Talent Press Rio Talent Press Rio is a training programme for critics and journalists from Portuguese-speaking countries, held within the framework of Festival do Rio
Talent Press Rio is a training programme for critics and journalists from Portuguese-speaking countries, held within the framework of Festival do Rio. The result of a partnership between the Berlinale Talents of the Berlin Film Festival, Festival do Rio, the Goethe-Institut, the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique (FIPRESCI) and the Brazilian Association of Film Critics (Abraccine), the programme aims to contribute to the education and training of young critics and journalists, creating opportunities for exchange between the Portuguese-speaking countries and strengthening the cultural ties between these countries.
Participants can experience a major international film event, participate in meetings, debates and master classes with Brazilian and international guests, besides, of course, conducting interviews and writing reviews, reports and essays, under the supervision of experienced professionals. The texts are published on the websites of the programme and the partner institutions. The program also includes discussions about the curatorship of film festivals and exhibitions, nowadays intrinsically related to critical activity. Talent Press Rio is one of the international arms of the Berlinale Talents programme, and the only one exclusively focused on Portuguese-speaking countries.
Talent Press Rio is part of a group of seven Talents International initiatives, which have a similar structure to Berlin, while maintaining their own regional perspectives and benefiting from local film festival networks. They are: Talents Buenos Aires, Talents Beirut, Talents Guadalajara, Talents Durban, Talents Sarajevo, Talents Tokyo and Talent Press Rio itself.
MENTORS
PEDRO BUTCHER (coordinator)
Journalist, critic and researcher, he is a contributor to Valor Econômico and professor of the cinema and audiovisual course at ESPM-RJ. Between 2001 and 2014, he edited the Filme B website, focusing on the film industry. He is part of the Talent Press team at the Berlin Film Festival.
RONI FILGUEIRAS (assistant and mentor)
Journalist and curator, worked as a critic for O Globo, Folha de S.Paulo, Jornal do Brasil and Veja Rio. She has written essays in several books, such as "Mulheres atrás das Câmeras", finalist of the Jabuti prize 2020. A PhD candidate at UFRJ, she is a member of Abraccine.
ELA BITTENCOURT (mentor)
She writes for international magazines, including Film Comment and Sight & Sound, and collaborates with Venice Days, IDFA and É Tudo Verdade. She was a curator at the São Paulo International Film Festival, CineSesc, IMS and MoMI in New York.
JULIANO GOMES (mentor)
Critic and professor. Co-editor of Cinética Magazine, he has been published in Film Quarterly, World Records Journal. He was part of the jury of DocLisboa, Mostra Tiradentes, the Sheffield DocFest 2020/21 selection committee, among others. He taught at AIC-Rio.
PARTICIPANTS
ALINE GOMES (Campinas, Brazil)
HÉLIO NGUANE (Maputo, Mozambique)
KAMILLA MEDEIROS (Fortaleza, Brazil)
LUCAS OLIVEIRA (Vespasiano, Brazil)
MATHEUS ZENOM (São Paulo, Brazil)
PAULA MERMELSTEIN (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Voltar
