GRAMADO, Brazil — “Our Secret” (“Nosso segredo”), the first feature from Grace Passô, nabbed the best feature film Kikito award at the Aug. 22 closing ceremony of the 54th Gramado Film Festival. The feature also scooped cinematography (Wilssa Esser) and art direction (Lucas Osório) plaudits. Passô, an established playwright and also actress, directed and wrote
GRAMADO, Brazil — As the first edition of the Residency for Young Filmmakers wrapped on Aug. 19, the Gramado Film Festival has decided to continue the program with a second edition set to take place at its 2027 edition and that the Residency would become a permanent initiative at Gramado, Rosa Helena Volk, president of
GRAMADO, Brazil — Vet Brazilian helmer-producer Paulo Nascimento will lense “A Chocolate Christmas,” a Portuguese-language holiday-themed feature film in the mountain resort of Gramado, in southern Brazil, and New York City, he told Variety. The film will shoot over December and January. Nascimento is set announce the film project t his panel on Sunday at
The First International Meeting of Cities will take place Aug. 12-14 at the Gramado Film Market and will gather municipal-level authorities from such major towns as Medellín, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Maricá and fest-host Gramado as well as representatives of Brazilian and Ibero-American organizations to discuss how the creative economy — particularly the audiovisual
As Brazil’s explosion on the Oscar and A-Fest scene turns its leading actors into international stars, two of its biggest revelations, “I’m Not Here” co-star Selton Mello and “The Secret Agent” star María Fernanda Cândido, will be honored at Brazil’s Gramado Film Festival, bringing the aura of burgeoning international renown to one of the country’s