Festival de Gramado


The Gramado Film Festival is an international film festival held annually in the Brazilian city of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, since 1973. Since 1992, it also gives awards to Latin American films produced outside Brazil. It is the biggest film festival in the country.

History

Officialized by the National Cinema Institute in January 1973, the Gramado Film Festival was originally launched at the Hydrangeas Festivity, where film exhibitions were promoted between 1969 and 1971. The efforts of the artistic community, the press, tourists and the locals made the initiative an official event. By the 1980s, it was already the most important film festival of Brazil.

Awards

Currently, the festival makes awards in 24 categories. Its awards, called "Kikitos", are 13 inches statuettes created by the artisan Elisabeth Rosenfeld.

Brazilian motion pictures