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Moara Passoni is a Brazilian writer, director and producer living between São Paulo and New York City. "Extase", her first non-fiction feature film, premiered in the main competition of CPH:DOX 2020, which hallmarked Moara as "one of the great names of today".
Passoni was an associate producer on the director’s films Elena, Olmo & the Seagull and The Edge of Democracy, as well as a cowriter on the latter, Oscar-nominated film.
The filmmaker, co-writer and associate producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary The Edge of Democracy, makes her debut with an elliptical portrait of a young woman who experiences both the outburst and torture of starving herself as a way to find her place in a brutal and uncertain world.
Oct 22, 2020 · Ecstasy: Directed by Moara Passoni. Êxtase is an elliptical essay portrait of a young girl experience both rapture and torture starving herself as a way to find a place in a brutal uncertain world.
Moara Passoni is a NYC-based filmmaker. She co-wrote and associate produced "The Edge of Democracy" (2019). In addition to the Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, the film won the Peabody and the Platinum Awards, being nominated for best narration/writing by The Critics' Choice Awards and the International Documentary Association.
Moara Passoni is a Brazilian writer and director. Her debut documentary, Êxtase (CPH:DOX 2020, MoMA Doc Fortnight, Visions du Réel), received numerous awards and critical acclaim. She is a co-writer and associate producer for the Academy Award-Oscar ® nominee and Peabody Award winner The Edge of Democracy , by Petra Costa.
Mar 19, 2021 · Moara Passoni’s astonishing hybrid work of documentary, memoir and fiction, Êxtase, which has been making the festival rounds following a CPH:DOX premiere, arrives in the U.S. at MoMA’s Doc Fortnight.
