The Brazilian film Socrates (2018) is released in cinemas and on streaming platforms in the UK on Friday 4th September. Its director, Alexandre Moratto, found a break to speak to Sounds and Colours about his first feature whilst... Read Article
Rio de Janeiro is notorious for having one of the highest levels of social inequality on earth. A city of dramatic contradictions – it’s glamorous but ugly, passionate but angry, tranquil but dangerous. While beauty radiates from its... Read Article
Rio, I Love You is a collaborative feature film, the third of the ‘The Cities of Love’ trilogy. As with previous successes, Paris, Je t’Aime (2006) and New York, I Love You (2008), the film gives the opportunity... Read Article
Ginga: The Soul of Brazilian Football, produced by Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener) and directed by Marcelo Machado (Tropicalia), Hank Levine and Tocha Alves, is an excellent documentary snapshot on what football means to Brazil.... Read Article
Between July 1967 and October 1969 a group of Brazilian musicians created a musical movement known as tropicália. Inspired by Brazilian music, art, literature, theatre and cinema as well as The Beatles and Rolling Stones, they created a... Read Article
The BFI London Film Festival 2011 has now officially started. To save you the work of having to search through the programme for the Latin American films on show, here’s our day-by-day guide to the Latin American movies... Read Article
The third edition of the Brazilian Film Festival of London is coming to town and Sounds and Colours will once again be supporting the festival. Taking place from Tuesday 6th September, with an Opening Gala Night at BAFTA... Read Article
“The only rule to getting things done in life is simple: get on and do them,” says Dorian Needs, founder and director of Rio Film School, an organisation offering intensive filmmaking courses in Rio de Janeiro. These courses... Read Article
The 2nd Brazilian Film Festival in London finished on 5th September after improving relations between film producers from the UK and Brazil, as well as giving city dwellers the chance to catch some of the great new films... Read Article
As part of the 2nd Brazilian Film Festival of London there will be a day of talks with some of the Brazilian film industry’s key players, including BAFTA and Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles, the Head of International Affairs... Read Article
During the month of August BFI are holding a South American film festival featuring many of the classics of the genre. It seems a bit of a shame that they have decided to feature some of these classics... Read Article
