Tania Cypriano

A documentary that celebrates the life of Brazilian artist Wilton Braga, one of the first persons in Brazil to be diagnosed with AIDS. We witness the flesh and soul of a man with remarkable strength and resolve in the face of a life-threatening illness; to find life and faith in the face of adversity.

Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese looks back over the impact of The Statue of Liberty on the Twentieth Century, her evolution, what she meant to people of the past, and what she continues to mean after September 11th, 2001.

This documentary is a tribute to Wilton Braga, a visionary artist who was one of the first people to be diagnosed with AIDS in Brazil. As Braga travels to Barcelona, New York and Sao Paolo, the film follows the quixotic journey of his last days.

A biography of the Portuguese-born Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti-frutti hat. From her arrival in the US as the "Brazilian Bombshell" to her Broadway career and Hollywood stardom in the 1940s.