BrLab is an annual workshop dedicated to future Latin American and European films undergoing development stages and to the training of professionals in the audiovisual sector. Currently, it is the only market event in Brazil that receives projects from all over Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula (and Italy).

During the laboratory, film producers, directors and screenwriters representing the twelve selected projects receive comprehensive advice on fundamental pillars of development for their products: screenwriting, direction, production and distribution. The workshop has an important history of successful films released in Brazil and abroad and has consolidated itself in recent years as an international reference in the film industry.

The 10th edition of BrLab takes place on November 5-27, 2020, with a fully online programming as a security measure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, given that the participation of professionals from different countries in our programming and activities is essential.

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BRLAB 2019

Workshops

BrLab

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3 Puertos Montaje

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Audience Design Workshop

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Industry Academy

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Lectures

BrPlot

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Reach

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Selection Committee

Erick González

programmer

Emmanuelle Déprats

cultural manager

Elzemann Neves

Screenwriter and playwright

Fábio Leal

Director, screenwriter and actor

Fernanda de Capua

Flavia Candida

Curator, filmmaker and producer

Giovani Barros

Director, screenwriter and casting director

Iana Cossoy Paro

Screenwriter

Jaqueline Souza

scriptwriter and consultant

Joelma Oliveira Gonzaga

producer and executive producer

Julia Katharine

Actress and filmmaker

Larissa Figueiredo

scriptwriter and director

Leonardo Mecchi

Leticia Santinon

Curator and release manager

Marcela Esquivel

Director and producer

Marcio Miranda Perez

Filmmaker and curator

Maria Carla Del Rio

Producer

Marina Torre

Executive producer and producer

Rafael Sampaio

Director of BrLab and producer

Talita Arruda

Curator and distributor

Thamires Vieira

Director and producer

Yuri Peixoto

curator and scriptwriter

Selected Projects

Tutors

Agustina Llambi Campbell

Agustina Llambi Campbell

producer

Albertina Carri

Diretora, produtora e roteirista

Fernanda Del Nido

producer

Giancarlo Nasi

Producer

Iana Cossoy Paro

Screenwriter

Paula Astorga

Cultural producer

Xênia Rivery

Screenwriter and teacher

Mariana Rondón

Director

programação brlab 2020

20nov

Panel

REACH

Film Marketing in 2020: Promotion, Digital Transition & Online Markets

11 AM

Live broadcast

Represented by its CEO and cofounder Sarah Calderón, The Film Agency shares its unique perspective in the digital transition our film industry is currently facing. Taking a look at concrete tools, experiences and fresh online case studies at the Marché du Film Online and several hybrid festival promotion campaigns, the newest best practices will be identified. Moreover, key examples of virtual cinemas, event-cinemas with social distance and other promotion and distribution trends will be introduced. A better understanding of the complexity of present times will enable us to better shape the near future.

Panelist

Sarah Calderón


19nov

Panel

REACH

Building Niche Audiences in the Digital Environment

11 AM

Live broadcast

One of the most challenging subjects for the independent cinema industry in the past decade is the digital environment. With the arrival and consolidation of the internet, new platforms of streaming films were created and soon became giants in the industry, not only while exhibiting films and series, but also producing content. At the same time, piracy has rapidly become a window of exhibition for users seeking for content they don’t find in cinemas or the latest video stores. While Netflix, Amazon and others are widely spread and commonly recognized as synonyms of VOD, platforms such as MUBI are in the market for more than 10 years trying to create a space for independent arthouse cinema, and nowadays, more and more solutions are created based in niche audiences, such as Kabinett, Spamflix and many more. 

Panelist

Markus Duffner


Bobby Allen


Eduardo Costantini


18nov

Panel

3 Puertos

How to dimension a film’s cinematography based on the script, according to plural points of view

18h

Live broadcast

Contemporary cinema has been proposing increasingly diverse production formats. These new work proposals result from close dialogues within the teams of each film. The direction of photography is a fundamental part of this invention, assuming the role of a structuring dialogue between the needs of the direction and production. This panel will debate, from the different perspectives of members of the collective Dafb who work on different cinematography fronts in the audiovisual industry, the creative and technical reading of a script as a project planning tool for decision making, even before pre-production. Together, they will talk about how to anticipate, based on the project, the specific needs of each film with regard to the formation of camera, electrical and grip crews, in addition to foreseeing, for each department, the types of equipment that may be favorable, disposable or essential, including on after-set stages, until post production. 

Panelist

Andrea Capella


Bárbara Lopes


Flora Dias


Julia Zakia

producer

Luísa Cavanagh


18nov

Panel

REACH

How to create an environment for theatrical and VOD to co-exist in the new world (lessons we’ve learned)

4 PM

Live broadcast

Every exhibitor across the globe is dealing with the fallout of Covid-19 and the predominance of studio productions, which are rapidly being withdrawn from release schedules. As distributors pivot to look at their online and digital business, what can we do to attract customers to our bespoke platforms and how do we ensure the survival of arthouse films? During this discussion, Kate Gerova and Lee Shelton will look at the digital customer journey. We will focus on the application of user-centric design and the use of data in order to create product longevity. We will also explore how strategic partnerships with exhibitors and influencers can reach an audience who might feel starved of new content, as well as discuss how creative CRM, targeted social advertising, adwords and effective remarketing can ensure they return time and again.

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Panelist

Kate Gerova


Lee Shelton


17nov

Panel

REACH

Perspectives for Brazilian Cinema in 2020

18h

Live broadcast

In recent years, while Brazilian cinema has been suffering the consequences of structural changes in policies aimed at the audiovisual industry, paradoxically, the country's production is being celebrated around the world in important film festivals and markets. In light of this scenario, where all the main class entities of the Brazilian audiovisual industry are striving to prevent an even greater crisis in the sector, we invite exhibitor Adhemar Oliveira, producer Sara Silveira and filmmaker Eryk Rocha to talk about Brazilian cinema today, moderated by producer Ivan Melo. What are the perspectives for Brazilian cinema in 2020? How to face the current crisis? Who is interested in Brazilian cinema? Who are the audiences of Brazilian cinema?

Panelist

Adhemar Oliveira


Sara Silveira



Eryk Rocha


16nov

Panel

REACH

Festivals: a Programmer’s Challenges

17h30

Live broadcast

The work of a festival programmer is often seen as a job that any cinephile would love to do – to discover films, create an identity through which a festival will present itself to a certain audience –, and festivals are definitely a space for the plurality of voices and artistic freedom. However, there are many challenges in the day-to-day of a programmer, not only in terms of the nature of the job itself (which is often a free-lance job, that must be combined with other works in the industry), but also in terms of the struggle to find new films and points of views, the need to deal with important matters such as representativeness, innovative ways of filming, new technologies etc. Anne Delseth, Susana Rodrigues e Cecilia Barrionuevo, three women with large experience in the field, will talk about these challenges. The professionals work as programmers at festivals such as Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, Rotterdam and Mar del Plata, among others.

Panelist

Cecilia Barrionuevo


Susana Santos Rodrigues


Anne Delseth


16nov

Panel

3 Puertos

From Writing To Editing - Narrative Approaches

11 AM

Live broadcast

Based on their experiences with fiction and documentary films, Marcelo Gomes (screenwriter and director) and Ernesto Soto (producer) present a review of the narrative processes and devices that consolidate a story. From the peculiarities of their first works, such as Viajo porque preciso, volto porque te amo, and recently the documentary Estou me guardando para quando o carnaval chegar, the filmmakers work with all the mechanisms - from writing to editing – available, and shape the film from a unique perspective. 

Panelist

Marcelo Gomes


Ernesto Soto


Paula Astorga

Cultural producer

13nov

Panel

BrPlot

Cinema And The Poetics Of Bodies

9PM

Live broadcast

Argentinian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer Albertina Carri presents some of her current reflections on the poetics of bodies in cinema, at a time when our bodies represent vital potentials. Based on the understanding of cinema as something organic, the director of the award-winning films Las Hijas del Fuego, Los Rubios, La Rabia, among others, draws on concepts of philosophy, psychoanalysis and image analysis to investigate some of the questions that philosophy has been formulating since pre-Socratic times, and psychology since its beginning. What is a body? What can a body do? The responses vary according to the epistemological system used to formulate the response. Albertina proposes an approach to Spinoza’s system, which she will use to think of the possibilities of the body and cinema as tools for manifestation of the sacred based on our purely profane nature.

Panelist

Albertina Carri

Diretora, produtora e roteirista

Érica Sarmet


12nov

Panel

BrPlot

Representation In Focus: Documentary or Fiction?

9PM

Live broadcast

An important portion of fiction currently produced in Brazil centers on bodies, spaces and accents from different Brazilian states and regions, and makes use of a hybrid language that is increasingly recurrent in cinema, in which fiction and documentary are often mixed in the narrative. Along this line, more and more screenwriters and filmmakers move between the two genres. What are the criteria adopted by filmmakers when opting for a documentary or fictional process? 

Panelist

Flavia Castro


Gabriel Martins


Gabriel Mascaro

filmmaker

Maíra Bühler

director

12nov

Panel

REACH

Impact Distribution

4 PM

Live broadcast

Sarah Mosses, founder and CEO of Together Films, offers an introduction into Impact Distribution, aimed at professionals interested in reaching new audiences and those who are currently designing release strategies for their projects. The world of distribution has changed and COVID-19 has brought new opportunities for innovative models. As a distribution and data company, working predominantly in social impact titles, Together Films is at the forefront of devising unique distribution models and engaging audiences to discuss important topics. During this open lecture, some unique models for audience engagement will be presented, as well as the basics of building a successful impact distribution strategy for each project.

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Panelist

Sarah Mosses


12nov

Panel

REACH

Audience Design: the Exploration of Story and Audience Worlds

11 AM

Live broadcast

The master class will look at the practice of audience design, which can be defined as “the process of creating audience awareness and engagement around films from an early stage of development through a story-based and multi-angle approach”. As a practicing audience designer, Benjamin Cölle will talk about the theoretical foundations of this practice and discuss recent film projects as best-practice examples. This master class is for writers, directors, producers, distributors and all those film professionals who want to set out together to explore their stories and potential audiences through a collaborative and iteractive process (and artistic research practice) from an early stage of development.

Panelist

Benjamin Cölle 

Producer

11nov

Panel

BrPlot

MediaXchange presents: Master Class with Mark Goffman

5 PM

Live broadcast

Content booster MediaXchange presents some of its programs and shows a sample of its work. Headquartered in London and Los Angeles, MediaXchange is responsible for bringing together great creators from around the world, and offers a Master Class by Mark Goffman, executive producer and screenwriter of the Netflix hit The Umbrella Academy, disciple of Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter for series such as The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and showrunner for Sleepy Hollow and Bull. The Umbrella Academy, discípulo de Aaron Sorkin, roteirista de séries como The West Wing, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, e showrunner de Sleepy Hollow and Bull. 

Panelist

Mark Goffman


Gustavo Gontijo

(mediação)

10nov

Panel

BrPlot

No Script? Says Who?

9PM

Live broadcast

Non-scripted formats, ranging from realities to game shows, offer content that appears "as spontaneous as life itself". With lower production costs and strong appeal as a popular entertainment product, they have become especially attractive to the market. Well, what about the screenwriter’s role? Who writes all the content? 

Panelist

Ana Abreu


Claudio Minoru Yosida


Elisio Lopes Jr.

Roteirista, dramaturgo e diretor artístico

Ana Durães


10nov

Panel

3 Puertos

Film Editing

5 PM

Live broadcast

Three renowned film editors, who tutor the 3 Puertos Cine - Montagem, reflect on the possible editing constructions based on the primary elements of cinematographic language: editing that builds the meaning of the film and tells the story through time. The three professionals speak from the perspective of their own works and also the perspective of the work as editing advisors.. Os três profissionais falam desde a perspectiva de seus próprios trabalhos e do trabalho como assessores de montagem. 

Panelist

Fernando Epstein

Produtor e editor

Karen Akerman

Montadora

Soledad Salfate

film editor

Erick González

programmer

9nov

Panel

BrPlot

Plural Rooms, Diverse Narratives

9PM

Live broadcast

What has been the national experience in the formation of plural rooms and in the construction of diverse narratives? We will look at successful Brazilian initiatives in order to understand which paradigms still need to be overcome so that we are able to create counter-hegemonic narratives. 

Panelist

Alice Marcone


Thays Berbe


Ludmila Naves


Esmir Filho


Maíra Oliveira

(mediação) Roteirista e dramaturga

6nov

Panel

BrPlot

Master Class: Narrative Structure and Character According To Eliseo Altunaga

11 AM

Live broadcast

Cuban Eliseo Altunaga, screenwriter, literary author, playwright and dean at EICTV – Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión, Cuba, presents his vision on the relationship between structure and character in cinematographic writing and storytelling. After the master class and straight from Havana, Eliseo will talk with and answer questions from the audience.  

Panelist


Camila Agustini


5nov

Panel

BrPlot

Local Narratives, Global Audiences: The Case Of The Dix Pour Cent Series

11 AM

Live broadcast

French actress and screenwriter Fanny Herrero talks about her experience as a showrunner for one of the biggest international hits on French television, the series Dix Pour Cent, gracefully set in an acting agency in Paris. The series has the participation of great stars of French cinema, who interpret themselves, in a format that mixes procedural and episodic narratives with an elaborate and nimble plot. Conducted by actress and screenwriter Martha Nowill and screenwriter Chico Mattoso, this unmissable event will focus on the process of creation and development of the French series that has conquered the world and has just launched its fourth and final season.

Panelist

Fanny Herrero


Martha Nowill



28oct

Panel

BrPlot

Literary Writing and Audiovisual Text

9PM

Live broadcast

Ana Paula Maia já era uma romancista consagrada quando foi convidada a desenvolver uma série para a Globoplay, Desalma, thriller sobrenatural recém estreado em 22/09. Na fronteira entre literatura e roteiro, Ana Paula conversa com o também escritor e roteirista Marcelo Rubens Paiva  sobre fontes de inspiração, processo criativo e projetos em desenvolvimento.

Panelist

Ana Paula Maia


Marcelo Rubens Paiva


21oct

Panel

BrPlot

Bacurau: Before the film, came the screenplay

9PM

Live broadcast

Filmmakers Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles comment on the process of writing the screenplay for Bacurau, winner of numerous international awards, including the Jury Award at the Festival de Cannes. The conversation, led by screenwriter Thiago Dottori, addresses the stages of development of the project until it becomes the images and sounds that we see on the screen.

Panelist

Juliano Dornelles


Kleber Mendonça Filho


Thiago Dottori


15oct

Panel

BrPlot

Escribiendo y Viviendo con Humor

9PM

Live broadcast

Alexandre Machado é hoje um dos maiores roteiristas brasileiros. Junto com sua companheira Fernanda Young revolucionou o humor da TV com séries que deixaram saudades. Alexandre conversa sobre sua obra e processo criativo com a atriz, diretora e escritora Maria Ribeiro.

Panelist

Alexandre Machado


Maria Ribeiro


07oct

Panel

BrPlot

Master Class with Jorge Furtado

9PM

Live broadcast

Jorge Furtado criou uma aula especial para esta edição do BrPlot na qual investiga as origens das premissas narrativas. Entre sonhos e oráculos, a Master Class inédita tem dicas imperdíveis para a construção do roteiro com mediação de Gustavo Gontijo.

Panelist

Jorge Furtado


Gustavo Gontijo

(mediação)

30set

Panel

BrPlot

Maria Adelaide Amaral: São Tantas Histórias

9PM

Live broadcast

A romancista e dramaturga Maria Adelaide Amaral dispensa apresentações. Na sua primeira live da pandemia, conversa com a roteirista Marta Nehring sobre as várias facetas de um talento que transita com a mesma eficiência narrativa do romance à telenovela.

Panelist

Maria Adelaide Amaral


Marta Nehring


Exclusive activities for workshop participants

GUESTS

Agata Czerner

Agustina Chiarino

Alfredo Calvino

Amanda Kadobayashi

Vitrine Filmes (Brasil)

Ariene Ferreira

Carolina Rapp

Daniela Aun

Denise Gomes

Didar Domehri

Elisa Fernanda Pirir Ruiz

Eva Morsch Kihn

Cinéma en Développement (France)

Fay Breeman

Felipe Lopes

Vitrine Filmes (Brasil)

Filipa Reis

Gerardo Michelin

Jeske van der Slikke

Leonardo Mecchi

Lidia Damatto

Marina Pompeu

Matthieu Darras

Paula Cosenza

Ventre Filmes (Brasil)

Paula Gomes

Olhar Distribuidora (Brazil)

Priscila Santos

Rodrigo Chacon

CQS/FV Advogados (Brasil)

Roshanak Behesht Nedjad

Sandino Saravia Vinay

Sandra Gómez

Victor Sanchez

Vincenzo Bugno

Vinícius Lobo

Globo Filmes (Brasil)

AWARDS

Vitrine Filmes Award – New Classics of Brazilian Cinema Program

Production start money award for a Brazilian production or co-production project, which consists of an investment of four hundred thousand reais (R$ 400,000.00) linked to the contemplation of the distribution company on PRODAV 6/2018. It will be the exclusive responsibility of the Vitrine representatives present in the activities to decide which project will be awarded and how the contract will be formalized, as well as to stipulate the procedures for monitoring the awarded production. The award can be cumulative to the Development Award.

Award-winning project: Close to Midnight.

Vitrine Filmes Development Award

Development award for one of the participating Brazilian projects, which consists of an investment of one hundred and ten thousand reais (R$ 110,000.00) linked to the contemplation of the distribution company on PRODAV 6/2018. It will also be the exclusive responsibility of the Vitrine representatives present in the activities to decide which project will be awarded and how the contract will be formalized, as well as to stipulate the procedures for monitoring the development of the awarded project.

Award-winning project: Close to Midnight.

Vitrine Filmes Acquisition Award

Acquisition award for Latin American films that are not of Brazilian origin, at any stage of financing, for commercial distribution in the Brazilian territory. Again, will be the exclusive responsibility of the Vitrine representatives present in the activities to decide which project will be awarded and how the contract will be formalized, as well as to stipulate the procedures for monitoring the development of the awarded project.

Award-winning project: Fallen.

GLOBO FILMES AWARD

Created in 1998, Globo Filmes acts as a multiplatform content co- producer with the purpose of strengthening the national audiovisual industry. The company has participated in more than 300 films, bringing to the public the best of Brazilian cinema. Comedies, romances, documentaries, children's films, dramas, adventures: the focus is on the diversity of works that showcase Brazilian culture. The company’s filmography includes record-breaking box-office films such as Tropa de Elite 2 and Minha Mãe é uma Peça 3 – both with over 11 million viewers –, critical hits such as 2 Filhos de Francisco, Aquarius, Que Horas Ela Volta?, O Palhaço and Carandiru, and feature films awarded in Brazil and abroad, such as Cidade de Deus – with four Oscar nominations – and Bacurau, winner of the Jury award at the Festival de Cannes. Since 2019, Globo Filmes has supported BrLab with the Globo Filmes Development Award, through which it invests in one of the participating projects.

Award-winning project: Deaf Love 1500.

PROJETO PARADISO AWARD

One of the six Brazilian projects participating in the 2020 edition of BrLab will integrate the Paradiso 2021 Incubator, an initiative to support Brazilian audiovisual talents offered by Projeto Paradiso. During the Incubator, the screenwriter will receive a scholarship in the total amount of BRL 30,000.00 (BRL 5,000.00 monthly), in addition to mentoring, doctoring, consulting services in audience design, support for the insertion of the project in the international circuit and other contributions appropriate to the needs of the work. The fiction feature film will be selected by a competent evaluation committee constituted by Projeto Paradiso for this purpose.

Award-winning project: Deaf Love 1500.

CINÉMA EN DÉVELOPPEMENT AWARD

Cinéma en Développement is a space designed for European and Latin American professionals to meet, without constituting a market. The goal of this platform is to promote an interchange between professionals in search of talents and projects, and directors and producers who are developing their films and wish to strengthen their network. Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse and BrLab, since 2013, have joined forces to extend to Toulouse the support offered to Brazilian producers and directors, through a jointly selected project. Since then, the projects Paterno (2013), A Morte Habita à Noite (2014), O Filho Plantado (2015), Sábado Morto (2016), Criadas (2017), Todos os Demônios Estão Mortos (2018) have been selected to participate in the program. This alliance aims to provide continuity in Europe to the guidance and support dynamics initiated in Latin America, thus offering an opportunity for one of the participating projects to benefit from a personalized program that includes a presentation of the project on one-to-one meetings of Cinéma en Développement with renowned industry professionals, case studies, and Cinéma en Construction screenings. Cinéma en Développement will take place at the professional platform of the Cinélatino 33rd Rencontres de Toulouse (March 19 – 28, 2021). In 2019, the Cinéma en Développement award was granted to Juliana Antunes’s Bate e Volta Copacabana.

Award-winning project: Deaf Love 1500.

POP UP FILM RESIDENCY AWARD

The Pop Up Film Residency brings the best of what artistic residencies offer, together with a truly individualized mentorship program. It is run by filmmakers for filmmakers and hosts one resident at a time for a three-week period. The Pop Up Film Residency was launched in January 2019 by former artist director of TorinoFilmLab Matthieu Darras and Slovak producer Juraj Krasnohorsky. The hub of the Residency is based in Bratislava. However, it can literally hatch out anywhere in the world thanks to our network of film industry hosts. Residents are exclusively selected through a network of creative partners including BrLab, EAVE, Cannes Critics’ Week, Doha Film Institute, When East Meets West and Warsaw Kids Film Forum. An exception to the selection rule goes for experienced filmmakers, who can request a "Residency on Demand". The winner of the Pop Up Film Residency Award will be offered a three- week-long tailor-made residency.

Award-winning project: Deaf Love 1500.

TFL NEXT AWARD

TFL Next is the new branch of TorinoFilmLab that offers an innovative teaching approach, a fully online based experience. It aims at empowering a new generation of agile-thinking and innovative filmmakers, who are ready to immerse themselves in a truly global experience, sharing with international experts and peers, travelling across barriers. The TFL Next – Film Development is addressed to international professionals with feature film projects, encouraging the creative development through intensive coaching. Twelve projects will be selected for each workshop and divided into three groups, to work on their treatment alongside peers and a tutor with substantial international experience as a script consultant. The TorinoFilmLab Award consists in the selection of one of the projects that were part of BrLab to attend one of the online workshops in 2021.

Award-winning project: The Secret of Sikán.

CESNIK, QUINTINO & SALINAS AWARD

CQS – Cesnik, Quintino e Salinas Advogados specializes in legal advice focused on planning, structuring and enabling business models for the entertainment, technology and third sector markets. Since 1996 the firm has been contributing to the professionalization and growth of these industries in Brazil and, as a result, has become a reference in the market. In the 10th edition of BrLab – Development of Audiovisual Projects, CQS Advogados offers a legal advice award of up to six hours to one of the participating projects. The project awarded the C/as4a- tro production consulting award, granted by BrLab, will also receive the CQS legal advice award, which can be used for legal advice involv- ing Brazilian law or the structuring of a business model.

Award-winning project: Close to Midnight.

C/AS4TRO AWARD

C/as4atro is a collective of executive producers with experience in different and complementary areas of activity in audiovisual production, teaching and consulting for feature films and TV series. They are Ariene Ferreira, Daniela Aun, Mariana Brasil and Mylena Mandolesi, women who jointly strive to create new ways of working that generate autonomy, prosperity and respect through a healthy environment. 

Active since November 2016, the collective has already provided production consulting services to several projects, such as the TV series Filhos do Mar, produced by Flo Filmes (GO); Felipa e o Foguete, a TV film produced by Pira Filmes (GO); O Reflexo do Lago, a feature film produced by Claritê Produções (PA), among others. The collective was also responsible for the executive production of the TV series Insustentáveis, coproduced by Cérberos Filmes (MT) and Vermelho Filmes (SP); the documentary series Consciência ao Cubo, produced by Gaya Filmes (DF) and broadcast on Canal Curta!; and the musical documentary Ventos que Sopram - Pará, premiered at In-Edit 2020 and also broadcast on Canal Curta!. 

In the area of education, C/as4atro has participated in Ancine's FSA/ PRODAV 4 project development labs, organized by Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual; taught courses and classes at Centro Cultural B_arco, Instituto de Cinema de São Paulo, Centro de Produção Audiovisual TECNA and PUC-RS; in addition to offering workshops at festivals and courses in partnership with several institutions in Brazil, including the Icumam Lab, SEBRAE and Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro. 

Believing and willing to be the change needed in the world, C/as4atro provides consulting services focused on reducing the environmental impact of audiovisual productions through the brand Cinema Verde. 

This year, in partnership with BrLab, the collective will award one project with six hours of consulting services in executive production. From production planning to specific questions involving grants or other issues related to the audiovisual sector, negotiations and partnerships, the goal of the award is to streamline processes and unlock steps to contribute to the creation of a healthy and viable production. In 2019, the C/as4tro Award was granted to Ulisses Arthur’s Não Estamos Sonhando, a state of Alagoas production.

Award-winning project: Close to Midnight.

PRÊMIO DAFB DE CONSULTORIA CINEMATOGRÁFICA

In partnership with BrLab, the Women and Transgender People Collective of the Department of Photography of Brazilian Cinema presents the DAFB Cinematography Consulting Award, which aims to contribute to the thought of cinematography aspects in the construction of audiovisual narratives since the script development stage. 

Through the shared reading of treatments and scripts under development, the DAFB consulting process proposes imagination exercises around the project's visual potentialities, which can strengthen the sensory fabric and its imagery construction; and exercises to transpose these findings into technical measures that help filmmakers and producers to dimension the film’s photography direction.

Representatives of the collective will select two projects, which will receive six (6) hours of consulting services each. The consulting will be applied exclusively to projects participating in BrLab.

Award-winning projects: The landscapes that you seek, Blood of Blood and The Secret of Sikán

Lectures