Sean Penn has joined Marianna Brennand ’s debut feature “Manas” as executive producer. The Brazilian film won Brennand the best director award at Venice Days, the independent parallel section of the Venice Film Festival.

Penn joins “I’m Still Here” director Walter Salles, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, and “I’m Still Here” producer Maria Carlota Bruno as the film’s executive producers.

Watch the “Manas” trailer here.

Penn remarked, “In the tradition last fulfilled by Walter Salles’s ‘I’m Still Here,’ Marianna Brennand’s film ‘Manas’ continues Brazil’s most enduring cinematic legacy. Films of striking social relevance that never fall to polemic or sensationalism, but instead so trustingly fulfill their characters’ plight and courage. ‘Manas’ is deeply emotional, stirring, and God forbi

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