BrLab – 6th Edition

6th Edition

BrLab held its sixth edition in October of 2016. This edition included the event’s traditional workshop, BrLab Features, and the BrLab Film Showcase, in partnership with the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil.

The 6th edition of BrLab was produced by Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual, Spcine, and the Secretary of Culture of the Prefecture of the City of São Paulo and directed by producer and curator Rafael Sampaio, the event’s creator, with institutional support from the São Paulo International Film Festival, ANCINE, and the Instituto Cervantes de São Paulo.

It featured the support of FiGa/Br, Vitrine Filmes, Serviço Social do Comércio de São Paulo – SESC SP, Cinema do Brasil, Recam, Cinéma en Développement, the French Embassy in Brazil, the Institut Français Brasil, LatAm Cinema, Revista de Cinema, Consejo Nacional de Cinematografía del Ecuador, Miami Film Festival, Tribeca Film Institute, Tripio Filmes, the Consulate General of Portugal, Cesnik, Quintino & Salinas Advogados, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Chile.

14 projects were selected, representing Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Portugal, and Venezuela.

Over a period of eight days, representatives of the selected projects had access to consultations on their scripts and productions with internationally renowned film specialists.

Attendees included director and screenwriter Juliana Rojas and screenwriter Marcelo Starobinas, among others.

There were also talks given by Tatiana Leite, Paula Cosenza, and Rodrigo Teixeira, among others.

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Catalog - 6th Edition

Program

2016

21 Oct

Lecture

SPCINE Presentation

LabSpcine

11:00 AM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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2016

21 Oct

Lecture

Brazilian Cinema

LabSpcine

12:00 PM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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Presentation of the Cinema do Brasil Program.

2016

21 Oct

Lecture

Ancine

LabSpcine

2:30 PM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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Presentation of the Support Program for Festivals, Markets and Laboratories.

2016

21 Oct

Lecture

Experiences in the international market

LabSpcine

4:00 PM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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Speakers

2016

22 Oct

Lecture

International Market: advice from a sales agent

LabSpcine

10:00 AM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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Speakers

Sandro Fiorin

Tutor | Palestrante

Sandro Fiorin

Tutor | Palestrante

A Brazilian, he founded the production company FiGa Films in Los Angeles in 2006 with Alex Garcia to discover and distribute Latin American content in North America, as well as represent it around the world. He studied film at FAAP and the New School in New York, where he lived for 14 years, moving to California in 2001. He has worked at Film Forum, Universal and First Look Films. He was a programmer at the Latino Film Festival in Atlanta and artistic director of the IndieBrazil Film Festival in Los Angeles. He has been a speaker and jury member at Sundance, San Sebastián, Cannes, Rotterdam and other festivals. Since 2010 he has been a producer on projects such as “Verano de Goliat”, “Los viejos” and “Avanti Popolo”.

2016

22 Oct

Lecture

The role of the producer in the circulation of a film.

LabSpcine

11:00 AM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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Speakers

Diana Almeida

Produção

Diana Almeida

Produção

Born in Maputo in 1983, she graduated from the University of São Paulo. Her first feature film as a producer, Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho, won the Teddy Award and the Fipresci Award at the 2014 Berlinale and was Brazil’s official entry for the 2015 Oscars. Her second feature, As Duas Irenes, premiered at the 2017 Berlinale.

2016

22 Oct

Lecture

Coproduction Case Study: Ausência and Violeta se fue a los cielos.

LabSpcine

2:00 PM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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Paula Cosenza

Palestrante

Paula Cosenza

Palestrante

An international producer, she has worked with HBO, FOX, Warner Bros and Sony Pictures. She has produced independent productions that have been screened and awarded at the Cannes, Berlinale, San Sebastian, Sundance and Telluride festivals. Among them: ‘Casa de Antiguidades’, by João Paulo Miranda Maria; ‘Araña’ and ‘Violeta went to Heaven’, both by Andrés Wood; ‘Ausência’, by Chico Teixeira; and ‘Tropicália’, by Marcelo Machado. As a distributor, she has acquired and released titles such as “Parasite” by Bong Joon-ho and “The Square” by Ruben Ostlund. She was named by Variety as a “Latin American Producer to Watch”.

2016

22 Oct

Lecture

Assessment and closure

LabSpcine

4:00 PM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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2016

22 Oct

Lecture

Master Class 1 | International production

Master Classes

5:00 PM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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Rodrigo Teixeira is today one of the Brazilian audiovisual producers with the greatest participation and recognition in the international market. His CV brings together several productions and co-productions of feature films, in addition to series in Brazil and abroad. In your master class, you will share, from your own experience and trajectory, part of the strategies it applies for the good development and viability of projects.

Speakers

2016

24 Oct

Lecture

Panel 1 | Legal and artistic aspects for composing an international co-production

Mesas Abertas

7:00 PM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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The making of a film that involves more than one co-producing country generally requires a production design that follows a set of laws and rules provided for in international agreements (bilateral or multilateral) and Brazilian ones that standardize international audiovisual coproduction practices. Often used for financing, cinematographic production and/or post-production, co-production mechanisms must be evaluated and incorporated from the development phase of an audiovisual work, with the condition that there is a real and artistic justifications for this configuration. Taking these points into consideration, the panel will address the legal and practical aspects to be evaluated – between pros and cons – by producers when carrying out a coproduction.

Speakers

Gilberto Toscano

Palestrante

Gilberto Toscano

Palestrante

Graduated in Law from the University of São Paulo – USP and post-graduated in Entertainment Law from the Escola Superior de Direito da OAB/SP. He is a partner at the law firm Cesnik, Quintino & Salinas Advogados, and previously worked in business and legal affairs at O2 Filmes. Toscano advises broadcasters, producers, distributors, digital platforms, talents and other agents in the entertainment market. He is a speaker and professor at several events and courses on Entertainment and is vice-president of the Copyright, Intangible Rights and Entertainment Commission of the OAB/RJ.

Agustina Chiarino

Tutor

Agustina Chiarino

Tutor

Estudió Ciencias Políticas, es licenciada en Comunicación y magíster en Documentales. Ha producido 15 largometrajes latinoamericanos con más de 100 premios internacionales, estrenados en los más prestigiosos festivales de cine y distribuidos en más de 30 territorios. Entre ellos se encuentran Gigante, de Adrián Biniez (2009); Tanta Agua (2013), de Ana Guevara y Leticia Jorge; Mi Amiga del Parque (2015), de Ana Katz; Benzinho (2018), de Gustavo Pizzi; y Las Herederas, de Marcelo Martinessi. Forma parte del comité de selección del Foro de Coproducción de San Sebastián y es docente y tutora en Biennale College, BrLab, Biobio Lab y PUENTES, que organiza junto con EAVE.

2016

25 Oct

Lecture

Panel 2 | New windows and paths for digital distribution

Mesas Abertas

7:00 PM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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On Demand audiovisual content distribution has become the industry’s most solid distribution arm audiovisual in recent years. Users, platforms, YouTubers: new formats and new ways emerge every day to bring content closer to your audience. The industry creates business models and strategies technology and marketing operations that meet the demand for content, allowing the abundant supply available has guaranteed distribution and audience reach. As this process is solidifying in the market? What are the next steps?

Speakers

Paula Gastaud

Palestrante

Paula Gastaud

Palestrante

Paula Gastaud is the acquisitions director at Sofa Digital, a leading VOD aggregator in the Latin American market. With over 15 years of experience in the international production and distribution market, she is a consultant and speaker for programs and institutions such as: Locarno Industry Academy, EICTV-Cuba, Projeto Paradiso, BrLab, AMACC, Marché du Film’s Producers Network, and Festival de Cine de San Sebastián.

Paula Astorga

Tutor | Selection Committee

Paula Astorga

Tutor | Selection Committee

An international consultant for audiovisual projects in development and exhibition, she received the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government in 2012 for her work in audiovisual culture. Her recent productions include Trigal (Dir. Anabel Caso, 2022) and the documentary Me niego rotundamente (Dir. Nina Wara Carrasco, 2025). She is the director and founder of the Audiences of the Future Seminar and the Circo 2.12 Documentation Center.

Jean Thomas Bernardini

Palestrante

Jean Thomas Bernardini

Palestrante

Jean Thomas Bernardini has been an independent distributor since 1989, when he founded Imovision. He released the first Iranian films in Brazil (The White Balloon and Gabbeh), the Dogma 95 films (Family Party, The Idiots and Italian for Beginners), and other titles, such as the Danish Dancer in the Dark (Palme d’Or at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival), the Chinese film In the Mood for Love, the French film Eight Women and the Finnish film The Man Without a Past. In 2005 he also began investing in exhibition, with the opening of the Reserva Cultural Paulista space. In August 2016, he opened another complex, with five rooms, in Niterói (RJ), and is developing the first video on demand platform dedicated to art films in Brazil.

Eloisa Lopez Gomez

Palestrante

Eloisa Lopez Gomez

Palestrante

With a degree in Business Administration and a Masters in International Relations, Lopez-Gomez has worked at the Miami Film Festival since 2007. She is currently the Associate Director of Industry and Programming, responsible for the call for entries and invitations, programming and guest management, as well as industry initiatives such as the Miami Encuentros Post-Production Awards and speaking engagements. With over 10 years of experience, Lopez-Gomez has worked in the United States, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, the United Arab Emirates and Panama at prestigious events and acclaimed festivals.

2016

26 Oct

Book launch

Book Launch | Eliseo in 100 Questions

Livro

7:00 PM

Instituto Cervantes

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A conversation with Altunaga is a lesson in scriptwriting, cinema, life and cultural connections. Your classes they are always crowded, with listeners, with other teachers, immersed in the back and forth of their words. Words furious, irreverent, exact, permanent. This book is a record of a series of conversations we had between 2009 and 2016 in different locations: from his home in Havana, to “El Rapidito” (the emblematic EICTV café), even at home in Santiago de Chile, hotels, cafes and meetings via Skype. So, I captured the Eliseo’s words. Little by little. In fragments. For years. This is not a book about screenwriting, nor is it pretension. It’s a book about a man’s passion for cinema, scriptwriting, films and life. Eliseo Algunaga never took written material or anything prepared for our meetings. I hope that when you read this book have the feeling of having a coffee with the Master, letting yourself be carried away by his words and conceptual labyrinths of your universe full of wisdom, cinema and life.

Speakers

Eliseo Altunaga

Palestrante

Eliseo Altunaga

Palestrante

With a degree in Hispanic Literature and Literature, he is the Dean of the Screenwriting Chair at EICTV. His work includes La Invención de las Especies, directed by Tania Hermida (Ecuador), winner of the Sloan Science on Screen Award in 2024; The Count, directed by Pablo Larraín (Chile), winner of the Golden Lion in the category of Best Screenplay in 2023; and Una Mujer Fantástica, directed by Sebastián Lelio (Chile), awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay in 2017 and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2018.

Julio Rojas

Palestrante

Julio Rojas

Palestrante

Julio Rojas is a screenwriter for films such as “Mi mejor enemigo”, nominated for the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (2006); “En la cama”, Espiga de Oro for Best Film in Valladolid, and nominated for the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (2007); “La vida de los peces”, Colón de Prata for Best Screenplay in 2010, in Huelva; Goya 2012 for Best Ibero-American Film; and “La memoria del agua” at Venice Days, 2015; among others. He has been a director of fictional content for TV, a professor at several Chilean and foreign universities, and a visiting professor at the International School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, for over fifteen years. Julio Rojas is also a script consultant, and his analysis has included internationally awarded films. He is currently the fiction development coordinator for “Fábula”. As a writer, he has just published his first novel “El visita extranjero” (Penguin Random House, 2018).

2016

27 Oct

Lecture

Master Class 2 | Film script – structure and characters

Master Classes

7:00 PM

Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP

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As a teacher and script consultant, Eliseo Altunaga is currently one of the most renowned professionals on the scene international, in addition to holding the position of head of the Chair of Screenwriting at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños – EICTV, and being an adjunct professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte de Havana. In his master class – recommended for both professional and amateur screenwriters – Eliseo will discuss the structure of the script and its relationship with dramatic characters, an important issue fundamental to the process of developing and writing cinematographic scripts.

Speakers

Eliseo Altunaga

Palestrante

Eliseo Altunaga

Palestrante

With a degree in Hispanic Literature and Literature, he is the Dean of the Screenwriting Chair at EICTV. His work includes La Invención de las Especies, directed by Tania Hermida (Ecuador), winner of the Sloan Science on Screen Award in 2024; The Count, directed by Pablo Larraín (Chile), winner of the Golden Lion in the category of Best Screenplay in 2023; and Una Mujer Fantástica, directed by Sebastián Lelio (Chile), awarded the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay in 2017 and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2018.

Participating Projects

Adeus, alma selvagem

Direction

Nathália Thereza

Production

Andy Malafaia

Mayra Lucas

Brazil

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Akita

Direction

Francisco Varone

Production

Gema Juárez Allen

Argentina

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Ave e nada

Direction

Jose Antonio Cordero

Production

Alejandra Sánchez

Mexico / France

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Corte real

Direction

Julia De Simone

Production

Luana Melgaço

Brazil

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Hatarik

Direction

Diego Coral López

Production

Patricia Yallico Yumbay

Ecuador

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Helena

Direction

Camila Luna

Production

Rebeca Gutiérrez Campos

Chile

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Livramento

Direction

Lillah Halla

Brazil

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Nós

Direction

Joaquín Ruano

Production

Pamela Guinea

Mexico/Guatemala

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O olho da terra

Production

Matias Mariani

Eduardo Nasser

Brazil

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Perro Negro

Direction

George Walker Torres

Production

Rubén Sierra Salles

Marianela Illas

Edit

Juliana Guanais

Venezuela / France / Brazil

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Sábado morto

Direction

Leonardo Lacca

Production

Kika Latache

Brazil

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Susan carne e osso

Direction

Lia Kulakaukas

Production

Paulo Serpa

Brazil

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Teia

Direction

Leonor Noivo

Production

João Matos

Portugal

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Workshops

BrLab Features

Selection Committee

Ana Alice de Morais

Produção | Palestrante

Ana Alice de Morais

Produção | Palestrante

Producer Ana Alice de Morais studied Cinema at the Universidade Federal Fluminense and took the “Master 2” course at the Ecole Supérieure D’Audiovisuel de Toulouse, in France. She has been working in audiovisual production since 2003, having worked on several short films, feature films, film screenings and educational projects. In 2008, she founded 3 Moinhos, a production company focused on the authorial market, whose work has won more than 70 awards at festivals in Brazil and abroad. In 2012, Ana Alice participated in the Rotterdam Lab and in 2014 in the Binger Film Lab. Her most recent feature film, Antes o Tempo Não Acabava, participated in the BrLab in 2012, was made with the support of the Ibermedia fund and the World Cinema Fund and had its premiere in the Panorama session of the Berlin Film Festival.

Davi Pretto

Direção | Comissão de Seleção

Davi Pretto

Direção | Comissão de Seleção

Davi Pretto (Porto Alegre, 1988) wrote and directed two feature films, both premiered at the Berlin Festival, in the Forum section: CASTANHA (2014) competed at festivals such as Rio de Janeiro (Best Film Novos Rumos), Bafici (Feisal Award Special Mention), Edinburgh, Hong Kong and Havana; RIFLE (2016) won awards at festivals such as Jeonju (Grand Prize), Brasília (Critics’ Award, Best Screenplay and Best Sound), Istanbul (Best Cinematography) and Salvador (Best Film). In 2018, he was invited to the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence.

Fernanda de Capua

Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante

Fernanda de Capua

Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante

Fernanda De Capua created and directed the sitcom Insustentáveis, wrote the screenplays for the series A História Delas and Turma da Mônica – Origens, and the feature films A Suspeita and Virtuosas. She was a consultant for the scripts for Saudade Fez Morada Aqui Dentro, Gabriel e a Montanha, and for more than 20 projects in the Prodav 04 labs. Among her achievements as a producer, the films Sonhos de Peixe, Casa Grande and Quem Matou Eloá stand out.

Flavia Candida

Comissão de Seleção

Flavia Candida

Comissão de Seleção

Flavia Candida is a curator, filmmaker, and producer who graduated from the Cinema course at UFF (Federal Fluminense University), where she directed the short film O Metro Quadrado, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 35th Brasília Film Festival.

She began as a programmer in the late 1990s at Cine Arte UFF and coordinated the Brazilian University Film Festival for over 15 years.

She collaborates in the curation of festivals such as the Rio Film Festival, Vitória Film Festival, Brasília Film Festival, Zózimo Bulbul Black Cinema Meeting, São Paulo International Short Film Festival, and Mate Com Angu Festival. She also curated the Cabíria Festival Mulheres & Audiovisual and FIMCine 23, both dedicated to female protagonism.

She has produced exhibitions such as Arte da África Cinema and Pequenas Histórias da Vanguarda – Downtown New York. She selects projects for labs such as BrLab, ICUMAM Lab, and the Curta Cinema Project Lab, and was a tutor at Roteiros do Arrabalde. She was on the selection committee for the Göteborg Film Fund 2021.

Francine Barbosa

Comissão de Seleção | Tutor

Francine Barbosa

Comissão de Seleção | Tutor

Francine Barbosa is a screenwriter. In the film industry, she was part of the screenwriting teams for the feature film “A Cidade Aqui Dentro”, directed by Matias Mariani, and for Dea Ferraz’s third feature film, “Castela” (currently being financed). The script for the feature film “Azul Violeta”, written with Maurilio Martins, was selected for development by PRODAV FSA 05/2016. In television, she was a screenwriter for the series “A Revolta dos Malês” and developed serial projects for several production companies. She has participated in selection committees for audiovisual projects such as ProAC-SP and the Ministry of Culture, as well as short film festivals. She has been a screenwriting teacher since 2015.

Ivan Melo

Produção | Palestrante

Ivan Melo

Produção | Palestrante

A founding partner of Cup Filmes, a production and distribution company for independent films, he was the executive producer of the São Paulo Film Festival and artistic director of the Paulínia Festival and Audiovisual Center. He has produced feature films such as Welcome to São Paulo (2004), by Leon Cakoff and Renata de Almeida; Electric Body (2017), by Marcelo Caetano; Alvorada, by Anna Muylaert and Lo Politi; Fronteira, by Juliano R. Salgado; and Bob Cuspe – We Don’t Like People, by Cesar Cabral, among others. He is currently developing new projects with filmmakers Gregório Graziozi, Marcelo Caetano, Ilaine Melo, Cristiano Burlan and Cesar Cabral.

Marcio Miranda Perez

Comissão de Seleção

Marcio Miranda Perez

Comissão de Seleção

Programming coordinator for Kinoforum – São Paulo International Short Film Festival and Mix Brasil Festival. As a filmmaker and editor, his work has been screened and awarded in Brazil and internationally. He holds a degree in Cinema from ECA-USP and has also served as a juror on selection and award committees, representing Kinoforum at various events in Brazil, France, Argentina, Chile and Colombia.

Mauricio Kinoshita

Comissão de Seleção

Mauricio Kinoshita

Comissão de Seleção

He holds a postgraduate degree in Administration of Cultural and Creative Organizations from the University of Buenos Aires, a degree in Cinema from FAAP and a specialization in Psychoanalytic Semiotics from PUC-SP. He has worked in the production of films directed by Hector Babenco, Tizuka Yamasaki and Guilherme de Almeida Prado, and since 2002 has produced the International Film Festival in São Paulo. He has also had brief stints in theater and publishing, as well as in short documentaries. His short film Hibakusha: Herdeiros Atômicos no Brasil was one of the winners of the Prêmio Estímulo in 2005 and won an award at É Tudo Verdade in 2007.

Rafael Sampaio

Direção Geral | Comissão de Seleção | Tutor | Palestrante

Rafael Sampaio

Direção Geral | Comissão de Seleção | Tutor | Palestrante

Director of BrLab, producer, curator and founding partner of the production company Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual. He has worked as a programmer in cultural spaces such as MIS-SP, Cinemateca Brasileira and Cine Olido, in addition to having produced and programmed numerous exhibitions and festivals. He works as a coordinator of courses and training platforms, such as the Prodav 04 Project Development Laboratories for ANCINE/FSA, in addition to BrLab, which he created and has directed since 2011. Through Klaxon, he produced and co-produced the films Sobre Rodas (2017), by Mauro D’Addio; Diz a Ela que me Viu Chorar (2019), by Maíra Bühler; and co-produced the films Contactado (2020), by Marité Ugás; Fiebre (2022), by Elisa Eliash, Zafari (2024), by Mariana Rondón, among others.

Sandro Fiorin

Tutor | Palestrante

Sandro Fiorin

Tutor | Palestrante

A Brazilian, he founded the production company FiGa Films in Los Angeles in 2006 with Alex Garcia to discover and distribute Latin American content in North America, as well as represent it around the world. He studied film at FAAP and the New School in New York, where he lived for 14 years, moving to California in 2001. He has worked at Film Forum, Universal and First Look Films. He was a programmer at the Latino Film Festival in Atlanta and artistic director of the IndieBrazil Film Festival in Los Angeles. He has been a speaker and jury member at Sundance, San Sebastián, Cannes, Rotterdam and other festivals. Since 2010 he has been a producer on projects such as “Verano de Goliat”, “Los viejos” and “Avanti Popolo”.

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