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Jô Serfaty

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Jô Serfaty es una realizadora y guionista de Río de Janeiro, Brasil. A través de narrativas ficcionales, documentales e híbridas, su trabajo se enfoca en cuestiones sociales. Sus películas abordan el imaginario colectivo brasileño, creando lazos afectivos con la comunidad. Entre 2012 y 2019 ha escrito y dirigido cuatro cortometrajes. En 2019 estrena su primer largometraje "Um filme de verão", un retrato híbrido del último verano de cuatro adolescentes recién egresados de la secundaria en una favela de Río de Janeiro. La película participó de importantes festivales internacionales como Göteborg IFF, Filmfest Hamburg, Neighbouring Scenes (Lincoln Center) y DocumentaMadrid. Recibió también Menciones Especiales en Doclisboa y en el Festival de Mar del Plata. En 2020, recibió el premio a Mejor Película en L’Alternativa Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona. Actualmente escribe su segundo largometraje.


Jô Serfaty is a director and scriptwriter, from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), living between Rio and São Paulo. She works across narrative, documentary and experimental modes of filmmaking addressing social issues. Her films are made up of bonds of affection - community - investigating the collective imagination of Brazilian society. She wrote & directed four shortfilms, her debut hybrid feature film titled SUN INSIDE, which is a portrait of young teenagers in their last vacations to adulthood in a slum in Rio de Janeiro. SUN INSIDE was exhibit in important film festival around the world such as; Doclisboa, Gotomborg film festival, Lincoln Center (Neighboring Scene), DocMontevideo, Documenta-Madrid, Ficvinã (Chile). The film won best film prize in the 2020 L’alternativa Barcelona in Spain and also in the 2020 Transcinema in Peru and six special mentions from the jury in the 2019 DocLisboa, 2019 Mar del plata film festival and other film festivals.

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Hibridaciones: Jô Serfaty sobre el guión y puesta en escena entre ficción y documental

With: Jô Serfaty and Marta Garcia
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Hibridaciones: Jô Serfaty sobre el guión y puesta en escena entre ficción y documental

With: Jô Serfaty and Marta Garcia
$10
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