HAPPENED IN FIM

FIM starts today with on-line ceremony, tribute to Grace Passô and the exhibition of The Hour of the Star

A tribute to Grace Passô and the screening of the emblematic feature film The Hour of the Star opens the 2nd edition of FIM - International Women’s Film Festival, which starts this Tuesday (November 10th) and will have a free on-line programming until November 17th.

Due to the pandemic , this year`s ceremony will be broadcast on YouTube from 7:30 pm. Hosted by Didi Couto, the opening event will give an overview of the festival, which features 29 Brazilian and international films - 45% directed by white women, 45% by black and pardo women, 7% by indigenous women and 3% by yellow women.

The opening event will also have the presence of the honoree of this edition of the festival, the director, actress, playwright and writer Grace Passô, a multiple artist who inspires new ways and possibilities for the presence of women in cinema, theater, literature and television.

From 8 pm, the festival promotes a single session of its opening film, The Hour of the Star (1985), through the Innsaei platform. The screening of this landmark of national cinema pays tribute to two women who are crucial to Brazilian culture: the director and screenwriter Suzana Amaral, a pioneer filmmaker who passed away in June this year; and writer Clarice Lispector, whose centenary of birth is celebrated in 2020.

FIM joins this celebration based on Clarice`s work to highlight the power of women`s narratives in both literature and cinema. If The Hour of the Star opens the festival, the closing event will have The Book of Delights (2020), by Marcela Lordy, an adaptation of the novel An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures.

To check the full calendar and ask questions about what to do to watch the films, access the FIM digital catalog here. Enjoy the festival!

FIM 20 and Diageo promote debate on harassment in audiovisual and society

With the sex scandals like the one of the American producer Harvey Weinstein, moral and sexual harassment in society and in film industry have been highlighted in the everyday agendas, in cinema and society as a whole. In filmmaking, producer associations and professionals are active to establish new paradigms and anti-harassment pacts in sets, festivals and other spaces. In society, companies and organizations have been transforming their policies and creating campaigns and actions, as well as resources to shelter and support victims.

Taking this into consideration, Diageo and the Diageo Institute are holding the screening of the feature film Enough With Catcall, by Amanda Kamanchek and Fernanda Frazão, on the FIM 20 program. Also exhibited in the first edition of the festival, the films shows women`s perception of harassment in large cities and how cities are made (or not) for women. On November 12th, at 7 pm, Amanda Kamanchek, one of the film`s co-directors and manager of innovation and impact at the NGO Think Olga, which fights for equal conditions for women through communication tools and education, joins Marianna Souza and Daniela De Fiori in the panel “Actions for THE END of Harassment in Cinema and Society”, which wants to focus on the possibilities of anti-harassment actions in the cinematographic and social fields. Initiatives from associations, social institutions and active groups that work to end harassment in society spaces will be displayed. 

Marianna Souza, executive president of APRO – Associação Brasileira das Produtoras de Audiovisuais (Brazilian Association of Audiovisual Producers), presents the CORTA! Movement, which continues the proposals of the anti-harassment liability pact in the audiovisual launched in 2018. Amanda Kamanchek, innovation and impact manager at Think Olga and director of the documentary Enough with Catcall, presents the actions of the organization in fighting harassment and stereotypes in the media. Daniela De Fiori, Director of Corporate Relations at Diageo and Chairman of the Board at Diageo Institute, presents the Responsible Bar Campaign, which calls for bars and restaurants to be committed in facing and preventing the pandemic, responsible alcohol consumption, as well as to fight  in these spaces, providing tools to deal with these situations.