3rd Reel Brazil Film Festa, 2011 by Leandro Cavalcanti

I am delighted to welcome you to the Brazilian cinema hub in New Zealand. This year the films are the most contemporary and awardwinning films that we have ever brought to premiere in New Zealand. In fact, all but one of our films will be Australasian premieres. Four of the films – Our Home: Astral City, Smokescreen, Dzi Croquettes and VIPs - are all on current release in Brazil. The films reflect Brazil today – global, connected and culturally diverse. Enduring themes of freedom, tolerance, diversity and spirituality are merged with subject matter that has universal appeal, be it science fiction, quirky black humour or showcasing inspirational stories that kiwis will be able to relate to. Reel Brazil continues to grow its own international links and is now a member of Brasil Vizual - an international network of independent Brazilian Film Festivals that run in five countries and 17 cities worldwide. We also continue to encourage New Zealand filmmakers to work with Brazil, where there are many financial and tax benefit opportunities for international collaboration. In 2010 Brazil released 75 features, a third of these were international co-productions. Imagine seeing NZ/Brazil co-productions featuring in a future Reel Brazil Film Festival!

the Reel Brazil Film Festival. Our sponsors and partners are crucial to our success and I thank them for their support. Our heart is big and there is still a warm spot for a soul-mate principal sponsor - so don’t be shy to step forward! Thanks to all of you who come to the festival. It is your support that continues to motivate us to carry on the project and offer you entertainment, be it through comedy, drama, documentary, or the Reel Brazil Festas. My deepest thanks and gratitude go to the highly talented and hard working Reel Brazil Film Festival team. Everyone has embraced this project as their own, and given their best. None of our wonderful team of volunteers come from a film background, but it is their diverse range of skills and expertise that together has created the foundation for Reel Brazil to move from being the underdog to having a global presence. Aproveitem / enjoy! Leandro Cavalcanti Executive Director and Producer

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THANK YOU:

New Zealand Brazil Trust Board: Cristiano Pereira, Hunter Curd, Leandro Cavalcanti Executive Director & Producer: Leandro Cavalcanti Business Advisor: Sue Johnston Publicist: Josie Glasson Corporate Opening Nights Coordinator: Paula Barletto Andrade Creative Designer: Oliver Ward Social Media: Ryan Johnson Student and Competitions Outreach: Simon Jarvis Production Assistants (Brazil): Flávia Cavalcanti & Fabrício Cavalcanti Photos: www.snapstar.co.nz

Ailua Fepuleai, Alessandra Faria, Ange Wadsworth, Bill Gosden, Claudia Takahashi, Clo Mudrik, Clube do Choro, David Lindsay, Havana Bar, Helen Copsey, Juice Bar, Igor Jensen, Jorge Alexander, Karina Shaw, Kate Larkindale, Kathryn Bennett, Kylie Fraser, Lance Swaine, Laurie Rudman, Lesith Bacellar, Manoel Medeiros, Mathew Hay, Melanie Baylis, Michelle Veysey, Mum & Dad, Nancy Fithian, Natalia Parra-Sierra, Nick Ryan, Paul Seyb, Peter Grigor, Rahul Govindan, Rebecca McMillan, Robyn Gallagher, Rose Jones, Rose Miller, Sahar Lone, Sam Crook, Sean Hutchinson, Sean Reilly, Sharon Byrne, Sibilla Paparatti, Simon Kelly, Sonja Deely, Tarsis Evans, Thiago Niquini da Costa, Valtair de Souza, Vicki Johnson, Yvette Young.

z Take your business elsewhere and join us for our Corporate Opening Nights in Wellington and Auckland. The Corporate Opening is an event combining the love of film with a strategic and fun business environment to entertain clients and give them a bit of Brazilian flare in the Pacific. The evening includes the screening of a recent Brazilian film and a cocktail function where businesses that have an interest in Latin America can meet, network and taste some Brazilian delicacies, coupled with prime New Zealand wine and live music. WELLINGTON CORPORATE OPENING & FUNDRAISER - THU, 22 SEPT, PARAMOUNT THEATRE The Wellington Corporate Opening takes place at The Paramount Theatre. It is a Fundraiser event for Skylight charity and attended under the patronage of H.E. Renate Stille, Ambassador of Brazil to New Zealand. Skylight is a New Zealand charity and works hard to make a difference to thousands of lives. Lives of children, young people and their families and whanau affected by change, loss, trauma and grief - whatever the cause. AUCKLAND CORPORATE OPENING - THU, 27 OCT, RIALTO CINEMAS NEWMARKET Purchase your individual or group tickets for this unique opportunity to entertain staff or clients at an exclusive Brazilian evening at the Rialto Cinemas Newmarket. The event is an opportunity for people and businesses to network in a fun and relaxed environment which includes the screening of a recent Brazilian comedy, luscious gourmet canapĂ¨s, Brazilian cocktail drinks and premium New Zealand wine.

WELLINGTON CORPORATE OPENING & FUNDRAISER

DRAMA 2009// 110 mins DIRECTOR: Luiz Villaça

With: Paulinho Mendes, Maria de Medeiros, Marco Antônio & Malu Galli

“The film doses suffering with fun moments... There is emotion, there is a storyline, there is life.” — Cine Pipoca Cult, 2010

Based on the real life of famed Brazilian writer and storyteller Roberto Carlos Ramos. At the age of six, the young Roberto is sent by his mother to an institution for poor children in the city of Belo Horizonte. His mother saw an ad on TV for the government-run institution, purporting to offer educational opportunities to boys from underprivileged backgrounds. Roberto survives by using his vivid imagination and recreating his environment, but at 13 he’s still illiterate, and after escaping more than 100 times he is diagnosed as irredeemable. An encounter with Margherit, a French researcher, will put Roberto's disbelief in his future in check and will challenge Margherit to maintain her own beliefs.

WITH: Wagner Moura, Arieta Corrêa & Gisele Fróes “A spinner of tall tales turns into a reluctant con man in this energetic tale based on the real life story of the bluffer Marcelo da Rocha...VIPs conquered all the main prizes at the 2010 Rio Film Festival” — Premiere Brazil, MoMa, New York, 2011 Marcelo shocked and baffled the Brazilian media last decade. This award-winning caper film stars Wagner Moura (Col. Nascimento, Elite Squad). The plot has echoes of Catch Me If You Can, but with a distinctly Latin American context and Moura’s incredible performance as the charming but vulnerable Marcelo. “As a child, Marcelo’s one ambition was to fly planes; as an adult, our anti-hero stumbles upon his dream when he becomes a pilot for a drug trafficking enterprise. Dangerous escapades, money, and high-powered friends follow... The tone is breezy and the situations funny, rendering the film as seductive as its main character.” — Premiere Brazil, MoMa, New York, 2011

WITH: Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Roberto Carlos, Edu Lobo and Sérgio Ricardo “A Night in 67 is breathtaking. A fascinating journey in a time machine” - Amir Labaki, director of It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil. Between 1965 and 1972, Brazil lived the so called “Era of Festivals”. Competitive music events were organised by the major TV studios where up and coming musicians performed to gain professional exposure and popularity in front of live audiences - who avidly cheered or booed as if at a final soccer game. A Night in 67 is an invitation to relive one particular festival that changed Brazilian music and marked the explosion of the Tropicália music movement. That night, names like Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes became idols.

WITH: Ailton Carmo, Jéssica Barbosa, Anderson Santos de Jesus, Irandhir Santos “Underlining the cross-over with martial arts movies is the aerial fighting choreography by Hong Kong master Huen Chiu Ku, who worked on Matrix and Kill Bill as well as a number of Jet Li films.” — Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter. Set in the 1920s, in the most Afro-rich region of Brazil, Bahia, Besouro is an epic martial arts film with a muscular and efficient direction by Tikhomiroff. The feaure blends Afro-Brazilian mythology and history with Capoeira fight scenes. Despite the abolition of slavery in Brazil, wealthy white landowners continued to exploit black workers like slaves. Besouro is the story of a man turned legend – the greatest Capoeira fighter of all time – whose magical powers allow him to fly and make his body virtually impenetrable.

WITH: Liza Minnelli, Ron Lewis, Marília Pêra, Ney Matogrosso, Norma Bengell, Miguel Falabella, Cláudia Raia, Gilberto Gil. “Dzi Croquettes were revolutionary men, who showed the world that men can be both masculine and feminine!” — Liza Minnelli Loved and admired by luminaries such as Mick Jagger, Jeanne Moreau, Omar Sharif, Maurice Béjart, Josephine Baker and Liza Minnelli, Dzi Croquettes was an infamous Brazilian dance-theatre troupe that revolutionized the nation’s gay rights movement and changed the language of theatre and dance for a generation. Led by the American dancer and ex-pat Lennie Dale, they emerged in the heart of the 1960s Tropicália cultural movement in Rio de Janeiro, and in the midst of heavy censorship due to the military dictatorship in Brazil. They creatively and daringly used their imagination, bodies and voices, to confront the violent regime of their time.

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WITH: Renato Prieto, Fernando Alves Pinto and Rosane Mulholland “With magnificent art direction and special effects, never been seen before in a Brazilian production.” - Brazilian Film Festival, New York. This sci-fi drama brings to the screen the most important work by Brazilian medium Chico Xavier who, through the account of the spirit of Dr Andre Luiz, describes in great detail what life is like in the Astral City. It is the mid-1930s, and doctor André Luiz opens his eyes and realizes he is no longer alive. His spirit´s journey begins in a dimension of pain and suffering, until he’s rescued and taken to the city Our Home. The original score is by opera and symphony composer Phillip Glass, who has collaborated with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen and David Bowie. The film has magnificent art direction, and took second place at the Brazilian box office in 2010.

WITH: Ana Lucia Torre, Selton Mello and Germano Haiut “Reflections of a Blender” presents a style of black humor not often seen in Brazilian cinema. It comes to prove that you don’t need to be a mega-production to be a good film...” - Thais Nepomuceno, Cinemaum.com Lonely Elvira talks to her blender, and the blender talks back. In this black comedy, set in São Paulo, the middle-aged housewife and taxidermist Elvira reports to the police that her husband Onofre is missing. The Chief Officer decides that she is a suspect and assigns the snoopy Detective Fuinha to investigate her husband’s disappearance. Elvira turns to her old talking blender as her emotional anchor. The philosophizing blender - who may just be a murder accomplice - is the film’s narrator and Elvira’s confidante, providing a tutti-frutti tapestry of musings on humanity.

WITH: Fernando Henrique Cardoso (former Brazilian President), Fernando Gabeira, Nilo Batista, Raul Zaffaroni, Antonio Escohotado “Smokescreen (Cortina de Fumaça) is an independent project, inspired by the wish to construct a more balanced society based on freedom, diversity and tolerance.” — Rodrigo Mac Niven Smokescreen raises the subject of drug policies in effect worldwide, focusing on their social and political implications in countries such as Brazil, England, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, Argentina and the US. The confronting documentary discusses some of the consequences of such drug laws, such as violence and corruption, reaching unacceptable levels. Through interviews with physicians, researchers, leaders, policemen and representatives of civil movements, the filmmaker and journalist Rodrigo Mac Niven introduces a new vision of the early 21st century. It questions prohibition, and discusses the complexities of a taboo subject with honesty and transparency.

AN EVENT BY THE NEW ZEALAND BRAZIL TRUST

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