Sean Penn has joined Marianna Brennand ’s debut feature Manas as Executive Producer. The Brazilian film, which won Brennand the Best Director Award at Venice Days, the independent parallel section of the Venice Film Festival, brings the two-time Academy Award-winning actor together with last year’s Best International Feature Film winner Walter Salles and two-time Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne and I’m Still Here producer Maria Carlota Bruno as Executive Producers.

“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.

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