

*Director Marcelo Gomes previously produced and directed a couple of shorts and documentaries. This is his feature directorial debut. 

*Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures premiered as part of a fairly pedestrian Un Certain Regard lineup (The Bow, The King, Time to Leave) at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu took home the award for Best Film.

*The film played in the U.S. back in 2006 thanks to Global Lens, a subsidiary of Global Film Initiative: "A New York-based, nonprofit foundation working with leading American cultural institutions to promote cross-cultural understanding through cinema. Each year, the Initiative acquires a number of features and shorts from the developing world that tour the country for one year." Other gems of the 2006 series: Stolen Life, In the Battlefields and Border Cafe.

*Now available on DVD courtesy of First Run Features, which has distributed select GFI films since 2004. No extra features.