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Playing
Playing
	Film poster
Directed by	Eduardo Coutinho
Produced by	Guilherme Cezar Coelho; João Moreira Salles; Mauricio Andrade Ramos
Cinematography	Jacques Cheuiche
Edited by	Jordana Berg
Release date	November 9, 2007 (Brazilian Film Festival);
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese

Playing (Portuguese: Jogo de Cena) is a 2007 Brazilian documentary film by Eduardo Coutinho, about the friction between truth and fiction in the cinema.^[2]^[3]^[4]

In the 2010s it was ranked as number 17 on the Abraccine Top 100 Brazilian films list^[5] and also number 2 in the documentary list.^[6]

Plot

In response to a newspaper ad, 83 women responded and told their life story in a studio. Twenty-three of them were selected and filmed in June 2006. In September of the same year, several actresses interpreted, in their own way, the same stories.

Cast

Andréa Beltrão as herself
Fernanda Torres as herself
Marilia Pera as herself
Aleta Gomes Vieira as herself
Claudiléa Cerqueira de Lemos as herself
Débora Almeida as herself
Gisele Alves Moura as herself
Jeckie Brown as herself
Lana Guelero as herself
Maria de Fátima Barbosa as herself
Marina D'Elia as herself
Mary Sheila as herself
Sarita Houli Brumer as herself

Promotion

Playing was included in the Official Selection at the International Film Festival in Punta del Este, and received its first international public screening there in February 2008.^[7]

In April 2008 the film was also screened at the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and at the Tribeca Film Festival.^[2]^[8]^[9]

The film made subsequent appearances at the Locarno Film Festival (on August 7, 2008) and the Los Angeles Film Festival (on November 19, 2014).^[10]

In Brazil, the film had its premiere at the São Paulo International Film Festival in October, 2007^[11] and had its theatrical release on November 9, 2007.^[12]

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
Award	Date of ceremony	Category	Recipient(s) and nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
International Film Festival in Punta del Este	2008	Best Documentary	Playing	Won	^[7]
Cines del Sur	2008	Best Documentary	Playing	Won	^[13]

References

^ https://www.pharosartsfoundation.org/brazilianfilmfestival9.htm ^{[dead link‍]}
^ ^a ^b "Playing". Tribeca. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^ "Playing". IDFA. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^ Page, Joanna; Haddu, Miriam (December 31, 2013). Visual Synergies in Fiction and Documentary Film from Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 147. ISBN 978-1349373642.
^ "Abraccine organiza ranking dos 100 melhores filmes brasileiros" [Abraccine organizes ranking of the 100 best Brazilian films]. Abraccine - Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Cinema (in Portuguese). 27 November 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
^ "100 melhores documentários brasileiros" [Top 100 Brazilian documentaries] (in Portuguese). Revista de Cinema. 2 April 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Estômago' vence Festival de Cinema de Punta del Este" [Estômago' wins International Film Festival in Punta del Este] (in Portuguese). G1. 24 February 2008. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^ Richard Shpuntoff (2008). "The Documentary Tango: Buenos Aires Fest Reaches Out to Latin America". IDA. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^ "Filme de Eduardo Coutinho participa do Festival de Cinema de Tribeca, em NY" [Eduardo Coutinho film participates at the Tribeca Film Festival in NY] (in Portuguese). Revista EGO. 18 April 2008. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^ Richard Shpuntoff. "Jogo de Cena:Release Info". IMDb. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^ Carla Meneghini (26 October 2007). "'Jogo de cena' traz duelo entre realidade e ficção" [‘Jogo de cena’ is a showdown between the truth and the fiction] (in Portuguese). G1. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^ Jose Geraldo Couto (8 November 2007). "Coutinho questiona o real e a ficção" [Coutinho challenges the truth and the fiction] (in Portuguese). Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
^ "'Jogo de cena' ganha prêmio de melhor filme em festival espanhol" ['Jogo de Cena' wins best film award at Spanish festival] (in Portuguese). O Globo. 7 June 2008. Retrieved 28 May 2020.