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WHY: To draw American and European audiences into a deeper understanding of Brazil--and to make them curious: a public television
film series with a "festival" feel and a collection of films for use in libraries and educational settings. Showing
the diversity of Brazil and its film-making abilities: older and newer movies, the better known mixed with the unknown, urban
settings with rural settings, literary adaptations and historical programming, immigrant stories and stories about indigenous
peoples.
 A strand of programming and a festival that will entertain and educate the audience while conveying some sense of the variety
and richness of Brazilian history, geography, and culture. Brazil has amazing films and filmmakers--but many of them are completely
unknown to general North American and European audiences. The connections between the worlds of European, American, and Brazilian
film are varied and deep--and have been so since the beginning of the Brazilian film industry at the turn of the 20th century,
but how many people know about it?
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