Two award seasons, one Golden Globe sweep, and two Cannes prizes later, Brazilian cinema's most internationally recognized voices have moved from the podium to the op-ed page — and they have chosen their platform with precision. On October 10, a group of 58 Brazilian Academy members published an open letter in Variety, the trade publication that reaches Hollywood's power brokers, prestige voters, and international press corps. The subject: the October 25 presidential runoff between right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro and incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
