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Brazil’s VDF Connection Bows at Cannes With Horror, Minas Gerais Showcases and Screening of Talent-To-Track Eva Pereira’s Debut (EXCLUSIVE)
VDF Connection adds to Brazil’s fast-expanding front of companies working the country’s international reach.
One day before, in coordination with VDF Connection, the Minas Gerais’ Sindicato da Indústria Audiovisual, the sector’s trade body of the central Brazilian state, will unveil nine new titles, split between docs and narrative movies. “Eva Pereira is a rising Brazilian director whose work blends social themes with a distinct genre sensibility and ‘O Barulho da Noite’ is her most anticipated narrative feature debut, Fernández told Variety.. VDF hosts a Special Screening on May 14 at the Marché du Film. Actor-turned-director Eva Pereira’s first narrative feature, after docuseries “O Mistério de Nhemyrõ” (2020), on the high rate of indigenous suicide in Brazil, “O Barulho Da Noite” stars Emanuelle Araújo (Netflix’s “Last Voyeur”) as a wife and mother who lives on the family farm, feeling annulled and rendered invisible by her patriarchal devout husband.
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