Petra Costa, the filmmaker behind the politically charged Oscar-winning documentary The Edge of Democracy, is back with a follow-up of the same. With the trailer of her new work arriving recently, ...

Many backed controversial president Jair Bolsonaro. That doesn’t mean they want a theocracy. Petra Costa, director of the recent documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics, offers a lens through which to ...

Apocalypse in the Tropics (now streaming on Netflix) is a heavy, heavy documentary, the follow-up to Brazilian director Petra Costa’s 2019 must-see Oscar-nominee The Edge of Democracy. For the first ...

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. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film ...

The winners across 13 categories will be revealed at a Dec. 6 ceremony. By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor, East Coast This year’s nominees were selected from more than 550 submissions from 85 countries, ...

'The Tale of Silyan' and 'Apocalypse in the Tropics' National Geographic/Netflix National Geographic’s The Tale of Silyan won Best Feature Documentary at the 41 st Annual IDA Documentary Awards in Los ...