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Brazilian Director Juliana Rojas, Producer Sara Silveira on Locarno’s ‘Cidade; Campo’

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Jamie Lang Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas’ last Locarno experience was one to remember, culminating in a Special Jury Prize for her 2017 feature “Good Manners,” which played in competition.

This time around her situation is less enviable, as the filmmaker presents “Cidade; Campo” (City; Country) in Locarno’s The Films After Tomorrow competition for productions halted by COVID-19 shutdowns.Rojas is among Brazil’s most exciting film and TV writing-directing talents with a resume loaded with festival plaudits, including two Cannes Discovery Awards for “A Stem” in 2007 and “Doppelgänger” in 2012.

But even a filmmaker with such a stellar track-record can’t escape the dire effects of the pandemic on the industry. Rojas and her team are.

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