Cláudio Assis
Cláudio Assis (born December 19, 1959) is a Brazilian filmmaker. He was born in Caruaru, in the state of Pernambuco, and went to Recife, the state's capital, when he was 17. There, he started to attend for Economics and Communication studies, but he felt "totally incompatible" with its structure. After working as assistant in some production, he went to direct his own short films: ''Padre Henrique - Um Crime Político'' (1987), ''Soneto do Desmantelo Blue'' (1993), ''Viva o Cinema'' (1996), and ''Texas Hotel'' (1999). The latter served as inspiration for his first feature film ''Mango Yellow'', which was released in 2002, winning several awards including the Best Film at the Festival de Brasília. His second feature film, ''Baixio das Bestas, Bog of Beasts'' (2006), debuted won five awards, including Best Film, at the Festival de Brasília, and the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. ''Febre do Rato, Rat Fever'', his third film, was released in 2011 and won t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Caruaru
Caruaru is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the States of Brazil, state of Pernambuco. The most populous city in the interior of the state, Caruaru is located in the microzone of Agreste and because of its cultural importance, it is nicknamed ''Capital do Agreste'' (Portuguese language, Portuguese for the "capital city of the Agreste region"), ''Princesinha do Agreste'' ("Little Princess of Agreste"), and ''Capital of agreste'' ("the capital city of ''forró''"). The city is located from the state capital of Recife, which has an Recife/Guararapes–Gilberto Freyre International Airport, international airport. However, Caruaru has its own Caruaru Airport, airport. Caruaru is renowned for its extensive ''Festa Junina, Festival de São João'' ("Saint John's Festival"), which takes up the whole month of June, sometimes extending into July. Caruaru had a 2024 resident population of 402,290 inhabitants, living in a land area of . Caruaru is the hometown, amo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baixio Das Bestas
''Bog of Beasts'' () is a 2006 Brazilian drama film directed by Cláudio Assis. The film premiered on 27 November 2006 at the 39th Brasília Film Festival, where it won six awards, including Best Picture. It was released theatrically in Brazil on 11 May 2007 by Imovision. Plot In the rural Brazilian sugarcane town known as Baixio das Bestas (Bog of Beasts), Auxiliadora is a 16-year old girl living with her grandfather Seu Heitor. Auxiliadora is a result of an incestuous relationship between Heitor and his daughter, Auxiliadora's mother, who fled years earlier. Heitor is cruel and abusive to Auxiliadora, forcing her to work doing chores such as cooking and cleaning during the day to earn money. On some nights he takes her to the nearby town's local gas station where he forces her to stand naked behind a church. Truck drivers from the gas station and others are allowed to pleasure themselves while looking at Auxiliadora standing nude provided they pay Heitor. One night a young ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brazilian Film Directors
Brazilian commonly refers to: * Brazil, a country * Brazilians, its people * Brazilian Portuguese, its dialect Brazilian may also refer to: * "The Brazilian", a 1986 instrumental music piece by Genesis * Brazilian Café, Baghdad, Iraq (1937) * Brazilian cuisine ** Churrasco, or Brazilian barbecue * Brazilian-cut bikini, a swimsuit revealing the buttocks * Brazilian waxing, a style of pubic hair removal * Mamelodi Sundowns F.C., a South African football club nicknamed ''The Brazilians'' See also * Brazil (other) * ''Brasileiro'', a 1992 album by Sergio Mendes * Brazilian jiu-jitsu, a martial art and combat sport system * Culture of Brazil The culture of Brazil has been shaped by the amalgamation of diverse indigenous cultures, and the cultural fusion that took place among Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Indigenous communities, Portuguese people, Portuguese colonists, and Afro-Brazi ... * Football in Brazil {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1959 Births
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Terra Networks
Terra was a Spanish Internet multinational company owned by Telefónica. It was headquartered in Spain and had offices in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Peru. Part of the Telefónica Group (the former Spanish public telephone monopoly), Terra operated as a web portal or Internet access provider in the United States, Spain and 16 Latin American countries. It was founded in 1999 as Terra Networks, S.A., a publicly traded company with Telefónica as its main shareholder. All outstanding shares were purchased by Telefónica in 2017, making Terra a wholly owned subsidiary. History Terra was founded in 1999 as Terra Networks, S.A. by Juan Villalonga, Telefónica's president between 1996 and 2000, and grew in size through the acquisitions of several local startups in Spain and the main Latin American markets: Olé (Spain), ZAZ (Brazil), Mexico, Gauchonet, Donde (Argentina) and Chevere (Venezuela). Terra has created several digital portals, like Invertia, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Febre Do Rato
''Rat Fever'' () is a 2011 Brazilian film directed by Claudio Assis. The film premiered at the 2011 Paulínia Festival, where it won Best Film and seven other awards. It also showed at the 2012 International Film Festival Rotterdam. It also won São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award for Best Picture in 2012 and the Havana Star Prize for Best Film (Fiction) at the 2013 Havana Film Festival New York. Cast * Ângela Leal as Dona Marieta * Conceição Camarotti as Dona Anja * Hugo Gila as Bira *Irandhir Santos as Zizo *Juliano Cazarré as Boca *Maria Gladys as Stella Maris *Mariana Nunes as Rosângela *Matheus Nachtergaele Matheus Nachtergaele OMC (; born 3 January 1968) is a Brazilian actor, film director, and screenwriter. He has starred in numerous Brazilian films, best known for his appearances in the 1997 film '' Four Days in September'' and the 2002 film '' ... as Paizinho * Nanda Costa as Eneida *Tânia Granussi as Vanessa *Vitor Araújo as Oncinha * Johnny Hooker ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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International Film Festival Rotterdam
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, focused on independent and experimental films. The inaugural festival took place in June 1972, led by founder Huub Bals. IFFR also hosts CineMart and BoostNL, for film producers to seek funding. History The first festival, then called Film International, was organized in June 1972 under the leadership of Huub Bals. The festival profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative, and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. Around 1983, the festival founded CineMart to serve as a "regular film market", and later modified the business model to serve instead as a "co-production market", which helps a selected number of film producers connect with possible co-producers and funders for their film projects. After the festival founder's sudden death in 1988, a fund was initiated and named af ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Organizações Globo
Grupo Globo (), formerly and still legally known as Organizações Globo (), is a Brazilian private entertainment and mass media conglomerate based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1925 by Irineu Marinho, it is the largest media group in Latin America, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates. Grupo Globo's assets comprises of over-the-air broadcasting, television and film production, pay television subscription service, streaming media, publishing, and online services. Its main properties include media company , consiting of the flagship television network TV Globo; the streaming service Globoplay, pay television content unit Canais Globo, consisting of cable television networks such as GloboNews, GNT, Multishow, SporTV, Viva, Gloob, and the premium film network Telecine; film production company Globo Filmes; radio operator Sistema Globo de Rádio and magazine and newspaper publisher, Editora Globo, including . Grupo Globo also engages in ventur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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O Estado De S
O, or o, is the fifteenth Letter (alphabet), letter and the fourth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''o'' (pronounced ), plural English alphabet#Letter names, ''oes''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the "long O" sound, pronounced . In most other languages, its name matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History Its graphic form has remained fairly constant from Phoenician alphabet, Phoenician times until today. The name of the Phoenician letter was ''Ayin, ʿeyn'', meaning "eye", and its shape originates simply as a drawing of a human eye (possibly inspired by the corresponding Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian hieroglyph, Proto-Sinaitic script). Its original sound value was that of a consonant, probably , the sound represented by the cognate Arabic alphabet, Arabi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population, seventh-largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 Federative units of Brazil, states and a Federal District (Brazil), Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília. List of cities in Brazil by population, Its most populous city is São Paulo, followed by Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has the most Portuguese-speaking countries, Portuguese speakers in the world and is the only country in the Americas where Portuguese language, Portuguese is an Portuguese-speaking world, official language. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazil, coastline of . Covering roughly half of South America's land area, it Borders of Brazil, borders all other countries and ter ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Festival De Brasília
The Festival de Brasília (Brasília Film Festival), officially the Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro, is a film festival held in Brasília, Brazil. Known as Semana do Cinema Brasileiro (''Brazilian Film Week'') during the first two editions, it was founded by University of Brasília A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...'s diplomat Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes in 1965 and is the oldest film festival in Brazil. The winners receive the Troféu Candango (''Candango Trophy''), named in honor of brasilienses, as well as cash prizes. Other prizes include the Prêmio Zózimo Bulbul, the Troféu Saruê, and the Prêmio Marco Antônio Guimarães. Category Feature film *Best Feature Film *Best Director *Best Actor * Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Suppo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Folha De S
''Folha de S.Paulo'' (sometimes spelled ''Folha de São Paulo''), also known as simply ''Folha'' (, ''Sheet''), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name ''Folha da Noite'' and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company. The newspaper is the centerpiece for Grupo Folha, a conglomerate that also controls Universo Online, UOL (Universo Online), the leading Internet portal in Brazil; polling institute Datafolha; publishing house Publifolha; book imprint Três Estrelas; printing company Plural; and, in a joint-venture with the Globo group, the business daily ''Valor Econômico, Valor'', among other enterprises. It has gone through several phases and has targeted different audiences, such as urban middle classes, rural landowners, and the civil society, but political independence has always been one of its editorial cornerstones. Ever since 1986, ''Folha'' has had the biggest circulation among the largest Brazilian newspapers – according to data by I ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |