THREE SUMMERS
Original Title: Três Verões
Director: Sandra Kogut
Fiction / 94min / 2019
Portuguese with English Subtitles
Over a trio of summers, a caretaker for luxury condominiums relies on her resourcefulness and her eye for opportunity to take advantage of whatever comes her way as her employers are caught in major corruption scandals.
Q&A with Sandra Kogut, Director
About the director:
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Sandra Kogut began her career as an artist working in film and video before turning to documentary, tv shows and fiction films. Her early work includes the prize-winning 1991 “Parabolic People” (shot in Paris, Moscow, New York, Tokyo, Rio and Dakar) and the award‐winning documentaries UN PASSEPORT HONGROIS (2001/France/Belgium/Hungary/Brazil); PASSAGERS D’ORSAY (France 2003) and ADIU MONDE (France 1997). Kogut’s first feature MUTUM (Brazil/France, 2007) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and went on to numerous festivals including Toronto, Berlin, Rotterdam and others, receiving more than twenty awards worldwide. During a year in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Künstlerprogramm in 2011 she wrote the script of her feature film “CAMPO GRANDE” (2015) which she has shot in Brazil. CAMPO GRANDE premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win multiple international awards. Her work has been featured in venues such as the New York Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center and Guggenheim Museum, Harvard Film Archive, Forum des Images and many others. Her new feature film, called “TRÊS VERÕES”, also premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and went on to many international festivals, winning awards (Havana, Antalya, Malaga, Rio and others) and getting commercially distributed in numerous countries (France, Spain, Turkey, Australia and others). For years a professor at the École des Beaux Arts (Strasbourg, France), Kogut has also taught at Princeton University and in the graduate film programs at Columbia University (NYC) and UC San Diego. She was a visiting scholar at NYU. Sandra Kogut has also been a television director since 1995, having created new programs for Globo TV in Brazil and other channels. Since 2015 she is a commentator on a daily live news show at the Globo News tv channel. She is currently a Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.
