Netflix has acquired the rights to Petra Costa‘s newest documentary on Brazilian politics, “Apocalypse within the Tropics,” and can stream the movie in 2025.
The movie is a reunion between Netflix and Costa, who was nominated for an Oscar for the Netflix doc “The Fringe of Democracy” from 2019. Netflix acquired “Apocalypse within the Tropics” after it first premiered at Venice after which performed Telluride, the New York Movie Pageant, Camden Worldwide, IDFA, Chicago Worldwide, and the Montclair Pageant. Try IndieWire’s evaluation out of Venice right here.
“Apocalypse within the Tropics” examines how the evangelical motion in Brazil helped pave the best way for the rule of Jair Bolsonaro. The movie argues that permitting evangelical leaders to wield such energy threatens to make Brazil a nationwide theocracy.
Right here’s the official logline by way of Netflix: When does a democracy finish, and a theocracy start? Apocalypse within the Tropics investigates the more and more highly effective grip that evangelical Christian leaders maintain over politics in Brazil. Weaving collectively previous and current, the movie holds a mirror as much as the remainder of the world.
“I’m thrilled that ‘Apocalypse within the Tropics’ has discovered its house on Netflix,” Costa stated in a press release. “We labored on this documentary for 4 years as a result of we consider the erosion of democracy is essentially the most essential problem we face. In our story, we take a look at what occurs in Brazil as a fable of our occasions. I do know from our expertise with ‘The Fringe of Democracy‘ that Netflix cares deeply for the filmmakers they work with and can assist this story attain a world viewers scary a a lot wanted dialog.”
Costa wrote and directed the documentary and teamed with co-writers David Barker, Alessandra Orofino, Nels Bangerter, and Tina Baz on the challenge. Costa additionally produced for her Busca Vida Filmes; Orofino produced for Peri Productions.
“Apocalypse within the Tropics” was made in affiliation with Influence Companions, Play/Motion Footage, Luminate, and Plan B/KM Movies.
Brad Pitt’s Plan B is among the many government producers on the challenge. Right here’s the total checklist of EPs: Jenny Raskin, Jim & Susan Swartz, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Katrina vanden Heuvel and Meadow Fund for Influence Companions; Jeffrey Lurie and Marie Therese Guirgis for Play/Motion Footage; Felipe Estefan and Rafael Georges Zein for Luminate; Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Movies; Katy Drake Bettner; Kate Hurwitz; InMaat Basis; Frida Polli; James Costa; Trevor Burgess.