Maria Carlota Bruno has held since 1989 various positions at VideoFilmes, the independent production company created by Walter and João Salles. In 2011, she became an executive producer with the company and produced projects such as Eduardo Coutinho’s last documentary Last conversations, and Santiago Mitre’s Paulina, a co-production between Brazil and Argentina which won the FIPRESCI award at Cannes in 2015. She was also an executive producer in Jia Zhangke, a guy from Fenyang, the latest project directed by Walter Salles, which was presented at the Berlinale. The documentary was released in Brazil in September 2015, and will be released internationally by its French distributor MK2.