Professor Ramin Bahrani's 'Socrates' Acquired by Breaking Glass Pictures

By
Zoe Contros Kearl
July 01, 2019

Socrates, a film produced by Professor Ramin Bahrani, was recently acquired for North American distribution by Breaking Glass Pictures. The film was nominated for both the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award. It won awards at many festivals, including Festival Mix Brasil (Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for lead actor Christian Mahleiros), Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival and the Miami Film Festival.

The film tells the story a 15-year-old living on the margins of São Paulo’s coast dealing with his mother’s death as he faces isolation because of his sexuality. Socrates is the debut feature film from 29-year-old Brazilian-American filmmaker Alexandre Moratto and is the first feature produced by the Querô Institute in Brazil where it was co-written, produced, and acted by at-risk teenagers from local low-income communities, with the support of UNICEF.

Bahrani’s films have screened at the Venice, Cannes, Sundance, Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals. He's won numerous awards including the FIPRESCI critic’s prize for best film in Venice (Goodbye Solo, 2009) and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among many others. Bahrani has been the subject of retrospectives in venues such as the MoMA in NYC. His film 99 Homes stars Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon and Laura Dern and premiered at The Venice, Telluride, Toronto and Sundance Film Festivals, and was released nationwide in September 2015. He wrote the forward for The Oliver Stone Experience, a new book by Matt Zoller Seitz that was published in September 2016. His new film, Fahrenheit 451 was released by HBO Films in May 2018 and stars Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon and Sofia Boutella.

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