OPENING NIGHT EVENT

Wednesday, May 12

West Hollywood - DIRECTOR'S GUILD OF AMERICA - Theatre 1

CARANDIRU

6PM - 8PM:   PRE-SCREENING RECEPTION, with music by Six Degrees Records
8PM:                AWARD PRESENTATION AND SCREENING

By invitation only. A limited number of seats will be available to the public free of charge. RSVP required: (310) 815-0450

CARANDIRU

Director: Hector Babenco.
2003. Brazil. 152 min. Portuguese, subtitled. Sony Pictures Classics
LOS ANGELES PREMIERE
8.00pm

Sony Pictures Classics & Brazil Foundation present a SPECIAL OPENING NIGHT EVENT

Based on a true story, CARANDIRU explores the cells, the psyches and the horrors of Latin America's largest prison, culminating in the fateful 1992 massacre of 111 inmates during a prison riot. Through the eyes of a doctor, who for 12 years treated inmates suffering from a variety of diseases in decaying facilities, the viewer follows a montage of flashbacks and interlocking lives to portray the culture and the characters of an overcrowded and lawless prison. Ten years after the massacre, Carandiru was demolished to make way for a park. But where its demolition erased an emblem of police brutality in Brazil, Babenco's rendering is a monument to those whose spirits were lost within its walls.