Provided By: Brazilica
In association with Fazenda Rodizio Bar & Grill
Brazilica organisers Liverpool Carnival Company are delighted to announce that, as part of this year’s festival, they will be introducing a standalone film festival to the programme of events.
Building on the success of the film screenings in previous years, organisers will be taking the programme to another level for 2015 with Brazilica Film Festival in association with Fazenda Rodizio Bar & Grill. Twelve films celebrating Brazilian life and culture will be screened at various venues across the city between Wednesday July 1–Sunday July 19, with the majority of films free to attend.
The whole film spectrum will be covered with everything from comedy and drama features as well as some of the very best Brazilian documentaries and biographies.
Documentary Looking for Rio opens the Film Festival on Wednesday July 1 at The Brink. In Rio de Janeiro, four football clubs share the Brazilians’ hearts: Flamengo, Fluminense, Vasco de Gama and Botafogo. For more than a century they have been fighting in various tournaments to win and pile up titles. On the eve of the 20th Football World Cup, Eric Cantona goes back in time to focus on the legend of the Carioca Football.
Lovers of samba music will not want to miss the music documentary O Samba on Tuesday July 7 at FACT in which composer and singer Martinho da Vila guides audiences through the world of Samba showing that it cannot be reduced simply to dance and lascivious hip movements but is also word, language, text, lyrics and simply said a way of life.
Other documentaries throughout the festival include Waste Land (Lixo Extraordinário) on Wednesday July 8 at A Small Cinema which follows renowned artist Vik Muniz over three years as he travels to the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho. Collaborating with the catadores—self-designated recyclable pickers, as they begin to re-imagine their lives, the film offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit. Then Cidade Cinza (Grey City) on Wed 15 July at FACT which documents a new way of graffiti painting born in Sao Paulo - receiving adoration from the public but scorn from city officials. Soon a new visual pollution combat act made the City Hall cover their paintings in grey in their hometown.
There is also a double bill of drama starting with Clenched Fists (Com Os Punhos Cerrados) on Thursday July 2 at Brazilica Barracão which shows Eugenio, Joaquim and João’s hunger for freedom and revolution. From a clandestine radio they hack the traditional radio stations, overwhelming them with poetry, rebel music, quotes, sound archives and provocations, attacking the bourgeois and capitalistic society.
Then, on Thursday July 9, Oscar-nominated City of God (Cidade de Deus) will be screened at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church. Depicting the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s, the film follows a young boy’s brave ambition to become a professional photographer in the face of impossible odds, which becomes a window into his world and ultimately his way out.
This will be followed by City of God 10 Years Later (Cidade De Deus 10 Anos Depois) on Monday July 13 at Frederiks. Filmed 10 years after the Oscar-nominated movie’s release, in this documentary co-directors Cavi Borges and Luciano Vidigal catch up with the film's cast and re-visit the legacy of the film on the communities and question whether culture and art can be a driver for social changes.
Next on the line-up is a double dose of comedy capers. Firstly, the charming comedy-drama The Ballroom (Chega de Saudade) on Sunday July 5 at Brazilica Barracão where lust, love, desire and disappointment are all put to the test on the dance floor of the local San Paolo neighbourhood dance hall – let the dance battle commence. Then the family comedy Cine Holliúdy on Sunday July 12 at Brazilica Barracão which centres around storyteller and kung fu movie maniac Francisgleydisson who must fight to keep his passion for cinema alive when the arrival of television in the countryside of Ceará, in the 70s, puts into question his small movie theatre business.
Two musical movie classics will also be screened at the festival including That Night in Rio on Saturday July 11 at the Museum of Liverpool. Larry Martin entertains crowds with his skilful impersonations of airline czar Baron Manuel Duarte. When Duarte and his wife see his act, they're so impressed they hire him to impersonate Duarte to save his airline and ward off his competition. However, Larry finds himself drawn to Duarte's wife, much to the chagrin and confusion of his girlfriend. Starring Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda.
Then there is 1933’s Flying Down to Rio on Tuesday July 14 at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church. In this musical romance starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, choreographer and musician Fred Ayers labours to help his friend and band leader Roger Bond romance gorgeous Brazilian Belinha De Rezende. Along the way, Ayers and singer Honey Hale stage marvellous dance numbers and conspire to make sure the shows go on, including a breathtaking dance number on the exterior of a formation of airplanes flying over the audience.
Closing the Film Festival on Sunday July 19 is the exciting crime adventure Trash showing at The Brink. Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves on the run from the police and trying to right a terrible wrong.
There will also be a special Graffiti Art Exhibition at FACT running throughout the festival from Wednesday July 1–Sunday July 19 which compliments the screening of Cidade Cinza. Inspired by the work of graffiti artists Os Gemeos, Cranio and others, the exhibition presents the style of graffiti shown in the documentary that has made the bohemian suburb of Vila Madalena in Sao Paulo a tourist attraction, and brought some of the artist’s worldwide fame.
Film Festival Programmer Moulay Drissi said “We are very proud and excited to build upon the success of the previous year’s film programme and to make it more accessible to a wider audience and we are delighted to announce an enhanced and eclectic program of films. We are partnering with many local film venues where the sharing and exchanging of thoughts and experience is valued. We have been working tirelessly over many months to make Brazilica happen and the new film festival is an exciting addition to the programme.”
Brazilica Film Festival is brought in association with Fazenda Rodizio Bar & Grill which is based in Exchange Flags in Liverpool City Centre.
Tomas Maunier, Sales and Marketing Director at Fazenda, commented: “We are very happy to be part of the first Brazilica Film Festival. When the opportunity was presented to us we were so excited to be part of this project. We see this as an opportunity to bring to the British public the passion that we have for our art. Brazil is much more than just football and samba. We are very proud that many people will be able to understand our roots and enjoy the creativity of our artists.”
So grab your popcorn, take your seat and enjoy a Brazil-iant evening at the movies with these fantastic additions to this year’s jam-packed programme of events. With further music and event announcements to come, 2015 is certain to be the best Brazilica Festival ever.
For further information on the film festival, visit www.brazilicafestival.co.uk/brazilica-film-festival. You can also like Brazilica on Facebook here or follow Brazilica on Twitter @BrazilicaFilm.
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