This February, “Big Brother Brasil” viewers witnessed the first gay kiss to take place on the reality TV show in its more than two decades on air in South America.
But a few hours after coming out as bisexual by kissing another Black man on live television, contestant Lucas Penteado departed the show. “I tried to be myself in every way,” said the 24-year-old actor, who faced intense backlash from some of his housemates for the kiss, as he quit.
Other participants, some of whom are also people of color who identify as LGBTQ, accused Penteado of using the LGBTQ flag to advance in the game.
“You’re appropriating a collective issue in favor of an issue that is yours, individual…you’re appropriating a historic struggle, collective, in favor of a selfish demand,” Lumena Aleluia, a lesbian psychologist, told the actor. Two other bisexual housemates also criticized Penteado, saying...
But a few hours after coming out as bisexual by kissing another Black man on live television, contestant Lucas Penteado departed the show. “I tried to be myself in every way,” said the 24-year-old actor, who faced intense backlash from some of his housemates for the kiss, as he quit.
Other participants, some of whom are also people of color who identify as LGBTQ, accused Penteado of using the LGBTQ flag to advance in the game.
“You’re appropriating a collective issue in favor of an issue that is yours, individual…you’re appropriating a historic struggle, collective, in favor of a selfish demand,” Lumena Aleluia, a lesbian psychologist, told the actor. Two other bisexual housemates also criticized Penteado, saying...
- 3/28/2021
- by Augusta Saraiva
- Variety Film + TV
Worried that growing political tension in Brazil may hamper the domestic release of “Marighella,” Wagner Moura’s directorial debut about a leftist revolutionary, the movie’s producers may seek to crowd-fund its distribution independently.
“We are going to fight for it,” producer Andrea Barata Ribeiro said ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Berlinale on Friday. She added that she wants to launch “Marighella” in Brazil right after Berlin. “If necessary, we will launch it independently through crowd-funding.”
Actor-director Moura, best-known Stateside for his starring role in “Narcos,” has little doubt that conservatives in Brazil don’t want the story of “Marighella” to be told. The film follows a ragtag group of resistance fighters, led by former congressman Carlos Marighella, who seek to ignite a popular revolution against Brazil’s military dictatorship, which seized power in 1964 and ruled until 1985.
With civic discussion in Brazil having taken a sharp...
“We are going to fight for it,” producer Andrea Barata Ribeiro said ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Berlinale on Friday. She added that she wants to launch “Marighella” in Brazil right after Berlin. “If necessary, we will launch it independently through crowd-funding.”
Actor-director Moura, best-known Stateside for his starring role in “Narcos,” has little doubt that conservatives in Brazil don’t want the story of “Marighella” to be told. The film follows a ragtag group of resistance fighters, led by former congressman Carlos Marighella, who seek to ignite a popular revolution against Brazil’s military dictatorship, which seized power in 1964 and ruled until 1985.
With civic discussion in Brazil having taken a sharp...
- 2/15/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Festival organisers presented the three inaugural awards on Monday (October 6) at Rio’s Ccbb cultural centre to films that tackled Lgbt themes.
The Felix winners at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival selected from 43 films were:
Best Fiction Film
Xenia, (Greece-France-Belgium), dir Panos H Koutras;
Best Documentary
Tie And Red Nail (De Gravata E Unha Vermelha) (Brazil), dir Miriam Chnaiderman; and
Special Jury Prize
52 Tuesdays (Australia), dir Sophie Hyde.
In previous editions of Festival do Rio, gay-themed films screened in the Gay World strand. This year organisers chose to screen films across the entire programme.
Wieland Speck, director of Berlin’s Panorama section and co-creator of the Teddy Award, served as jury president alongside Central Station screenwriter João Emanuel Carmeiro, Albertina Carri, the artistic director of *Asterisco – International Lgbtiq Film Festival of Buenos Aires, and Margaret Mee e a Flor Da Lua director Malu de Martino.
Presenting the awards were, among others...
The Felix winners at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival selected from 43 films were:
Best Fiction Film
Xenia, (Greece-France-Belgium), dir Panos H Koutras;
Best Documentary
Tie And Red Nail (De Gravata E Unha Vermelha) (Brazil), dir Miriam Chnaiderman; and
Special Jury Prize
52 Tuesdays (Australia), dir Sophie Hyde.
In previous editions of Festival do Rio, gay-themed films screened in the Gay World strand. This year organisers chose to screen films across the entire programme.
Wieland Speck, director of Berlin’s Panorama section and co-creator of the Teddy Award, served as jury president alongside Central Station screenwriter João Emanuel Carmeiro, Albertina Carri, the artistic director of *Asterisco – International Lgbtiq Film Festival of Buenos Aires, and Margaret Mee e a Flor Da Lua director Malu de Martino.
Presenting the awards were, among others...
- 10/7/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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