately escapes from the parameters of a finished piece, emphasizing the erratic as an aesthetic plan.
Directed, Written, Edited, Photographed, and Produced by
Guto Parente, Luiz Pretti, Pedro Diógenes, Ricardo Pretti
With: Guto Parente, Luiz Pretti, Pedro Diógenes, Ricardo Pretti
Festivals & Awards:
Best Film - 2010 Tiradentes Film Festival
Bafici, Viennale, Barcelona, Tallinn Black Nights
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNT2Eahz-Ys
Fantasmas (Ghosts)
Brazil 2010, 11’, HD
Director André Novais Oliveira in attendance
His ex-girlfriend’s ghost.
Directed by André Novais Oliveira
Produced by Filme de Plástico
Screenplay: André Novais Oliveira
Cinematography: Gabriel Martins
Editor: Gabriel Martins
Cast: Gabriel Martins, Maurílio Martins
Festivals & Awards:
Best Short – Janela, Recife
Curta Cinema, Rio.
Friday 6/3 – 9 PM
Por El Camino (Beyond the Road)
Brazil/Uruguay 2010, 85’, 35mm - in Spanish, English, French
North American Premiere
Director Charly Braun and Actor Esteban Feune de Colombi in attendance
Santiago, a 30 year old Argentinean, travels to Uruguay searching for a piece of land inherited from his parents, who were tragically killed in an accident a few years earlier. On his arrival in Montevideo he, by chance, meets Juliette, a young Belgian that came to Uruguay searching for an old love. He offers her a ride, and on the way they develop a relationship of growing affect. When they arrive in Punta del Este, however, Santiago’s universe stands between them.
Directed by Charly Braun
Produced by Charly Braun
Screenplay: Charly Braun
Cinematography: Pablo Ramos, Bruno Alzaga
Editor: Charly Braun, Fernando Coster
Cast: Esteban Feune de Colombi, Jill Mulleady, Naomi Campbell
Festivals & Awards:
Best Director - 2010 Rio Int’l Film Festival
Sao Paulo, Seattle, Jerusalem
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYo0WhtpwVs
Contagem
Braszil 2010, 18’, HD
Directors Gabriel Martins and Maurilio Martins in attendance
A happening, four people and the city of Contagem.
Directed by Gabriel Martins e Maurílio Martins
Produced by Gabriel Martins e Maurílio Martins
Screenplay: Gabriel Martins e Maurílio Martins
Cinematography: Diogo Lisboa
Editor: Gabriel Martins e Maurílio Martins
Cast: Kelly Crifer, Leo Pyrata, Bárbara Colen, Osman Rocha Alcântara
Awards: Best Short – Brasilia
Saturday 6/4- 2:30pm
Vida Sobre Rodas (Life on Wheels)
Brazil 2010, 109’, HD
Director Daniel Baccaro
São Paulo, mid eighties. A bunch of kids share a shed with some of the first professional skateboarders of Brazil. Ultra Skate, the biggest and most challenging vert ramp in the country, was built by Mr. Nelson Mateus out of love for his son.
Among the kids, the ramps’ owner Cristiano Mateus, who made sure to keep the door open so that skateboarders from different areas could came and ride on his ramp. Bob Burnquist was only two blocks away from calling Ultra his second home. Sandro Dias, at the age of thirteen, use to leave São Bernardo do Campo, a distant neighborhood, to challenge the dangerous ramp. And Lincoln Ueda, the man to beat at the time, use to leave Polato, his local cement ramp, to have a few “wood sessions” with the guys.
The film VIDA SOBRE RODAS features testimonials from skateboarding legends, including Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi, to narrate the last decades of the sport in Brazil, its dizzying growth, and technical development, through the eyes of those who were part of this revolution. More than a record about skateboarding or skateboarders, the documentary tells stories of overcoming, courage, friendship, and determination of young people who believed in a dream and accomplished the impossible.
Director: Daniel Baccaro
Producers: Daniel Baccaro, Guilherme Keller and Jean Paulo Lasmar
Executive Producer: Jean Paulo Lasmar
Associate Producers: Alberto Lopes and Jamie Mosberg
Original Story: Daniel Baccaro
Screenplay: Guilherme Keller
Research: Renato Barcellos
Production Director: Márcio Leal
Director of Photography: Pierre de Kerchove
Art Director: Daniel Pommella and Mateus de Paula
Original Music: Daniel Ganjaman and Mauricio Takara
Editing: Willem Dias
Cast: Bob Burnquist, Christian Hosoi, Cristiano Mateus, Danny Way, Lincoln Ueda, Sandro Dias and Tony Hawk
Co-Production: Miravista
Distribution: Buena Vista International
Production: Goma Filmes
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfhMR6SdhcI
Saturday 6/4 – 5 PM
Reflexões de Um Liquidificador (Reflections of a Blender)
Brazil 2010, 82’, HD
Los Angeles Premiere
This hilarious dark comedy examines a different kind of relationship- one between a woman and her talking blender. Elvira is in search of her missing husband and finds comfort and guidance in her appliance. The blender narrates the story, weaving between the current investigation and stories of Elvira with her husband told in flashbacks. Suddenly they work together to solve the case and find out what really happened to her husband.
Directed by André Klotzel
Produced by André Klotzel
Screenplay: José Antônio De Souza
Cinematography: Uli Burtin
Editor: Leticia Giffoni
Cast: Ana Lucia Torre, Fabiula Nascimento, Selton Mello
Festival: Newport
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csncRwhoLW4
Avós (Grandmothers)
Brazil 2010, 12’, Super 8 – in Portuguese, Hebrew
Leo celebrates his tenth birthday. From one grandmother, he receives socks, from the other, underwear. From his Grandfather, Leo gets an old Super-8 camera and with it, he tells us of his attempts to change the gifts.
Directed by Michael Wahrmann
Produced by Michael Wahrmann & Juliana Vicente
Screenplay: Michael Wahrmann
Cinematography: Rodrigo Pastoriza
Editor: Luara Oliveira
Cast: Sidney Szaja Barmak, Gessy Fonseca, Lucélia Machiavelli
Festivals & Awards:
Best Short – Chicago, Amien
Berlin, Sao Paulo
Saturday 6/4 – 7 PM
Bollywood Dream
Brazil/India/USA 2011, 90’, HD – in Portuguese, Hindi, English
West Coast Premiere
Director Beatriz Seigner in attendance
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Three Brazilian women hoping to make it in Bollywood are in for a rude awakening when their producer and their hotel reservations are AWOL when they arrive in India. Forced to fend for themselves, they find a teenage promoter whose lying and choreography skills give them the chance they were hoping for. The debut fictional feature from actress and writer Beatriz Seigner is a funny and moving story of culture clash and the power of music.
Directed by Beatriz Seigner
Produced by Ram Devineni, Fernando Fraiha
Screenplay: Beatriz Seigner
Cinematography: Beatriz Seigner
Editor: Renata Maria
Cast: Paula Braun, Nataly Cabanas, Sofia Campos, Mohana Krishna
Festivals:
Sao Paulo, Chicago, Amérasia Film Festival
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cT57ftEZ3g
Handebol
Brazil 2010, 19’, 35mm
Director Anita Rocha da Silveira in attendance
Bia is a teenager just like any other: she's into rock, handball and blood.
Directed by Anita Rocha da Silveira
Produced by Filmes do Meio-Dia
Screenplay: Anita Rocha da Silveira
Cinematography: João Atala
Editor: Anita Rocha da Silveira
Cast: Luiza Baccelli, Victoria Zanetti, João Pedro Marinho, Lorena Comparato
Festivals & Awards:
Best Director – Curta Cinema, Rio
Oberhausen, Toulouse
Saturday 6/4 – 9 PM – Closing Night
Rosa Morena
Brazil/Denmark 2010, 86’, 35mm - in Portuguese, Danish, English
Los Angeles Premiere
Producers Eduardo Diogo Sallouti and Ivan Teixeira in attendance
In his forties, Thomas desperately wants to be a father. But as a single gay man in Denmark, he cannot legally adopt a child. So, he decides to visit an old friend in Brazil, where there is a thriving black market for adoption. Maria is beautiful, charming and pregnant, yet she is too poor to support her unborn child. The plan is simple: Thomas will pay Maria and bring her baby back to Denmark as his own. However, things get unhinged when Thomas becomes emotionally involved with the enchanting Maria. Touching on a myriad social issues, director Carlos Augusto de Oliveira’s Rosa Morena is also a story of affection. Provocative, entertaining and poignant, it resonates through the heartbreaking and heartwarming tale of two people trying to do the right thing for the child they both love.
Directed by Carlos Augusto de Oliveira
Produced by Thomas Gammeltoft, Astrid Hytten, Ivan Teixeira
Screenplay: Jens Dahl, Morten Kirkskov, Carlos Augusto de Oliviera
Cinematography: Philippe Kress
Editor: Anja Farsig
Cast: Anders W. Berthelsen, Iben Hjejle, David Dencik, Vivianne Pasmanter, Morten
Kirkskov, Barbara Garcia, Pablo Rodrigues, Georgina Castro
Festivals & Awards:
Best Film – 2010 Sao Paulo Int’l Film Festival & 2011 Cinequest
CPH:PIX, Torino, Marrakech
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrOYkwEBjA0
Closing Night Film
Bailão (The Ball)
Brazil 2010, 17’, 35mm
The memory of a generation visited by its characters. The scenario is the downtown of a large city. The theme is the urgency of life. And the Ball is the convergence point for all these stories.
Directed by Marcelo Caetano
Produced by Jurandir Müller, Marcelo Caetano, Flora Lahuerta
Screenplay: Marcelo Caetano
Cinematography: Julia Zakia
Editor: Guile Martins
Cast: Ivan Santos, Cacá Munhoz, Ricardo Rocha, Armando Nunes e Mozá Pinho
Festivals & Awards:
Best Short – Recife
Huelva, Sao Paulo, San Diego
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