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Rattapallax’s program are supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Past financial supporters include New York Council for the Humanities, New York State Council on the Arts, Asian American Arts Alliance, Theater Development Fund, Iran Heritage Foundation, Experimental TV, Australia Council for the Arts, and others.

STAFF

RAM DEVINENI is the editor and publisher of Rattapallax magazine and a film-maker who recently produced Amir Naderi’s feature film, VEGAS: BASED ON A TRUE STORY, which premiered at the Venice & Tribeca Film Festivals and Beatriz Seigner’s feature movie, O SONHO BOLLYWOODIANO, which was released nationally in Brazil and shown at the Mostra Internacional de Cinema in Sao Paulo and the Pusan International Film Festival. In addition, a three-part travel documentary TV series called ON THE ROAD about endangered languages. He is one of the founding partners of Academia Internacional de Cinema, the first independent film school in Brazil. He is currently producing a documentary, THE HUMAN TOWER, with Cano Rojas.

FLAVIA ROCHA is a Brazilian poet, journalist and translator living in Brazil. In Sao Paulo, she worked as a staff reporter for magazines Casa Vogue, Carta Capital, República, Valor Econômico and Bravo!, and was a contributor for other publications, including MTV magazine, Vogue and Sabor. She has an M.F.A program in Writing at Columbia University and was the co-editor, with Edwin Torres, of Cities of Chance: an Anthology of New Poetry from the United States and Brazil. She co-founded Acedemia Internacional de Cinema in Brazil. Her first collection of poetry, The Blue House Around Noon was released by Travessa dos Editores in 2004.

IDRA NOVEY’s first book of poems The Next Country received the 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. Her writing has appeared in Slate, A Public Space, The Paris Review, and The Believer. She’s received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and the PEN Translation Fund. Novey has taught in the Bard College Prison Initiative and at Columbia University, where she’s currently the director of Columbia’s Center for Literary Translation. A book of her translations of Brazilian poet Manoel de Barros, Birds for a Demolition, was released in 2010.