Masterclass & Screening with Gustavo Vinagre

Masterclass & Screening with Gustavo Vinagre

by Hannah Deans -
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On Tuesday 26th April, the Film MA students invite you to join them for a special Masterclass & Screening with Gustavo Vinagre.

/// TIMINGS

  • 12:00 to 13:40: Screening
  • 13:40 to 14:00 Break
  • 14:00 to 16:00 Masterclass/Q&A with Director
/// ABOUT
Gustavo Vinagre is a Brazilian writer, director, and actor, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1985. His most recent feature film "Tres tigres Tristes” (Three Tidy Tigers Tied A Tie Tighter) /2022, won the Teddy Award at Berlinale. In the past 4 years, Gustavo had other 2 films selected for the Forum session at the same Festival: “A rosa Azul de Novalis” (The Blue Flower of Novalis) /2019, and "Vil, má (Divinely Evil) /2020. He studied literature at the University of São Paulo and then studied screenwriting at the International Film School of San Antonio de Los Baños (EICTV) in Cuba.


The films they are watching:

1: FILM FOR BLIND POET (FILME PARA POETA CEGO)
Directed by Gustavo Vinagre
Brazil, Cuba, 2012
Documentary, Biography, Short, 26´
Trailer: 

SYNOPSIS
Glauco Mattoso, a blind sadomasochistic poet, agrees to participate in a documentary about his own life, but the conditions he imposes raise difficulties to the work of the young director.

2. THE BLUE FLOWER OF NOVALIS ( A ROSA AZUL DE NOVALIS)
Directed by Gustavo Vinagre, Rodrigo Carneiro
Brazil, 2019
Trailer: 

SYNOPSIS
Marcelo, a dandy of about 40 years, has a memory like no other. Monologuing between coffee and hookups, he holds court on a wide range of topics: his HIV status, his Catholic grandmother, and his unusual sexual fantasies. At times, he takes himself for Genghis Khan or poet-philosopher Novalis.