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, ...

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 ...

“Apocalypse in the Tropics” (July 14, Netflix) is a sequel to Brazilian documentarian Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy,” which collected an Oscar nomination in 2020. Despite the plethora of ...

We speak with Petra Costa about her new Netflix documentary, ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics’, a look at the rising evangelical influence in Brazilian politics.

The documentarian follows her Oscar-nominated "The Edge of Democracy" with "Apocalypse in the Tropics," a Plan B-produced sequel that tracks the rise of Christian Nationalists in Brazil. “It was a ...