Heaven and Hell Part 2

This is an update on documentaries and Brazilian passports. We must have our finger on the pulse, so to speak, because soon after we published the two posts below O Globo ran a couple of related stories. A new Immigration/Passport Office will open in October at Rio's International Airport and cariocas will be able to make appointments on their website. This should kill the lines, but not the red tape, unfortunately. People will still need to make the trip out there and bring along the interminable list of documents we mentioned. As far as documentaries are concerned, filmmakers were lamenting the fact that the number of people interested in going to the movies to see them is very limited. I hope they (and their distributors) will not be discouraged by this small detail! It doesn't look like it: this past Friday, four more opened at cinemas nearby; we rushed to see "Santiago" by João Moreira Salles (he is the brother of Walter Moreira Salles, director of "Central Station" and "The Motorcycle Diaries"). More on this later.