MANAS: "I hope that if even one woman or girl—or boy—who is suffering sexual violence or any kind of violence, from watching Manas finds strength and courage to break the silence and ask for help"

a vHopeful Conversation with Brazilian writer director Marianna Brennand about her fiction feature directorial debut

In this vHopeful Conversation, Vanessa Hope speaks with Brazilian filmmaker Marianna Brennand about MANAS, her powerful narrative feature debut rooted in a decade of documentary research into sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in the Amazon rainforest. Brennand discusses why the story had to become fiction rather than documentary, how she …