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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".
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, the co-writer and associate producer of Petra Costa’s Academy Award®–nominated The Edge of Democracy, transmutes a young Brazilian woman’s experience of anorexia into images and thoughts of almost ecstatic beauty.
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 4, 2022 · Exploring gender dynamics in cinema with filmmaker Moara Passoni. Posted by on 10.4.2022. We reflect on a powerful recent Creative Production MA guest session on Gender Dynamics in Cinema, led by award-winning Brazilian director of Êxtase, Moara Passoni.
Moara Passoni is a founding member of the Brazilian Filmmakers Collective. She directed Êxtase (Cannes Director’s Fortnight; MoMA New Directors/New Films) and served as co-author and associate producer for the Academy Award-nominee The Edge of Democracy.
