[Brazil@Harvard] Brazil related events this week

Brazil Film Series Madame Satã Directed by Karim Aïnouz, 2002 Born to slaves in the northeast, João Francisco dos Santos - better known by his stage name of Madame Satã - moves to Rio and becomes a bandit, transvestite, street fighter, brothel cook, and father to seven adopted children. A notorious gay performer who pushed social boundaries in the volatile Rio of the 1930s and 1940s, Madame Satã immerses himself, and comes to define, the sordid yet lively world of the bohemian Lapa district. In Rio's underbelly, home of pimps, prostitutes, and other misfits, director Karim Ainouz tells a story of desperate dreams that transcend poverty and squalor. Date: *Tuesday, May 12* Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm Location: CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge Free and open to the public. Screened with subtitles in English. For more information click on: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/events/madamesata Cosponsored by the Brazil Studies Program at DRCLAS and the Harvard Brazilian Organization (HBO) ______________________________ Brazil on Screen "From Brazil to Japan" Directed by Aaron Litvin and Ana Paula Hirano Litvin From Brazil to Japan is a transnational film project that documents the personal trajectories of Brazilian dekassegui migrants on both sides of the Pacific. Since 1990 more than 300,000 Brazilians have gone to Japan to work, forming a wave of migration known as the dekassegui movement that has had a profound social and economic impact on both countries. This 90-minute film accompanies five different families of Brazilian migrants over the course of two years, from their preparation for departure in Brazil to their adaptation to life and work in Japan. The migrants, in expressing their hopes and experiences, provide their own narrative. The film puts a personal face on a major social phenomenon. Date: *Saturday, May 16* Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm Location: Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Pozen Center, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston (entrance on the side of the Tower Building on Tetlow St.) Contact: Savana Vagueiro, info(a)brazilonscreen.com or 203-589-2202 For more information click on: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/external/events/braziltojapan http://www.brazilonscreen.com/ The event is free and open to the public. The film is in Portuguese and Japanese, with English subtitles. -- Marcio Siwi Fellow / Program Officer Brazil Studies Program Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA 02138 tel (617) 495-5435 http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil