Los Angeles, CA, October 25, 2022 — The Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival has announced that the 14th edition of the festival will take place Wednesday, November 15 through Saturday, November 19, in Los Angeles. The festival will open with Gabriel Martins’ Mars One/Marte Um. The film, produced by Filmes de Plástico, is the the official selection to represent Brazil for Best International Feature at the upcoming OSCARS® and had its World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival. The Opening Night screening will take place at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
“We are thrilled and honored to have Gabriel’s film open this year’s festival, as it is a great feeling when an artist that we have believe in since the start of their career reaches such great heights,” said Talize Sayegh, founder of the Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival. “This film is not only a great piece of cinema but it it marks a historic moment for Brazil as it is the first time that we have a Black filmmaker’s film as the country’s entry submission to the OSCARS®.”
During the Opening Night the festival will also present its annual Hollywood Brazilian Raising Horizon award to Liniker, a widely known Brazilian singer-songwriter and former bandleader for Brazilian soul and Black music band Liniker e os Caramelows. Liniker is the star of Amazon’s “September Mornings,” a show about the journey of a trans woman who leaves her hometown and doesn’t comprise her goal to be free and independent. The HBR Horizon Award is given to Brazilian personalities that are breaking into the US market. Linker will also be doing a performance after the screening of the opening night film.
The festival will feature a special screening of the 4K restoration of Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil/ Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol on Friday, November 19. The film was selected to be part of this year’s Festival de Cannes Classic section. Saturday, November 19 marks the festival’s LGBTQ+ day featuring Pedro Henrique França’s Political Bodies/CorPolítica, a documentary about Brazil’s LGBTQ+ political candidates followed by Marcelo Gomes’ Paloma, a drama about a transgender woman who is a farm worker that will fight at any cost to make her dream come true of having a traditional church wedding. In addition the program will also include Flávia Neves’ Fogaréu, Júlia Murat’s Regra 34, Karim Aïnouz’s Mariner of the Mountains/O Marinheiro das Montanhas; Cristiano Burlan’s The Mother/A Mãe; and Daniel Rezende’s Turma da Mônica: Lições. The festival’sl short film program includes Jorge Camarotti’s Ousmane; Carlos Segundo’s Sideral; André Hayato Saito’s Kokoro to Kokoro; and Érica Sarmet’s A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here/Uma Paciëncia Selvagem Me Trouxe Até Aqui.
The festival will take place in three different venues across the city: the Lumiere Music Hall, Linwood Dunn Theatre and the Los Feliz Theatre.
ABOUT THE FILMS
Feature Films
Black God, White Devil/ Deus e o Diabo na Terra
Fogaréu
Mariner of the Mountains/O Marinheiro das Montanhas
Mars One/Marte Um
The Mother/A Mãe
Paloma
Political Bodies/Corpolítica
Regra 34
Tuma da Mônica: Liçöes
Short films
Kokoro to Kokoro
Ousmane
Sideral
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here/Uma Paciência Selvagem Me Trouxe Até Aqui
About Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival
The Hollywood Brazilian Film Festival (HBRFEST) is a rapidly growing festival dedicated to promoting independent Brazilian filmmakers. The festival separates itself from other film festivals by embracing the Brazilian flavor through screenings of Brazilian Indie films, promoting renowned Brazilian stars and its dedication. Every year the festival includes a variety of screenings of some of the year’s top indie films, panels and workshops that feature award-winning actors, writers and directors, VIP parties and Film business industry.
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