Rio de Janeiro Film Festival 2006
by Andre Soares
Rio de Janeiro is currently hosting the 8th Rio Film Festival (site in Portuguese), reportedly the largest film event in Latin America, with screenings of more than 300 films from 64 countries.
The festival — which this year has focused on Canadian cinema — ends its run tomorrow, though beginning Friday, it unofficially continues with screenings of films "without guaranteed distribution" in Brazil, among them Stephen Frears’s The Queen (which will surely get distributed in that country), Neten Chokling’s Milarepa, and Fernando León de Aranoa’s Princesas.
The picture above is from Alfredo B. Crevenna’s 1967 Mexican sci-fi flick Santo el enmascardo de plata vs la invasión de los marcianos, about meanie Martians wearing tights and blond wigs — or something along those lines. Santo was screened in Rio’s "Sci-Fi Mex" sidebar.
More on the 2006 Rio Film Festival at People’s Daily Online.
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