The Yellow Night (A Noite Amarela, 2019), Ramon Porto Mota
The Yellow Night (A Noite Amarela, 2019), a “spiritual slasher” directed by Ramon Porto Mota that I had the joy of editing, will have its U.S. premiere this Sunday at Cobble Hill Cinema, 7:15pm, as part of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. The film premiered at the Bright Future Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam and is now in theaters in Brazil. I will join producer Mariah Benaglia in a post-screening Q&A, to be continued at a nearby bar.
What makes the context of the premiere even cooler is that The Yellow Night is one of the three films that make the Fear in Focus section, that this year is completely devoted to new Brazilian horror films. So if you’d like to binge, on Sunday you can also watch Alice Furtado’s Sick, Sick, Sick (Sem Seu Sangue, 2019 – Cannes Director’s Fortnight) and Gabriela Amaral’s The Father’s Shadow (A Sombra do Pai, 2018), which screen nearby in the afternoon, at IFP, and make it in time for The Yellow Night. The section reflects a resurgence in Brazilian horror cinema, which includes filmmakers such as Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra, Dennison Ramalho, Juliano Dornelles, Ian Abé, Rodrigo Aragão, Gurcius Gewdner, Guto Parente, Pedro Diogenes, Raul Arthuso, Jhésus Tribuzi, Peter Bayerstoff, Anita Rocha da Silveira, and many others.
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