PETROBRAS GRANTS BRAZILIAN CINEMA RECORD-BREAKING AWARD AT THE 30TH MOSTRA
The Mostra Internacional de Cinema em São Paulo is celebrating its 30th edition with an important award for the Brazilian film industry: the Petrobras Award for Cultural Diffusion, worth R$ 600.000. An award of R$ 400.000 will be awarded to a fiction feature film and another R$ 200.000 to a full-length documentary. The money should be used in the distribution and release campaign of the awarded films. This award, the best ever given out at a film festival in the country, was created by Petrobras to celebrate the Mostra`s 30th anniversary in an initiative from Petrobras’ Cultural Program, which since 2003 has conducted the company`s cultural sponsorship.
All the Brazilian feature films, not yet released commercially, to be screened at the Mostra will be running for the prize. The winners will be selected by popular vote. The ballots will be numbered and each voter will only be able to vote once. The guests in the theatres will not be included in the voting process. During four screenings of each film, votes will be cast. The day and time for the competition were selected by draw.
Competing Feature Films
1972, José Emílio Rondeau
Antonia, Tata Amaral
Arid Hearts, Cristiano Burlan
Drained, Heitor Dhalia
Forbidden to Forbid, Jorge Durán
Master of the Sea, Odorico Mendes
Noel, Ricardo van Steen
Only God Knows, Carlos Bolado
Remissão, Silvio Coutinho
Suely in the Sky, Karïm Ainouz
The Hills of Disorder, Andrea Tonacci
The Incurable Ones, Gustavo Acioli
The Passenger – Adult Secrets, Flávio Tambellini
The Temptations of Brother Sebastian, José Araújo
The 12 Labours, Ricardo Elias
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, Cao Hamburger
Competing Documentaries
Accident, Cao Guimarães, Pablo Lobato
Acts of Men, Kiko Goifman
Antes, Um Dia e Depois, Caio Cavechini
Carlos Oswald – The Light Poet, Regis Faria
Diamond, Conceição Senna
Expedito – A Country Poet, Aida Marques, Beto Novaes
Fabricating Tom Zé, Decio Matos Jr.
Nzinga, Octávio Bezerra
Oscar Niemeyer – A Vida É um Sopro, Fabiano Maciel
Pixote in Memoriam, Felibe Briso, Gilberto Topczewski, Edu Abad
Pretérito Perfeito, Gustavo Pizzi
Squatting on the Fringes of São Paulo, Evaldo Mocarzel
The Karnak’s Multicolored Book, Marcel Izidoro
The Samba Legend, Lírio Ferreira, Hilton Lacerda
Three Blood Brothers, Ângela Patrícia Reinige