Brazilian Immigrant Cinema Volume I: Los Angeles [In-Person Only]
Sat Mar 08:
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 NWFF Member
João Vieira, Syl Sutton, Chica Barbosa, and Fernanda Pessoa
Brazil & United States
Visiting Artist
Filmmakers Chica Barbosa, João Vieira, and Syl Sutton in attendance
About
Brazilian-born, West Coast-based filmmakers João Vieira (collaborating with US-born director Syl Sutton) and Chica Barbosa (collaborating with Brazilian based director Fernanda Pessoa) will show their films, “Os Angelinos” and “Swing and Sway” on Saturday, March 8th at Northwest Film Forum. Sponsored by Interbay Cinema Society, this timely program, Cinema Imigrante Brasileiro, has been structured as a fundraiser for immigrant rights advocacy.
Brazilian Immigrant Cinema is a series that showcases contemporary Brazilian filmmakers who live and work in the diaspora. The framework is to approach cinema through the immigrant perspective by embracing accents, neologisms, and code-switches. For its inaugural volume, we present two films that build their narrative through letters coming from one city in the United States: Los Angeles. In Os Angelinos, LA is the recipient of the collective open-letter, while in Swing and Sway the Californian metropolis converses with São Paulo in a filmic mail exchange between co-directors. Together, both films pair multilingual stories in dialogue with each other, ultimately inviting audiences to experience various cinematic languages in the same film program.
Doors open at 6; filmmakers will introduce their work and talk about their process; the screenings begin at 6:30 pm.
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Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. All doors in Northwest Film Forum are non-motorized, and may require staff assistance to open. Our upstairs workshop room is not wheelchair accessible.
The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter. Also available at the front desk is a Sensory Kit you can borrow, which includes a Communication Card, noise-reducing headphones, and fidget toys.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at suji@nwfilmforum.org. Our phone number (206-329-2629) is voicemail-only, but we check it often.
Made possible due to a grant from Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with Sensory Access, our Sensory Access document presents a visual and descriptive walk-through of the NWFF space. View it in advance of attending an in-person event at bit.ly/nwffsocialnarrativepdf, in order to prepare yourself for the experience.
⚠️ COVID-19 Policies ⚠️
NWFF patrons will be strongly encouraged to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while in the building. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.
Read more about NWFF’s policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here.
Stills above from from “Swing and Sway” by Chica Barbosa and Fernanda Pessoa and “Os Angelinos” by João Vieira and Syl Sutton.
Presented by Interbay Cinema Society
