`The government is strangling cinema´: Brazil film industry fights for survival
(The Guardian Brazil)

Film expo will open Monday with a smaller program after Bolsonaro slashed public funding for the arts earlier this yearWhen Brazil´s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, slashed public funding for the arts earlier this year, the director of the country´s top film festival knew her event was in trouble.`We realized we wouldn´t have the funding to put together a festival ... We were hit really hard,` said Ilda Santiago, who has been running the Rio international film festival for two decades and had faced years of eroding local government support. Related: Death threats and denunciations: the artists who fear Bolsonaro`s Brazil How did it began?This article was amended on 9 December 2019 to clarify that Ancine withdrew Diego Paulino´s grant. Continue reading...