Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Apocalypse in the Tropics” (July 14, Netflix) is a sequel to Brazilian documentarian Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy,” which ...

Alfredo Avila found himself in Brazil in 2004, far from his high school alma mater of Samohi. While seeking to expand his cultural education as a UC Berkeley exchange student in Brazil, he and his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix The threats posed by religion to liberal democracy are laid out with chilling poeticism by Apocalypse in the Tropics, ...

FARGO - Michael M. Miller, director of the North Dakota State Libraries' Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, is traveling to Brazil in April for the final filming and interviews for a new ...

Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva, three times president of Brazil, was born in 1945. He grew up poor in Sao Paulo and left school early to help support his family. Having trained as a lathe operator, he ...

Netflix's newest political documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, is a gripping, unsettling look at how democracy in Brazil threatened to unravel when religion and political ambition became deeply ...

Unveiling a lesser-known chapter in Brazil’s history, the documentary “Art of Diplomacy,” co-produced by filmmaker Celina Borges Torrealba Carpi, explores how art became a diplomatic tool during World ...

Stone joins fellow auteurs Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Schrader, and Mohammad Rasoulof at the 2024 festival. Stone filmed the documentary about thrice-elected Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da ...

On March 29, 2008, five-year-old Isabella de Oliveira Nardoni was thrown from the window of an apartment on the sixth floor of her father and stepmother’s apartment in São Paulo, Brazil. She died soon ...

Cover; Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I; 1. Feverish Archives, Feverish Films: Ethnographic ...