Sporting events business mission to Brazil 21 – 26 November 2010
The ABCC in conjunction with ALABC, AISES and Austrade is conducting a business mission to Brazil from 20 to 26 November 2010 to target business opportunities arising from the 2014 Football World Cup and the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Brazil is focussed on leveraging both events to deliver long-term results for the country in the areas of infrastructure, sustainability, urban development and venue legacy.
For more information and to register contact: abcc@australiabrazil.com.au
The ABCC and Karoon Gas are hosting a cocktail to celebrate the end of 201o and would like to invite our members and friend to take part.
Details are:
Date: Wednesday, 17th November
Time: From 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Venue: CQ Lanai Bar
113 Queen St, Melbourne
Cost: (includes cocktail foods and wine, beverages)
ABCC Members: Free of Charge
Non-Members: $40.00
Dress Code: Business Attire
To register, please fill in this form and send to: abcc@australiabrazil.com.au or fax us on: (02) 9908 5826.
BRISBANE 18 – 21 November
The Tribal Theatre
Following the success of its first edition in Sydney last year, Brazil Film Festival is coming to Melbourne and Brisbane for the first time this year. The exciting program delivers four feature films and a selection of short films fresh from Brazil and never screened in Australia before. Prepare to be delighted with our vibrant cinematic snapshots of Brazil.
OPENING NIGHT FILM
Lula, the Son of Brazil ( Lula, o Filho do Brasil, 2009, 128 mins)
Directed by Fábio Barreto, with Glória Pires, Cléo Pires, Juliana Baroni, Milhem Cortaz, and Ricardo Dias.
Based on the homonym biography by Denise Paraná on Brazil’s hugely popular president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, portraying his early years, this film by Fábio Barreto (O Quatrilho) is one of the most expensive ever made in the country. Although the film was independently funded it has raised quite a few eyebrows in Brazil where it was coincidentally released on election year and then picked to represent the country as a candidate for Best Foreign Language Film in the 2011 Academy Awards just 10 days before the federal elections. Politics aside, this is the improbable real story of a shoeshine boy who became president and a trajectory that is no different to that of millions of Brazilians when it comes to their extraordinary capacity to overcome difficulties.
Pre-movie Live music entertainment and cocktail @ foyer
Afterparty 'Brazilian theme' @ O'Maley's in the Queen St. Mall
Friday 19th of November 7pm
Pachamama (2010, 105 mins)
Directed by Eryk Rocha
Recipient of multiple awards and directed by Glauber Rocha’s son, Eryk Rocha, Pachamama tells the story of the director's journey through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest on his way to Peru and Bolivia, where he encounters the reality of people historically cut-off from the political process of their own country and that, for the first time, are attempting to have a say in the outcome of their own fate. The title of the film, Pachamama, is a word that means “Mother Earth” to certain groups of Native Americans, and refers to the bucolic goddess of the rural workers. A meditative film that also reveals social movements and moments often obscured from outsiders.
This screening will be preceded by a selection of short films.
Best documentary – Cineport Festival 2009
Festival de Nuevo Cine Havana 2009 (official selection)
Latin American Film Festival at Los Angeles (official Selection)
Saturday 20th of November - 7pm
DZI Croquettes (2010, 110 mins)
Directed by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez
Brazil’s most internationally awarded documentary in history tells the journey of the group Dzi Croquettes in the early 70´s. The Dzi Croquettes were an infamous Brazilian dance-theatre group at the heart of the 1960s Tropicália cultural movement and used imagination, irony, and humour to confront Brazil’s violent dictatorship - and in the process revolutionized the nation’s gay rights movement and changed the language of theatre and dance for a generation. This star-studded film features testimonials not only by some of the greatest names in Brazilian entertainment but also by Liza Minnelli, the croquettes’ ‘godmother’ herself! Not to be missed...
Winner of 11 awards including:
Best Documentary – Rio International Film Festival 2009
Best Documentary – Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Best Documentary – Toronto GLBT International Film Festival 2010
Official Selection:
Frameline International GLBT Film Festival 2010
Tribeca Film Doc Series 2010
CLOSING NIGHT FILM - Sunday 21st of November 6:30pm
Love Stories Last Only 90 Minutes ( Histórias de Amor Duram Apenas 90 Minutos, 2010, 93 mins)
Directed by Paulo Halm, with Caio Blat, Maria Ribeiro, Luz Cipriota, Daniel Dantas and Hugo Carvana.
Accomplished screenwriter Paulo Halm’s (The Battle of Canudos, Two Lost on a Dirty Night) debut feature is an unpretentious sexy comedy about thirty somethings in bohemian Rio. Zeca is a young writer living in Lapa. He has spent years writing a novel he just can’t seem to finish and gets by on handouts from his family and lives a strained relationship with beautiful and successful wife Julia. Everything seems to change, though, when he starts to suspect that Julia is cheating on him with a sensual and flirtatious Argentinean woman, Carol. Will this be enough to shake Zeca out of his writer’s block?
This screening will be preceded by a selection of short films.
After party at Casablanca 52 Petrie Tce. Paddington. Live entertainment and shows
Best Feature – Santa Maria Luso-Brazilian Festival 2009
Best Actor – FestCine Goiania 2009
Best Sound Design – FestCine Goiania 2009
Tickets
Tickets are being sold online through Moshtix and at the festival´s website.
For more information please contact:
claudio.climaco@brazilfilmfestival.com.au
For more information and to register contact: abcc@australiabrazil.com.au
ABCC – Karoon Gas Christmas Cocktail – 17th November 2010
The ABCC and Karoon Gas are hosting a cocktail to celebrate the end of 201o and would like to invite our members and friend to take part.
Details are:
Date: Wednesday, 17th November
Time: From 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Venue: CQ Lanai Bar
113 Queen St, Melbourne
Cost: (includes cocktail foods and wine, beverages)
ABCC Members: Free of Charge
Non-Members: $40.00
Dress Code: Business Attire
To register, please fill in this form and send to: abcc@australiabrazil.com.au or fax us on: (02) 9908 5826.
Brazil Film Festival 2010
BRISBANE 18 – 21 November
The Tribal Theatre
Following the success of its first edition in Sydney last year, Brazil Film Festival is coming to Melbourne and Brisbane for the first time this year. The exciting program delivers four feature films and a selection of short films fresh from Brazil and never screened in Australia before. Prepare to be delighted with our vibrant cinematic snapshots of Brazil.
OPENING NIGHT FILM
Lula, the Son of Brazil ( Lula, o Filho do Brasil, 2009, 128 mins)
Directed by Fábio Barreto, with Glória Pires, Cléo Pires, Juliana Baroni, Milhem Cortaz, and Ricardo Dias.
Based on the homonym biography by Denise Paraná on Brazil’s hugely popular president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, portraying his early years, this film by Fábio Barreto (O Quatrilho) is one of the most expensive ever made in the country. Although the film was independently funded it has raised quite a few eyebrows in Brazil where it was coincidentally released on election year and then picked to represent the country as a candidate for Best Foreign Language Film in the 2011 Academy Awards just 10 days before the federal elections. Politics aside, this is the improbable real story of a shoeshine boy who became president and a trajectory that is no different to that of millions of Brazilians when it comes to their extraordinary capacity to overcome difficulties.
Pre-movie Live music entertainment and cocktail @ foyer
Afterparty 'Brazilian theme' @ O'Maley's in the Queen St. Mall
Friday 19th of November 7pm
Pachamama (2010, 105 mins)
Directed by Eryk Rocha
Recipient of multiple awards and directed by Glauber Rocha’s son, Eryk Rocha, Pachamama tells the story of the director's journey through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest on his way to Peru and Bolivia, where he encounters the reality of people historically cut-off from the political process of their own country and that, for the first time, are attempting to have a say in the outcome of their own fate. The title of the film, Pachamama, is a word that means “Mother Earth” to certain groups of Native Americans, and refers to the bucolic goddess of the rural workers. A meditative film that also reveals social movements and moments often obscured from outsiders.
This screening will be preceded by a selection of short films.
Best documentary – Cineport Festival 2009
Festival de Nuevo Cine Havana 2009 (official selection)
Latin American Film Festival at Los Angeles (official Selection)
Saturday 20th of November - 7pm
DZI Croquettes (2010, 110 mins)
Directed by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez
Brazil’s most internationally awarded documentary in history tells the journey of the group Dzi Croquettes in the early 70´s. The Dzi Croquettes were an infamous Brazilian dance-theatre group at the heart of the 1960s Tropicália cultural movement and used imagination, irony, and humour to confront Brazil’s violent dictatorship - and in the process revolutionized the nation’s gay rights movement and changed the language of theatre and dance for a generation. This star-studded film features testimonials not only by some of the greatest names in Brazilian entertainment but also by Liza Minnelli, the croquettes’ ‘godmother’ herself! Not to be missed...
Winner of 11 awards including:
Best Documentary – Rio International Film Festival 2009
Best Documentary – Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Best Documentary – Toronto GLBT International Film Festival 2010
Official Selection:
Frameline International GLBT Film Festival 2010
Tribeca Film Doc Series 2010
CLOSING NIGHT FILM - Sunday 21st of November 6:30pm
Love Stories Last Only 90 Minutes ( Histórias de Amor Duram Apenas 90 Minutos, 2010, 93 mins)
Directed by Paulo Halm, with Caio Blat, Maria Ribeiro, Luz Cipriota, Daniel Dantas and Hugo Carvana.
Accomplished screenwriter Paulo Halm’s (The Battle of Canudos, Two Lost on a Dirty Night) debut feature is an unpretentious sexy comedy about thirty somethings in bohemian Rio. Zeca is a young writer living in Lapa. He has spent years writing a novel he just can’t seem to finish and gets by on handouts from his family and lives a strained relationship with beautiful and successful wife Julia. Everything seems to change, though, when he starts to suspect that Julia is cheating on him with a sensual and flirtatious Argentinean woman, Carol. Will this be enough to shake Zeca out of his writer’s block?
This screening will be preceded by a selection of short films.
After party at Casablanca 52 Petrie Tce. Paddington. Live entertainment and shows
Best Feature – Santa Maria Luso-Brazilian Festival 2009
Best Actor – FestCine Goiania 2009
Best Sound Design – FestCine Goiania 2009
Tickets
Tickets are being sold online through Moshtix and at the festival´s website.
For more information please contact:
claudio.climaco@brazilfilmfestival.com.au
