Conversation With BACURAU Directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
Sunday, February 21 at 4:30pm ET

Presented by Sag Harbor Cinema and Cinema Tropical

Join us for a special conversation with Brazilian writer-directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles in conversation on their acclaimed film Bacurau with Sag Harbor Cinema's artistic director Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan, co-presented by Cinema Tropical.

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Kleber Mendonça Filho began his career as a film critic and journalist, with a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Pernambuco. He wrote for newspapers, such as Jornal do Commercio and Folha de S. Paulo, for magazines such as Continente and Cinética, and for his own site, CinemaScópio. As a director, he experimented with fiction, documentary, and video clips in the 1990s. He migrated from video to digital and 35 mm film in the 2000s. Over the course of that decade, he made several short films, including A Menina do Algodão (co-directed by Daniel Bandeira, 2002), as well as a feature-length documentary, Crítico (2008). Neighboring Sounds (2013) was Mendonça's first feature-length drama, winning numerous awards. Film critic A.O. Scott of The New York Times included it in his list of the 10 best films of 2012. Since then, Mendonça's films have received more than 120 awards in Brazil and abroad, with selections in festivals such as New York, Copenhagen and Cannes. Film festivals in Rotterdam, Toulouse, and Santa Maria da Feira have presented retrospectives of his films. He has also served as a programmer of cinema for the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation.

Juliano Dornelles is a founding member of the creation group ‘Símio Filmes’. Working as a Production Designer since more than 16 years, his partnership with Kleber Mendonça Filho started on the set of the short film Eletrodoméstica (2004). He was also the Production Designer of Neighboring Sounds (2013) and Aquarius (2016). His first feature film O Ateliê da Rua do Brum is currently in post production.