Gardenberg recently brought her first feature to Cannes, a Brazilian-Canadian co-production shot in English and starring Canada's Henry Czerny and Belgium's Patrick Bauchau and featuring the music of Gardenberg's friend, Philip Glass, who now spends each March in Rio.
The Interview, known as Jenipapo in Brazil, is a stylish thriller which is handled internationally by the Montreal-based Malofilm. Set in Rio de Janeiro, The Interview follows a journalist (Czerny) as he tracks down a notorious and reclusive priest (Bauchau) who is involved in the land disputes between the rich and poor.
The Brazilian director, who describes her film as a contemporary tragedy, attributes her close relationship as a producer of the arts as the spark that ignited her interest to direct. 'I had my own aspirations,' she recently told Moving Pictures in Cannes, 'to show my own personal vision. I chose the medium of film to be my third eye.'
Gardenberg attended a film workshop at NYU where the teachers told her that the short she had prepared for the course should be a feature. 'Hector Babenco taught me that making a film is an act of persistence. The new generation of Brazilian directors have a different approach to the old, who were committed to being intellectual. We throw ourselves into our projects. We believe in our ideas.'
And ideas are something Gardenberg has no shortage of. She is currently developing a number of projects, including a black musical set in Bahia.
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