Announcing the Fifth Luso World Cinema blogathon

 

Hello again from sunny Brazil! This year has already brought something brand new: an Oscar for a Lusophone country with the victory of “I’m Still Here” in the Best International Film category. It was the fifth time Brazil was up for this award – it’s a shame that Portugal and other Lusophone countries were never even nominated. Because of this historical win, we - that is, me and Beth from Spellbound with Beth Ann - decided to make a change in the Luso blogathon this year: instead of hosting on the usual date, May 5^th, we decided to start the event on June 19^th, when we celebrate Brazilian Cinema Day. The event will continue until June 22^nd – plenty of time to contribute with a text and/or read the entries.

The rules are simple:

The Luso World Cinema Blogathon once again accepts posts about films made in Lusophone countries, that is, countries that speak Portuguese – see the list below –, and film stars with Luso heritage, that means, film stars of Portuguese descent. This list includes natives like Carmen Miranda, Rodrigo Santoro, Sônia Braga, Raul Roulien, Maria de Medeiros and also Keanu Reeves, Mary Astor, Louise Fazenda, Tom Hanks, Joe DeRita, James Franco, Daniel Brühl, Auli'i Cravalho (the voice of Disney's Moana!), Nestor Paiva, Amy Poehler,  Dorothy DeBorba and many more you can find listed HERE. You can write an overview of those people's lives or careers or focus on a specific film or TV show they made. We also accept the quite rare portraits of Portuguese, Brazilian or other Luso people in film, like in 1937’s “Captain Courageous”, in which Spencer Tracy plays a Portuguese sailor, for instance.

Now a little intermission to know more about us, your hostesses:

Here are a few lists of movies from Lusophone countries:

List of films from Portugal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Portuguese_films

List of films from Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Brazilian_films

List of films from Cape Verde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cape_Verdean_films

List of films from Mozambique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mozambican_films

List of films from Angola: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Angolan_films

List of films from Guinea-Bissau:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bissau-Guinean_films

List of films from São Tomé and Príncipe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe

List of films from Equatorial Guinea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Equatoguinean_films

List of films from East Timor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:East_Timorese_films

We have banners for you to spread the news about the blogathon:

Mary Astor

Ilhéu de Contenda / The Island of Contenda (1996)

A Trança Feiticeira / The Bewitching Braid (1996)

Trikal (1985)

Air Conditioner (2020)

Rio, Zona Norte / Rio, Northern Zone (1957)

Mulheres de Beira / Border Women (1923)

Mark Ruffalo

Carmen Miranda

Tom Hanks

Maria de Medeiros

Jasmine Guy

Yvonne Furneaux in Lisbon (1956)

Lena Horne

Who's doing what:

Crítica Retrô: Silvino Santos, a filmmaker from the jungle

Spellbound with Beth Ann: That time when TCM called Carmen Miranda a Latin AND Hispanic icon

Realweegiemidget Reviews: That Man from Rio (1964)

Cinematic Catharsis: Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)

Hollywood Kitchen: Louise Fazenda's Cookie Recipe

Speakeasy: Zé do Caixão a.k.a Coffin Joe

Classic Film and TV Corner: The Miranda Sisters