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MARCHÉ DU FILM 1 2 Brazilian Producers at Marché du film 2019 AF CINEMA PROJECT
A.F. Cinema produced, CORFU PRINCESS since 1975, all films by Alain Fresnot, like “Ed Mort” and Brazil | 110 min | Action, Drama “Desmundo”, and commercial successes by other directors, The greek cargo ship Corfu Princess docks in Rio and is robbed like “Castelo RáTimBum”, by during Carnival. It´s company has also bankrupt in Athens and Cao Hamburger, and “Raul – now the crew and the ship will be left abandoned with no money O Início, O Fim e o Meio”, by in Brazil. Walter Carvalho. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Finalized script DIRECTOR: Alain Fresnot SCREENWRITTER: Alain Fresnot FILMING LOCATION: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Athens (Greece) LANGUAGES: English, Portuguese and Philippines BUDGET: US$ 2,000,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: AF Cinema
2 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM JUST A NIGHT UMA NOITE NAO É NADA
Brazil | 2016 | 95 min | Drama www.afcinema.com.br São Paulo, 1985. A married teacher falls in love with an HIV positive São Paulo - SP student. His desperation to have her makes him want to be sick +55 11 98794 6333 just like her. Only the love of his wife can bring peace to such sad hearts.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Finalized DIRECTOR: Alain Fresnot SCREENWRITTERS: Alain Fresnot, Sabina Anzuategui and Jean Claude-Bernadet CAST: Paulo Betti, Cláudia Mello, Luiza Braga AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION: Sao Paulo (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 800,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: AF Cinema PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Boston IFF, São Paulo IFF Danilo Rezende and Rio IFF [email protected] DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Imovision (Brazil)
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 3 AQUARELA FILM MIDWEST LIZ’S WAIT A ESPERA DE LIZ Aquarela Midwest is an independent producer of Brazil and Venezuela | 2019 | 115 min | Drama exclusive content for film and television. During his thirty- Liz is surrounded by doubts. Introspective, she searches for the two years of production, reason why her partner Miguel has gone. While looking for deep Aquarela Midwest performed inside answers, she feels the need for emotional support from her five commercially released younger sister Lara. feature films and twenty short films. DEVELOPMENT: Completed DIRECTOR: Bruno Torres SCREENWRITTERS: Bruno Torres and Simone Iliescu CAST: Simone Iliescu, Rosanne Mulholland, Bruno Torres, Zécarlos Machado, Ingra Lyberato, Murilo Grossi LANGUAGES: Portuguese, Spanish and Taurepan AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATION: Gramado (Brazil) and Roraima Mount (Venezuela) BUDGET: US$ 412,500.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Aquarela Midwest CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Astrals Production and Mistika Post DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Pandora Filmes (Brazil)
4 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT LAND OF THE BLIND TERRA DE CEGOS
Brazil | 2020 | 150 min | Drama www.aquarelamidwest.com In the inner-most regions of the Amazonian territory, two families Brasilia - DF work in the informal market. The life of both families begins to +55 61 98328 7777 change when MAR- CO appears, a large farmer involved with land grabbing activities.
DEVELOPMENT: Fundraising DIRECTOR: Bruno Torres SCREENWRITTERS: Bruno Torres and Di Moretti CAST: Neslon Camayo, Lucy Alves, Dira Paes, Sandra Corveloni, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Mayana Neiva, Murilo Grossi, Jesuíta Barbosa, Cristina Lago, Milhem Cortaz, Zé Carlos Machado, Eucir de Souza, José Dumont, Simone Iliescu, Júlio Andrade LANGUAGE: Portuguese AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATION: Amazon Rain Forest (Brazil) BUDGET: US$ 2,250,000,00 Bruno Torres PRODUCTION COMPANY: Aquarela Midwest João Pereira Lima CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Astrals Production aquarelaproducoesculturais@ DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Pandora Filmes (Brazil) gmail.com
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 5 BANANEIRA PROJECT FILMES MUSE MUSA Founded in 2000 by the producer Vania Catani, newest Brazil | 2020 | 120 min | Fiction member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Anna becomes obsessed with a girl from her music conservatory Sciences, Bananeira Filmes who inspires her. is one of the most prestigious production companies in DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development Brazil. DIRECTOR: Monica Demes SCREENWRITER: Monica Demes LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 1,272,734.49 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Ventana Sur 2018 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Bananeira Filmes
6 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT MEDUSA
Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Fiction
In the evening, a group of 12 young women marches in regular, www.bananeirafilmes.com.br synchronized steps through the empty streets of the fictional town Rio de Janeiro - RJ of Monte Alegre. As they approach a diner, they put on white masks. +55 21 2225 6552
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Anita Rocha da Silveira SCREENWRITER: Anita Rocha da Silveira LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 1,287,925.70 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Ventana Sur 2018 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Bananeira Filmes
Vania Catani bananeira@bananeirafilmes. com.br
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 7 BIG BONSAI PROJECT bigBonsai is a production THE BOOK OF DELIGHTS company established in São O LIVRO DOS PRAZERES Paulo, Brazil, that works on the intersection between Brazil and Argentina | 2019 | 90 min | Drama culture, entertainment and brand communication, with “The Book of Delights” is freely adapted from Clarice Lispector’s special focus in international novel about the coming together of Lori and Ulisses and their co-productions. personal challenges when accepting love. An erotic drama from Lori’s point of view.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Production DIRECTOR: Marcela Lordy SCREENWRITERS: Josefina Trotta and Marcela Lordy CAST: Simone Spoladore, Javier Drolas, Martha Nowill AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil and Argentina FILMING LOCATION: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: ¤ 1,000,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: bigBonsai CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Cinematografica Marcela, Rizoma, Republica Pureza and Canal Brasil DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Vitrine Filmes (Brazil)
8 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM TAKING IACANGA O BARATO DE IACANGA www.bigbonsai.com.br Brazil | 2018 | 70 min | Documentary São Paulo – SP +55 11 97148 4592 A documentary about the legendary festival dedicated to Brazilian music helded in a isolated ranch in the 70’s and 80’s, considered the biggest gathering of the local hippie movement during the military regime.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Release DIRECTOR: Thiago Mattar SCREENWRITERS: Thiago Mattar and Guilherme Algon CAST: João Gilberto, Raul Seixas, Gilberto Gil, Jorge Mautner, Sandra Sá and others AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION: São Paulo (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 150,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: bigBonsai Deborah Osborn [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 9 BIÔNICA FILMES PROJECT
Biônica Filmes has developed TOLL content for cinema and PEDÁGIO television since 2012. It has produced international co- Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Drama, Dark Humor productions, released major box office successes and Suellen is a toll booth attendant who starts using her job to help won and got nominated for a gang of thieves steal watches from people driving to the coast. important international prizes But only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay (SXSW/EMMY). conversion workshop.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Carolina Markowicz SCREENWRITER: Carolina Markowicz AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATION: Brazil LANGUAGE: Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY: Biônica Filmes
10 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT MOUNTAIN RANGE CORDILHEIRA www.bionicafilmes.com.br Brazil and Argentina | 2020 | Drama, Thriller São Paulo - SP +55 11 97307 1120 After releasing her first graphic novel, “Violetta”, Ana is accepted at the End of the World Residence to develop her next book. There, she discovers the suprarealism method which makes the authors become their characters.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Fernando Fraiha SCREENWRITERS: Fernando Fraiha and Inés Bortagaray AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION: Argentina LANGUAGE: Spanish BUDGET: US$ 1,775,924.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Biônica Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Le Tiro Cine DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Elo Company Karen Castanho [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 11 BUBBLES FILM PROJECT IMMERSED FAMILY FAMILIA SUMERGIDA Bubbles Project is a production company based in Argentina, Brazil, Germany and Norway | 2018 | 91 min | Fiction Rio, Brasil. Among its works are “Pendular” by Julia Murat Deep in the summer heat of Buenos Aires, Marcela is faced with the (FIPRESCI - at Panorama task of purging the apartment of her recently deceased sister, all while Section of Berlinale 2017) being drawn into an illicit affair with a younger man. and “Loveling” by Gustavo Pizzi, selected to Sundance DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Completed and Rotterdam 2018. DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER: Maria Alché CAST: Mercedes Morán, Esteban Bigliardi, Marcelo Subiotto, Ia Areta, Laila Maltz, Federico Sack, Luis Carlos Vasconcelos FILMING LOCATION: Buenos Aires (Argentina) AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Spain, Germany, Australia, Uruguay, Argentina, Switzerland, Norway and Brazil LANGUAGE: Spanish BUDGET: US$ 1,250,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: 65º FI de San Sebastián – Cine en Construcción, 71º Festival de Locarno – Concorso Cineasti del Presente, 66º FI de San Sebastián- Horizontes Latinos, 25º Fic Valdivia- Competição International, 42º de Cinema de Gotemburgo PRODUCTION COMPANY: Pasto Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Bubbles Project, Pandora Film and 4 ½ Fiksjon DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Esfera Filmes (Brazil) SALES: Visit Films
12 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM LOVELING BENZINHO
Brazil and Uruguay | 2018 | 95 min | Drama
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her www.bubblesproject.com eldest son out into the world. Rio de Janeiro - RJ +55 21 99307 4619
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Completed DIRECTOR: Gustavo Pizzi SCREENWRITERS: Gustavo Pizzi and Karine Teles CAST: Karine Teles, Otavio Muller, Adriana Esteves, Cesar Troncoso, Konstantinos Sarris AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: USA, Canada, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Korea and Japan FILMING LOCATIONS: Petrópolis and Araruama (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Sundance 2018 – World Cinema Competition, Rotterdam IFF 2018 – Voices, Karlovy Vary IFF 2018, Goteborg IFF 2018, Cine Latino Rencontres de Toulouse 2018, Tatiana Leite Malaga FF 2018, Santa Maria da Feira 2018, San Francisco IFF tatiana@ 2018, Washington, DC IFF 2018, Panamá IFF 2019, La Fabrique des bubblesproject.com Cinémas du Monde, and more CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Tv Zero, Mutante Cine and Baleia Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) SALES: New Europe Film
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 13 CISMA PROJECT PRODUÇÕES THE SILENCE OF DOLORES O SILÊNCIO DE DOLORES Cisma was founded in 2003 by Beto Amaral to develop Brazil | 2021 | 90 min | Drama and produce independent films, theater and visual arts Antonio Pecanha dies shortly after he hires a man to kill his projects. It has produced mistress. At the funeral, the assassin asks the widow, should he or “Sunstroke”, “Vazante” and shouldn’t he complete his work? “O Banquete”. In 2018 it has produced the Brazilian DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development Segment of “Half of the Sky”. DIRECTOR: Rodrigo Siqueira SCREENWRITER: Rodrigo Siqueira FILMING LOCATION: Minas Gerais (Brazil) AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: ¤ 1.000.000,00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Cisma Produções CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: 7Estrelo (Brazil)
14 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT DEPARTURE PARTIDA
Brazil | 2019 | 80 min | Documentary www.cisma.art.br Sao Paulo - SP “ The actress Georgette Fadel and a heterogeneous cinema troupe +55 11 98989 1440 depart in a long bus ride to try to meet Mujica in Uruguay. Amidst the ruins of all utopias in Brazil will this naïve goal give some hope to the passengers as they navigate toward their destination? “
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Production DIRECTOR: Caco Ciocler SCREENWRITER: Caco Ciocler CAST: Georgette Fadel AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATIONS: Brazil and Uruguay LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 180,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Cisma Produções
Beto Amaral [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 15 COALA FILMES PROJECT ANIMATION DAY
Coala Filmes is a stop-motion BOB SPIT – production company. The WE DO NOT LIKE PEOPLE company has a TV series, BOB CUSPE – NÓS NÃO GOSTAMOS DE GENTE “Angeli The Killer”, a feature film, “Bob Spit”, with a 2020 Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Animation, Comedy, Adventure release date and several other short films and projects in Bob Spit, one of Brazil’s most iconic comic book characters, is development and production. trying to escape from a post- apocalyptic desert that is actually a purgatory inside the mind of his creator, Angeli, who is going through a creative crisis.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Production DIRECTOR: Cesar Cabral SCREENWRITERS: Cesar Cabral and Leandro Maciel CAST: Milhem Cortaz, Paulo Miklos, André Abujamra, Grace Gianoukas FILMING LOCATION: Sao Paulo (Brazil) AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 1.700.000,00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Ventana Sur 2018 (WIP) PRODUCTION COMPANY: Coala Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: CUP Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Vitrine Filmes (Brazil)
16 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT A BRAZILIAN PENGUIN UM PINGUIM TUPINIQUIM
Brazil | 2022 | Animation, Kids, Comedy, Adventure
An atypical penguin, distressed with the South Pole’s insane www.coalafilmes.com.br lifestyle, escapes from his homeland and ends up in a crazy farm in Sao Paulo - SP Brazil, where he falls in love with a feminist and perky guineafowl. +55 11 3120 2444
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Advanced development DIRECTORS: Cesar Cabral and João Tenório SCREENWRITER: Índigo Ayer AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil and Uruguay FILMING LOCATIONS: Brazil and Uruguay LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 1,400,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Coala Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Mutante Cinema do Brasil DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Boulevard Filmes
Cesar Cabral [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 17 CONSPIRACAO FILM FILMES THE LOSS O JUIZO Producing high-quality Brazilian arthouse movies for Brazil | 2018 | 90 min | Psychological Thriller the international market as well as local blockbusters, A debt settlement that takes 200 years to materialize: Augusto Conspiração’s impressive list moves with his family to an inherited farm with the intention of of festival credits include a finding diamonds. He is seduced by the spirit of a diamond dealer number of official selections seeking revenge. as Cannes, Toronto and Berlin.
18 PRODUCTION COMPANIES DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post-production DIRECTOR: Andrucha Waddington SCREENWRITER: Fernanda Torres CAST: Felipe Camargo, Carol Castro, Lima Duarte, Fernanda www.conspiracao.com.br Montenegro, Criolo, Joaquim Torres Waddington, Kênia Bárbara, Rio de Janeiro - RJ Fernando Eiras +55 21 99416 1508 FILMING LOCATION: Brazil AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Latin America LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 1,700,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Conspiracao Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Globo Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Paris Filmes (Brazil)
Renata Brandão renata.brandao@conspira. com.br
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 19 DEZENOVE SOM FILM E IMAGENS ALL THE DEAD ONES TODOS OS MORTOS Founded by filmmaker Carlos Reichenbach and Brazil and France | 2020 | 100 min | Fiction producer Sara Silveira in 1991. In partnership with 1899. The women of two families struggle to adapt to a changing producer Maria Ionescu, the Brazil – the decadent Soares, previous land and slave owners, and company has been producing the family of former slave Iná, who now faces a society in which the independent short and feature newly freed have no room. films for the national and international markets. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTORS: Caetano Gotardo and Marco Dutra SCREENWRITERS: Caetano Gotardo and Marco Dutra CAST: Carolina Bianchi, Clarissa Kiste, Thaia Perez, Mawusi Tulani, Rogério Brito, Agyei Augusto AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil and France FILMING LOCATION: São Paulo (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: R$ 3.995.304,00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Cinéfondation’s La Résidence Program and La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde in 2014 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Dezenove Som e Imagens CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Good Fortune DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) SALES: Indie Sales
20 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM THE PATHS OF MY FATHER OS CAMINHOS DO MEU PAI
Brazil, Poland and Vietnam | 2020 | 90 min | Fiction
When Vy’s grandmother is sent to the hospital, Vy has to join her www.dezenove.net father, a truck driver, on a journey to the far corners of northern São Paulo - SP Vietnam. Her father is against the idea of bringing her on the trip - +55 11 99141 4602 her first and his last.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTOR: Mauricio Osaki SCREENWRITER: Mauricio Osaki CAST: Trung Anh, Ngoc Nhi AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil and Poland FILMING LOCATIONS: Hanói and Northern Vietnam LANGUAGE: Vietnamese BUDGET: US$ 500,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Participated in LIM workshop and was selected to participate in SIFF New Works in Progress Forum PRODUCTION COMPANY: Dezenove Som e Imagens Sara Silveira CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Kraków Film Klaster [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 21 ENTREFILMES PROJECT
EntreFilmes is a Brazilian THE FRENCH TEACHER film company, responsible for A PROFESSORA DE FRANCÊS films screened and awarded in important festivals, such as Brazil and Netherlands | 2020 | 100 min | Fiction Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, including the 2018 Un Certain Graça, a young French teacher, is confronted by the obscure aspect Regard’s Jury Prize Winner of religious fanaticism when obliged to live with an extremist “The Dead and the Others”. evangelical family that gradually entangles her in a mysterious way towards the loss of reason.
22 PRODUCTION COMPANIES DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Financing DIRECTOR: Ricardo Alves Jr. SCREENWRITER: Germano Melo CAST: Grace Passô LANGUAGE: Portuguese FILMING LOCATION: Belo Horizonte (Brazil) BUDGET: ¤ 950.000 AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil and The www.entrefilmes.com.br Netherlands Belo Horizonte - MG PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Brasil CineMundi (Winner), +55 31 99644 1029 Ventana Sur, La Fabrique Cinéma 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY: EntreFilmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Fortuna Films DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Embaúba Filmes (Brazil)
Thiago Macêdo Correia Ricardo Alves Jr. [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 23 ESTÚDIO GIZ PROJECT
Estúdio Giz is a production MOTHER EARTHQUAKE company founded in 2014. TERREMOTO MÃE Based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the company works Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Fiction on the development and Rio de Janeiro, 2027. A mother lives a strange relationship with production of cinema and TV the doppelgänger of her murdered gay son, while discovering new projects in partnership with clues about his death. independent creators.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Will Domingos SCREENWRITER: Will Domingos AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION: Brazil LANGUAGES: Portuguese and Spanish BUDGET: US$ 600,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Estúdio Giz
24 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM SICK SICK SICK SEM SEU SANGUE
Brazil | 2019 | 100 min | Fiction
Silvia and Artur’s teenage-romance starts abruptly and ends up all www.estudiogiz.com.br of a sudden after a serious accident. Silvia gets sick and her days Rio de Janeiro - RJ turn into dark. Her mourning becomes an obsessive quest to bring +55 21 96816 5836 Artur back to life.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Completed DIRECTOR: Alice Furtado SCREENWRITERS: Alice Furtado and Leonardo Levis CAST: Luiza Kosovski, Juan Paiva, Digão Ribeiro, Silvia Buarque, Lourenço Mutarelli, Ismar Tirelli Neto, Valentina Luz, Nahuel Perez Biscayart AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Benelux, France, Latin America and Caribe FILMING LOCATION: Brazil LANGUAGES: Portuguese and French BUDGET: US$ 700,000.00 Aline Mazzarella PRODUCTION COMPANY: Estúdio Giz [email protected] CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: BALDR Film, Ikki Films and Oceano Cinematográfico DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) SALES: Alpha Violet
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 25 FM PRODUÇÕES PROJECT
FM is a production company CURFEW and coproduced the Cannes TOQUE DE QUEDA Festival awarded documentary “Cinema Novo” in 2016. FM Peru and Brazil | 2020 | 100 min | Drama has been participating in Brazilian audiovisual projects Two foreign journalists go to the mountains of Peru in search of two of excellence, as well as of their colleagues in Lima, missing while covering the execution of developing international a massacre on the heights of Ayacucho. The truth will change their partnership. lives completely.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Fundraising DIRECTOR: Rodolfo Pereira SCREENWRITER: Rodolfo Pereira CAST: Kate de Castillo (tbc) FILMING LOCATIONS: Peru LANGUAGES: Spanish and Portuguese AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories BUDGET: US$ 1,295,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: EFM 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Alouette Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: FM Produções DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: O2 Filmes
26 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT
GAUGUIN & THE CANAL www.fmproducoes.com.br Rio de Janeiro - RJ Panama and Brazil | 2020 | 100 min | Drama +55 21 99586-9999
Old and sick, the painter Paul Gauguin is tried by the French authorities in Tahiti, while he was obsessed with painting his last great work.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Fundraising DIRECTOR: Frank Spano SCREENWRITER: Frank Spano CAST: Jean Reno, Rodrigo Santoro, Mariana Ximenes, Carlos Barden, Roberto Birindelli (tbc) AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATIONS: Panamá, Argentina and France LANGUAGES: English and French BUDGET: US$ 3,400,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: AFM 2018, Ventana Sur 2018 and EFM 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Garra Producciones CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: FM Produções Fernando Muniz DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Pagu Pictures jfernandomuniz@ SALES: FM Produções fmproducoes.com.br
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 27 GLOBO FILM
Globo is the leading Latin INTIMATE STRANGERS American content producer INTIMIDADE ENTRE ESTRANHOS and one of the largest media groups in the world, Brazil | 2018 | 111 min | Drama producing and supporting about 25 films per year with A boy is by himself after his parents die, remaining reclusive until the best independent Brazilian he meets an older woman who introduces him to a completely new production companies. world. However, he will find out that she is married - starting a complicated love triangle.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Distribution DIRECTOR: José Alvarenga Jr SCREENWRITERS: Matheus Souza and José Alvarenga Jr CAST: Rafaela Mandelli, Milhem Cortaz, Gabriel Contente, José Dumont, Giovana Lancellotti, Jayme Periard AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATION: Brazil LANGUAGE: Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo International Film Festivals (Brazil) PRODUCTION COMPANY: Iafa Britz DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Galeria Distribuidora (Brazil) SALES: Globo
28 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM REND YOUR HEART RASGA CORAÇÃO
Brazil | 2018 | 100 min | Drama www.globo.com Manguari Pistolão after 40 years of fighting for what he thought was São Paulo - SP new and revolutionary, his son accuses him of being antiquated. +55 11 98908 0260 Growing conflict with Luca, Manguari sees himself repeating the same attitudes as his father.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Distribution DIRECTOR: Jorge Furtado SCREENWRITERS: Jorge Furtado,Ana Luiza Azevedo and Vicente Moreno CAST: Marco Ricca, Drica Moraes, Chay Suede, Luisa Arraes, George Sauma, João Pedro Zappa, Duda Meneghetti AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATION: Brazil LANGUAGE: Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: International Film Festivals Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil) Mariana Saramago PRODUCTION COMPANY: Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre mariana.saramago@tvglobo. DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Sony Pictures com.br SALES: Globo
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 29 GULLANE FILM
Founded in 1996 by the THE TRAITOR brothers Caio and Fabiano IL TRADITORE Gullane, the Brazilian production powerhouse Italy, France, German and Brazil | 2019 | 135 min | Biopic Gullane has produced more In the 80s, war rages between Sicilian mafia. Tommaso Buscetta, than 45 prominent films, 25 a made man, flees to Brazil. Extradited back to Italy, Buscetta TV series, and numerous changes history when he decides to meet Judge Giovanni Falcone specials and documentaries, and betray the vow made to Cosa Nostra. released in Brazil and abroad. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Completed DIRECTOR: Marco Bellocchio SCREENWRITERS: Marco Bellocchio, Bibbiana Santella, Ludovica Rampoldi and Francesco Piccolo CAST: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi FILMING LOCATIONS: Palermo, Rome (Italy) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) LANGUAGES: Italian and Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 9,000,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANIES: IBC Movie and Kavac Film CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Gullane, Match Factory Productions, Ad Vitam and Rai Cinema DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES: Fenix Filmes and Pandora Filmes (Brazil) SALES: The Match Factory
30 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT THE HANGED OS ENFORCADOS www.gullane.com São Paulo - SP Brazil | 2019 | 120 min | Drama +55 11 5084 0996
A dispute over Rio de Janeiro’s illicit businesses reaches Shakespearian proportions when newlyweds Regina and Valerio kill his uncle, an important member of the gambling racket. The death unchains a cycle of escalating violence.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Fernando Coimbra SCREENWRITER: Fernando Coimbra CAST: Fernanda Torres, Rodrigo Santoro, Fernanda Montenegro AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Latin America, Italy and Portugal FILMING LOCATION: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 3,400,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Gullane CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Verdeoro, Fado Filmes, TC Filmes, Fabiano Gullane Cabra Filmes, Globo Filmes and Telecine Productions Caio Gullane DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Paris Filmes (Brazil) international@ gullane.com
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 31 IF YOU HOLD A FILM STONE LIFE IS TWO DAYS A VIDA SÃO DOIS DIAS If You Hold A Stone is a Rio de Janeiro-based production Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Comedy company founded in 2012. The focus is on director- After receiving the originals of a book written by his twin brother, driven features and creative Orlando is cast in an unexpected game in which reality and fiction, documentaries that play space and time, are merged and distorted. at festivals and cinemas worldwide. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTOR: Leonardo Mouramateus SCREENWRITERS: Leonardo Mouramateus and Mauro Soares CAST: Mauro Soares, Mariah Teixeira, Sara Hana AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATIONS: Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza (Brazil), and Lisboa (Portugal) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 150.000,00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: BAL – Buenos Aires Lab 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Praia À Noite CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: If You Hold a Stone
32 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT BRASILIA! BRASILIA!
Brazil | 2022 | 90 min | Horror, Fantasy
An allegorical meditation on violence in contemporary Brazil www. telling the story of a Dutch woman whose holiday journey to ifyouholdastone.com Brasília becomes the main connection for a series of supernatural Rio de Janeiro - RJ events. +55 21 99744 3519
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Bernardo Zanotta SCREENWRITER: Bernardo Zanotta AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATION: Brasília (Brazil) LANGUAGES: Portuguese, English and Dutch BUDGET: US$ 1,253,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: If You Hold a Stone CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Venin
André Mielnik andre@ ifyouholdastone.com
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 33 INQUIETUDE PROJECT
Founded in 2007 as an SISTERS audiovisual production MANAS company and renowned for the cultural relevance and Brazil | 2020 | 100 min | Drama artistic quality of its projects, Inquietude has turned out Marcielle is 13 years old the eldest daughter of an impoverished three awarded feature films family on Marajó Island. Having suffered sexual abuse at home, she over the course of little more will do everything in her power to protect her younger sister from a than a decade. fate she was unable to escape.
34 PRODUCTION COMPANIES DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Fundraising, 2nd draft of the screenplay DIRECTOR: Marianna Brenannd Fortes SCREENWRITERS: Antonia Pellegrino, Camila Augustini and Felipe Sholl CAST: Dira Paes, Sophie Charlotte FILMING LOCATION: Marajó Island (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 1,400,000.00 www.inquietude.art.br AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil, Portugal and Rio de Janeiro - RJ PALOPs. +55 21 97960 0385 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Ventana Sur 2018 and Europe Film Market Berlim 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Inquietude CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Fado Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Bretz Filmes
Marianna Brennand Fortes mariannabrennandfortes@ gmail.com
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 35 MIRA FILMES FILM
Mira is responsible for CORA projects in cinema, TV and Internet. Among its 6 features Brazil | 2016 | 88 min | Drama is “California” (Rotterdam, Tribeca). Currently Mira After finding an unfinished and deleted documentary shot by her is finishing “Cora”, a co- father before she was born, Cora begins the unveiling of the insanity production with Denmark, which has been haunting her family for generations. and producing “Tietê”, a coproduction with Uruguay. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTORS: Gustavo Rosa de Moura and Matias Mariani SCREENWRITTERS: Gustavo Rosa de Moura, Matias Mariani and Valeria Richter CAST: Vera Valdez, Fabio Marques Miguez, Sylvio Ziber, André Whoong, Charlotte Munck AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil and Denmark FILMING LOCATION: São Paulo (Brazil) LANGUAGES: Danish and Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY: Mira Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Bubbles Project and Nordic Factory Cph DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Pandora Filmes (Brazil)
36 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM SUDDENLY HOWEVER ANTES TARDE DO QUE NUNCA www.mirafilmes.net São Paulo - SP Brazil | 2018 | Drama +55 11 3031 0687
20 years ago, while giving birth to her daughter, Bia slipped into a coma. Suddenly, however, Bia comes to. Her adult daughter, her ex-husband and his new wife try to deal with the unexpected living presence of that loved woman.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTOR: Gustavo Rosa de Moura SCREENWRITTERS: Gustavo Rosa de Moura and Leonardo Levis CAST: Andrea Beltrão, Eduardo Moscovis, Mariana Lima AVAILABLE TERRITORY: Brazil FILMING LOCATION: Brazil LANGUAGE: Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY: Mira Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Warner Bros. and Fox Film do Brasil DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES: Warner Bros. and Fox Film do Brasil Gustavo Rosa de Moura [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 37 MUIRAQUITÃ PROJECT FILMES AURORA
Muiraquitã Filmes is a Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Feature Fiction Brazilian production company dedicated to producing In the polar cold Norway, Ilka, a Brazilian immigrant who has been fiction and non-fiction films living there for the last twenty years with her husband Kasper, is and series with unique and prepared to go to any lengths to save the future of her impetuous authentic perspectives in teenage son Anton. collaboration with talented filmmakers and partners worldwide.
38 PRODUCTION COMPANIES DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Karim Ainouz SCREENWRITTERS: Karim Ainouz and Daniel Tavares CAST: Dira Paes AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Latin America FILMING LOCATION: Norway www. LANGUAGE: Norwegian muiraquitafilmes.com BUDGET: ¤ 2,000,000.00 São Paulo - SP PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Nordic Market + 351 968 148 157 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Muiraquitã Filmes +55 11 981 216 564 CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Lupa Film GMBH DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: California Filmes (Latam)
Eliane Ferreira [email protected] Pablo Iraola pablo@ muiraquitafilmes.com
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 39 OCEAN FILMS PROJECT
Ocean Films is a Brazilian AS103 - GRANDPA’S CHEST production company focused AS 103 - O BAÚ DE MEU AVÔ on cinema and TV productions targeting international Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Documentary audiences. It’s last film “Little Secret” has represented Brazil A grandson opens a chest of documents and objects that point to for Best Foreign Language the time when his German family came to Brazil during the WWs. Film in the Academy Awards He begins a journey looking for his origins and has to face the 2017. migration dilemmas in Europe today.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development, Financing DIRECTOR: Albert Steinberger SCREENWRITER: Albert Steinberger AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATIONS: Brazil, Germany and France LANGUAGES: Portuguese, German and French BUDGET: US$ 300,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Ocean Films
40 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT DOT – www.oceanfilms.com.br AN ANGEL ON THE AMAZON Rio de Janeiro - RJ DOT – UM ANJO NA AMAZÔNIA +55 48 9924 9839
Brazil and USA | 2020 | 100 min | Drama, Biography
In the heart of the Amazon, Sister Dorothy Stang’s heroic stand against the forces of destruction reaches a shocking climax and radically changes the life of the man sent to investigate her.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development, Financing DIRECTOR: David Schurmann SCREENWRITTER: Binka Le Breton AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATIONS: Amazon region (Brazil) and Vatican (Italy) LANGUAGES: English and Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 4,500,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Ocean Films
João Roni Garcia [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 41 OKNA FILM PRODUÇÕES THE FIRST DEATH OF JOANA A PRIMEIRA MORTE DE JOANA Okna is dedicated to the production of cinema and TV Brazil | 2019 | 90 min | Drama content with 6 feature films, 22 medium-length films and Joana, 12, needs to unravel a mystery. Why had her great-aunt Rosa 20 short films and 4 TV series never had a boyfriend and ended up dying a virgin, at 70 years old? in its catalog. Okna manages Helped by her friend Carolina, Joana will make a startling discovery projects and talents, acting as about herself. a creative producer. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTOR: Cristiane Oliveira SCREENWRITTERS: Cristiane Oliveira and Silvia Lourenço CAST: Letícia Kacperski, Isabela Jardim, Joana Vieira, Lisa Becker AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATIONS: Osório (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 560,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Co-production Market Berlinale 2018, Ventana Sur 2018, European Film Market 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Okna Produções CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Epicentre Films (France) DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Lança Filmes (Brazil)
42 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT THE LIFE OF SANTA CLAUS A VIDA DO PAPAI NOEL
Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Drama
Santa Claus is in crisis! After Christmas, he knows he will not get www.okna.com.br any letters in the next months. Unexpectedly, a letter arrives by the Porto Alegre - RS orphan Johan telling him he never got any presents. Santa decides +55 51 99124 8582 to start an investigation
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Gustavo Spolidoro SCREENWRITERS: Gustavo Spolidoro and Gibran Dipp AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION: Brazil and another country to be defined LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 1,341,680.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Audiovisual Ideas Market - São Paulo IFF 2018, EFM 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Okna Produções DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Pandora Filmes (Brazil) Aletéia Selonk [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 43 QUEROSENE FILM FILMES THE AGE OF ROCK A PRÓXIMA CANÇÃO Querosene Filmes is a production company Brazil | 2019 | 90 min | Comedy aiming to make high quality entertainment for an A rock n’Roll comedy. international audience.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTOR: Pedro Amorim SCREENWRITER: Mariana Trench CAST: Marcelo Serrado, Tathi Lopes, Luis Miranda AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION: São Paulo (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 1,200,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Querosene Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Fox International Productions DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Fox Films do Brasil
44 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM MACABRE MACABRO www.querosenefilmes.com.br Brazil | 2019 | 100 min | Thriller São Paulo - SP +55 11 97130 5362 Two brothers terrorize a small rural community through a series of brutal murders, investigated by the recently formed Rio’s Elite Squad. Based on a true story.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTOR: Marcos Prado SCREENWRITERS: Lucas Paraizo and Rita Gloria Curvo CAST: Renato Goes AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Latam FILMING LOCATION: Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 2,500,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Zazen CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Querosene Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Pandora Filmes (Brazil) João Queiroz [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 45 RT FEATURES FILM
Directed by Rodrigo Teixeira, THE INVISIBLE LIFE RT Features is a production company responsible for OF EURÍDICE GUSMÃO A VIDA INVISÍVEL DE EURÍDICE GUSMÃO films such as “Call Me By Your Name” (2017). In 2019, Brazil | 2019 | 150 min | Drama RT releases the films: “The Lighthouse”, “Ad Astra” and 1950, in the Gusmão Family, two sisters, Eurídice and Guida are “The Invisible Life of Eurídice separated, after Guida get away and return pregnant. They will have Gusmão”. to overcome the obstacles that prevent them from becoming the women they could have been.
46 PRODUCTION COMPANIES DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Release DIRECTOR: Karim Aïnouz SCREENWRITTER: Murilo Hauser CAST: Carol Duarte, Júlia Stockler, Gregório Duvivier, Bárbara Santos, Flávia Gusmão, Antônio Fonseca, Maria Manoella, www.rtfeatures.com.br Fernanda Montenegro São Paulo - SP AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except France, Spain, +55 11 3060 5700 Germany, Austria and Latam FILMING LOCATION: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese BUDGET: US$ 1,762,919.11 PRODUCTION COMPANY: RT Features CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Pola Pandora, Sony Pictures and Canal Brasil DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Sony Pictures SALES: The Match Factory
Kaoê Catão Mariana Coelho [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 47 SANCHO & PROJECT PUNTA PAINLESS INDOLOR Sancho&Punta was established in São Paulo Brazil | 2022 | 100 min | Horror with the objective of sharing a production platform A class struggle over land and borders takes place on a small destined to the realization tropical island, raising questions about the limits and different kinds of independent projects by of pain in a social horror thriller. Brazilian and international directors. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Michael Wahrmann SCREENWRITERS: Michael Wahrmann, Alejandro Fadel and Diego Lerer AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories LANGUAGES: Portuguese, French and German FILMING LOCATION: Brazil BUDGET: US$ 1,500,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Ikusmira Berriak and Torino Film Lab PRODUCTION COMPANY: Sancho & Punta DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Vitrine Filmes (Brazil)
48 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM
YESTERDAY THERE WERE www.sanchopunta.com São Paulo - SP STRANGE THINGS IN THE SKY +55 11 96667 4149 ONTEM HAVIA COISAS ESTRANHAS NO CÉU
Brazil | 2019 | 115 min | Fiction
My father got unemployed. My mother was abducted by a strange object in the sky.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTOR: Bruno Risas SCREENWRITTER: Bruno Risas CAST: Viviane Machado, Julius Marcondes, Izabela Machado, Bruno Risas AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATION: São Paulo (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY: Sancho & Punta DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) Julia Alves [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 49 SCHURMANN PROJECT FILMES BOY WITH WINGS MENINO DE ASAS Producer of Brazil’s 2017 Oscar entry the independent Brazil | 2020 | Drama, Action production company focuses in fiction and documentary Based on the bestseller the film takes place on the inlands of central films that have been released Brazil where a very special boy is born. Although some think he is worldwide theatrically and a super hero and even an angel, he is just a boy that was born with on NatGeo Channel, Netflix, wings. Discovery Channel, TNT & Globo TV. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Script development DIRECTOR: David Schurmann AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories LANGUAGE: Portuguese FILMING LOCATION: Brazil PRODUCTION COMPANY: Schurmann Filmes
50 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM IN SEARCH FOR U-513 EM BUSCA DO U-513
Brazil | 2019 | 75 min | Documentary www.schurmann.com.br For years a captain searches for the myth of U-513, a German a São Paulo - SP WWII submarine sunk in Brazil. For 5 year he embarks on a journey, +55 11 98158 7113 to many countries, meeting incredible people and facing burning question, will he find it?
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Finalization DIRECTOR: David Schurmann SCREENWRITTER: Guilherme Stockler CAST: Vilfredo Schurmann, Heloisa Schurmann AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATIONS: Brazil, Germany and USA LANGUAGES: Portuguese, German and English BUDGET: US$ 500,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Schurmann Filmes
David Schurmann [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 51 SOMBUMBO PROJECT
Since 2001 Sombumbo COLONY has produced many films, COLONIA receiving many awards in Brazil and abroad. In 2019 Brazil | 2019 | 10X26 | Drama, Thriller will release “The White Devil”, a film coproduced with A young girl is taken to a mental institution because is pregnant. Magma Cine, and will produce She will face a terrible journey to try to escape from her destiny. “Colony”, a TV series in 10 episodes. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Pre production DIRECTOR: Andre Ristum SCREENWRITERS: André Ristum, Marco Dutra and Rita Gloria Curvo AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil LANGUAGE: Portuguese FILMING LOCATION: Sao Paulo (Brazil) BUDGET: US$ 500,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Sombumbo CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: TC Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Canal Brasil (Brazil)
52 PRODUCTION COMPANIES FILM THE WHITE DEVIL EL DIABLO BLANCO
Argentina | 2019 | 80 min | Thriller, Horror São Paulo - SP 4 friends went on holidays in coutryside Argentina, and are invloved +55 11 99342 1576 in a series of misterious murders, related to the appearance of a ghost from the 16th century.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Completed DIRECTOR: Ignacio Rogers SCREENWRITTERS: Ignacio Rogers and Fernando Calvete CAST: Ezequiel Diaz, Violeta Urtizberea AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil and Argentina FILMING LOCATIONS: Buenos Aires and Tucuman LANGUAGE: Spanish BUDGET: US$ 500,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Bafici 2019 PRODUCTION COMPANY: Magma Cine CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Sombumbo DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Pandora Filmes (Brazil) André Ristum [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 53 YOURMAMA FILM
We’re a producing company AMERICAN THIEF based in São Paulo, Brazil. Our purpose is to work with USA | 2015-2019 | aprox 90 min | Drama, Thriller producers, distributors, directors, writers and Toncruz and Diop are teenager hackers. Diop wants to awaken artists, to build an authentic, society to the reality of overreaching government while Toncruz significant and inspirational wants to use the technology to avenge his father’s murder. history with creativity and excellence. DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTOR: Miguel Silveira SCREENWRITERS: Miguel Silveira, Michel Stolnicki and Missy Hernandez CAST: Xisco Maximo Monroe, Khadim Diop, Deema Atkin, Joshua Bouchard, Julia Morrison, Josefina Scaro, Ben Becher, Madeline McCray LANGUAGE: English FILMING LOCATION: New York (USA) BUDGET: US$ 300,000.00 AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories PRODUCTION COMPANY: NoPort CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Yourmama
54 PRODUCTION COMPANIES PROJECT
WHEN MY LIFE WAS MY LIFE www.yourmama.com.br QUANDO MINHA VIDA ERA A MINHA VIDA São Paulo - SP +55 11 3060 6110 Brazil | 2019 | 90 min | Drama
A dark-humored look at the new life of Miguel, a drug lord hidden by a mafia that replaces vegetative relatives of poor families with fugitives.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Development DIRECTOR: Carolina Markowicz SCREENWRITER: Carolina Markowicz CAST: César Bordón, Maeve Jinkings, Rita Cortese, José Luís Arias AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories FILMING LOCATIONS: Brazil and Argentina LANGUAGES: Portuguese and Spanish BUDGET: US$ 1,081,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS: Spcine Script Doctoring Fund, FAM - Florianópolis Audiovisual Mercosul 2017, Australab 3 Puertos Cine 2017, Ibermedia Development Fund 2017 Mayra Auad PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Cinematográfica Superfilmes [email protected] and Yourmama CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Ajimolido Films DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Pandora Films (Brazil)
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 55 Brazilian Distributors at Marché du film 2019
56 DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES www.pandorafilmes.com.br www.imovision.com.br São Paulo - SP São Paulo - SP +55 11 5093 0839 +55 11 3294 0720
PANDORA FILMES IMOVISION
Pandora Filmes is an Movie distributor in Brazil for independent distribution more than 25 years, Imovision company active in Brazil since has been consolidated as one 1989. The company is one of the of the biggest boosters of the most important gateways for best movies all over the world, films from different nationalities having released over 400 to gain access into the Brazilian films in Brazil. The distributor market. has in his catalog realization of renowned international and national directors, and award-winning films in the most prestigious world film festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Toronto and Berlin.
Paula Cosenza Jean Thomas Bernardini [email protected] [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 57 LANÇA FILMES FILM
Lança Filmes is an audiovisual THE DRAGONS distribution company present OS DRAGÕES in the largests film market events in the search for co- Brazil | 2019 | 85 min | Fantasy, Drama production partners, sales agents, acquisition of new In a small isolated town, a theater group prepares a play based on international content and sales the work of Murilo Rubião, a famous Brazilian writer, when five of Brazilian titles. misfit teenagers are transformed in creatures with pyrotechnic powers, who become “The Dragons”.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Post production DIRECTOR: Gustavo Spolidoro SCREENWRITERS: Gibran Dipp and Gustavo Spolidoro AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION: Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) LANGUAGE: Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY: GusGus Cinema DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Lança Filmes (Brazil)
58 DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES FILM BAD HONEY A COLMÉIA www.lancafilmes.com.br Brazil | 2019 | 100 min | Drama Porto Alegre - RS +55 51 3237 3737 A group of German immigrants lives isolated in the countryside of south Brazil. They try to be invisible, but the fear of what might be around makes them fragile and creates violent conflicts among them.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE: Completed DIRECTOR: Gilson Vargas SCREENWRITTERS: Diones Camargo, Gilson Vargas and Matheus Medeiros CAST: Andressa Matos, Janaina Pelizzon, João Pedro Prates, Martina Fröhlich, Rafael Franskowiak, Renata de Lélis, Samuel Reginato, Thaís Petzhold AVAILABLE TERRITORIES: All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION: Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) LANGUAGES: Portuguese and German PRODUCTION COMPANY: Pata Negra Daniela Menegotto CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY: Boom Boom [email protected] DISTRIBUTION COMPANY: Lança Filmes (Brazil)
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 59 Brazilian Sales
www.figafilms.com www.zagfilm.com.br Miami - FL - USA Belo Horizonte - MG +1 323 229 9816 +55 31 99978 1331
FIGA FILMS ZAG
Sales Agency and production ZAG is a new sales agency company specialized in Latin specialized in Brazilian America cinema. cinema. The agency will make Brazilian films circulate and to be seen in cinemas and festivals around the world as well as globally on other platforms.
Sandro Fiorin Eduardo Garretto Cerqueira Renato Galamba [email protected] [email protected]
60 SALES COMPANIES Brazilian
www.mostra.org São Paulo – SP Film +55 11 3141 0413 Festival
SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA EM SÃO PAULO
Founded in 1977, São Paulo International Film Festival screens around 300 feature films from all over the world, with a competition for first and second films. In 2019, its 43rd edition takes place from October 16th to 31st. The festival’s sections are: New Filmmakers Competition, International Perspective, Retrospective and Special Screenings.
Renata de Almeida [email protected]
FILM FESTIVAL 61 Cinema do Brasil aims to reinforce and expand the participation of Brazilian audiovisual productions in the international market, to encourage the development of co-productions and the distribution of Brazilian films abroad. It is an export program implemented in 2006 by the São Paulo’s Audiovisual Industry Guild (SIAESP), gathering today more than 170 companies.
PRESIDENT OF SIAESP SIMONI MENDONÇA [email protected]
FOUNDER AND CONSULTANT ANDRE STURM [email protected]
EXECUTIVE MANAGER PATRICIA OLIVEIRA [email protected]
TRADE PROMOTION AND COMMUNICATION KAREN HALLEY [email protected]
INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT MARIKA KOZLOVSKA [email protected] CONTACT www.cinemadobrasil.org.br [email protected] This directory contains information about the Brazilian film Meet our team at producers, distributors, sales and film festival attending Marché Palais 01 – 26.01 du Film 2019.
62 PRODUCTION COMPANIES Spcine is São Paulo’s public agency focused on the development of audiovisual industry. The company runs funding programs, a public screening network, a public VOD platform and São Paulo Film Commission. Spcine sponsored the presence of Cinema do Brasil at Marché du film 2019.
PRESIDENT OF SPCINE LAÍS BODANZKY [email protected]
CONTACT
www.spcine.com.br [email protected]
MARCHÉ DU FILM 2019 63 Private association to promote Brazilian cinema
PROMOTED BY SPONSORED BY
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