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Gullane+, the fast-growing distribution arm of top Brazilian production company Gullane Entretenimento, has acquired both Brazilian and international distribution rights to Lírio Ferreira and Karen Harley’s “Para Vigo Me Voy.”

The documentary, playing at Cannes Classics, is a portrait of the legendary Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Diegues told through the weaving of film excerpts and rare footage into a journey through 60 years of Brazilian cinema.

Speaking with Variety out of Cannes, Gullane co-founder and producer Fabiano Gullane calls the documentary a “tribute to one of the most important directors and producers we ever had in Brazil,” adding that Diegues was pioneering in how he “paved the way” for Brazilian cinema in the international market. It is a particularly poignant homage considering that the country recently landed its first-ever Oscar for Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” and is in a prominent position at this year’s Cannes Film Festival as the...

Artist in Focus: Ana Vaz is now showing on Mubi in many countries.It Is Night in America.Immersed in the universe of the Brazilian artist Ana Vaz you may find yourself equally entranced by and alienated from the beauty of nature. The appeal of Vaz’s installations and experimental films resides in this dichotomy. It’s devastating to see the ways in which humans have the power to plunder natural habitats, by design or recklessness, yet it is also frightful to ponder post-human landscapes—particularly the sublime beauty that may yet arise in the world without us. Gifted with a formidable visual and aural sensibility, Vaz creates images that are as tactile and immediately graspable as her stories are multilayered. And while there’s something incredibly melancholic about her films, particularly her post-apocalyptic dreamscapes, she often portrays time as so vast, expanding into primordial ages and futuristic eons, that...