Monday: A day for Cássia and Felix

Published in 10/03/2014

On Monday the first of the festival awards will be unveiled with the announcement of the winners of the festival's first Felix Awards. The announcement will be made at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil at 21.30.

The new award follows the dropping of the traditional Gay World section from the festival programme as Festival do Rio wanted to recognise that films with LGBT themes should not be shut away in a branded closet, but should be spread across the programming of the entire festival.

43 films were pre-selected for consideration for this year's first Felix Award. The jury consists of Wieland Speck - President (filmmaker, co-founder of the Teddy Award and director of the Berlin Film Festival's Panorama section); João Emanuel Carneiro (screenwriter); Albertina Carri (filmmaker and artisitc director of *Asterisco – The International LGBT Film Festival of Buenos Aires); and Malu de Martino (director).

Première Brasil's competitive screening may have come to the end, but even prior to the start of the festival there was building expectation for the hors concours screening on Monday of Paulo Henrique Fontenelle's documentary Cássia that will take place at Cinépolis Lagoon at 21:45. Cassia Eller was an iconic and at times controversial musical figure of the 1990s, who died aged 39 in 2001.

On Monday Ryan White will present The Case Against 8 at CCBB -1 at 17.50, Clara Bellar will introduce Being and Becoming at Cinemaison de France at 20:00. At the same time Marcio Debellian will present O Ventro la Fora (The Wind Outside), part of Première Brasil: Portraits at the Cinépolis Lagoon.

RioMarket Jovem continues Monday with a screenplay Master Class with Alessandro Marson and Renê Belmonte. There will also be a lecture at 17.00 by José Carlos Avellar about "Critical Perspective Over Filmmaking During the Digital Revolution."