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Globo Films Unveils New Projects From Kleber Mendonça Filho, Anna Muyleart, Jorge Furtado (EXCLUSIVE)
The Globo film co-producer pushes diversity, social relevance on 2024 slate.
To that end, projects in development include Camilo Tavares’ “Internal Enemy” which produces proof of the torture and murder of civilians opposed to Brazil’s military dictatorship; Vinicius Reis’ “Refestança,” an eye-witness account of Rita Lee and Gilberto Gil’s 1977 freedom-pushing concert tour. From Tavares (“The Day That Lasted 21 Years,” “O Grande Irmão”), another investigative doc feature tapping confidential White House and Brazilian government documents to reproduce what are described as “cold terrifying state agents declarations, jurists and victims on torture and death of civilians who opposed dictatorship.” From Melo and Bezerra, part of a generation of talent formed at the Rio Vidigal favela theater group Nos do Morro, Rita races against time to find the money for her son Leo’s party and his father Dudu’s debts, which could cost him his life.
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