Three Awards at CineSerra Film Festival

From left to right: winners Pablo Chasseraux, Chico Pereira and Ana Gusson

Kassandra did well at the awards of the second edition of CineSerra Film Festival. The film received three awards at last Sunday, October 26, at SESC Theatre in Caxias do Sul, Brazil. 

We won the following categories:

• Best Cinematography for Pablo Chasseraux: This is his second award for the black-and-white photography in the movie.
• Best Art Direction for Ana Gusson: Kassandra is only hes second short at the function. The first, the beautiful Princess and the Pea, can be see here.
• Best Music Score for Chico Pereira: He who works with director Ulisses Costa da Motta from the first short of both, O Gritador (2006). This is the first award received by the composer for his work with movies.

Eight nominations at Brasilia Online Film Festival

Kassandra is the film with most nominations at the 1st Brasilia Online Film Festival. Last week were released the finalists in twelve categories and our film was nominated to eight of them. Know more here (in portuguese).

Previously, Kassandra had received eleven pre-nominations in the first phase of the festival. The selection committee made a new sorting and decreases to just five the number of nominees for each award.

One of the nominations was obtained via Internet voting. We got the second place with 562 votes in the Popular Jury category.

The awards will be held in Brasilia on 15 November.

Below, all categories in which Kassandra competes:

• Best Picture
• Best Film by the Popular Jury
• Best Director (Ulisses Costa da Motta)
• Best Actress (Renata Stein)
• Best Cinematography (Pablo Chasseraux)
• Best Sound (Roberto Coutinho and Leandro Lefa)
• Best Editing (Alfredo Barros)
• Best Original Score (Chico Pereira)

Kassandra at the Três Passos Film Festival

Kassandra was selected for the Três Passos Film Festival (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). Our movie competes with other 31 short films produced in Brazil.

The 1st Três Passos Film Festival takes place between 13 and 15 November at Cine Teatro Globe, the town's traditional cinema.