12th Edition
BrLab held its twelfth edition in September and November of 2022. This edition included the event’s traditional workshops and meetings – BrLab Features, BrLab Audience Design, Locarno Industry Academy, BrPlot, and Reach.
The 12th edition of BrLab was sponsored by Programa Ibermedia, produced by Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual, and directed by producer and curator Rafael Sampaio, the event’s creator.
It had the support of Vitrine Filmes and Globo Filmes and partnerships with the Locarno Industry Academy International, Cinéma en Développement, PopUp Film Residency, TorinoFilmLab, Coletivo de Mulheres e Pessoas Transgênero do Departamento de Fotografia do Cinema Brasileiro, the collective C/as4atro, and CQS/FV Advogados.
12 projects were selected, representing Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Over a period of sixteen days, representatives of the selected projects had access to consultations on their scripts and productions with internationally renowned film specialists.
Attendees included Brazilian screenwriter and consultant Iana Cossoy Paro, Brazilian curator and producer Tatiana Leite, and Cuban consultant and screenwriter Xênia Rivery.
There were also talks given by Gabriel Mascaro, Gerardo Michelin, and Camila Larsson, among others.
This edition featured several awards for its participants, such as: Globo Filmes and Vitrine Filmes Development Award, Globo Filmes Development Award, Vitrine Filmes Distribution Award, Cinéma en Développement Award, Pop Up Film Residency, TFL Next Award, CQS Award, C/as4atro Award, and DAFB Film Consulting Award.
2022
23 Sep
Lecture
BrLab Santa Catarina
3:00 PM
CineShow Beiramar Shopping - Sala Vip
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Audience Design Lecture with Marina Tarabay (distribution consultant) and Rafael Sampaio (director of BrLab, curator and film producer)
2022
24 Sep
Training
BrLab Santa Catarina
10:00 AM
Majestic Palace Hotel
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Training with Nara Aragão, Fernanda de Capua and Rafael Sampaio
2022
26 Sep
Business Round
BrLab Santa Catarina
9:00 AM
Majestic Palace Hotel
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Event with market players
2022
26 Sep
Lecture
BrLab Santa Catarina
2:00 PM
Majestic Palace Hotel
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Lecture with Zico Goes
2022
26 Sep
Lecture
BrLab Santa Catarina
4:00 PM
Majestic Palace Hotel
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Lecture with Mariana Brasil
2022
27 Sep
Business Round
BrLab Santa Catarina
9:00 AM
Majestic Palace Hotel
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Event with market players
2022
27 Sep
Business Round
BrLab Santa Catarina
2:00 PM
Majestic Palace Hotel
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Event with market players
2022
28 Sep
Business Round
BrLab Santa Catarina
9:00 AM
Majestic Palace Hotel
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Event with market players
2022
28 Sep
Business Round
BrLab Santa Catarina
2:00 PM
Majestic Palace Hotel
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Event with market players
2022
21 Nov
Lecture
BrPlot Reach
7:00 PM
Espaço Itaú de Cinema
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Much is said about the importance of constructing non-hegemonic narratives and circulating stories that represent different perspectives so that multiple imaginaries can be constituted and, also, so that different audiences can be reached in an increasingly niche and segmented market. How to stimulate narratives that represent different visions or historical reviews, how to link narratives with modes of production and what could be behind this industry demand?
Palestrante
Indigenous activist of the Krenak ethnic group, Professor Doctor Honoris Causa of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, scriptwriter and presenter of TV series, journalist and writer, with books and articles published in several languages. Guest researcher of the Calas Chair-IEAT-UFMG, questioning urban logic and human speciesism, with the research A Vida é Selvagem.
Direção | Palestrante
Director and producer of Pattaki Produções Audiovisuais, she graduated in Cinema with a specialization in Documentary Directing from EICTV, Cuba. She is a member of APAN – Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals. Her films have been featured in festivals such as Sundance, Rotterdam and BFI. She recently won the William Greaves Fund.
Palestrante
Director, screenwriter and producer. She is the author of the films Bicho de Sete Cabeças, Chega de Saudade, As Melhores Coisas do Mundo, Como Nossos Pais and A Viagem de Pedro. For 15 years she coordinated the Tela Brasil projects and, for two years, was the CEO of Spcine. She is a member of the American Academy of Oscars.
Palestrante
French producer, graduated from the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA). He founded Special Touch Studios with Olivier Laouchez. He produced Le Gang des Antillais by Jean-Claude Barny and Funan, which won an award at the Annecy Festival in 2018. In parallel, he teaches at university programs (Paris 3, Paris 7) and major schools such as INA, FEMIS and Les Gobelins.
Most funds and spaces that enable entry into the audiovisual market are based on the evaluation of other documents that are not the script. Therefore, scriptwriters and audiovisual creators must exercise and improve the writing of texts and the ways in which films are evaluated and presented. One of these documents, perhaps the most important of all, is the Argument. What is an Argument, how is it written and what is it for? does it work? What are the most common mistakes in writing and presenting arguments?
Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante
Screenwriter, consultant and teacher. She was coordinator and head of the Screenwriting Department at EITCV – Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. She coordinated the International Screenwriting Workshop (Havana Film Festival). She develops and teaches workshops in Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Panama, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. She works as a speaker and judge at Latin American and European events and festivals, and is a founding member of the creative collective Viceversa.
2022
22 Nov
Lecture
BrPlot
7:00 PM
CPF/SESC - Sala 3
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Scriptwriter Iana Cossoy Paro does a public interview with screenwriter, consultant and professor Eliseo Altunaga. The two will talk about the role of screenwriter, work techniques, teaching and script doctoring from the experience of both as authors and teachers at the International School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and in several other institutions.
Tutor | Speaker
Screenwriter, professor, and consultant. Director of the Master’s program and residency in Screenwriting at EICTV. She co-wrote the screenplay for Eneida (2022) with Heloisa Passos and Tina Hardy, Três Verões (2019) with Sandra Kogut, Eu Te Levo (2017) with Marcelo Muller, among others. She holds a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Media and Processes from ECA-USP and is a consultant and lecturer in various laboratories and schools throughout Latin America.
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.
When any professional screenwriter wants to sell their work on the market, a question fills their head as to whether it’s going to the right player. What does that producer/channel/platform really want? My project or my talent? Is it worth giving up the rights to my series? Is it worth having one? agent to represent me? Am I approaching development heads in the best way? In a sea of talents, how do companies select and retain the most suitable people for the profile of each project in the house? How to find new authors from a vast pool of talent ensuring diversity of voices and representing the plurality of Brazilian culture? At this table, professionals from different market segments exchange experiences to shed light on a topic that turns the head of any screenwriter who launches into the market, from beginners to the most experienced.
Palestrante
I built my career in production for major production companies in the sector, such as: O2 Filmes, TV Cultura, among others. Over the past ten years, I have taught in laboratories, given free courses and provided consultancy services to independent producers throughout Brazil, especially in cities outside the Rio-SP axis. I have worked with Brlab, Icuman Lab, Porto Mídia, Barco, Frapa, Ancine, Sebrae, etc. At the same time, I participated in the selection of projects in federal public notices or in business rounds at the largest film festivals in the country, selecting projects for several national and international players. Over the years, I have acted as a point of intersection in negotiations between players, producers and authors-screenwriters. This expertise has enabled me to master tools for negotiating rights and contracts and has brought me closer relationships with the most diverse players in the market. In 2019, I went to England to study the agency market in the United States and Europe. I immersed myself in this universe, studied the associations of these professionals around the world and in 2020, upon returning to Brazil, I worked as an executive at ABRA – Brazilian Association of Screenwriters. That’s how Mari Brasil Agenciamento was born in 2021. An agency created by an executive producer with almost 30 years of experience in audiovisual production. The aim is to represent screenwriters and their projects, connect them to the business models of executives from the main companies in the entertainment industry and provide better business, bringing more security and peace of mind to both screenwriters and market players.
Palestrante
Director of Committees and WGs at ABRA (2020-2022). Screenwriter, creative executive producer and creator of multiplatform content. Master in Media and Culture from the Federal University of Goiás (2012). Screenwriter for the educational series Reprograme (Youtube), the documentary series Histórias Conectadas (Youtube), and the reality show Sobe Junto (Youtube). Creative Executive Producer of the Afrofuturistic animation series Fábulas da Conexão (Youtube).
Palestrante
Program Director of the Paradiso Project, she is a journalist with a postgraduate degree in Audiovisual Production and Management from the University of Coruña/Spain, and was also a student at the Center for Studies on International Negotiations at USP. She was part of the BRAVI team for ten years and managed the Brazilian Content program, a partnership with Apex-Brasil. Previously, she worked for three years in the distribution of feature films and series for the international market. She has been part of the Paradiso Project team since 2019.
Palestrante
Creative Manager at Estúdios Globo, Babi Libânio leads the creation of scriptwriting, research and content production teams for soap operas, series, reality shows, variety shows, talk shows and original documentaries for Estúdios Globo. As a creative executive, she also coordinates the strategic development planning for Globo Originals. In the independent market, she produced HBO’s first documentary series in Brazil, “Seleção Brasileira: Paixão de um Povo”, for LC Barreto, which won the bronze prize for sports program at the Telly Awards. As an executive producer at Cinegroup, she developed and produced series and reality shows for Discovery, History, Aljazeera, NHK, GNT, Warner, among others.
2022
23 Nov
Lecture
BrPlot
7:00 PM
CPF/SESC - Sala 3
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To create a good story, whether fictional or documentary, it is essential that the person or group of screenwriters have the best working conditions, which involves a series of items that are often not fully complied with by some of the players in the Audiovisual Industry. Piggybacking on the launch of the Abra, which proposes recommendations to the market to create this favorable environment for the craft of authors screenwriters, this table will bring together representatives of large Brazilian producers to debate the relationship between screenwriters, producers and other entities in this production chain to guarantee a healthy and fair between the parties, key to the quality of the final product.
Produção | Palestrante
Creative Director and CEO of Glaz Entretenimento, Mayra Lucas has extensive expertise in content creation, financial structuring, production and distribution of live action and animation. Focused on creating content that brings fun, belonging and reflection to the Brazilian public, she is responsible for hits such as Caso Evandro, Cabras da Peste, Historietas Assombradas, Tô Ryca!, De Volta aos 15 and Nada Suspiitos among her more than 50 projects already completed. As CEO of Glaz, she takes care of governance, investors and institutional relations, aiming at the well-being of the people who work at Glaz, the safety of business partners and creative talents, based on transparency in all links of the Company, always focusing on the quality of the projects, and the ultimate goal of enchanting the audience, of all ages.
Palestrante
Debora is a lawyer, producer and partner at Gullane. She has over 25 years of experience in the market, focusing on corporate and institutional relations. She was a director at Ancine – National Cinema Agency between 2015 and 2019. She is the executive director of SIAESP – Audiovisual Industry Union of the State of São Paulo. Her work in the area of Social Responsibility is a reference as the founder of the Querô Institute, dedicated to young people from peripheral regions and of +Mulheres Lideranças do Audiovisual Brasileiro.
Palestrante
She is a screenwriter for TV Globo’s Entertainment Hub in SP. She currently writes for the programs Mais Você, Encontro com Patrícia Poeta and É de Casa. She has a Master’s degree in Science from the School of Public Health at the University of São Paulo and a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from the Cásper Líbero School of Social Communication in São Paulo. She was a reporter for Folha de S. Paulo and O Estado de S. Paulo for twelve years, specializing in health coverage. At TV Globo since 2010, she was also part of the team that created the program on health and behavior Bem Estar, in the journalism department, where she worked as a producer and editor. She has a degree in screenwriting from PUC in Rio de Janeiro and Centro Cultural Barco. She also attended the School of Government, affiliated with USP, and the specialization in Advocacy and Public Policies at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, in São Paulo. She is the director of Institutional Relations and Public Policies at Abra (Brazilian Association of Screenwriters), 2021-2022 term, and the director of Communications for the next board of Gedar, 2022-2025 (Management of Screenwriters’ Rights).
Palestrante
Felipe Braga is in the role of breeders of the series “Lov3” (Amazon), “Samantha!” (Netflix) and “Sintonia”
(Netflix), the biggest Brazilian streaming success — besides “Latitudes” (Warner) and “A Vida Fora dos
Campos”, both nominated for the International Emmy. Selected by Variety as one of two “New Emerging Talents in Latin America”, it is credited with films such as “Marighella” (2021), “Legalize Já” (2017) and “Cabeça a Prêmio” (2009). Felipe is a partner with Rita Moraes of LB Entertainment, a company dedicated to the development of intellectual property, leader of SXSW for four years, and also a member of ABRA and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Palestrante
Executive Development Producer at O2 Filmes since January 2021, Gustavo Gontijo has a long career in the entertainment and development area. Before that, he worked at Globo (the largest content producer in Latin America) since 2000 when he was hired as an author/screenwriter. In 2014, with the creation of the Weekly Drama division dedicated to drama and comedy series, he was named its Content Manager. During his tenure, he helped conceive and develop hits such as the medical drama “Sob Pressão”, the adventure “Ilha de Ferro”, the drama about education “Segunda Chamada”, Brazil’s first big-budget supernatural drama “Supermax” (and its spin-off in Spanish), the comedy “Mister Brau”, the Emmy-nominated “All the Women in the World” and the best series of the year 2017, according to MIPDramas in Cannes, “Carcereiros”, in addition to twenty other programs, in a total of more than 30 seasons aired. Gustavo was also responsible for the international expansion of these programs, taking Globo series, for the first time, to the biggest international festivals of the format, such as Berlinale, TIFF, SXSW, Canneseries, Seriesfest and many others. Gustavo was also behind the conception and implementation of Casa dos Roteiristas, a physical space with 13 script rooms dedicated exclusively to the development, writing and production of series, with the greatest Brazilian screenwriters, such as Jorge Furtado, Bráulio Mantovani, George Moura, Cláudio Paiva, Marçal & Bonassi, Mauro Wilson, Lucas Paraizo, Antonio Prata and many others. From 2019 to 2020, he was content manager at Globo Filmes with a main focus on feature films.
The market is incessant in saying that it wants to “”hear new voices””, but what movements have actually been made to find talent outside the major centers, especially the Rio-São Paulo axis? Like other screenwriters states and cities in the interior can access production companies and exhibition platforms, whether presenting and embarking on personal projects or being hired as scriptwriters for projects created by other professionals? This table will bring together screenwriters who managed to break the bubble, migrants or who remained in their territories, to discuss the best ways to find new talent and how audiovisual entities can contribute to valuing screenwriters from various regions of Brazil.
Palestrante
Screenwriter, editor and actor. He has worked with audiovisual since 2005 and has worked for several production companies and television stations in Ceará. He is the director of Sinfonia Filmes, where he wrote the script and edited the documentary “Aqui é Flamengo”, winner of the Gandhi Communication Award (2020). He was the screenwriter for the special “200 Years of Independence – Are There Still Issues?” (2022), produced for TV Globo. He works as the director of events and partnerships for ABRA (Brazilian Association of Screenwriters, board 2021-2022).
Palestrante
Juliana Colares is the creator of the series “Mangue Sujo”, selected for the 19th Ibero-American Audiovisual Projects Development Course, in Madrid, in 2021. She worked on the fiction series “DOM” (Amazon) and on the non-fiction series “Mulheres na Luta” (GNT / Canal Combate), “Imortais da Academia” (Canal Curta), “Latitude, Longitude” (Canal Curta), “Bela Cozinha” (GNT), among others. She wrote the script for the feature documentary “Por Onde Anda Makunaíma?”, winner of the Best Film award at the Brasília Festival, in 2020.
Palestrante
Lúcia Tupiassú is a screenwriter from Pará and has written over 15 titles. She is the author of the children’s series Fruti-Feras, which won an award at the Cabíria in 2021. She is also the co-author of the true crime series Meninas de Realengo (in production). With her first feature-length fiction film, she was selected for the Varilux Screenwriting Lab and the Cine Qua Non Lab (Mexico). She has a master’s degree in Communication from PUC-Rio, attended the TV Writing Intensive at Columbia University and studied Screenwriting and Documentary Production at EICTV, Cuba.
Palestrante
Screenwriter and executive producer. Specialist in Screenwriting and Creative Writing. Studied Film Directing at EICTV/Cuba. Director of SSA Adapta, the first festival in Latin America focused on Literary Adaptation. Director of the Let’s Do Things Together Movement, Live de Roteiristas and Banco de Autores Roteiristas, in partnership with ¡Candela! Produções. Over 20 years of experience in TV and in various works. Director of Bocapiu Conteúdo Criativo.
2022
25 Nov
Lecture
Reach
7:00 PM
CPF/SESC
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The film “”Cabeça de Nêgo””, feature film debut by filmmaker Déo Cardoso, was named best film of 2021 by Abraccine (Brazilian Association of Film Critics) and APCA (São Paulo Association of Art Critics) and awarded at the main festivals and events in the country. The film also carried out impact distribution actions and audience design and was awarded by the Göteborg Film Fund, in the Innovative Distribution category. The table will bring together the director, the producer, the international fund and the team responsible for the distribution and design of audience to present the results.
Direção | Roteiro
Born in the USA, with Brazilian citizenship, screenwriter and director Emerson Déo Cardoso is based in Fortaleza-CE and graduated in dramaturgy from the Instituto Dragão do Mar in the same city. In the United States, Déo completed his master’s degree at the Ohio University School of Cinema, where he won the Billman Fine Arts Award for the screenplay for the short film Port of Rafts (2005). After writing and directing 6 short fiction films and documentaries, Déo Cardoso made his feature-length debut in 2021 with the racial drama “Cabeça de Nêgo”, elected the best film of 2021 by Abraccine (Brazilian Association of Film Critics), by APCA (São Paulo Association of Art Critics), in addition to the critics’ award for best screenplay of 2021 by ABRA–Brazilian Association of Screenwriters. The film also earned the director a nomination for best debut director at the 2022 Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro. The film was licensed by the Globoplay platform, where it is available. As a screenwriter, Déo Cardoso collaborated on the series “Rota 66” (Boutique/Globoplay) and as a director, he was part of the directing team for the series “Encantado’s” (Globoplay). Currently, Déo Cardoso is developing his second feature film Os Olhos do Mar.
Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante
Distributor, researcher and curator. She is currently studying for her master’s degree at UFRB and studies the distribution of contemporary black cinema. She works for Fistaile, a company that promotes the encounter between audiences and audiovisual projects. She collaborates with spaces such as Lab Negras Narrativas, Sessão Vitrine Petrobras, Locarno Industry Academy, BrLab, El Público del Futuro and EFM Toolbox (Berlinale). She is a member of APAN, Andai and ABPA.
Palestrante
Filmmaker, director and producer. She was the executive producer of the feature film “Rânia” (2009), by Roberta Marques, winner of the New Directions Award at the 2011 Rio Film Festival. She won awards at the Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro with “Cine Holliúdy 1” and “O Shaolin do Sertão”, by Halder Gomes. She is currently working on the development of “Os Olhos do Mar”, by Déo Cardoso.
Tutor | Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante
She is a distributor, communicator, and researcher. She graduated in Social Communication from ESPM and holds a postgraduate degree in Journalism from Cásper Líbero. She has a master’s degree from Facom/UFBA with research on audiovisual reception, studying the audience of streaming platforms. She has worked for companies such as Vitrine Filmes and Elo Studios. She founded Fistaile, a distribution and audience design company. She has worked on projects funded by RioFilme, Spcine, MinC, and Göteborg Film Fund grants. She has attended training and market spaces such as Torino Film Lab NEXT Audience Design, Berlinale Talents Rio Audience Design, Locarno Industry Academy, Seminario Públicos y Audiencias del Futuro (Ficunam), Open Doors Locarno, and EFM Toolbox Programmes (Berlinale). She was part of the BrLab team, as a member of the selection committee and audience design consultant. She is associated with ANDAI (National Association of Independent Audiovisual Distributors).
Direction
Ana Kata Carmona
Script
Ana Kata Carmona
Production
Pablo Castrillón
Colombia
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Direction
Jeferson De
Script
Gabriella Mancini
Production
Cristiane Arenas
Brazil / RJ
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Direction
Camila Ribeiro
Script
Camila Ribeiro
Production
Paula Alves
Brazil / BA
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Direction
Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Production
Santiago Loayza Grisi
Federico Moreira Pisano
Bolivia / France / Uruguay
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Direction
Raquel Chacón Madrigal
Production
Kattia G. Zúñigo
Chile / Costa Rica
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Direction
Bernardo Ale Abinader
Script
Bernardo Ale Abinader
Production
Vânia Lima
Brazil / BA
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Direction
Lorenzo Tocco
Script
Lorenzo Tocco
Production
Pancho Magnou Arnábal
Uruguay
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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.
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.
Comissão de Seleção
Giovani Barros is a director and casting producer. He has directed short films that have been screened at several national and international festivals. His latest short film, Carne Fresca, won best short film at the Rio Film Festival, within the Première Brasil Novos Rumos section. He works as an assistant director on feature films and also as a casting producer for films, series, and soap operas. He has been a member of selection committees for the Espírito Santo State Department of Culture (SECULT-ES), Riofilme, and the curatorial team of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival.
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.
Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante
Distributor, researcher and curator. She is currently studying for her master’s degree at UFRB and studies the distribution of contemporary black cinema. She works for Fistaile, a company that promotes the encounter between audiences and audiovisual projects. She collaborates with spaces such as Lab Negras Narrativas, Sessão Vitrine Petrobras, Locarno Industry Academy, BrLab, El Público del Futuro and EFM Toolbox (Berlinale). She is a member of APAN, Andai and ABPA.
Comissão de Seleção
Actress and director. She has acted in films such as Desterro, by Maria Clara Escobar; Os cuidado que se tem com os cuidado que os outros deve ter com seus mortos (Best Supporting Actress at the Guarnicê Film Festival) and Lembra Mais dos Corvos, directed by Gustavo Vinagre. For the latter, she received the Helena Ignez Award from the Mostra de Cinema in 2018.
Comissão de Seleção
Curator, researcher, screenwriter, director and partner at Cartografia Filmes. She holds a master’s degree in Cinema and Video Arts from the State University of Paraná, and has researched “Speculative Fiction in Brazilian Black Cinema”. She holds a PhD in Communication from the Federal Fluminense University, specializing in curatorship. Her research interests range from speculative fiction, curatorship from a decolonial perspective and contemporary Black Cinemas. She is a Regional Advisor (South) for APAN.
Comissão de Seleção
Audiovisual curator who worked at the São Paulo Cultural Center programming movie theaters, was a member of the Cinema Curation Committee of the Municipal Culture Circuit and dissemination manager at Spcine between 2017 and 2020. In 2020, she curated and programmed the Filme Filme streaming platform and is currently the release manager at Vitrine Filmes.
Produção | Comissão de Seleção
Audiovisual director, partner at Plano 9 Produções (PE) and professor in the Cinema course at UFPE. For 15 years she has worked as Producer, Executive Producer, Production Director, in addition to having directed and written short films and TV programs. She participated in the “Berlinale Talents” in 2014. She is currently involved in the finalization of two feature films, a TV series and is developing her first documentary feature “Letters to the Past”. Among her most recent works, the highlights are “Amores de Chumbo” (Dir. Tuca Siqueira), “Xingu, Cariri, Caruaru, Carioca” (Dir. Elizabeth Formaggini), “Em nome da América” (Dir. Fernando Weller), “Eles Voltam” (Dir. Marcelo Lordello), “Marias” (Dir. Ludmila Curi) and “Paterno” (Dir. Marcelo Lordello).
Produção | Comissão de Seleção
Costa Rican and founder of La Feria Producciones, she is a communicator, student of Anthropology, and graduated in Cinema from EICTV. As a director and screenwriter, she produced the documentary series “Mujeres y Territorios”. She was the producer of Princesas Rojas (2013), executive producer of “Agosto” (2019) and co-producer of “El Baile de la Gacela” (2018). She is currently developing the projects “Los Superlimpios”, by Roberto Jaén, and “Chicharras”, by Luna Marán, a co-production between Costa Rica and Mexico. All of her productions have received awards at the main festivals and events in the audiovisual market.
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.
Comissão de Seleção
Independent producer, member of EAVE and graduated in production from EICTV, she currently lives in Havana. She has been at Nuevas Miradas EICTV – the only lab in Cuba for film projects in development – since 2014, and from 2017 to 2019 she worked as a director. In 2021, María Carla is designing the Film Production Course for CIBEF (Ibero-American Center for Photography and Cinema). Among her productions, we can highlight “La Música de las Esferas” (Best Documentary and Best Production Award, Muestra Joven ICAIC 2018; Best Documentary Award at Recontres de Cinemas Martinique 2019); “La Opción Cero” (Hot Docs 2021, IDFA Luminous 2020); “Obra de Choque” (in production, with support from Ibermedia, Sundance, WCF and Aide aux Cinemas du Monde). In 2015 he founded Marinca Filmes, a production company focused on auteur cinema.
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.
Produção | Comissão de Seleção
Thamires Vieira is a director and producer. She has a degree in Cinema and is a member of APAN. She has been working in the audiovisual market for ten years and has produced series, as well as several short and feature films, some of which have won awards and been shown at important national and international festivals. She has also produced and curated exhibitions and festivals in various formats. She currently coordinates Terá Filmes, developing projects in partnerships and co-productions.
Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante
Screenwriter, consultant and teacher. She was coordinator and head of the Screenwriting Department at EITCV – Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. She coordinated the International Screenwriting Workshop (Havana Film Festival). She develops and teaches workshops in Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Panama, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. She works as a speaker and judge at Latin American and European events and festivals, and is a founding member of the creative collective Viceversa.
Comissão de Seleção | Coordenador | Palestrante
Director of Australab, a platform that, among other initiatives, includes 3 Puertos Cine, in addition to developing actions to reflect on the circulation of independent cinema, such as the Industry Academy Chile-Locarno. For seven years, he was the programming director of the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival and a member of the selection committee of Cine en Construcción for the Toulouse and San Sebastián editions. He was also a programmer at FIC-Valdivia and, in addition, is a project delegate at the Center for Cinema and Creation, a space for promoting independent cinema in Chile.
Palestrante | Tutor
An artist and filmmaker, his work has been screened and exhibited at festivals and exhibitions such as the Berlin, Sundance, Locarno, Toronto, Venice, IDFA, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, São Paulo Biennial, Videobrasil, MACBA and MoMA. He received the Fênix Award for Best Ibero-American Screenplay for Boi Neon (2015), which was also among the New York Times Top 10 Best Films in 2016. On the visual arts circuit, in 2015, he was nominated for the PIPA Prize. His films have won more than 50 international awards and, in 2016, Mascaro had a retrospective at the Lincoln Center in New York.
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Film producer, founder and former president of the Chilean Academy of Cinematographic Arts, and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as tutor and panelist at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals. Specialized in international co-productions, he has worked with 15 countries on more than 20 films through Quijote Films. Among his most notable productions are Land and Shade by César Augusto Acevedo, winner of the Caméra d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; The Settlers by Felipe Gálvez, premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and Chile’s submission for the 2023 Academy Awards; The Blue Trail (2025) by Gabriel Mascaro, which competed in the official section of the Berlinale and won the Silver Bear; and his most recent production, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes, awarded the Grand Prix of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, the FIPRESCI Prize at the Brussels Film Festival, and selected as Chile’s submission for the 2026 Academy Awards and Goya Awards.
Tutor | Speaker
Screenwriter, professor, and consultant. Director of the Master’s program and residency in Screenwriting at EICTV. She co-wrote the screenplay for Eneida (2022) with Heloisa Passos and Tina Hardy, Três Verões (2019) with Sandra Kogut, Eu Te Levo (2017) with Marcelo Muller, among others. She holds a Master’s degree in Audiovisual Media and Processes from ECA-USP and is a consultant and lecturer in various laboratories and schools throughout Latin America.
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.
Tutor | Produção
Tatiana Leite is a film programmer and producer. Through Bubbles Project, she has produced 11 feature films, including Malu, by Pedro Freire; Benzinho, by Gustavo Pizzi (both premieres in the Official Competition at Sundance); Puan, by Maria Alché and Benjamin Naishtat, (Best Screenplay and Best Actor at San Sebastián); and Rule 34, by Julia Murat (Golden Leopard at Locarno).
Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante
Screenwriter, consultant and teacher. She was coordinator and head of the Screenwriting Department at EITCV – Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba. She coordinated the International Screenwriting Workshop (Havana Film Festival). She develops and teaches workshops in Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Panama, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. She works as a speaker and judge at Latin American and European events and festivals, and is a founding member of the creative collective Viceversa.
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Graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual from Universidade Federal Fluminense, she currently works at Vitrine Filmes as a licensing and production coordinator. She is a producer of the feature film Casa da Mata, in development, and in 2021 she developed Vitrine LAB, a training course in audiovisual distribution – currently in its second edition. In 2020 she was selected to participate in the Locarno Industry Academy – Panama. As a collaborator at Bubbles Project, she worked on the production of the feature films Benzinho, by Gustavo Pizzi (Sundance 2018); Família Submersa, by María Alché, (Best Film at the San Sebastián Festival, in 2018); Pendular, by Julia Murat (FIPRESCI in the Panorama section of the 2017 Berlinale), among others. In 2013 she won the World Bank’s call for university productions in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, through which she co-directed, wrote and produced the short film Operação Chorume. Through the same initiative, he produced the documentary feature film Maré Leste, by Daniel Soares.
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Born in 1984 near Milan. She graduated in Foreign Languages for Communication and Information at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan; in 2008 she obtained a Master’s degree in Communication and Film Promotion. In 2008 she began working for the Film Commission Torino Piemonte, as International Coordinator of Events and Projects. From 2011 she worked as Office Director for Film Europe-EUFCN, the Association of the European Film Commissions. The association currently has 90 members from 30 European countries and is one of the most important organizations involved in the promotion of European Cinema. She joined the Torino Film Lab in 2016 and is now the lab’s Creative Consultant
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A film executive at Gullane Entretenimento, she recently produced the feature films Depois que Você Foi, by Flávio Botelho; A Última Floresta, by Luiz Bolognesi; Aldeotas, by Gero Camilo and As Verdades, by José Eduardo Belmonte, all of which are in the final stages. She is currently involved in the production of the animated film Arca de Noé, by Sérgio Machado, and is preparing the feature film Favela High Tech, by Karim Ainouz, and is about to be released in theaters, Fendas, by Carlos Segundo, the first feature film produced by her production company Aun Filmes, a co-production with France.
Palestrante | Comissão de Seleção
Curator and consultant in the audiovisual industry, she is the coordinator of the programming and professional platform Cinema em Construção at the French festival Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse. Since 2013, she has been an international consultant for the Gap Financing Market in Venice, and since 2016 she has collaborated with the Marché du Film and Ventana Sur, forming part of the selection committee for Primer Corte and Copia Final. She developed and coordinated the professional activities of La Fabrique des Cinémas du Monde in Cannes and has participated in selective support bodies such as Aide aux Cinémas du Monde and Proimagenes.
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Trained in Cinema by the Fluminense Federal University and specialized in Business Management and Marketing by ESPM, Felipe Lopes has been in the audiovisual market for more than ten years, working in the areas of production, distribution, festivals and public management. In May 2019, he assumed the direction of Vitrine Filmes and has since then released films such as Bacurau (2019), by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, A Vida Invisível (2019), by Karim Aïnouz, and The Lighthouse (2019), by Robert Eggers. In October 2020, he will be at the side of Silvia Cruz, partner of Vitrine Filmes.
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Born in Buenos Aires, she developed her professional career in Spain. From her production company Tic Tac she directed: “Polvo” (Julio Hernández Cordón, 2012), “Tralas luces” (Sandra Sánchez, 2011), “18 comidas” (Jorge Coira, 2010) and “¿Qué culpa tiene el tomate?” (ómnibus, 2009). She has also co-produced feature films such as “Agua fría de mar” (Paz Fábrega, 2010), among other titles. In 2014 she founded Setembro Cine, through which she co-produced internationally recognized films: “Neruda” (Pablo Larraín, 2016), “Princesita” (Marialy Rivas, 2017) and “Una mujer fantasia” (Sebastián Lelio, 2017). He is currently involved in the development of the next film by Dutch director Joost Van Ginkel.
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After studying Cultural Management in Vienna, Birmingham and Chicago, Gabor GREINER worked as a journalist and film critic. In 2003, he moved to Brussels to take over the distribution support department of the MEDIA Programme at the European Commission’s Film Fund. In 2009, Gabor became acquisitions executive at the international sales agent event, The Match Factory. In August 2010, Gabor moved to Berlin to become COO of the Franco-German sales company, Films Boutique, winner of the Golden Bear in 2017 and 2020 and the Golden Lion in 2011 and 2016. Gabor is a member of the European Film Academy.
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Juliette Lepoutre comes to film production after 15 years in high tech. She cofounded MPM Film then Still Moving in 2015. Her credits includes Adrian Sitaru, Béla Tarr, Julia Murat, Panos Koutras, Paz Encina, Omar El Zohairy, Maya Da Rin, Ala Eddine Slim, Maha Haj, Amanda Nell Eu, Marcelo Caetano, Mariana Rondón. Her latest film from Portuguese director Pedro Pinho, O Riso e a Faca won Best Actress Prize in Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2025 official selection. Lepoutre is an expert in different production labs such as BAL, Berlinale Talents and BrLab. She is a member of the French Académie des César and the European Film Academy.
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Program Manager of the Pop Up Film Residency, she is also a programmer for the Art Film Fest Košice (since 2010) and Slovak Queer Film Festival (since 2017), focusing on cinemas from the Far East. Furthermore, as a member of the National Film Centre of the Slovak Film Institute team, she is responsible for promoting Slovak cinema and coordinating events.
Produção | Palestrante
Leonardo Mecchi is the founding partner of Enquadramento Produções. He is the producer of films such as Los Silencio, by Beatriz Seigner (Cannes Film Festival – Directors’ Quinzena); A Febre, by Maya Da-Rin (Locarno Festival); A Morte Habita à Noite, by Eduardo Morotó (Roterdã Festival); e Mormaço, by Marina Meliande (Roterdã Festival). He is also associate producer of >O Processo, by Maria Augusta Ramos (Berlim Festival).
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Marina holds a Law Degree at the University of São Paulo, currently studies Advertising and Marketing at Mackenzie University in São Paulo. Specialized at Entertainment Law, Executive Production for tv and movies and Third Sector. Experience in alternative dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation. Advises various agents of the Brazilian audiovisual industry.
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Designer and leader of several consulting and development programs for active films and talents around the world, notably First Cut Lab, Pop Up Film Residency and Full Circle Lab. Previously, he founded and directed the European Network of Young Cinema NISI MASA, wrote for the film magazine “Positif” for fifteen years and was artistic director of TorinoFilmLab until 2018. He has also worked as a programmer for the Critics’ Week in Cannes, a consultant for the Venice Film Festival, a delegate for the San Sebastián Film Festival and director of the Bratislava Film Festival.
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An executive producer for over 20 years, she started out coordinating work for advertising agencies and their clients: photography, events, films and TV. She traveled around Brazil and the world and immersed herself in the digital universe: websites, apps and games. Today she is part of the collective c/as4atro and has produced series and feature films, both fiction and documentaries, in addition to consulting and courses throughout Brazil.
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Graduated in Law from PUC-SP and post-graduated in Entertainment, Media and Intellectual Property Law from the OAB School of Law, he works at CQS Advogados advising the various agents of the Brazilian audiovisual industry, such as Brazilian and international producers, broadcasters, distributors and programmers. He also teaches as a guest professor in courses focused on the audiovisual area, in places such as the International Academy of Cinema and the Cinema Institute.
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She started working in the film industry as a festival coordinator and production manager. In 1999 she founded her first production company, Flying Moon, through which she produced arthouse films that won over 30 international awards until 2014. Under the banner In Good Company/IGC Films, she founded another company focusing on international co-productions with an emphasis on European films. Roshanak also works as an expert and consultant for various training institutions and organizations, such as EAVE. She is an EAVE graduate and group leader, as well as a member of the German Film Academy and the European Film Academy.
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Simone Baumann is working in the film production for more as 25 years and has produced many documentaries and feature films. Till March 2019 she was the head of the documentary department of Saxonia Entertainment GmbH. From 1997-2010, she was managing director of the independent production company LE VISION. She is an experienced co-producer, and one of Europe’s leading experts on Russia, the former Eastern bloc, and their audiovisual markets.
In April 2019 Simone Baumann was appointed as the Managing Director of German Films – the German film promotion. She has been working as the GERMAN FILMS Eastern Europe representative since 2005. She also supervised numerous feature film productions in the former Soviet Union as an executive producer and consultant.
