Sean Penn kept it casual as he arrived for a lunch in Malibu with a fellow film producer on Saturday.
The multi-hyphenate, 65, looked dapper in a teal green T-shirt with hey hiking pants and beige hiking shoes.
His salt and pepper hair and beard were neatly trimmed.
He was seen meeting up with Brazilian filmmaker Marianna Brennand for a relaxing meal on the patio of the restaurant where they dined with another woman.
The screenwriter and director kept her look simple, donning a white pair of pants with a long blue button-down shirt. She stepped out in black loafers.
After the meal, Penn and Brennand were seen driving away in his Rivan truck, perhaps to get ready for the special screening of Brennand’s new film at The Ross House in the Hollywood Hills.
Sean Penn kept it casual as he arrived for a lunch in Malibu with film producer Marianna Brennand on Saturday. The multi-hyphenate, 65, looked dapper in a teal green T-shirt with hey hiking pants and beige hiking shoes
After the meal, Penn and Brennand were seen driving away in his Rivan truck, perhaps to get ready for the special screening of Brennand’s new film at The Ross House in the Hollywood Hills
The Oscar winner is an executive producer of Manas. It is Brennand’s first feature feature film.
The documentarian directed the film and co-wrote the story of Marcielle, a 13-year-old from Marajó Island in northern Brazil.
It focuses on a society that ignores violence against women and children. As Marcielle confronts generational wounds and chooses to take control of her destiny, she forever alters her family’s fate.
Penn and Julia Roberts, 57, co-hosted the special screening of the drama which has won awards around the world, including the prestigious Venice Film Festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Roberts looked classically casual in a black button down shirt with wide leg jeans and black pumps. Her reddish-brown hair was styled in loose layers.
The Academy Award winner wore natural looking makeup behind her dark framed glasses.
Penn had changed into a blue button down shirt with a navy blue jacket, over jeans and white sneakers.
Brennand looked classic in a white and gray striped button down and belted black wide leg pants and pumps.
Later in the day, Penn and Brennand were joined by Julia Roberts, 56, and Brazilian actress Dira Paes, 56, for a special screening of Brennand’s first feature film, Manas in Los Angeles
Manas tells the story of Marcielle, a 13-year-old from Marajó Island in northern Brazil, who live in a society that ignores violence against women and children, but fights back to end that legacy for her family
They were joined by Manas star Dira Paes, 56, who showed off her toned arms in a black v-neck tank top over wide leg white pants.
Brennand was awarded the Kering Women in Motion Emerging Talent Award at Cannes in May. The prize came with $57,000 to be invested in her next feature.
Brennand, who began her career as a documentarian, spent more than a decade researching the topic.
‘Manas started a little more than 10 years ago when I first heard of what was happening in Marajó Island in the north of Brazil, with young girls and women being sexually exploited on the barges of the Tajapuru,’ she told Variety.
‘As a documentarian, my first impulse was to do a documentary, to shed light on and denounce the situation. That’s what I started to do, but in the very early stages of the research, I understood it would be impossible for me to ethically tell this story as a documentary.’
Brennand was awarded the Kering Women in Motion Emerging Talent Award at Cannes in May. The prize came with $57,000 to be invested in her next feature; Seen with Nicole Kidman who received the Women in Motion award
Penn said after seeing Manas ‘I felt as if I had to put my skin back on after watching it’
Penn told Variety he felt compelled to promote the film as an executive producer because ‘Manas continues Brazil’s most enduring cinematic legacy.’
‘Manas is deeply emotional, stirring, and God forbid… important. I felt as if I had to put my skin back on after watching it.’
The film has been purchased by US distributor KimStim and will soon begin a limited run in the US in an effort to quality as Brazil’s submission for Academy Award consideration.
If successful, Brennand would make history as only the third woman to have a film submitted for the category, and if nominated, she would be the first Brazilian woman to receive an Oscar nomination for best international feature film.
