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Religious fanaticism, parental trauma, and misogyny from within and without are all up for dissection in director Mariana Bastos’s fascinating genre-tinged drama, Raquel 1:1. The only Brazilian feature in the SXSW lineup, Raquel 1:1 is a fascinating look at one young girl’s struggle to find her way in a rural town overwhelmed by religious orthodoxy. Simple inquiries turn her into a pariah and change the entire dynamic of the town around her, but is it for the better? For the first time in a while, Raquel (Valentina Herszage) is living with her father Hermes (Emílio de Mello) following the tragic, violent loss of her mother. Struggling to find a way to put it behind them, Hermes moves them back to his hometown, a rural religious...

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"Reality Z" is the new Brazilian 'zombie' horror TV series, based on the Brit TV miniseries "Dead Set", produced in partnership with Conspiração Filmes and directed by Cláudio Torres, now streaming the first season of 10 episodes on Netflix:

"...the successful reality show 'Olympus', where 'Tk', J'essica', 'Augusto', 'Marcos', 'Veronica', 'Madonna' and 'Cleide' were confined, is interrupted when a 'zombie apocalypse' takes over Rio de Janeiro...

"...forcing the production and the cast to remain locked up in the studios...

"...while series producer 'Nina' leads the fight against the monsters..."

Main cast includes Ana Hartmann as 'Nina', Emílio de Mello as 'Alberto Levi', Carla Ribas as 'Ana Schmidt', Ravel Andrade as 'Leo Schmidt', Guilherme Weber as 'Brand', Luellem de Castro as 'Teresa', João Pedro Zappa as 'Tk', Hanna Romanazzi as 'Jessica', Jesus Luz as 'Lucas', Pierre Baitelli as 'Robson', Leandro Daniel as 'Augusto', Gabriel Canella as 'Marcos',...