Event Summary:

The Q&Agency (FKA Picturehouse 441) and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote media literacy. Join us for a Q&A with director/co-writer/producer Petra Costa and editors David Barker, ACE; Nels Bangerter; Tina Baz, as they discuss their work on the documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics. When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? In Apocalypse in the Tropics, director Petra Costa takes us on a decade-long journey through the spiritual and political upheaval of Brazil. What begins as a search for signs of life in a fragile democracy transforms into a deeper inquiry into the seductions of power, prophecy and belief. Costa gains extraordinary access to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former President Jair Bolsonaro and the nation’s magnetic televangelist Silas Malafaia. More than a chronicle of political change, Apocalypse in the Tropics is a cinematic investigation of the fault lines that emerge when religion fuels political ambition. With the savage clarity that defined her Academy Award–nominated The Edge of Democracy, Costa documents a time of kaleidoscopic confusion and fear with intimate observational filmmaking that braids together the personal, the historic and the mythic. As faith shifts from private refuge to public battleground, Brazil holds a mirror to a world where democracies are being tested by the power of prophecy. (Synopsis by Netflix) This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Friday, January 9 at 5:30PM ET/2:30PM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo. Encore 1: Saturday, January 10 at 3PM ET/12PM PT Encore 2: Saturday, January 10 at 6PM ET/3PM PT