In typical shoot-from-the-hip remarks, Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has declared that Ancine, Brazil’s powerful state-backed federal film agency, should accept “filters”or face closu…
“If it can’t have a filter, we’ll close, or privatize it,” Bolsonaro added, attacking Ancine, which plows some $300 million a year into Brazil’s film and TV industries, for supporting “pornography” – in a reference to its co-financing of “Bruna Surfista,” a drama about a young middle-class Rio call girl.
“We have so many heroes in Brazil and people don’t talk about them,” the president argued. “We must preserve their memory, show the worth of those people who in the past gave their lives, battled for Brazil to be independent or democratic with a future which belongs to everybody.
“I just can’t give credit to this in a democratic country in 2019,” said Leonardo Edde, president of Brazil’s Audiovisual Industry Union .“I don’t know what kind of filter president Bolsonaro is referring to,” director-writer-producer José Padilha also told Globo’s Jornal Nacional. Bolsonaro’s words underscore the huge gulf in value systems between much of his government and Brazil’s film and TV industries.
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