Petra Costa Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Petra Costa Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Petra Costa (born July 8) is a Brazilian filmmaker and actress whose

work lives on the borderlines of fiction and nonfiction. She has been

a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the

organization behind the Oscars) since 2018.In Petra Costa's work the

personal and the political are inextricably linked. Her latest film,

the Academy Awards Nominated documentary The Edge of Democracy (2019),

is a Netflix Original documentary that had its premiere at the opening

night of Sundance Film Festival in 2019.According to First Showing,

"the footage she shares is truly jaw-dropping" and shows "an

astounding inside look at the recent political shake up in Brazil,

examining and showing us directly how democracy is collapsing thanks

to political power grabs". It has “all the feel of an All The

President’s Men-style political thriller….. with the sweep of The

Godfather†, as the ScreenDaily put it. For Point of View, this

“political documentary is like none other, a work both intimate and

grand in scope".The Edge of Democracy is the third documentary of a

trilogy where Petra investigates her family story. The first, Undertow

Eyes (2009), portrays her grandparents recollections and stories, in a

personal and existential tale about love and death. It screened at the

MOMA in 2010 and won best short Film at the Rio de Janeiro

International Film Festival 2009, best short film at the London

International Documentary Festival, and best short film the 13th Cine

Las Americas International Film Festival among others.
Petra Costa Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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