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TWO SUMMERS in New York
(15/May/2003)Thanks to a joint initiative of the Rio Festival, the Brazilian Film Festival of Miami, and MoMA (New York Museum of Modern Art), a program of Brazilian films will be shown annually in the Big Apple, starting next July. "The idea is to hold the festival always in the summer. In the next two years, while MoMA is away from its permanent site on 53rd St. (currently for renovation), the screenings will be at the Gramercy Theatre. There are also open air screenings scheduled for Brooklyn and Central Park", says Ilda Santiago, director of the Rio Film Festival, one of the people heading the project.
Brazil will be the second country to receive an annual focus from MoMA’s film department (the only other country is Germany). "We intend to take the films that had very limited or no exhibition in the United States, using the experience and the contacts from the festival to attract professionals in this market so that they can see these movies alongside the audiences", says Ilda. The festival strengthens the ties between the festival and MoMA, which has already organized retrospectives of restored American film classics in Brazil, jointly with the festival.
The first season is scheduled to be held between July 23rd and 28th, with screenings of "Janela da alma", "Durval discos", "Edifício Master", "Separações", "Dois perdidos numa noite suja", "Desmundo" and HOUVE UMA VEZ DOIS VERÕES (Two Summers) MoMA will pay for the subtitled copies, the transport and the infra-structure of the event in the city. Rio Festival will find new sponsors to take filmmakers and representatives of each film, which would help to publicize the event. The proposal, according to Ilda, is to expand the festival when MoMA returns to its home, within two years, always maintaining film as its main focus, but also holding exhibitions and music performances.
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