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With Apocalypse, the filmmaker illustrates the link between the far right and the Christian fundamentalist movement in Brazil ...
Costa not only dug into the behavior and power of the religious right in Brazil but lost sleep poring over apocalyptic texts ...
EXCLUSIVE: When does a democracy end, and a theocracy begin? That’s the key question in Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa’s urgent new documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, set to open in select ...
The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist.
Netflix released the documentary ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics,’ which seeks to understand how the far right mobilizes faith for ...
Petra Costa's sobering documentary examines the rise of right-wing evangelical Christianity in Brazilian politics ...
Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa’s latest documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, explores the impact of evangelical ...
"Apocalypse in the Tropics": Documentary. Directed by Petra Costa. (PG-13. 110 minutes.) Opens Friday, July 11, at Landmark's ...
Much of Apocalypse in the Tropics (which opens theatrically today and will premiere on Netflix Monday, July 14) follows Silas ...
Christian Nationalism, on the rise in Brazil and the U.S., is documented in the Netflix film 'Apocalypse in the Tropics,' directed by Petra Costa.
We speak with Petra Costa about her new Netflix documentary, ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’, a look at the rising ...
Oscar-Nominated Petra Costa, Director of Venice’s ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics,’ on How Brazil Serves as a ‘Parable’ for the U.S.