Brazilian films at Berlinale’19 and Companies attending the EFM’19 ABOUT US 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) in partnership with the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex- Brasil), gathering today more than 180 companies.
FOUNDER AND CONSULTANT OF CINEMA DO BRASIL ANDRE STURM [email protected]
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www.cinemadobrasil.org.br [email protected] THIS DIRECTORY CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT THE BRAZILIAN FILM PRODUCERS, DISTRIBUTORS, SALES AND FILM FESTIVAL Meet our team at ATTENDING THE EUROPEAN FILM MARKET 2019. Gropious Bau #134 3 COMPETITION (OUT OF COMPETITION) MARIGHELLA by Wagner Moura Brazil | 2019 | 155 min | Drama
“Marighella” tells the frantic story of the “Brazilian Che Guevara”, Carlos Marighella, during the early years of Brazil’s military regime in the 60’s. After being banished from the Communist Party, Marighella organized the largest urban guerilla group in Brazil - the “National Liberation Front”. His name raised to mythical proportions, Marighella was considered a hero by some, a terrorist by others, and dubbed “Public Enemy #1” by the military government.
SCREENWRITERS...... Felipe Braga and Wagner Moura CAST...... Seu Jorge, Adriana Esteves, Bruno Gagliasso, Humberto Carrão, Herson Capri, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Jorge Paz LANGUAGE...... Portuguese and English PRODUCTION COMPANY...... O2 Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Paris Filmes (Brazil) SALES...... Elle Driver | [email protected]
4 OFFICIAL SELECTION BERLINALE 2019 5 PANORAMA BRIEF STORY FROM THE GREEN PLANET BREVE HISTORIA DEL PLANETA VERDE by Santiago Loza Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Spain| 2019 74 min | Fiction
Tania, Pedro and Daniela, three outsiders, earn as an inheritance the task of returning an Alien back to its planet. A prove of friendship, so they can accomplish their mission before it is too late for the Alien and maybe for Tania.
SCREENWRITER ...... Santiago Loza CAST...... Paula Grinszpan, Luis Sodá, Romina Escobar LANGUAGE...... Spanish PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Constanza Sanz Palacios Films CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES...Anavilhana (Brazil), Autentika Films (Germany), Zentropa (Spain) SALES...... The Open Reel | [email protected]
6 OFFICIAL SELECTION BERLINALE 2019 7 PANORAMA DIVINE LOVE DIVINO AMOR by Gabriel Mascaro Brasil, Uruguay, Denmark, Chile, Norway, Sweden | 2019 | 100 min | Drama
Brasil, 2027. A deeply religious woman uses her position in a notary’s office to try to prevent couples from divorcing. Whilst waiting for a divine sign in recognition of her efforts, she’s confronted with a crisis that ultimately brings her closer to God.
SCREENWRITER...... Gabriel Mascaro, Rachel Daisy Ellis, Esdras Bezerra, Lucas Paraizo CAST...... Dira Paes, Julio Machado, Emílio de Melo, Teca Pereira, Mariana Nunes LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Desvia CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES...Malbicho Cine, Snowglobe, Jirafa, Mer Film Bord Cadre, Film ï Vast, Globo Films and Canal Brasil SALES...... Memento Films International [email protected]
BERLINALE 2019 9 PANORAMA GRETA by Armando Praça Brazil | 2019 | 97 min | Drama
Pedro, a middle-aged gay nurse, secretly takes care of a young patient involved in a homicide to help his best friend Daniela. Lonely, he sees the boy as an opportunity to fall in love and fulfill his innermost desires.
SCREENWRITER...... Armando Praça CAST...... Marco Nanini, Denise Weinberg, Demick Lopes and Gretta Sttar LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Carnaval Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Pandora Filmes (Brazil) SALES...... M-Appeal | [email protected]
10 OFFICIAL SELECTION BERLINALE 2019 11 PANORAMA ON THE STARTING LINE LA ARRANCADA by Aldemar Matias France, Cuba, Brazil | 2019 | 63 min | Documentary
An intimate family chronicle, seen from the perspective of two women, exposes a generation unsure of what’s next in Cuba.
SCREENWRITER...... Aldemar Matias CAST...... Jennifer Lamoth Rodriguez, Marbelis Rodriguez Lamoth LANGUAGE...... Spanish PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Formiga de Fogo Filmes SALES...... FiGa/Br | [email protected]
12 OFFICIAL SELECTION BERLINALE 2019 13 PANORAMA
WAITING FOR THE CARNIVAL ESTOU ME GUARDANDO PARA QUANDO O CARNAVAL CHEGAR by Marcelo Gomes Brazil | 2019 | 83 min | Documentary
A small village in the Brazilian outback is considered the nation’s capital of jeans. It’s also a microcosms that depicts modern day capitalism and its transgressions.
SCREENWRITER...... Marcelo Gomes CAST...... Leonardo Bernardo dos Santos LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Carnaval Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Misti Filmes and REC Produtores DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) SALES...... Cinephil | [email protected]
14 OFFICIAL SELECTION BERLINALE 2019 15 FORUM HOMING QUERÊNCIA by Helvécio Marins Jr Brazil, Germany | 2019 | 90 min | Drama
Marcelo, an easygoing cowboy at a cattle farm, lives for one passion: rodeos. After a tragic incident, he counts on his friends to overcome the trauma and pursue his dream of becoming a professional rodeo announcer.
SCREENWRITER...... Helvécio Marins Jr CAST...... Marcelo di Souza, Kaic Lima, Márcia Rosa, Nivaldo Botelho, Carlos Dalmir, Vanessa Ribeiro LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANIES.. Muiraquitã Filmes and Canabrava Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) SALES...... The Open Reel | [email protected]
16 OFFICIAL SELECTION BERLINALE 2019 17 FORUM LANDLESS CHÃO by Camila Freitas Brazil | 2018 | 108 min | Documentary
In an occupied land belonging to an indebted sugarcane processing plant in bankruptcy process, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) fights to press the government into making land reform and settling the families encamped. A story about resilience against changing times and politics.
SCREENWRITER...... Camila Freitas LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Trotoar Produções SALES...... FiGa/Br | [email protected]
18 OFFICIAL SELECTION BERLINALE 2019 19 Brazilian films at EFM’19 market screenings
21 FABIANA by Brunna Laboissière Brazil | 2018 | 89 min | Documentary
After thirty years living as a nomad on the Brazilian roads, as she approaches retirement, Fabiana, a transgender truck driver, looks back on her life before leaving behind her adventures on the road.
SCREENWRITER...... Brunna Laboissière CAST...... Fabiana Camila Ferreira AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019 (Bright Future Competition) PRODUCED BY...... Artemiísia Filmes SALES...... ZAG | [email protected]
22 MARKET SCREENINGS EFM 2019 23 GUAICURUS STREET RUA GUAICURUS by João Borges Brazil | 2018 | 75 min | Documentary
Guaicurus Street, in Belo Horizonte, has been one of the largest prostitution zones in Brazil since the 1950’s. The film reveals this enormous prostitution complex through the relationships between its characters.
SCREENWRITER...... João Borges CAST...... Ariadina Paulino, Elizabeth Miguel, Shirley Santos, Carlos Francisco AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories LANGUAGE...... Portuguese FILMING LOCATION...... Belo Horizonte (Brazil) PRODUCED BY...... Yara Filmes DISTRIBUTED BY...... Embauba Filmes SALES...... ZAG | [email protected]
24 MARKET SCREENINGS EFM 2019 25 LONG WAY HOME TEMPORADA by André Novais Oliveira Brazil | 2018 | 113 min | Drama
Juliana has just moved from her hometown to a bigger city to work for the public eradication program. On her new job she meets people, makes friends and has new experiences that start changing her life. At the same time, she feels she is losing touch with her husband, who she left in the backlands.
SCREENWRITER...... André Novais Oliveira CAST...... Grace Passô, Russo Apr, Rejane Faria AVAILABLE TERRITORIES....All territories except Brazil LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Locarno, Belfort, Torino, Rotterdam PRODUCED BY...... Filmes de Plástico SALES...... FiGa/Br | [email protected]
26 MARKET SCREENINGS EFM 2019 27 MY OWN PRIVATE HELL INFERNINHO by Guto Parente and Pedro Diógenes Brazil | 2018 | 82 min | Drama
Deusimar is the owner of Inferninho, a dark and run-down bar that is refuge of dreams and fantasies. Her dream is to leave everything behind and go away to any distant land, as far as possible from that place.
SCREENWRITERS...... Guto Parente, Pedro Diógenes and Rafael Martins CAST...... Yuri Yamamoto, Demick Lopes AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS....Buenos Aires Interna- tional Festival of Independent Cinema, Queer Lisboa DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Completed PRODUCED BY...... Marrevolto Produções DISTRIBUTED BY...... Embauba Filmes SALES...... ZAG | [email protected]
28 MARKET SCREENINGS EFM 2019 29 PETIT MAL O PEQUENO MAL by Lucas Camargo de Barros and Nicolas Thomé Zetune Brazil | 2018 | 71 min | Drama
Janaína and João take care of each other in a São Paulo contaminated by pathologies and affections. Evil, which seems to spread like a fever, then invades bodies and spaces colliding with the physical and spiritual world.
SCREENWRITER...... Lucas Camargo de Barros CAST...... Janaina Afhonso, João Paulo Bienemann AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS....29th FIDMarseille, 51º Festival de Brasília, 47º São Paulo Inter- national Film Festival and 10a Semana de Cinema PRODUCED BY...... Barry Company |[email protected] CO-PRODUCED BY...... Avoa Filmes and Fratura Filmes
30 MARKET SCREENINGS EFM 2019 31 THE BIG MATCH CU DE BOI by Belém de Oliveira Brazil | 2018 | 80 min | Documentary
“The Big Match” dives in the recent football history to discover it in a point of view of society affairs, mixing economy and political in the field.
SCREENWRITER...... Belém de Oliveira CAST...... Guinga, Cristian Pereira, Álvaro Oliveira Filho, Luiz Gonzaga Belluzo, Edson Rodrigues, Tristan, Evaldo José, Antônio Felipe O. da Costa, Juca Kfouri, Evandro Gomes AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories LANGUAGE...... Portuguese, French, English FILMING LOCATION...... Goiânia, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France) PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Ventana Sur 2018 PRODUCED BY...... F64 Filmes | [email protected]
32 MARKET SCREENINGS EFM 2019 33 THE BOAT O BARCO by Petrus Cariry Brazil | 2018 | 72 min | Drama, Fantasy
In an isolated fishing village, Esmerina is married to a fisherman and has 26 children. The routine of the family is suddenly altered when a mysterious boat runs aground on the beach with Ana, a girl who survived the shipwreck.
SCREENWRITERS...... Petrus Cariry, Firmino Holanda and Rosemberg Cariry CAST...... Samya de Lavor, Rômulo Braga, Everaldo Pontes, Veronica Cavalcanti, Nanego Lira AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Oldenburg International Film Festival 2018 (Germany), Sunscreen International Film Festival 2018 - Official Selection (USA), Interrobang Inter- national Film Festival 2018 - Official Selec- tion (USA), Islantilla Cineforum 2018 (Spain) PRODUCED BY...... Iluminura Filmes SALES...... ZAG | [email protected]
34 MARKET SCREENINGS EFM 2019 35 Producers at EFM’19
36 PRODUCTION COMPANIES 37 400 FILMES FILM DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Finished, to be released in 2019 DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITTER...... Gustavo Galvão 400 Filmes is one of WE STILL HAVE CAST...... Ayla Gresta, Gustavo Halfeld, the most prolific THE DEEP BLACK NIGHT Steven Lange, Marat Descartes, Fernando Teixeira AVAILABLE TERRITORIES. All territories except Brazil companies in the AINDA TEMOS A IMENSIDÃO DA NOITE www.400filmes.com FILMING LOCATION....Brasília (Brazil) and Berlin (Germany) Center-West region of www.gustavogalvao.com LANGUAGE...... Portuguese, English and German Brazil, having released Brazil, Germany | 2019 | 98 min | Drama Brasilia - DF BUDGET...... US$ 700,000.00 six features and 16 +55 11 97541 8242 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Boutique shorts since 2000. The Tired of the struggle with her band, where she sings +55 61 99963 0028 company has one feature and plays the trumpet, Karen decides to leave Brasilia Cinema do Brasil (Dec 2015), PRODAV 04/2013 (Bra- to be released in 2019 and tries her luck in Berlin. Few months later, she zilian Film Agency fund for development, 2016-2017) and four projects in is back with a mystery. Karen finds herself torn PRODUCTION COMPANY...... 400 Filmes different stages. between two loves. DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Pandora Filmes (Brazil)
Gustavo Galvão [email protected] [email protected]
38 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 39 ABROLHOS PROJECT FILM FILMES YOUKALI - THE PROMISED LAND CHICO REI YOUKALI - A TERRA PROMETIDA Abrolhos Filmes is www.abrolhosfilmes.com Brazil | 2019 | 90 min | Documentary associate producer São Paulo - SP Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Fiction, Drama of the feature films +55 11 2384 0749 Chico Rei is a Brazilian myth that is the starting “La Ciambra” (Jonas François, a Congolese journalist who flees his point to explore the echoes of Brazilian slavery Carpignano), which country, seeks to rebuild his life in Brazil while in the lives of black people today, understanding premiered at the Cannes solving the disappearing of his wife and daughter. their movement of self-affirmation and freedom from Film Festival, and a collective perspective. “Patti Cakes” (Jeremy DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development Jasper), selected for DIRECTOR...... Jeferson De DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production Sundance Film Festival. SCREENWRITER...... Fernando Honesko DIRECTOR...... Joyce Prado CAST...... Camila Pitanga SCREENWRITER...... Natália Vestri AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... São Paulo (Brazil) FILMING LOCATION...... Ouro Preto and São Paulo (Brazil) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese, French and Lingala LANGUAGE...... Portuguese BUDGET...... US$ 1,120,000.00 BUDGET...... US$ 70,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Abrolhos Filmes PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Abrolhos Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Pandora Filmes (Brazil)
André Sobral contato@ abrolhosfilmes.com
40 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 41 ANAVILHANA FILM FILM www.anavilhana.art.br Anavilhana brings WHILE WE ARE HERE COIOTE Belo Horizonte - MG together the expertise ENQUANTO ESTAMOS AQUI +55 31 98449 9658 of more than 10 years Brazil | 2019 | 71 min | Fiction of her partners - Brazil | 2019 | 75 min | Fiction André is a broken man, who lives isolated in a Clarissa Campolina, forest. Haunted by his past, he wishes to heal his Luana Melgaço and Mixing fiction, travelogue and film diary, the film sorrow and take the responsibility from his acts.He Marília Rocha. Our presents the story of the relationship between puts himself before the abyss where he must change films have been shown Lamis, a Lebanese woman who just moved to New York his skin in order to survive. in over 40 countries and Wilson, a Brazilian man living illegally for 10 and earned more than 30 years in the same city. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production awards worldwide. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Completed DIRECTOR...... Sergio Borges DIRECTORS AND SCREENWRITERS...... Clarissa Campolina SCREENWRITERS...... Aline Portugal, and Luiz Pretti Marcelo Caetano and Sergio Borges CAST..Mary Ghattas, Marcelo Souza e Silva, Grace Passô CAST...... Enrique Diaz, Caio Horowicz, Maeve Jinkings AVAILABLE TERRITORIES....All territories except Brazil AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION...... Berlin (Germany), FILMING LOCATION...... Aiuruoca (Brazil) New York City (USA) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Portuguese, English, French and Arabic BUDGET...... US$ 375,000.00 BUDGET...... US$ 62,500.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Filmes Fractais Luana Melgaço PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Rotterdam DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Vitrine Filmes [email protected] PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Anavilhana DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Pique Bandeira (Brazil)
42 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 43 ARAÇÁ FILMES FILM FILM
Independent company THE LIFELESS SKIN FAR AWAY FROM PARADISE from Salvador, Bahia, A PELE MORTA LONGE DO PARAÍSO that has filmed 2 www.aracafilmes.com.br feature films in Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia | 2018 | Drama Brazil | 2018 | Drama Salvador - BA 2018 and has in its +55 71 9911 0062 portfolio great co- Three solitary souls aboard a moving truck, from The gunman Kim makes a mistake when he kills a productions such as Brazil to Bolivia through the Gran Chaco - the open peasant and his son. Not to die will have to make “Tieta”, “Captains of veins of the heart of South America, in search of another job for the organization that he works to Sand” and the video their own indentity. save his own skin in the town where he grew up. music “They Don’t Really Care” by Michael DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production DEVELOPMENT PHASE:...... Post-production Jackson. DIRECTORS...... Bruno Torres and Denise Moares DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Orlando Senna SCREENWRITER...... Daniel Tavares CAST...... Emanuelle Araújo, Ícaro Bittencourt CAST...... César Troncoso, Ivana Gomez, Luan Rodrigues AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... Latin America AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... Latin America FILMING LOCATION...... Brazil FILMING LOCATION...... Brazil, Paraguay and Bolívia LANGUAGE...... Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Araçá Filmes PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Araçá Filmes
Solange Souza Lima Moraes [email protected]
44 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 45 BARRY COMPANY FILM PROJECT
With a portfolio EDUARDO AND MÔNICA A HAPPY FAMILY crafted to attend the EDUARDO E MÔNICA UMA FAMILIA FELIZ challenging Brazilian and international Brazil | 2019 | 120 min | Dramedy Brazil | 2019 | 120 min | Thriller, Drama audiences, Barry www.barrycompany.com.br Company’s titles The love story that cradled many generations “Eduardo Eva, school teacher and beloved wife, finds herself São Paulo - SP include awarded e Mônica, composed by Renato Russo will be released in the struggle of maternity. When her twin child +55 11 3665 3333 productions such as in 2019. Starring Alice Braga and Gabriel Leone, the present signs of domestic violence, evidences point “Brazilian Western”; story of a very different couple who were born for to her. Eva has to prove her innocence and sanity. “Tatuapé Mahal Tower”; one another. Do you trust her? “Petit Mal” and “Impuros” [FOX]. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Late development DIRECTOR...... René Sampaio DIRECTOR...... José Eduardo Belmonte SCREENWRITERS...... Matheus Souza, SCREENWRITER...... Raphael Montes Claudia Sotto, Jessica Candal and Michele Frantz AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories CAST...... Alice Braga, Gabriel Leone FILMING LOCATION...... Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories LANGUAGE...... Portuguese FILMING LOCATION...... Brasília and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) BUDGET...... US$ 977,213.75 LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Varilux French BUDGET...... US$ 2,703,097.39 Cinema Festival Laboratory and Laboratório Sesc PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Gávea Filmes Novas Histórias Mariana Ricciardi entretenimento@ CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES.....Barry Company and Fogo Cerrado PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Barry Company DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Downtown Filmes barrycompany.com.br
46 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 47 BIÔNICA FILMES PROJECT PROJECT
Biônica started in VIOLETTA RITA LEE 2012 producing for television and cinema. Brazil, Argentina | 2020 | 90 min | Thriller Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Biography, Dramedy www.bionicafilmes.com.br It released 5 movies São Paulo - SP and a HBO series that After releasing her first graphic novel “Violetta”, Based on Rita Lee’s life, one of the biggest +55 11 2364 3833 was nominated for an Ana goes to the End of the World Residence to develop Brazilian rock stars. It will be an adaptation of Emmy. In only five her next book. Ana embrace the method that makes the her bestseller autobiography and will portray not years, Biônica has authors to give up their identities and become their just her entire career but also her controversial collected many awards characters. personal life. including a SXSW and a Tallin Black Nights. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development DIRECTOR...... Fernando Fraiha DIRECTOR...... Paulinho Caruso SCREENWRITERS...... Fernando Fraiha and Inês Bortagaray SCREENWRITERS...... Paulinho Caruso and Patrícia Andrade AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... Argentina and Brazil FILMING LOCATION...... Brazil LANGUAGE...... Spanish and Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Portuguese BUDGET...... US$ 2,013,781.00 BUDGET...... US$ 2,993,568.43 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Biônica Filmes PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Biônica Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Elo Company
Karen Castanho karen@bionicafilmes. com.br bionica@ bionicafilmes.com.br
48 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 49 BUBBLES FILM PROJECT PROJECT NONA – IF THEY SOAK ME, RULE 34 I’LL BURN THEM REGRA 3 Bubbles Project is an NONA – SI MI MOJAN, YO LOS QUEMO independent production Brazil | 2019 | 100 min | Drama company based in Rio Chile, Brazil, France, South Korea | 2019 | 86 min | de Janeiro, created Hybrid- Fiction/Drama Simone is a young law student who finds a passion for www.bubblesproject.com by Tatiana Leite defending women in abuse cases. Yet her own sexual in 2012. Bubbles Rio de Janeiro - RJ Nona escapes to her summer home in Pichilemu, after setting interests lead to a world of violence and eroticism. Project has already +55 21 99307 4619 fire to her ex-lover’s pick-up truck. In her exile, Nona completed 5 feature is trying to follow her ideal of reinvention, but soon the DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Script development films, and currently fire and her past eventually catches up to her. DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Julia Murat has a Brazil-Denmark AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil coproduction in post. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Completed FILMING LOCATION...... Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Camila Jose Donoso LANGUAGE...... Portuguese CAST...... Josefina Ramírez, BUDGET..US$ 857,000.00 (US$ 471,000.00 already in place) Eduardo Moscovis, Gigi Reyes, Paula Dinamarca PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Esquina and Bubbles Project AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Imovision (Brazil) except Brazil, Chile, France and South Korea FILMING LOCATION...... Pichilemu and Santiago (Chile) LANGUAGE...... Spanish Tatiana Leite BUDGET...... US$ 800,000.00 tatiana@ PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS.Rotterdam 2019,Jeonju IFF 2018 bubblesproject.com PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Mimbre Producciones CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Bubbles Project, Altamar Filmes and Jeonju Cinema Project DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) SALES...... Pascale Ramonda (Festivals)
50 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 51 CAMPO CERRADO PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Development and fundraising DIRECTORS.....Erika Santos and Cássio Pereira dos Santos Development and JANDIRA SCREENWRITER...... Cássio Pereira dos Santos production of artistic- A TERRA E OS SONHOS FILMING LOCATION...... Vale do Jequitinhonha (Brazil) driven projects for AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories www.campocerrado.com.br children and young Brazil | 2022 | 100 min | Drama LANGUAGE...... Portuguese Uberlândia – MG people, providing BUDGET...... US$ 800,000.00 +55 34 99177 8246 relevant content and Jandira is a 11-year-old girl, born and raised in the PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS.....Cabíria Screenplay engaging stories for Brazilian hinterlands. When her mother dies, Jandira Award (Winner 2017) and Novas Histórias/New Sto- this target-audience. is obliged to face a big challenge: will she be able ries Script Development Lab (2018, São Paulo) We’re currently to take care of her sister and continue her studies PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Campo Cerrado Produções searching for int’l at the same time? coproducers and sales agents.
Cássio Pereira dos Santos cassiops@ campocerrado.com.br
52 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 53 CARNAVAL FILM FILM FILMES WAITING FOR THE CARNIVAL GRETA ESTOU ME GUARDANDO PARA QUANDO Carnaval Filmes focus O CARNAVAL CHEGAR Brazil | 2019 | 97 min | Drama in original content and PANORAMA PANORAMA arthouse films. We are Pedro, a middle-aged gay nurse, secretly takes care Brazil | 2019 | 83 min | Documentary www. currently releasing the of a young patient involved in a homicide to help carnavalfilmes.com.br documentaries “Waiting A small village in the Brazilian outback is his best friend Daniela. Lonely, he sees the boy Recife - PE for the Carnival”, considered the nation’s capital of jeans. It’s also as an opportunity to fall in love and fulfill his +55 81 98846 6628 by Marcelo Gomes and a microcosms that depicts modern day capitalism and innermost desires. +55 81 99635 9290 “Casa”, by Letícia its transgressions. Simões and the feature DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Completed “Greta”, by Armando DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Completed DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Armando Praça Praça. DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Marcelo Gomes CAST...... Marco Nanini, Denise Weinberg, CAST...... Leonardo Bernardo dos Santos Demick Lopes, Gretta Sttar AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION...... Toritama (Brazil) FILMING LOCATION...... Fortaleza (Brazil) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Portuguese BUDGET...... US$ 300,000.00 BUDGET...... US$ 600,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Carnaval Filmes PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Carnaval Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES...Misti Filmes and REC Produtores DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Pandora Filmes (Brazil) DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) SALES...... M-Appeal | [email protected] Nara Aragão SALES...... Cinephil | [email protected] nara@ carnavalfilmes.com.br
João Vieira Jr. joao@ carnavalfilmes.com.br
54 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 55 CHAMON FILM PROJECT PRODUTORA TURN OVER A NEW LEAF CLASSIFIED ADS VIRANDO A PÁGINA CLASSIFICADOS Production, Rio de Janeiro - RJ administration, Brazil | 2019 | 82 min | Documentary Brazil | 2019 | 72 min | Documentary +55 21 99640 9052 financial management, formatting and The documentary brings to light the opinions, ideas Classifieds is a documentary that will accompany framing of projects, and contradictions of existing public policies for the routine of ex-offenders looking for a job.The consultancy in the the educational training of prisoners who seek a project will give voice and look to those who are development of new reintegration into society through education. looking for a new way, resigning their project of projects, rendering of life from a new perspective. accounts and service DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Finalizing for cultural projects DIRECTOR...... Marcelo Pontes DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Fundraising of all spheres. SCREENWRITERS...... Marcelo Pontes, Octavio Martins DIRECTOR...... Sergio Miranda and Patrícia Chamon SCREENWRITER...... Patricia Chamon CAST...... Testimonies of prisoners, CAST...... Testimonies of prisoners, public prosecutors, the judiciary, educators, public prosecutors, the judiciary, educators, sociologists and philosophers sociologists and philosophers AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... Latin America AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... Latin American FILMING LOCATION...... Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) FILMING LOCATION...... Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Portuguese BUDGET...... US$ 110,000.00 BUDGET...... US$ 52,000.00 Patricia Chamon PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Chamon Produtora PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Chamon Produtora patricia@ DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... CineBrasilTV DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... CineBrasilTv grupochamon.com
56 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 57 DESVIA FILM FILM
Desvia is an DIVINE LOVE ROJO independent production DIVINO AMOR company based in by Gabriel Mascaro PANORAMA Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands | Northeast Brazil, 2018 | 101 min | Drama www.desvia.com.br Recife - PE founded in 2010 by Brasil, Uruguay, Denmark, Chile, Norway, Sweden | In the mid 1970s a wave of unprecedented political +55 81 99236 9287 producer Rachel Ellis 2019 | 100 min | Drama and director Gabriel violence begins to unfold in Argentina. This, however, appears to have little effect on a small town where Mascaro. Brasil, 2027. A deeply religious woman uses her Claudio leads a placid life with his family. Claudio position in a notary’s office to try to prevent couples is unsettled by the event but resumes his daily from divorcing. Whilst waiting for a divine sign in routine, until a private detective appears. recognition of her efforts, she’s confronted with a crisis that ultimately brings her closer to God. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Completed DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Benjamin Naishtat DIRECTOR...... Gabriel Mascaro CAST...... Alfredo Castro, Dario Grandinetti, SCREENWRITER...... Gabriel Mascaro, Andrea Frigerio, Diego Cremonesi Rachel Daisy Ellis, Esdras Bezerra, Lucas Paraizo FILMING LOCATION...... Argentina CAST...... Dira Paes, Julio LANGUAGE...... Spanish Machado, Emílio de Melo, Teca Pereira, Mariana Nunes BUDGET...... US$ 1,200,000.00 FILMING LOCATION...... Recife (Brazil) PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Cinemart 2016, LANGUAGE...... Portuguese Rachel Daisy Ellis EFM 2016, Toronto International Film Festi- BUDGET...... US$ 1,200,000.00 [email protected] val 2018 and San Sebastian Film Festival 2018 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Desvia PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Pucará Cine CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES...Malbicho Cine, Snowglobe,Jirafa, CO-PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Desvia,Ecce, Mer Film Bord Cadre, Film ï Vast, Globo Films and Canal Brasil Sutor Kolonko and Viking Films SALES...... Memento Films International | DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Vitrine (Brazil) [email protected] SALES...... Lux Box | [email protected]
58 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 59 DEZENOVE SOM E PROJECT PROJECT IMAGENS THE CITY;THE COUNTRY THE PATHS OF MY FATHER CIDADE;CAMPO OS CAMINHOS DO MEU PAI Feature, short, and documentary films. A Brazil | 2020 | 100 min | Fiction Brazil, Poland, Vietnam | 2020 | 100 min | Fiction production company established in 1991, Two stories about migration: Joana, a rural worker, When Vy’s grandmother is sent to the hospital, Vy www.dezenove.net by filmmaker Carlos arrives in São Paulo looking for job and reconnecting decides to join her father, a busy truck driver, on São Paulo - SP Reichenbach and with her family. Flávia, a newlywed veterinarian, a journey to the far corners of northern Vietnam. Her +55 11 3031 3017 producer Sara Silveira, moves into the field after her husband is removed for father is against the idea of bringing his daughter in partnership with medical malpractice. on the trip. Maria Ionescu.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Pre-production DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Juliana Rojas DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Mauricio Osaki SUGGESTED CAST...... Fernanda Vianna, CAST...... Mr Bùi Trung Anh , Hoàng Thi. Anh Thu’, Sabrina Greve, Humberto Carrão, Caroline Abras (tbc) Mrs. Nguyê˜n Nhu’ Quỳnh AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil AVAILABLE TERRITORIES..All territories except Brazil and Poland FILMING LOCATION...... São Paulo (Brazil) FILMING LOCATION...... Vietnam - capital and coun- LANGUAGE...... Portuguese tryside (directing towards Laos border) BUDGET...... US$ 859,296.00 LANGUAGE...... Vietnamese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Festival de Cannes, BUDGET...... US$ 500,000.00 Sara Silveira San Sebástian, Biarritz, Brasília PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Dezenove Som e Imagens [email protected] PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Dezenove Som e Imagens DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Cup Filmes (Brazil) DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Pagú Pictures (Brazil)
60 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 61 ESQUINA PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Script development Audiovisual producer. DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Julia Murat RULE 34 AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil REGRA 3 FILMING LOCATION...... Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese Brazil | 2019 | 100 min | Drama BUDGET..US$ 857,000.00 (US$ 471,000.00 already in place) PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Esquina and Bubbles Project Simone is a young law student who finds a passion for DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Imovision (Brazil) defending women in abuse cases. Yet her own sexual www.esquina.art.br interests lead to a world of violence and eroticism. Rio de Janeiro - RJ +55 21 99130 2544
Julia Murat [email protected]
62 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 63 F64 FILMES FILM PROJECT
F64 Filmes is a THE BIG MATCH KAMALL Brazilian film company CU DE BOI based in Goiânia Brazil | 2020 | 82 min | Fiction and founded in 2013. Brazil | 2018 | 80 min | Documentary Our main goal is the Kamal, son of Arabs in Goiânia, is found by the coproduction, which “The Big Match” dives in the recent football history olders brothers, cross-dressings at the streets and www.f64fillmes.com we believe to be a to discover it in a point of view of society affairs, get beaten by them. While looking for his brother Goiânia - GO powerful tool for mixing economy and political in the field. kidnapped by the military during the dictatorship, +55 62 98149 7973 producing unique and try to understand himself. universal films. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Belém de Oliveira DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Script development CAST...... Guinga, Cristian Pereira, DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Wadih Elkadi Álvaro Oliveira Filho, Luiz Gonzaga Belluzo, AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories Edson Rodrigues, Tristan, Evaldo José, Antônio FILMING LOCATION...... Goiânia(Brazil) Felipe O. da Costa, Juca Kfouri, Evandro Gomes LANGUAGE...... Portuguese and Arabic AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories BUDGET...... US$ 500,000.00 FILMING LOCATION...... Goiânia, PRODUCTION COMPANY...... F64 Filmes São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Paris (France) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese, Spanish and French BUDGET...... US$ 150,000.00 Belém de Oliveira PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Ventana Sur 2018 [email protected] PRODUCTION COMPANY...... F64 Filmes
64 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 65 FM PRODUÇÕES PROJECT FILM
A Brazilian producer CLAMOUR VENICE www.fmproducoes.com.br and distributor, CLAMOR VENEZA Rio de Janeiro - RJ operating in +55 21 99586-9999 audiovisual market Brazil, Chile | 2019 | 100 min | Drama Brazil | 2018 | 100 min | Fiction, Drama as sales manager, negotiating its and 1978. São Paulo. Jan Rocha, a British correspondent Seeing Venice has always been Gringa’s greatest other producers living in Brazil, and one of the founders of the dream, a brothel owner in southern Brazil. There, contents in markets humanitary group called Clamor, begins to investigate she hopes to rediscover her one true love. Rita and in Brazil and abroad. a case that could be more complex than it first Tonho, protector of the brothel, decide to make her It provides services appeared. dream come true. to foreign producers filming in Brazil. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Pre-production DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production DIRECTOR...... Malu de Martino DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Miguel Falabella SCREENWRITER...... Dominga Sotomayor CAST...... Eduardo Moscovis, Carmem Maura, CAST...... Marjorie Estiano, Dira Paes, Caio Manhente, Georgina Barbarossa, Carol Irandhir Santos (tbc), Antonio Calloni, Mirela Pascual Castro, Danielle Winits AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... Brazil, Chile and Argentina FILMING LOCATION...... Italy and Uruguay LANGUAGE...... Portuguese and Spanish LANGUAGE...... Portuguese BUDGET...... US$ 1,393,354.77 BUDGET...... US$ 2,776,668.33 Fernando Muniz PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS.Ventana Sur and Marché du Film PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Ananã Produções jfernandomuniz@ PRODUCTION COMPANY...... FM Produções DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Imagem Filmes fmproducoes.com.br
66 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 67 GLAZ PROJECT FILM ENTRETENIMENTO BUSINESS WOMEN’S CLUB TEETH
Glaz S/A is a result www. Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Comedy Brazil | 2018-2020 | 100 min | Thriller of the merger of Glaz glazentretenimento.com Entertainment and Copa In a world where men and women have their social The Brazilians have a saying: when you dream of Rio de Janeiro - RJ Studio. With more than roles changed, a man tries to reach success amidst falling teeth, someone close to you will die. Ademar +55 11 3014 4932 80 hours of audiovisual all the hardships imposed by society. is cast into a plot of killings and premonitory content produced. The dreams, forced to investigate the crimes before he company has a history DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development, 3rd draft is either murdered or arrested. of success in movie DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Anna Muylaert theaters and on TV. AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production FILMING LOCATION...... São Paulo (Brazil) DIRECTORS...... Julio Taubkin and Pedro Arantes LANGUAGE...... Portuguese SCREENWRITER...... Arthur Warren PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Glaz Entretenimento CAST...... Juliano Cazarré, Paola Oliveira, DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) Renata Sorrah, Paulo Tiefenthaler AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... São Paulo (Brazil) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY...... ATC Entretenimentos DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Galeria Distribuidora Mayra Lucas mayra@ glazentretenimento.com
68 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 69 GLOBO FILM FILM
Globo is the leading INTIMATE STRANGERS REND YOUR HEART Latin American content INTIMIDADE ENTRE ESTRANHOS RASGA CORAÇÃO producer and one of the largest media groups Brazil | 2018 | 111 min | Drama Brazil | 2018 | 100 min | Drama globofilmes.globo.com/ in the world, producing en and supporting about A boy is by himself after his parents die, remaining Manguari Pistolão after 40 years of fighting for São Paulo - SP 25 films per year with reclusive until he meets an older woman who introduces what he thought was new and revolutionary, his son +55 11 98908 0260 the best independent him to a completely new world. However, he will find accuses him of being antiquated. Growing conflict Brazilian production out that she is married - starting a complicated love with Luca, Manguari sees himself repeating the same companies. triangle. attitudes as his father.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Distribution DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Distribution DIRECTOR...... José Alvarenga Jr DIRECTOR...... Jorge Furtado SCREENWRITERS...... Matheus Souza and José Alvarenga Jr SCREENWRITERS...... Jorge Furtado, CAST...... Rafaela Mandelli, Milhem Cortaz, Gabriel Ana Luiza Azevedo and Vicente Moreno Contente, José Dumont, Giovana Lancellotti, Jayme Periard CAST.....Marco Ricca, Drica Moraes, Chay Suede, Luisa AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories Arraes, George Sauma, João Pedro Zappa, Duda Meneghetti FILMING LOCATION...... Brazil AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories LANGUAGE...... Portuguese FILMING LOCATION...... Brazil PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS....International Film LANGUAGE...... Portuguese Mariana Saramago Festivals Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil) PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS....International Film mariana.saramago@ PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Iafa Britz Festivals Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil) tvglobo.com.br DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Galeria Distribuidora (Brazil) PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Casa de Cinema de Porto Alegre SALES...... Globo DISTRIBUTION COMPANY:...... Sony Pictures SALES...... Globo
70 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 71 GULLANE FILM FILM
Founded in 1996 by ABE THE HANGED the brothers Caio and OS ENFORCADOS www.gullane.com Fabiano Gullane, the Brazil | 2018 | 80 min | Family, Drama, Comedy São Paulo - SP Brazilian production Brazil | 2019 | 120 min | Drama +55 11 5084 0996 powerhouse Gullane The Israeli-Jewish side of his family calls him has produced more Avram. The Palestinian-Muslim side Ibrahim. His A dispute over Rio’s illegal gambling network reaches than 45 prominent first-generation American agnostic parents call him Shakespearian proportions when newlyweds Regina and films, 25 TV series, Abraham. But the 12-year-old from Brooklyn who loves Valerio decide to kill his uncle. The death unchains and numerous specials cooking, prefers just Abe. violence and chaos, contaminating the couple’s and documentaries, relationship and trust. released in Brazil and DEVELOPMENT PHASE ...... Completed abroad. DIRECTOR ...... Fernando Grostein Andrade DEVELOPMENT PHASE ...... Production SCREENWRITERS ...... Lameece Issaq and Jacob Kader DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER ...... Fernando Coimbra CAST ...... Noah Schnapp, Seu Jorge, AVAILABLE TERRITORIES ... All territories except Latin America Dagmara Dominczyk, Arian Moayed , Mark Margolis, FILMING LOCATION ...... Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Tom Mardirosian, Daniel Oreskes LANGUAGE ...... Portuguese AVAILABLE TERRITORIES ... All territories except Latin America BUDGET ...... US$ 4M FILMING LOCATION ...... Brooklyn, NY (USA) PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Gullane LANGUAGE ...... English DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Paris Filmes (Latin America) BUDGET ...... US$ 3,8M Fabiano Gullane PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS ...... Sundance 2019 international@ PRODUCTION COMPANIES ...... Spray Filmes, Gullane gullane.com DISTRIBUTION COMPANY ...... Paris Filmes (Latin America)
72 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 73 IF YOU HOLD A PROJECT PROJECT STONE LIFE LASTS TWO DAYS HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH, A VIDA SÃO DOIS DIAS If You Hold A Stone is THE PETALS ARE FALLEN Germany, France, Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Road a Rio de Janeiro-based Brazil, Portugal | 2019 | 80 min | Sci-Fi Comedy Movie Drama production company www. founded in 2012. The After receiving the originals of a book written by A sailboat with a woman and her crew of six men ifyouholdastone.com focus is on director- his twin brother, Orlando is cast in an unexpected anchors off the coast of Marseilles. There, she Rio de Janeiro - RJ driven features and game in which reality and fiction, space and time, happens upon CCPLEM, a recreation center for Foreign +55 21 99744 3519 creative documentaries are merged and distorted. Legion’s soldiers. that play at festivals and cinemas worldwide. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Development DIRECTOR...... Leonardo Mouramateus DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Helena Wittman SCREENWRITERS...... Leonardo Mouramateus and Mauro Soares CAST...... Sara García, Mauro Soares CAST...... Mauro Soares, Mariah Teixeira, Sara Hana AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... Marseille (France), FILMING LOCATION...... Rio de Janeiro Calvi (Italy), Sidi Bel Abbes (Algeria) and Fortaleza (Brazil), Lisbon (Portugal) LANGUAGE...... German, English, French and Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Portuguese BUDGET...... US$ 450,000.00 BUDGET...... US$ 80,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Fuenferfilm (Germany) PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Praia À Noite DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Zeta Filmes André Mielnik DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Zeta Filmes andre@ ifyouholdastone.com
74 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 75 INQUIETUDE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Fundraising, In development DIRECTOR...... Marianna Brennand Fortes Founded in 2005 as an SISTERS SCREENWRITERS...... Antonia Pellegrino, audiovisual production MANAS Felipe Sholl and Marcelo Grabowsky company, Inquietude CAST:...... Dira Paes, Sophie Charlotte has since notched up Brazil | 2020 | 100 min | Drama AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil short, medium-length, FILMING LOCATION...... Marajó Island (Brazil) Marcielle is 12 years old, the eldest daughter of LANGUAGE...... Portuguese and feature films on www.inquietude.art.br an impoverished family on Marajó Island. Having BUDGET...... US$ 1,409,072.00 its resume. In 2014, Rio de Janeiro - RJ suffered frequent sexual abuse at home, she will PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Inquietude it expanded from its +55 21 99194 0062 base in Recife and do everything in her power to protect her younger DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Bretz Filmes inaugurated a Rio sister Carol from a fate she was unable to escape. SALES...Carolina Benevides | [email protected] branch, which operates in other areas of the cultural market.
Marianna Brennand Fortes mariana.fortes@ terra.com.br
76 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 77 MUIRAQUITÃ FILM FILM FILMES HOMING CINEMA MOROCCO QUERÊNCIA CINE MARROCOS Muiraquitã Filmes is a Brazilian production FORUM Brazil, Germany | 2019 | 90 min | Drama Brazil | 2018 | 76 min | Documentary company dedicated to www. muiraquitafilmes.com producing fiction and Marcelo, an easygoing cowboy at a cattle farm, lives In São Paulo, homeless, immigrants and refugees occupy an São Paulo - SP non-fiction films and for one passion: rodeos. After a tragic incident, abandoned cinema and reenact scenes from classical movies. +55 11 98121 6564 series with unique and he counts on his friends to overcome the trauma and Facing the threat of an eviction, they go on a journey authentic perspectives pursue his dream of becoming a professional rodeo from life to fiction, from three to two dimensions. in collaboration with announcer. talented filmmakers and DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Distribution partners worldwide. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Ricardo Calil DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Helvécio Marins Jr CAST..Agnaldo Vieira, Alexandre João Alberto,Dulcelina CAST...... Marcelo di Souza, Kaic Lima, Márcia Rosa, Nunes, Fagner Rodrigues de Oliveira, Joseph Ojong Akem, Nivaldo Botelho, Carlos Dalmir, Vanessa Ribeiro Junior Panda Badibanga, Osvaldo Pestana, Tatiane Cristine AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil Dias de Oliveira, Valter Machado, Vladimir Ribeiro Brito, FILMING LOCATION...... Unaí, MG (Brazil) Volusia Cristine Gama, Yamaya Mouhamed LANGUAGE...... Portuguese AVAILABLE TERRITORIES.....All territories except Brazil BUDGET...... US$ 300,000.00 FILMING LOCATION...... São Paulo (Brazil) PRODUCTION COMPANIES..Muiraquitã Filmes and Canabrava Filmes LANGUAGE...... Portuguese, English and French Eliane Ferreira DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Vitrine Filmes (Brazil) BUDGET...... US$ 150,000.00 eliane@ SALES...... The Open Reel | [email protected] PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Dok Leipzig 2019 (Next Masters Competition Winner), 13o Encuentro de muiraquitafilmes.com Coproduccion de Guadalajara, When East Meets West 2017 Pablo Iraola pablo@ PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Muiraquitã Filmes, Olha Só Produções, Globo Filmes and Canal Brasil muiraquitafilmes.com DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Tucuman Filmes SALES...... The Open Reel | [email protected]
78 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 79 O2 FILMES PROJECT PROJECT
O2 Filmes is now PSSICA THE ANIMAL RACE considered one CORRIDA DOS BICHOS of the country’s 120 min | Drama, Action leading film and 120 min | Drama, Action television producers. A teenage kidnapped and turned into slave. A It carries out storeowner on a mission to avenge his wife’s death. Mano is a player in the violent Animal Race, which www.o2filmes.com independent projects, A young man on the verge of becoming the head of takes place in a dystopian Rio de Janeiro. When São Paulo – SP in partnership with one of the most violent “water rat” gangs. As they a risky play causes him to lose a race, it is his +55 11 3839 9400 major international navigate the violence, degradation and corruption sister Dalva who pays the price and is sold as a studios and television in northern Para, these three strangers are bound slave to Leon, a powerful billionaire. Desperate, stations. to run into one another - not knowing if they are Mano finds himself having to switch sides: he going to make it through the pssica - they believe goes undercover in the high society casinos and has been cast upon them. challenges Leon for his sister. What no one expects, however, is that the consequences of the DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Fundraising challenge could be so transforming. DIRECTOR...... Quico Meirelles SCREENWRITERS..Bráulio Mantovani and Fernando Garrido DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Fundraising PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Cannes DIRECTOR...... Ernesto Solis SCREENWRITERS...... Ernesto Solis, Eva Klaver and Marco Abujamra Carol Alckmin PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Berlinale, Cannes [email protected] PRODUCTION COMPANY...... O2 Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY...... 11600 Films Andrea Barata Ribeiro [email protected]
80 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 81 OCEAN FILMS PROJECT PROJECT
Ocean Films is a AS103 - GRANDPA’S CHEST DOT – AN ANGEL ON THE AMAZON www.oceanfilms.com.br Brazilian production AS 103 - O BAÚ DE MEU AVÔ DOT – UM ANJO NA AMAZÔNIA Florianópolis - SC company focused +55 48 9924 9839 on cinema and TV Brazil | 2020 | 90 min | Documentary Brazil, USA | 2020 | 100 min | Drama, Biography productions targeting In the heart of the Amazon, Sister Dorothy Stang’s international A grandson opens a chest of documents and objects heroic stand against the forces of destruction audiences. It’s last that point to the time when his German family came reaches a shocking climax and radically changes the film “The Little to Brazil during the WWs. He begins a journey looking life of the man sent to investigate her. Secret” has represented for his origins and has to face the migration dilemmas Brazil for Best Foreign in Europe today. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development, financing Language Film in the DIRECTOR...... David Schurmann Academy Awards 2017. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development, financing DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Albert Steinberger SCREENWRITTER...... Binka Le Breton AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All Territories FILMING LOCATION...... Brazil, Germany and France FILMING LOCATIONS...... Amazon region (Brazil) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese, German and French and Vatican (Italy) BUDGET...... US$ 300,000.00 LANGUAGE...... English and Portuguese PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Ocean Films BUDGET...... US$ 4,500,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Ocean Films
João Roni Garcia [email protected]
82 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 83 OKNA PRODUÇÕES FILM PROJECT
Company specialized THE FIRST DEATH OF JOANA THE LIFE OF SANTA CLAUS in the development A PRIMEIRA MORTE DE JOANA A VIDA DO PAPAI NOEL of audiovisual productions. Has Brazil | 2018 | 90 min | Drama Brazil, Argentina | 2020 | 90 min | Drama produced more than 40 www.okna.com.br films that have won Joana, 12, needs to unravel a mystery. Why had her Santa Claus is in crisis! After Christmas, he knows Porto Alegre - RS around 200 awards. Its great-aunt Rosa never had a boyfriend and ended up he will not get any letters in the next months. +55 51 99124 8582 focus has been the dying a virgin, at 70 years old? Helped by her friend Unexpectedly, a letter arrives by the orphan Johan international market, Carolina, Joana will make a startling discovery about telling him he never got any presents. Santa decides seeking partnerships herself. to start an investigation. with other countries. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development DIRECTOR...... Cristiane Oliveira DIRECTOR...... Gustavo Spolidoro SCREENWRITERS..Cristiane Oliveira and Silvia Lourenço SCREENWRITERS...... Gustavo Spolidoro and Gibran Dipp CAST...... Letícia Kacperski, Isabela Jardim, AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil Joana Vieira, Lisa Becker FILMING LOCATION...... Brazil and Argentina AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories LANGUAGE...... Portuguese FILMING LOCATION...... Osório (Brazil) BUDGET...... US$ 1,341,680.00 LANGUAGE...... Portuguese PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Audiovisual BUDGET...... US$ 560,000.00 Ideas Market - São Paulo IFF Aletéia Selonk PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Co-production PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Okna Produções [email protected] Market Berlinale 2018, Ventana Sur 2018 DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Pandora Filmes (Brazil) PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Okna Produções DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Lança Filmes (Brazil)
84 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 85 PERSONA NON PROJECT FILM GRATA PICTURES BLIND FAITH, SHARP KNIFE THE DEAD QUEEN FÉ CEGA, FACA AMOLADA PEDRO E INÊS PNGP has produced about 30 films by the most Brazil | 2020 | 100 min | Drama Portugal, Brazil and France | 2018 | 120 min | Drama diverse directors, in co-production with Drowned in debt, a real estate broker tired of losing Inspired on the true story of the portuguese king Don www.pngpictures.com several countries. The money with buildings occupied by all sorts on the Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to São Paulo - SP international aspect of fringe of society, decides to expel them on his own, make her queen after dead. +55 21 99512 5115 our films, reflect in sinking into a progressive routine of violence. a wide circulation at DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Completed festivals and cinemas. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Pre-production DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... António Ferreira DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... António Ferreira CAST...... Diogo Amaral, Joana de Verona, CAST...... Ailton Graça Vera Kolodzig, Cristóvão Campos, Custódia Gallego AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... São Paulo (Brazil) except Brazil, Portugal and France LANGUAGE...... Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Portuguese BUDGET...... US$ 1,000,000.00 FILMING LOCATION...... Portugal PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Persona Non Grata Pictures BUDGET...... US$ 1,000,000.00 DITRIBUTION COMPANY...... Pandora Filmes (Brazil).. PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... 2018 Montreal World Film Festival (World Competition), 2018 Mostra Tathiani Sacilotto Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo (Competition tsacilotto@ “Novos Diretores”), 2018 Festival do Rio (“Expectativa pngpictures.com 2018”), 2018 Caminhos do Cinema Português (Competition) PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Persona Non Grata Pictures and Dialogos Atómicos DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES...... NOS (Portugal) and Pandora Films (Brazil)
86 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 87 PIRONAUTA FILM PROJECT
Pironauta was AFTER BEING ASHES NOWHERE PEOPLE generated to act in DEPOIS DE SER CINZA HABITANTE IRREAL audiovisual production, adapting different Brazil, Croatia | 2019 | 90 min | Drama Brazil | 2020 | 100 min | Drama technologies and www.pironauta.com.br formats to the needs, Isabel lives in Croatia. In Porto Alegre, Suzy has The main character, Maína, is a Native Brazilian Porto Alegre - RS through the creation the potential as an anthropologist. Manuela is a teenager who refuses to accept the invisibility of +55 51 99965 9183 of partnerships with therapist leading a life of a modern and independent her indigenous heritage. She becomes intimate with production companies woman. These three women have loved and were connected the young white lawyer Paulo. The culture shock, and professionals. to the same man: Raul. the clash of their lives and the feeling of not belonging, they begin to see new life paths ahead DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production of them. DIRECTOR...... Eduardo Wannmacher SCREENWRITER...... Leo Garcia DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development CAST...... João Campos, DIRECTOR...... Frederico Mendina Elisa Volpatto, Silvia Lourenço, Branca Messina SCREENWRITER...... Leo Garcia AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... Porto Alegre (Brazil), FILMING LOCATION..Porto Alegre (Brazil) and London (England) Dubrovnik, Zadar and Zagreb (Croatia) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese and English LANGUAGE...... Portuguese and Croatian BUDGET...... US$ 1,400,000.00 Frederico Mendina BUDGET...... US$ 400,000,00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS.....Boutique Cinema do Brasil pironauta@ PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... WIP Málaga 2018 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Pironauta pironauta.com.br PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Pironauta and Ausgang DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Boulevard Filmes (Brazil)
88 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 89 REFINARIA FILM PROJECT FILMES NHEENGATU NÁUFRAGOS www.refinariafilmes. Founded in 2002, Brazil | 2019 | 90 min | Documentary Brazil, Portugal | Fiction com.br Refinaria Filmes is a Rio de Janeiro - RJ Brazilian independent Throughout a trip along the river Rio Negro, in At the end of the XIX Century, a group of landowners +55 21 99985 7164 production house the deep Amazon Forest, the history and stories of and slaves get to a desert coast and have to fight based in Rio de Nheengatu, one of the official indigenous languages for survival, after a slaveship shipwreck. Janeiro, focusing in of this isolated territory. international co- DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Fundraising production for fiction DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Production DIRECTOR...... José Barahona and non-fiction films. DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER ...... José Barahona SCREENWRITERS...José Eduardo Agualusa and José Barahona AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... Brazil LANGUAGE...... Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Nheengatu and Portuguese BUDGET...... US$ 1,500,000.00 BUDGET...... US$ 250,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Refinaria Filmes PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Refinaria Filmes CO-PRODUCTION COMPANY...... David & Golias
Carolina Dias [email protected]
90 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 91 SOMBUMBO FILM PROJECT
Since 2001 Sombumbo has QUIETNESS COLONY produced many short and A VOZ DO SILÊNCIO COLONIA feature films receiving many awards. In 2019 Brasil and Argentina | 2018 | 98 min | Drama Brazil | 2019 | 250 min | Drama, Thriller will release “The White São Paulo - SP Devil”, a film co- A stifling look sweeps the great city and its Elisa twenty years, arrives at the Asylum Colony in +55 11 99342 1576 produced with Magma inhabitants, who lead their lives in tension for the early seventies. She was sent there for having Cine, and will produce survival, making up a mosaic of the big city. gotten pregnant before marriage. In contact with “Colony”, a TV series that inhospitable world she will fight with all her in 10 episodes. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Released strength to escape. DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Andre Ristum CAST...... Marieta Severo, Ricardo Merkin, DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development Stephanie de Jongh, Arlindo Lopes, Claudio Jabo- DIRECTORS...... André Ristum and Marco Dutra randy, Marina Glezer, Nicola Siri, Marat Descartes SCREENWRITERS...... André Ristum, AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories Marco Dutra and Rita Gloria Curvo except Brazil and Argentina AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil FILMING LOCATION...... São Paulo (Brazil) FILMING LOCATION.. São Paulo capital and countryside (Brazil) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Portuguese BUDGET...... US$ 500,000.00 BUDGET...... US$ 900,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS.....Malaga Film Festival, PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Sombumbo André Ristum Gramado Film Festival, Punta del Este Film Festival DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Canal Brasil [email protected] PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Sombumbo and TC Filmes DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Imovision (Brazil) SALES...... Habanero Film Sales
92 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 93 SPRAY FILMS PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development DIRECTOR...... Fernando Grostein Andrade SCREENWRITERS...... Fernando Grostein Andrade, Spray is an award- DEFORESTATION Camila Ohara Tanabe and Lameece Issaq winning company that CAST...... Rodrigo Santoro, Rachel Weisz (tbc) produces content Brazil | 2019 | 100 min | Thriller AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories about socially www.sprayfilmes.com FILMING LOCATION....Amazon Forest (Brazil), New York (USA) relevant issues for A determined NY journalist investigates a mass murder São Paulo - SP LANGUAGE...... English and Portuguese film, television, in the Amazon Forest and discovers an intricate web +55 11 98339 9228 BUDGET...... US$ 2,900,000.00 digital channels, of crimes and money laundering involving corruption PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Spray Filmes branded content and and destruction of the flora and fauna in the region. advertising. It’s most recent feature film, “Abe”, was selected for Sundance 2019.
Andrea Giusti andrea.giusti@ sprayfilmes.com
94 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 95 SYNDROME FILMS PROJECT FILM
Based in Rio de STREETS OF GLORIA A GOLDEN SHOTGUN Janeiro, Brazil, we RUAS DA GLÓRIA UNA ESCOPETA DORADA develop and produce projects with an Brazil, France | 2019 | 90 min | Drama Chile and Brazil | 2020 | 100 min | Drama utmost artistic level, taking into account its Gabriel is a closeted young anthropologist from After inheriting an enormous debt when his father www.syndromefilms.com commercial potential Brazil’s countryside, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to dies, Lucas, an upper-class gay man is forced to Rio de Janeiro - RJ as well as its social study the lives of sex workers. Seduced by the subject sell his home. Eugenia, the religious house-care- +55 21 98121 2199 impact. Among our films of his thesis, he becomes a sex worker himself. taker, is willing to do whatever it takes to stay. are “Diamantino”, “Pendular” and “The DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Financing DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development Other End”. DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Felipe Sholl DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Alex Anwandter CAST...... Jesuíta Barbosa, Indianara Siqueira CAST...Lucas Balmaceda, Andrew Bargsted, Paulina Urrutia AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) FILMING LOCATION...... Chile LANGUAGE...... Portuguese LANGUAGE...... Spanish BUDGET...... US$ 1,150,000.00 BUDGET...... US$ 1,074,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Syndrome Films PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Araucaria Cine (Chile) DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Vitrine Filmes (Brazil)
Daniel van Hoodstraten daniel@ syndromefilms.com
96 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 97 TREM CHIC PROJECT FILM
Created by Eder Santos, IRONLAND THE HOUSE OF one of the most LAVRA THE RED SUNFLOWER important Brazilian A CASA DO GIRASSOL VERMELHO video-artists, Trem Brazil | 2019 | 90 min | Doc-Fiction Chic has recently Brazil | 2019 | 90 min | Fiction consolidated the Brazilian anthropologist returns home after years www.tremchic.com Television and Cinema living abroad in the USA, moved by news of an After saying goodbye to his wife, Romeo sees the Belo Horizonte - MG department which environmental crime that has killed her hometown train on which he embarked interrupting the journey +55 31 99741 7855 develops fiction films, river. She travels through landscapes and communities before his destination. In a strange city and in an documentaries and TV affected by iron ore mining and rethinks her place attempt to understand what is happening, Romeo ends up series projects. in the world. committing the worst of all crimes: asking questions.
DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... In development DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Post-production DIRECTOR...... Lucas Bambozzi DIRECTOR...... Eder Santos SCREENWRITER...... Christiane Tassis Pisoler SCREENWRITER...... Mônica Cerqueira AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories CAST...... Chico Diaz, Luiza Lemmertz, FILMING LOCATION...... Minas Gerais (Brazil) Bárbara Paz, Luah Guimarães, Mariano Mattos, LANGUAGE...... Portuguese Vinícius Meloni, Aury Porto, Renato Parara, Car- BUDGET...... US$ 416,000.00 los Magno, Fernanda Rodrigues, Michele Castro PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... CineMundi BH (Mála- AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories André Hallak ga Festival Award), Minas Gerais Audiovisual FILMING LOCATION...... Vespasiano, MG (Brazil) andrehallak@ Expo, Nuevas Miradas, Mannheim Meeting Place LANGUAGE...... Portuguese tremchic.com PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Trem Chic BUDGET...... US$ 500,000.00 PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKET...... Fantaspoa, Minas Gerais Audiovisual Expo PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Trem Chic
98 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 99 TV ZERO PROJECT PROJECT
TvZERO focuses on the CHOREOGRAPHY OF LIFE THE CASE OF THE 10.001 WOMEN production of content COREOGRAFIA DA VIDA O CASO DAS 10.001 MULHERES www.tvzero.com for cinema, TV and Rio de Janeiro - RJ new media. Its recent Brazil, França | 2019 | 100 min | Drama, Biography Brazil | 2019 | 100 min | Thriller +55 21 2266 8900 projects are “Gabriel and the Mountain”, two The inspiring real life story of Thiago Soares, A family planning clinic in a small Brazilian town awards at the Critic’s a working-class boy from the outskirts of Rio de is busted by the police and records of 10,000 Week, the series “This Janeiro who discovers ballet at the age of 15. He is clandestine abortions are seized, forcing the doctor City is Me”, nominated now an international dance star and principal at the who owns the clinic to fight for the rights of her to the Emmys, and London Royal Ballet. patients and for her own life. “#CallMeBruna”, at Fox. DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Financing DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Financing DIRECTOR...... Marcos Schechtman DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Juliana Reis SCREENWRITER...... Camila Agustini CAST...... Gloria Pires CAST...... Matheus Abreu, Dario Grandinetti AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories FILMING LOCATION...... Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil) except Brazil and France LANGUAGE...... Portuguese and English FILMING LOCATION...... Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), BUDGET...... US$ 2,000,000.00 Paris (France) and London (England) PRODUCTION COMPANY...... TvZERO LANGUAGE...... Portuguese, French and English Roberto Berliner BUDGET...... US$ 3,270,000.00 [email protected] PRODUCTION COMPANY...... TvZERO DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Galeria Distribuidora (Brazil)
100 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 101 Distributors at EFM’19
102 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 103 LANÇA FILMES FILM FILM
Lança Filmes is a THE DRAGONS BAD HONEY distribution company OS DRAGÕES A COLMEIA with a independent www.lancafilmes.com and commercial film Brazil | 2019 | 90 min | Drama, Fantastic Realism Brazil | 2018 | 100 min | Drama Porto Alegre - RS catalogue. It is +55 51 98126 7000 present in the largests In a small isolated town, a theatre group prepares A group of German immigrants lives isolated in film market events a play based on Rubião’s novel, a famous Brazilian the countryside of south Brazil. They try to be in the search for writer, when fiction and fantasy are mixed with the invisible, but the fear of what might be around makes acquisition of new arrival of five teenagers with pyrotechnic powers, them fragile and creates violent conflicts among international content known as “The Dragons”. them. and sales of Brazilian titles. DIRECTOR...... Gustavo Spolidoro DIRECTOR...... Gilson Vargas SCREENWRITERS...... Gibran Dipp and Gustavo Spolidoro SCREENWRITERS...... Diones Camargo, Gilson Vargas AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil and Matheus Medeiros LANGUAGE...... Portuguese CAST...... Andressa Matos, Janaina Pelizzon, FILMING LOCATION...... Cotiporã, RS (Brazil) João Pedro Prates, Martina Fröhlich, Rafael BUDGET...... US$ 450,000.00 Franskowiak, Renata de Lélis, Samuel Reginato, PRODUCTION COMPANY...... GusGus Cinema Thaís Petzhold DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Lança Filmes AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil LANGUAGE...... Portuguese and German Daniela Menegotto FILMING LOCATION...... Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) [email protected] BUDGET...... US$ 289,000.00 PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Pata Negra DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Lança Filmes
104 DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 105 www.pandorafilmes.com.br São Paulo - SP +55 11 5093 0839
www.vitrinefilmes.com.br São Paulo - SP +55 11 98180 0004 PANDORA FILMES VITRINE FILMES
Pandora Filmes is an Founded in 2010 by independent distribution Silvia Cruz, Vitrine company active in Filmes is a company Brasil since 1989. dedicated to the The company is one of distribution of mainly the most important Brazilian films, thus gateways for films from investing in the growth different nacionalities and appreciation of to gain access into the national cinema. Brazilian market.
Paula Cosenza Ruan Canniza [email protected] [email protected]
106 DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 107 ZAG FABIANA MY OWN PRIVATE HELL INFERNINHO ZAG, a new branch of Brazil | 2018 | 89 min | Documentary Zeta Filmes, is the new Brazil | 2018 | 82 min | Drama www.zagfilm.com.br Brazilian film sales After thirty years living as a nomad on the Belo Horizonte - MG agency. ZAG’s goal is Brazilian roads, as she approaches retirement, Deusimar is the owner of Inferninho, a dark +55 31 99978 1331 to make Brazilian films Fabiana, a transgender truck driver, looks back and run-down bar that is refuge of dreams and circulate and to be on her life before leaving behind her adventures fantasies. Her dream is to leave everything seen in cinemas around on the road. behind and go away to any distant land, as far as the world as well as possible from that place. globally on TVs and DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Brunna Laboissière digital platforms. CAST...... Fabiana Camila Ferreira DIRECTORS...... Guto Parente and Pedro Diógenes AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories SCREENWRITERS...... Guto Parente, LANGUAGE...... Portuguese Pedro Diógenes and Rafael Martins PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... International Film CAST...... Yuri Yamamoto, Demick Lopes Festival Rotterdam 2019 (Bright Future Competition) AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories PRODUCED BY...... Artemiísia Filmes LANGUAGE...... Portuguese SALES...... ZAG | [email protected] PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS....Buenos Aires Interna- tional Festival of Independent Cinema, Queer Lisboa DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Completed PRODUCED BY...... Marrevolto Produções DISTRIBUTED BY...... Embauba Filmes Eduardo Garretto SALES...... ZAG | [email protected] Cerqueira [email protected]
108 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 109 Sales at EFM’19
110 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 111 FIGA FILMS FILM FILM
Sales Agency and LONG WAY HOME THE ORPHAN production company TEMPORADA O ÓRFÃO www.figafilms.com specialized in Latin Miami - FL - USA America cinema. Brazil | 2018 | 113 min | Drama Brazil | 2018 | 15 min | Drama, LGBT +1 323 229 9816
Juliana moves from her hometown to a bigger city Jonathas has been adopted but then returned due to to work for the disease eradication program of the his ‘different’ way. Inspired by true events. Winner public health system. On the job, she meets new Best Short Film - Queer Palm / Cannes people, makes friends and has new experiences that start little by little to change her life. At the DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Carolina Markowicz same time, she feels she is losing touch with her CAST...... Kauan Alvarenga husband, who she left in the backlands. AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil and France DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... André Novais Oliveira LANGUAGE...... Portuguese CAST...... Grace Passô, Russo Apr, Rejane Faria PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Cannes, Locarno, AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil Toronto, SXSW FILMING LOCATION...... Minas Geraris (Brazil) PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Yourmama LANGUAGE...... Portuguese SALES...... FiGa Films | [email protected] PREVIOUS FESTIVALS AND MARKETS...... Locarno, Belfort, Torino and Rotterdam Sandro Fiorin PRODUCTION COMPANY...... Filmes de Plástico Lidia Damatto Moreira SALES...... FiGa Films | [email protected] [email protected]
112 SALES COMPANIES EFM 2019 113 Film Festival
SÃO PAULO INTERNATIONAL at EFM’19 FILM FESTIVAL MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA EM SÃO PAULO
Founded in 1977, São Paulo International Film Festival screens around 300 feature films from all www.mostra.org over the world, with a competition for first and São Paulo – SP second films. In 2019, its 43rd edition takes place +55 11 3141 0413 from October 16th to 31st. The festival’s sections are: New Filmmakers Competition, International Perspective, Retrospective and Special Screenings.
Renata de Almeida [email protected]
114 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 115 Producers at the Co-production Market 2019
116 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 117 PROJECT
RULE 34 DEVELOPMENT PHASE...... Script development REGRA 3 DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER...... Julia Murat AVAILABLE TERRITORIES...... All territories except Brazil Brazil | 2019 | 100 min | Drama FILMING LOCATION...... Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) LANGUAGE...... Portuguese Simone is a young law student who finds a passion for BUDGET..US$ 857,000.00 (US$ 471,000.00 already in place) defending women in abuse cases. Yet her own sexual PRODUCTION COMPANIES...... Esquina and Bubbles Project interests lead to a world of violence and eroticism. DISTRIBUTION COMPANY...... Imovision (Brazil)
Julia Murat Tatiana Leite [email protected] tatiana@ bubblesproject.com
118 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFMCPM’19 2019 119 Brazilian producers attending the Brazilian producers attending CPM as FULL SCALE participants the CPM as VISITORS
Aletéia Selonk Eliane Ferreira André Sobral Marianna Brennand Fortes OKNA PRODUÇÕES MUIRAQUITÃ FILMES ABROLHOS FILMES INQUIETUDE [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
André Mielnik Karen Castanho Belém de Oliveira Patricia Chamon IF YOU HOLD A STONE BIÔNICA FILMES F64 FILMES CHAMON PRODUTORA andre@ [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ifyouholdastone.com
Daniel van Hoodstraten Roberto Berliner Cassio P. dos Santos SYNDROME FILMS TVZERO CAMPO CERRADO [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
120 PRODUCERS EFMCPM’19 2019 121 Aline Belfort Alois di Leo Ana Alice de Morais Cinematographer Director, Producer Producer Talents Barbara Colen Clarissa Guarilha Fernanda Pessoa at EFM’19 Actor Producer Director
Julia Alves Luiz Lepchak Manuela Falcão Producer Sound Designer Production Designer, Art Director
Ricardo Martensen Talita Arruda Victor Guimarães Director, Distributor Film Critic, Journalist Cinematographer
Will Domingos Wilssa Esser Editor, Director Cinematographer
122 PRODUCTION COMPANIES EFM 2019 123 123 CINEMA DO BRASIL OFFERS SUPPORT TO
SALES AGENTS who have a Brazilian film in the official selection of the Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Venice and San Sebastián film festivals.
Registrations should be made within 7 days of publication of the official selection for the festival.
DISTRIBUTORS More information at: Who release Brazilian films within their own national territories. www.cinemadobrasil.org.br [email protected] Submissions open twice a year.
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