Music legend Bezerra da Silva, the father of Gangsta Samba, is profiled in Márcia Derraik and Simplício Neto’s documentary STRAIGHT TO THE POINT at the Brazilian Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas
BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick St. at Laight St.
June 5-12
212-941-2001
www.tribecafilm.com
www.brazilianfilmfestival.com
The eighth annual Brazilian Film Festival takes place at Tribeca Cinemas June 5-12, featuring fifteen films that both celebrate and take a hard look at Brazil and its vibrant history and culture. Felipe Hirsch and Daniela Thomas’s SUNSTROKES portrays unrequited love, Fernana Tornaghi and Ricardo Bruno’s QUEEN OF BRAZIL follows a small-town boy’s attempt to become Miss Gay Brazil, Jorge Bodanzky’s WITHIN THE RIVER, AMONG THE TREES heads into the Alto Solimões region to bring photography workshops to the native people, and José Joffily’s BLUE EYES delves into the growing worldwide immigration problem and racial profiling. Throughout the festival, DJ Marcelo Brasil will be spinning tunes in the Lounge Inffinito, with the free June 12 closing night and awards show being held at SummerStage in Rumsey Playfield, with live music and more.