Monday, July 20, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Map of location

Presented as part of Premiere Brazil! 09 (July 16 – August 3) organized by the Museum of Modern Art and the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival.*

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TropiChat: Eduardo Coutinho and Bruno Barreto is presented in partnership with Cinema Tropical with the support of the Consulate General of Brazil in New York.

TropiChat, an ongoing series that features conversations with renowned Latin American filmmakers, presents a talk between Brazil’s master of documentary filmmaking Eduardo Coutinho with acclaimed director Bruno Barreto. They will be discussing Coutinho’s work with particular emphasis on the borders between fiction and reality, a recurrent theme throughout Coutinhos’s filmography.

Eduardo Coutinho: Eduardo Coutinho is one of Brazil's greatest documentary filmmakers who is highly regarded for his formally distinguished and innovative style. His influential works highlight the storytelling abilities of ordinary people in films of rare beauty and impact. Coutinho’s favorite theme throughout his filmography has been the investigation of the fine line between fiction and reality. He has received numerous awards for his documentaries, which include Twenty Years Later - Man Labeled to Die, (1964/1984), filmed over a period of two decades, Master, a Building in Copacabana (2002), Babilônia 2000 (2000), Metalworkers (2004), The End and the Beginning (2005) and Playing (2006). His screenwriting credits include Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976). Premiere Brazil includes a retrospective of eight seminal works by Coutinho including the world premiere of his most recent film Moscou (2009).

Bruno Barreto: Bruno Barreto has been making feature-length films since he was seventeen years old and remains one of Brazil’s most accomplished and popular directors. Son of producers Luiz Carlos and Lucy Barreto he made his directing debut with Tati, Brazil's official entry at the 1973 Moscow Film Festival and was 22 when he scored an international hit with Doña Flor and Her Two Husbands (1977), a comedy based on the Jorge Amado novel starring Sonia Braga. Barreto's English-language directorial debut, the political thriller A Show of Force (1990), was followed by Carried Away (1996), starring Amy Irving and Dennis Hopper. In 1997 Barreto made Four Days in September , a film about the 1969 kidnapping of the US Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Elbrick (Alan Arkin) which was nominated for an Academy Award Best Foreign Film. In Brazil his romantic comedy Bossa Nova (2000), also starring Irving, was followed by The Marriage of Romeo and Juliet (2005) and Caixa Dois (2007). Premiere Brazil is presenting the New York premiere of his most recent film Last Stop 174 (2008) based on the real life tragedy of the 2000 hijacking of bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro.

*Please see the MoMA website (www.moma.org) for full line up and descriptions of Premiere Brazil ‘09.

^{Image: From O fim e o principio (The End and the Beginning) 2005. Brazil. Directed by Eduardo Coutinho. Image courtesy of Cinema Tropical.}