Gray's 'Paper Tiger' Opens 50th São Paulo Film Festival — SkimNews
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- James Gray's crime drama "Paper Tiger" will open the 50th São Paulo International Film Festival on Oct. 14, the film's first official screening in Brazil
- "Paper Tiger" world premiered at Cannes where it competed for the Palme d'Or, and stars Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller as two brothers drawn into Russian mafia violence
- Gray will receive the festival's Leon Cakoff Award, with a retrospective of his body of work programmed alongside the opening
- RT Features, the São Paulo-based production company behind "Paper Tiger," previously produced Gray's "Ad Astra" and "Armageddon Time," as well as Oscar winners "Call Me By Your Name" and "I'm Still Here"
- Diamond Films, the Brazilian distributor of "Paper Tiger," is opening the festival for the fourth time in the past five years
- The 50th São Paulo International Film Festival runs October 15–29, with commercial screenings of "Paper Tiger" during the run; lead sponsor is Petrobras, backed by Itaú, Spcine, and the São Paulo City Government
Why it matters: The opening reunites an American auteur with Brazil's leading independent producer — RT Features, behind two recent Best International Feature winners — on the festival's milestone 50th edition, while state oil company Petrobras funds the event through a federal tax-incentive law that channels corporate tax obligations into cultural sponsorship.
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