Felipe Sholl’s feature directorial debut earned top honours as the 18th edition of the Rio Film Festival concluded on Sunday night by honouring new voices of Brazilian cinema.
The Redentor awards were handed out at Espaco Cultural Bnds, where The Other End also received the best actress prize for Karine Teles, who stars in the unusual love story between a teenage boy and the female patient of his psychoanalyst mother.
The Other End explores the idea that love can be found in unexpected places with irony and lightness. Sholl dealt with a similar theme in Tá (2007), the winner of the Teddy award for best short film at Berlinale that centres on two young men who meet in a public bathroom.
A Woman And The Father, Cristiane Oliveira’s first feature, picked up three awards. Oliveira took the best director award, while the young newcomer Verónica Perrotta was named best supporting actress and cinematographer Heloisa Passos won the...
The Redentor awards were handed out at Espaco Cultural Bnds, where The Other End also received the best actress prize for Karine Teles, who stars in the unusual love story between a teenage boy and the female patient of his psychoanalyst mother.
The Other End explores the idea that love can be found in unexpected places with irony and lightness. Sholl dealt with a similar theme in Tá (2007), the winner of the Teddy award for best short film at Berlinale that centres on two young men who meet in a public bathroom.
A Woman And The Father, Cristiane Oliveira’s first feature, picked up three awards. Oliveira took the best director award, while the young newcomer Verónica Perrotta was named best supporting actress and cinematographer Heloisa Passos won the...
- 10/16/2016
- by elaineguerini@terra.com.br (Elaine Guerini)
- ScreenDaily
Felipe Sholl’s feature directorial debut earned top honours as the 18th edition of the Rio Film Festival concluded on Sunday night by honouring new voices of Brazilian cinema.
The Redentor awards were handed out at Espaco Cultural Bnds, where The Other End also received the best actress prize for Karine Teles, who stars in the unusual love story between a teenage boy and the female patient of his psychoanalyst mother.
The Other End explores the idea that love can be found in unexpected places with irony and lightness. Sholl dealt with a similar theme in Tá (2007), the winner of the Teddy award for best short film at Berlinale that centres on two young men who meet in a public bathroom.
A Woman And The Father, Cristiane Oliveira’s first feature, picked up three awards. Oliveira took the best director award, while the young newcomer Verónica Perrotta was named best supporting actress and cinematographer Heloisa Passos won the...
The Redentor awards were handed out at Espaco Cultural Bnds, where The Other End also received the best actress prize for Karine Teles, who stars in the unusual love story between a teenage boy and the female patient of his psychoanalyst mother.
The Other End explores the idea that love can be found in unexpected places with irony and lightness. Sholl dealt with a similar theme in Tá (2007), the winner of the Teddy award for best short film at Berlinale that centres on two young men who meet in a public bathroom.
A Woman And The Father, Cristiane Oliveira’s first feature, picked up three awards. Oliveira took the best director award, while the young newcomer Verónica Perrotta was named best supporting actress and cinematographer Heloisa Passos won the...
- 10/16/2016
- by elaineguerini@terra.com.br (Elaine Guerini)
- ScreenDaily
As revealed earlier this week, the 18th edition of the festival will feature more than 20 world premieres. Screen runs through some local highlights and previews the RioMarket.
The 2016 Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (Oct 6-16) will open with the South American premiere of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, which premiered at Venice Film Festival.
The festival’s full line-up, which was revealed earlier this week, will include 20 world premieres. The majority of those are local productions selected to compete for the Redentor award (a trophy that resembles the Christ Redeemer statue, made of 35mm film pieces).
The event’s competitive strand, Premiere Brasil, will feature eight titles this year, all of which have been selected to showcase new productions in the country’s film industry.
Seven of those films are world premieres, including the most recent titles of established directors, such as Andrucha Waddington (Me, You, Them and The House of Sand), and debuts from emerging film-makers...
The 2016 Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (Oct 6-16) will open with the South American premiere of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, which premiered at Venice Film Festival.
The festival’s full line-up, which was revealed earlier this week, will include 20 world premieres. The majority of those are local productions selected to compete for the Redentor award (a trophy that resembles the Christ Redeemer statue, made of 35mm film pieces).
The event’s competitive strand, Premiere Brasil, will feature eight titles this year, all of which have been selected to showcase new productions in the country’s film industry.
Seven of those films are world premieres, including the most recent titles of established directors, such as Andrucha Waddington (Me, You, Them and The House of Sand), and debuts from emerging film-makers...
- 9/28/2016
- by elaineguerini@terra.com.br (Elaine Guerini)
- ScreenDaily
Rio De Janeiro -- Toniko Melo's "VIPs," a film inspired by the real life of drug plane pilot turned imprisoned imposter Marcelo Nascimento, was awarded the best fiction feature award at the 12th annual Rio International Film Festival, which handed out its prizes Tuesday night at a jovial and surprisingly brisk ceremony.
"VIPs" ended up the outright winner of the night, nabbing four other major awards, including best actor for Wagner Moura, best supporting actor and actress prizes for Jorge D'Elia and Gisele Froes, and finally, a best editing honor was awarded to Vania Debs.
Charly Braun's direction of "Beyond the Road" (Alem da Estrada) earned him the prestigious best director honors, while "Boca" cinematographer Adrian Tejido took home honors for best photography. "Elvis & Madona" writer/director Marcelo Laffitte landed the award for best screenplay with the honor for best actress given to newcomer Karine Teles.
The fest's...
"VIPs" ended up the outright winner of the night, nabbing four other major awards, including best actor for Wagner Moura, best supporting actor and actress prizes for Jorge D'Elia and Gisele Froes, and finally, a best editing honor was awarded to Vania Debs.
Charly Braun's direction of "Beyond the Road" (Alem da Estrada) earned him the prestigious best director honors, while "Boca" cinematographer Adrian Tejido took home honors for best photography. "Elvis & Madona" writer/director Marcelo Laffitte landed the award for best screenplay with the honor for best actress given to newcomer Karine Teles.
The fest's...
- 10/6/2010
- by By R.T. Watson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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