Catalyst students, alumni and team are all invited to join the Creative Production (Film) Masters workshop, Modern Cinematic Perspectives, on Tuesday 22nd Feb from 10:30.
The topic of the day is "Gender Dynamics in Cinema" and students will be joined by multi-award winning filmmaker, Moara Passoni for a special Q&A, as well as to watch her film Êxtase.
When: Tuesday 22nd Feb, from 10:30
RSVP: https://forms.gle/ZR6fg6AW2knsbHjg6
Timings:
10:30: introduction
10:35: screening of Êxtase (80min)
12:00: break
12:20: Q&A with Moara
/// About Moara
Moara Passoni is a Brazilian writer, director and producer living between São Paulo and New York City. "Extase", her first non-fiction feature film, premiered in the main competition of CPH:DOX 2020, which hallmarked Moara as "one of the great names of today". The film screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2021, Visions du Réel 2020 among others, receiving fabulous critiques and winning several awards, including the Prix D'Innovation Daniel Langlois at Festival du Cinema Nouveau, the Jury Award for best newcomers at the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Best Film Young Jury Award at Cinema Jove.
She served as a writer and producer for the Academy Award Nominee and Peabody winner "The Edge Of Democracy'', for which she was nominated for best narration/writing by The Critics' Choice Awards and the International Documentary Association.
/// About Êxtase
Êxtase is an elliptical essay portrait of a young girl experience both rapture and torture starving herself as a way to find a place in a brutal uncertain world.
Please register here if you would like to join.