The festival's opening night was "Colleagues," a Brazilian film. In total, more than thirty films will be in competition at the festival. The film that accumulates honors at the 2012 Festival will receive a cash prize.
Eight films were submitted to compete in the category International Feature Competition. The films come from a diverse set of countries. The "Compliance" American function is one of the films submitted for this category. Another presentation is Danish film "Teddy Bear".
Like the films submitted to join the party, the list of jurors selected is also very diverse and includes Romanian director and film producer Tudor Giurgiu, Brazilian writer and director Sergio Machado, Argentine actress Eva Bianco and Leonardo Brazilian actor Medeiros. The Honorary President for the Amazonas Film Festival 2012 is Zelito Vianna. Besides movie projection Vianna "Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion", the festival also celebrates the birthday bicentennial of the Palme d'Or, which was won by the Brazilian film "Promises of prayer." In 1962, the film became the first and only film to date to win the prize. The film was also the first film in South America to receive an Oscar nomination for best foreign film.
The film festival a week is a meeting place for members of the film industry, filmmakers, journalists and film fans from Brazil and the rest of the world. The spectacular Amazon rainforest serves as a backdrop for the festival. A number of initiatives have been implemented by the festival to educate the local population about the film industry. One of those films that compete for the top prize is "Jonathas' Forest." The film is directed by Sergio Andrade, born in Manaus and is separated by a divergence from the magical realism that is usually a centerpiece of many films in Latin America. At the same time, the film can still invoke an atmosphere of change that affects people outside like Amazon native.
Since then, the film has managed to create no small amount of controversy in the worlds of theater festivals. Fernando Javier Leon Rodriguez scored a prize for the best first feature film for his work in this film. After the premiere of the film at Cannes, the film rights were acquired by Sundance Selects.
While "other son" is certainly not a successful film received many positive reviews. The film Lorraine Levy tells the story of an Israeli child and a Palestinian child who was switched at birth. The Danish film " Teddy Bear ", Mads Matthiesen revolves around the story of a bodybuilder. He has received numerous awards, including the director Price Sundance film World.
The Amazonas Film Festival has become the centerpiece of the first for the South American films.
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