{"id":61346,"date":"2025-09-12T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/?p=61346"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:16:06","slug":"award-winning-doc-milton-bituca-nascimento-set-to-premiere-at-the-4th-ny-brazilian-film-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/2025\/09\/12\/award-winning-doc-milton-bituca-nascimento-set-to-premiere-at-the-4th-ny-brazilian-film-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Doc Milton \u201cBituca\u201d Nascimento set to Premiere at the 4th NY Brazilian Film Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manhattan- For its 4<sup>th<\/sup> edition, the NY Brazilian Film Series will feature the NY Premiere of Grande Otelo Award-winning documentary <em>\u201cMilton Bituca Nascimento\u201d<\/em> on Sunday, November 2<sup>nd<\/sup> at Cinema Village in Manhattan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A multi-cultural Brazilian celebration through the 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She\u2019s preparing a piece influenced by the event\u2019s theme which is \u201cMemories and the Influence of Brazilian Culture around the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A small reception with Brazilian drinks and pastries will greet participants right before the film\u2019s screening as author <em>Cesar de Souza will launch his spiritual-fueled book \u201cAlem do Alem\u201d,<\/em> which investigates the impact of death and supernatural forces in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with some local concert houses, tickets for prestigious jazz concerts will be given away to ticket holders during a raffle- totally free. Tickets for upcoming shows at Lincoln Center, Miller Theatre and NJPAC among other prizes.<\/p>\n<p>To wrap up the evening, <em>BATALA NY, the female-led percussion group returns <\/em>to the stage for a vibrant, Bahia-style live music performance certain to make everyone dance.<\/p>\n<p>The NY Brazilian Film Series was created to educate, preserve and promote Brazilian culture in NYC as well as to support local talented artists. NYBFS has previously screened \u201cKobra-Self Portrait\u201d, \u201cBelchior-Just A Wild Heart\u201d and \u201cLuiz Melodia-Within the Heart of Brazil\u201d. It takes place twice a year, May and November, at Cinema Village, 22 East 12<sup>th<\/sup> Street, Manhattan. To learn more or to be part of the movement email <a href=\"mailto:nybrazilianfilmseries@gmail.com\">nybrazilianfilmseries@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tickets for Milton Bituca Nascimento on November 2<sup>nd<\/sup> are on sale now via Fandango or Cinema Village\u2019s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemavillage.com\/Now-Playing\/ny-brazilian-film-series-fall.html\">https:\/\/www.cinemavillage.com\/Now-Playing\/ny-brazilian-film-series-fall.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan- For its 4th edition, the NY Brazilian Film Series will feature the NY Premiere of Grande Otelo Award-winning documentary \u201cMilton Bituca Nascimento\u201d on Sunday, November 2nd at Cinema Village in Manhattan. A multi-cultural Brazilian celebration through the arts, film, music, dance, literature, fashion and gastronomy, its founder Roger Costa says, \u201cthis time we\u2019ll be celebrating one of our greatest treasures alive, engaging the audience in an immersive and joyous experience\u201d. The film directed by Flavia Moraes follows the influential singer\/composer during his final tour in New York and Belo Horizonte, while venturing through his memories and gathering testimonies from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,3,1],"tags":[],"views":883,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61347,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61346\/revisions\/61347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brazilianpress.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}