MoMA Film Ends Run of BRAZIL! 2010, 7/29

The eighth annual Premiere Brazil! film festival, a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, introduces New York audiences to original and accomplished recent work by both new and established Brazilian filmmakers. All of the new films being presented this year-11 features and four shorts-are New York premieres, and first screenings will be introduced by the filmmakers. Also featured are two classic films from the 1970s by Carlos Diegues. Screening at MoMA from July 15 through 29, Premiere Brazil! is organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art; and Ilda Santiago, Director, the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival.

This year's festival opens on Thursday, July 15, at 8:00 p.m., with the New York premiere of Lixo extraordinário (Waste Land) (2010), directed by Lucy Walker and co-directed by João Jardim and Karen Harley. This documentary follows contemporary artist Vik Muniz as he creates a recent series of portraits of people who subsist on the recyclables they scavenge from the world's largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho, outside Rio de Janeiro. The film explores the emotional journey of his three-year collaboration with the catadores, the inhabitants of this "trash city," who pick through the refuse, saving books for a local library, salvaging edible meat, and gathering the objects that Muniz then uses to create their likeness.

Documentary About Contemporary Artist Vik Muniz Has Its New York Premiere July 15

Premiere Brazil! 2010
July 15-29, 2010
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters