Ivete Lucas is a Brazilian-Mexican-American filmmaker and visual artist who lives and works in the American South. Her films have premiered at Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Toronto and Sundance. Her work has earned over thirty film festival awards, including the Short Film Award at the Cannes Director's Fortnight for Skip Day (2018), the Pardino d'Oro at Locarno for The Passing (2023) and a Cinema Eye Award for The Rabbit Hunt (2017). Her collection of short films has received distribution from ARTE, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Guardian. Her first feature film Pahokee (2019) about a small town in the Florida Everglades premiered at Sundance and played over fifty festivals world wide. It was distributed theatrically in France and the US and broadcast on PBS. Naked Gardens (2022), her second film about a Florida naturist resort, premiered at Tribeca and IDFA and is currently playing in select movie theaters across the United States and Canada.

ivete@otislucas.com
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Using precise and illustrative cinematic images, Patrick Bresnan makes verité stories that counter the mythic concepts of America. He directed and shot THE RABBIT HUNT which premiered in the US at Sundance and in Europe at the Berlinale. The film won over 20 awards including the Cinema Eye Honor. He co-directed and short SKIP DAY which won the grand jury prize at The Directors Fortnight at Cannes. He co-directed, shot and produced the feature film PAHOKEE which premiered in competition in 2019 at Sundance.  The following year he was a cinematographer on the Sundance winning feature BOYS STATE.  His most recent feature NAKED GARDENS premiered in the 2022 documentary competition at Tribeca and in Europe at IDFA. His new short THE PASSING won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and will premiere on the New Yorker in October of 2024.

patrickxavier@otislucas.com
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