Casa de Cinema NewsTHE SANDWICH wins American TV award
(06/Mar/2003)THE SANDWICH, a short film made by Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre and directed by Jorge Furtado, has just received another award, this time in the USA. The film was chosen among eighty shorts from all over the world, as one of the five best shorts of 2002 and it will receive the Kodak Award. THE SANDWICH was screened in the weekly program The Short List, on PBS, which has an audience of around 10 million viewers. It is the first time that a Brazilian movie wins this award, given by Kodak since 1998. This is the film’s nineteenth award.
Actually, the award could have been predicted in December, when an article on the magazine INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO MONTHLY, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the show The Short List, dedicated a special feature to THE SANDWICH, citing it as "one of the most remarkable films shown this year” and using the photograph of Milene Zardo and Felippe Monaco as the main illustration for the text.
More about the show The Short List on www.theshortlist.cc. More about the magazine The Independent Film & Video Monthly on http://www.aivf.org/independent/index.html. More about the film THE SANDWICH here.
HOUVE UMA VEZ DOIS VERÕES (TWO SUMMERS), produced by Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre, opens in Belo Horizonte, João Pessoa (Cine Mag 1) and Fortaleza (Art Iguatemi 2) this pre-carnival Friday, February 28th. The film, distributed by Columbia Tristar Filmes do Brasil, opened in the commercial circuit in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina on April 19th 2002. In June it won 4 awards at the XII Cine Ceará - National Film and Video Festival, held in Fortaleza - Best Director and Best Screenplay - Jorge Furtado / Best Editing - Giba Assis Brasil / Critics’ Prize.
The film is still being shown in theatres in Rio de Janeiro, on its 8th week, and at the UCI New York City Center and Cinemark Downtown.
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