Petra Documentary

[Geri Cutcher]

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Petra Costa (born 8 July 1983) is a Brazilian filmmaker and actress. In 2020, her documentary film The Edge of Democracy was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards and won a Peabody Award. She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2018.

Her first short film, Undertow Eyes (2009), portrays her grandparents' recollections and stories in a personal and existential tale about love and death. It was screened at MoMA in 2010 and won Best Short Film at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2009, the London International Documentary Festival, and at the 13th Cine Las Americas International Film Festival, among others[citation needed].

Petra Costa was born in 1983 in Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais. She is the daughter of left-wing political activists who opposed the Brazilian military dictatorship and the granddaughter of Gabriel Donato de Andrade, one of the co-founders of Andrade Gutierrez, one of the country's major construction companies;[4] directly involved in the corruption and bribery scandal that hit the country in 2015, leading to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. Costa acknowledges that background in The Edge of Democracy.

She started her training in theater in Brazil at the age of 14 and later went to the Dramatic Arts School at the University of So Paulo. She completed her undergraduate studies summa cum laude in Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, and completed her master's degree in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics focusing her studies on the concept of trauma.

Back in Brazil, at the age of 24, she began devoting her time to the cinema, first as a researcher and assistant editor and director, and then as a director in her own right. Her works are known for their essayistic character, with Petra establishing dialogues between intimate, personal themes and social and political issues.

Petra Costa made her film debut producing and directing the short film Undertow Eyes (2009), a poetic depiction of love and aging as seen from the perspective of her grandparents. The film was screened at MoMA and scooped numerous awards at Brazilian and international festivals: best short film at the Rio Festival and London International Documentary Festival (LIDF), best short documentary at the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival (USA) and special jury's prize at the Gramado Film Festival, among others.

As an offshoot of the documentary's success, a series of debates toured cultural and educational centers discussing the issues of suicide and mental health. The Memrias Inconsolveis (Inconsolable Memories) competition was part of this drive.

Petra Costa's second feature documentary emerged from an invitation from the Copenhagen International Documentary Festival (CPH: DOX) to co-direct a film with Danish filmmaker Lea Glob. Together, they decided to explore real lives through the fictional structure of Olmo and the Seagull. The film follows Olivia and Serge, actors with the Thtre du Soleil, who are expecting a baby. Pregnancy turns into a rite of passage, forcing the actress to confront her darkest fears. Olivia's desire for freedom and professional success, the limits imposed by her own body, and her image as a person are just some of the themes the film explores.[9]

Olmo and the Seagull premiered in Locarno, where it won the Jury's Young Director's Prize. It also won the Best Nordic Dox Award at CPH:DOX, Best Documentary at the Rio Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Cairo Film Festival and Best Narrative at the RiverRun International Film Festival, among other accolades.

At one of the film's first screenings in Brazil, Petra Costa defended women's right to autonomy over their bodies and the decriminalization of abortion, and her comments stirred up quite a controversy. In order to dialogue with the criticism, she received, Petra created the "My Body, My Rules" social media campaign, which was seen by 13 million viewers on Facebook and YouTube.

She made the feature-length documentary The Edge of Democracy (2019) with coverage of the marches for and against the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff in 2016. The film is a Netflix production and was released worldwide on June 19, 2019. With ample access to presidents Lula, Dilma and Bolsonaro, the director also revisited her own family history in an attempt to understand the schismatic state her country had fallen into.

Filmed over a period of 20 years, Body is a sensitive and intimate exploration of the extraordinary life and intricate inner world of a woman who fights to resist a series of rare auto-immune diseases with her indomitable spirit.

Petra Pan Film is a Slovenian production company founded in 2003 by the film director Petra Seliškar and the cinematographer Brand Ferro. It produces creative documentaries and arthouse fiction films that are strongly committed to individual vision and authorship as well as long term research based topics. In 2010, Seliškar and Ferro established the Festival of Creative Documentary Film MakeDox in Skopje, a favourite of many documentary filmmakers and audiences who enjoy its uncompromising programming and hospitable, informal atmosphere. In 20 years the company received many national and international awards.

PPFP is a Macedonian production company established in 2007 and run by Sara Ferro. It is one of the few creative documentary production companies in North Macedonia, focusing mainly on auteur-driven documentary films. It specifically connects various countries to N. Macedonia and Balkan countries in terms of co-production and distribution. With their approach they are succeeding in finding the right ways to reach audiences also outside TV channels and traditional cinemas.

Wolfgang & Dolly is a boutique production company from Zagreb, Croatia. It was founded in 2017 by Tamara Babun with the desire to produce creative audio-visual works that tackle socially relevant topics and safeguard a drop of hope for the audience. The company is developing documentary, fiction and animated content but are not afraid to try producing hybrid experiences either.

On November 8, 2019, while I was rewriting this piece for the second time, President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva was released from prison. In Latin America and elsewhere, governments are being shaken by protests against the rise of poverty and inequalities and/or in defense of democracy. Instability is such that it is hard to know the best moment to make a point that might be immediately overcome in what seems an uninterruptible cascade of events. In this situation, it is hard to finish a film comment, let alone to end a film.

The Edge of Democracy, directed by Petra Costa, is a powerful personal examination of the perverse sequence of events in Brazil that, amidst a corruption scandal, led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, the incarceration of businessmen and politicians, President Lula among them, and to the election of the current proto-fascist president. Speaking in a brave first-person, Costa gives form to a complex, interpretation of history, which relies on a precise editing of a range of film and audio materials, and on her experience as a member of the economic elite who share leftist values, in order to denounce the threat to the democratic advancements of the past 30 years.

As the crisis went on, Petra Costa continued to film. The result is an account of the last 40 years of Brazilian history, which starts and ends with the imprisonment of the now-released Lula. The director narrates both the Portuguese and the English versions of this Netflix documentary, signaling that she is able to cross the language border and that she speaks both to national and international viewers. Educated in the United States and in Europe, Costa comes to documentary film with a cosmopolitan humanist agenda that leads her to confront her own conflicting position in the contemporary crisis.

The director and her mother are present in the film, both in family archival material and as they interact with each other and with President Dilma Rousseff. As inheritors of one of the largest construction companies in Brazil, one that was involved in the corruption scandals, they share with viewers their critical perspective on their own family history. Indeed, the strength of the film comes from its honest acknowledgement of the privileged position from which the director narrates her story.

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