Amores Urbanos (2015) feels out of place among the rest of the movies selected for the Cine Las Americas Film Festival. Most of the films tell the stories of silenced or marginalized characters, people that at least in the US do not receive much screen time. Because of this, director…
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Messy Reflections after a trip to Brazil
Cine Las Américas Review: O Último Cine Drive-in
Brasilia’s utopian vision of a city not only includes the governmental buildings arranged in an orderly design, but also features (apparently, according to this film) a drive-in movie theater. The best parts of this feature-length drama are the establishing, long shots of this unique drive-in location. This one-of-a-kind drive-in matches…
Brazilian Filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro visits Austin
Celebrated Brazilian Filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro will be visiting Austin, Texas for three exciting events this week. On Monday at 7:30, the Austin Film Society will present a screening of Ventos de Agosto (2014), Mascaro’s first feature narrative film, followed by a Q&A with the director, mediated by UT professor Jason Borge. The…
Poverty Tourism and Gabo in Yoknapatawpha
Reporting from BRASA
As the grand conclusion to my incredibly privileged whirlwind summer of travel, observation, and adventure, I ended in London for the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) conference. Having planned with a group of fellow PhD students and professors in the Spanish and Portuguese department at UT since October, we presented a…
Now that the dust has settled: 7-1 and beyond
The «Chic» Favela
As I continued to ruminate on my experiences in the “The ‘Eco-Favela’” and watch the World Cup, I traveled from Brazil back to my hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan and then on to Europe, stopping to visit friends in Paris before I present at a conference in London.
