7th Edition
BrLab held its seventh edition in October of 2017, in co-realization with Spcine, the São Paulo Municipal Secretary of Culture, and SESC-SP.
In this edition, BrPlot, a new arm of BrLab’s open panel program dedicated exclusively to audiovisual writing and narrative, and the Audience Design workshop, in partnership with TorinoFilmLab, were inaugurated. In the Audience Design workshop, the representatives of three Brazilian film projects in advanced development were able to reflect on and build strategies for the identification and engagement of their future films’ audiences.
The 7th edition of BrLab was sponsored by Oi Futuro via ProAC ICMS, with institutional support from ANCINE – Brazilian Film Agency, São Paulo International Film Festival, and the Instituto Cervantes. It was produced by Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual and directed by producer and curator Rafael Sampaio, the event’s creator.
It also included partnerships with various collaborators, such as Cinema do Brasil, the French Consulate General, the Institut Français, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, FiGa Films, Vitrine Filmes, Cinéma en Développement, Tribeca Film Institute, RECAM, Revista de Cinema, LatAm Cinema, FAAP, ABRA – Brazilian Association of Screenwriters, TorinoFilmLab, the Consulate General of Israel, Canal Brasil, the Cinemateca Brasileira, and Espaço Itaú de Cinema.
12 projects were selected, representing Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Portugal.
Over a period of seven days, representatives of the selected projects had access to consultations on their scripts and productions with internationally renowned film specialists.
Attendees included Argentine producer Agustina Llambi Campbell, consultant and screenwriter Eliseo Altunaga, Argentine producer Fernanda del Nido, Chilean producer Giancarlo Nasi, Brazilian screenwriter and consultant Iana Cossoy Paro, Brazilian filmmaker Juliana Rojas, Venezuelan filmmaker Mariana Rondón, French-Argentine consultant and screenwriter Miguel Machalski, and Mexican consultant and producer Paula Astorga.
There were also talks given by Anna Muylaert, Gerardo Michelin, and Juliette Lepoutre, among others.
2017
19 Oct
Lecture
BrPlot
7:00 PM
Auditório FAAP
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The opening table will promote a conversation with authors of classic film scripts from the so-called “Retomada” of the Brazilian cinema. At a time when little was produced, the 3 films discussed in this table, each in its own way, In this way, they marked the history of cinema, with great repercussion in Brazil and abroad. The table also intends present an overview of the script development scenario since the end of the 90s, through the beginning from the 2000s and up to the present day.
Palestrante
Screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for the films I Don’t Want to Talk About It Now (Best Screenplay at the Gramado Festival), Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil, Copacabana, The Other Side of the Street, Irma Vap: The Return, First Name, Blue Eyes and Maresia. He wrote episodes of the TV series City of Men, Children of Carnival and Magnificent 70
Palestrante
Screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for films such as Central Station, Chico Xavier, Faroeste Caboclo, Terra Estrangeira, Somos Tão Jovens and Zuzu Angel. He is the author of the series A Cura (Globo), the miniseries Descalço sobre a Terra Vermelha (TV3 Catalunha) and the soap opera Além do Horizonte. He directed the films O Outro Lado da Rua; Meu Pé de Laranja Lima and is currently finishing Todo Amor.
Palestrante
Screenwriter. Graduated in Literature (PUCSP) and Master in Screenwriting (Universidad Autônoma de Madrid). He is the author (or co-author) of the screenplays for City of God, Última Parada 174, VIPs, Tropa de Elite, and Tropa de Elite 2, a box office record-breaking film in Brazil (over 11 million tickets sold), among others. He currently works as a screenwriter for Rede Globo.
2017
20 Oct
Lecture
BrPlot
2:30 PM
Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP
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The panel aims to investigate a frequently asked – and sometimes uncomfortable – question in the Brazilian audiovisual market: “Are there a lack of screenwriters in Brazil?” With the growth of audiovisual production for cinema and television in the country, The screenwriter is often detected as the figure responsible for unsuccessful audiovisual works. The table will set under discussion the reasons commonly used to reach this verdict and also, the counterarguments of the screenwriters, who suspect that this statement actually masks several production sector problems.
Palestrante
Author and film director. He wrote and directed the animated film A Story of Love and Fury (2013, Best Feature Film – Annecy). As a screenwriter, he is the author of the films Bicho de Sete Cabeças, O Mundo em Duas Voltas, Chega de Saudade, Terra Vermelha, As Melhores Coisas do Mundo (2010), Amazônia, Planeta Verde (2014), among others.
Palestrante
Author, director and producer of cinema and television. Screenwriter of the films 2 Filhos de Francisco (2005), Flores raras (2013), Não pare na pista – a melhor história de Paulo Coelho (2015), and the series “A Teia” (TV Globo). In addition to having produced, she is also the author of the feature film and the fiction series “Hebe – a estrela do Brasil”. She is president of ABRA – Brazilian Association of Authors and Screenwriters, founding partner of Loma Filmes and contracted author of TV Globo since 2011.
Tutor | Palestrante
Born in Buenos Aires to a Polish father and an English mother, he has lived in Paris for many years. He is an international specialist in all aspects of developing and creating film scripts: analysis, consulting, teaching and writing. He gives workshops and consultancies in different countries and has published three books on audiovisual writing.
2017
20 Oct
Lecture
BrPlot
5:00 PM
Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP
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The search for new protagonists in Brazilian audiovisual products, taking into account the representation of diversity, is the topic of the table. The representation of black people, women and diversity Has LGBT in national series and films gained space? On the table, this issue and the affirmative actions that have changed audiovisual panorama in the country will be discussed. A brief presentation of APAN will also be made – Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals, which seeks to promote professional insertion and guarantee rights. The association operates nationally and seeks initiatives that value representation and black representation in Audiovisual.
Palestrante | Direção | Roteiro
In the early 1990s, Anna worked on the creation and scripts of programs such as “Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum” and “Mundo da Lua”. In 2002, she directed her first feature film, “Durval Discos”, which won her several awards. After that, she directed five more features, including “Que Horas Ela Volta?” (2015), which won over twenty awards worldwide. Anna develops complex stories and characters that, like the society in which they live, are constantly changing.
Palestrante
Screenwriter and director, graduated in Audiovisual from ECA-USP. He wrote and directed the short films Café com Leite (2008) and Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho (2010), programmed in more than 180 international festivals, where he received 115 awards. His first feature film, Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho, won the FIPRESCI and Teddy Award at the Berlin Festival.
Direção | Roteiro
Carol Rodrigues graduated in Social Sciences and Cinema. After she took a film specialization course at the New York Film Academy. In 2015, she directed the short film “The Doll and the Silence” and in 2019, two more shorts “Their Happiness” and “Mother Doesn’t Cry”. The films have participated in several national and international festivals, winning the Best Short Award elected by the public of FESTin in Lisbon, the Best Short Awards elected by the Jury and the Audience of the Entertodos. As a screenwriter she participated in the team of the “School of Genius” series by Gloob, and in the third season of 3% by Netflix. Now she is actively dedicated to the project “Made to be maids”, her first fiction feature film. The film is in the final stretch of development to begin production in partnership with Canal Brasil and Vitrine Filmes.
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.
2017
20 Oct
Lecture
BrPlot
7:30 PM
Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP
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With the participation of guest writers who are screenwriters and screenwriters who are writers, the debate will address an “existential” issue in the screenwriter’s life. Are they “writers”, or are they more in the field of “audiovisual technique”? If, on the one hand, more and more writers approach the script, it can be said that these Are you naturally apt to write screenplays? What are the boundaries between literature and audiovisual scripts?
Palestrante
Writer and screenwriter. Author of the novels Calcinha no Varal (2005) and O Afeto ou Caderno sobre a Mesa (2011). Screenwriter of the films Absence (Chico Teixeira, 2014) and Jogo das Decapitações (Sérgio Bianchi, 2013), among others. PhD from ECA-USP with the thesis O Grito de Jorge Andrade (Ateliê Editorial, 2013).
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.
Palestrante
Writer and journalist. Professor of American History at Rutgers University. He was a reporter, journalist and columnist in the Israeli press. Escreveu books of fiction and contemporary political essays. Allenby Street, a romance that was written and adapted for a series, received international awards and was adapted in several countries. He is the chef and co-director of the Reshet series.
Palestrante
Original content manager at Fox. A scriptwriter specializing in Columbia, Julia has worked as a script doctor for several Brazilian production companies. She was a script supervisor for the series Me Chama de Bruna, and is involved in the development of the second season of Um Contra Todos. She created script labs together with prestigious international professionals.
2017
21 Oct
Lecture
BrPlot
11:00 AM
Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP
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In general, Brazilian screenwriters know little about their rights, compared, for example, to other Latin American countries. Copyright collecting societies have been operating at full steam for many years in Argentina, for example, while here Copyright Law is not yet established. GEDAR – Author’s Rights Management Screenwriter, graduated a year ago, comes to present to screenwriters the current moment of discussion about the collection of authors’ Copyright in Brazil. A fundamental table.
Palestrante
Screenwriter, journalist and documentary director. Worked for the main TV stations in Brazil. Master in Communication, Culture and Education/UERJ. Executive editor of news programs. Director of ABRA and CBC (Brazilian Cinema Congress).
2017
21 Oct
Lecture
BrPlot
2:30 PM
Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP
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There is no exact recipe for laughter. Writing comedies is a huge challenge, one that all the guests At the table, screenwriters experienced in humor writing will try to reflect. The specificities of comedy, the paths that usually work and the career failures of each guest at the table will be studied, in a attempt to grope the most successful genre in the country.
Palestrante
Screenwriter and writer from Rio de Janeiro. She began her career in comedy at MTV, writing for the programs 15 Minutos, Comédia and Furo MTV. She was part of the teams for the children’s musical soap opera Gaby Estrella, which was nominated for an Emmy Kids Award, the series Perrengue on MTV and Greg News, a comedy news program on HBO. She is currently a writer for the program Adnight on Globo.
Palestrante
Cartoonist and screenwriter. He has a daily comic strip in Folha de São Paulo and has published nine books. He is a contributor to Piauí magazine. Some of his characters have become animated films for Cartoon Network. His character Lili, the Ex was adapted for the award-winning fiction series. He recently adapted the short film Mulheres Alteradas (Altered Women).
Palestrante | Tutor
Teodoro Poppovic is a screenwriter and director. He graduated in film and began his career at MTV Brazil. He was one of the writers responsible for the network’s comedy programs, such as Comédia and 15 Minutos, winners of the APCA award. With Cao Hamburger, he made the program No Estranho Planeta dos Seres Audiovisuais and created three more series: Família Imperial, Pedro e Bianca and Que Monstro te Mordeu?. For these projects, he won international awards such as the Prix Jeunesse and the Emmy. In 2017, he released his first feature film, Transtornada Obsessiva Compulsiva, directed in partnership with Paulo Caruso. The film was shown at festivals such as SXSW, PÖFF Tallinn and the Transilvânia Film Festival. As a screenwriter, Teodoro has worked with O2 Filmes, RT Features, Gaumont, Boutique, Gullane, Conspiração and created and wrote the series Destino SP/RJ (HBO), Segredos de Justiça (Globo) and Nobody is Looking (Netflix), which is nominated for an International Emmy in 2020. In 2019, he launched his series Feras (MTV/Globoplay) as general director and screenwriter. He won a Paradiso Scholarship to attend the Cine Qua Non Lab’s Screenwriting Revision Laboratory in Spain in Mexico in 2020.
Palestrante
Screenwriter, she started at MTV, where she wrote programs such as Furo MTV, Piores Clipes and Infortúnio com a Funérea. At SBT, she was head of scripts for the talk show The Noite, with Danilo Gentili. She also worked as a creative writer for DM9 and content formats for Globo. She is currently a screenwriter for the program Lady Night on Multishow.
2017
21 Oct
Lecture
BrPlot
4:30 PM
Centro de Pesquisa e Formação do Sesc - SP
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There is no way to talk about audiovisual scripts today without mentioning the rise of TV series around the world. Us In the last 15 years, series have become popular, from The Sopranos to the global hit Game of Thrones, including the massive production of major audiovisual players and the entry of content platforms audiovisual on demand. In a scenario where series production is increasing in the country, a question inspires this debate: have Brazilian series won over their audience? What are our best examples? What is the future of series in Brazil?
Palestrante
Graduated in Cinema from PUC-Rio, she is the author of the series “Assédio”, “Dois Irmãos” and “Correio feminino”, and co-writer of the feature films Alguém tem que ouvir o coração e dizer: parou – winner of the Best Documentary award at the Venice Film Festival, and Nise, o coração da louca. She wrote and directed the short films Se meu pai fosse de pedra (If my father were made of stone) and O Coração às vezes para de bater (The Heart Sometimes Stops Beating), and published the books Dois Irmãos: roteiro da série (Two Brothers: Script for the Series), O medo e o mar (Fear and the Sea) and Preciosas coisas vãs fundamentos (Precious Fundamental Things).
Palestrante
Screenwriter for film and television and consultant. Graduated in Economics (PUC – RJ) and Master in Social Anthropology (UFRJ). She wrote films such as Eu Tu Eles, Casa de Areia (best original screenplay NHK/ Sundance) and Gêmeas. She co-wrote O Redentor, Minha Vida de Menina, Nome Próprio, Cidade dos Homens, Xingu, among others. She co-created and wrote Filhos do Carnaval.
Palestrante
Journalist, writer and screenwriter for film and television. He published, among others, the collection of short stories Love and Other Pointed Objects (Jabuti Award), and the novel I Would Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips. He worked as a screenwriter for films such as The Killers, Action Between Friends, The Invader and The Smell of the Drain.
Palestrante
A graduate in Journalism, she studied Dramaturgy at Sala Beckett, in Barcelona, Spain. She works as a screenwriter and script doctor for film and television projects. She has written nine TV series, including “Pedro e Bianca” (winner of the International Emmy Kids Awards, in 2014).
2017
26 Oct
Lecture
WDA
6:30 PM
Cinemateca Brasileira
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Film is a means of communication, therefore it requires a narrator and a listener. Thinking about the public from the The first stages of a project’s development can be very fruitful, not only in terms of its economic sustainability, but also because this approach can open up very interesting and new dialogues artistic paths.
Audience Design is a strategic and dynamic holistic process, specifically adapted to each project, which aims to ensure the best possible distribution of a film targeting its audience. It is an approach based in narrative and experimentation.
This talk will explore the Audience Design strategy, showing cases in which it has been successfully implemented and explaining how this can be a great tool for the development, production and distribution of any project.
Palestrante
Greta was born and raised in Venice, Italy, and currently works as a junior producer for Vivo Film, an award-winning independent production company based in Rome. She has also worked in audience design for years, collaborating with TorinoFilmLab on several projects, including the marketing strategies for the award-winning The Wound (John Trengove, 2017) and the Locarno Film Festival winner A Land Imagined (Yeo Siew Hua, 2018), as well as teaching workshops in São Paulo (Brazil) and Beirut (Lebanon). She holds a degree in English and Film from Scotland and an MA in Film from Columbia University, New York, where she lived for 3 years. In New York, she worked primarily for Film Presence, which specializes in strategic marketing and crowdfunding campaigns, conducting target audience research and liaising with key associations to promote a range of films, including documentaries (Citizenfour) and feature films (Miles Ahead).
Palestrante | Tutor
Founder and co-director of Pacifica Grey, a project focused on the production, distribution and exhibition of alternative independent cinema in Central America, which brings to the region the work of such luminaries as Ruben Östlund, Agnès Varda and Jim Jarmusch. Marcelo combined this task with cultural management, advising the development of training and industry spaces for the Cinergia Fund. He was artistic director of the Costa Rica International Film Festival from 2015 to 2017, and currently works as programming advisor for the IDFA Festival, in addition to collaborating as a tutor for institutions such as Torino Film Lab and Locarno Filmmakers Academy. He is the producer of Cascos indomables (TIFF 2018) and Lucía en el limbo (Cannes Critics Week 2019), and is developing as a co-producer the film Clara sola, Nathalie Álvarez’s debut film, with support from the World Cinema Fund, Hubert Bals, Swedish Film Institute, among others.
Comissão de Seleção
Audiovisual curator, she was the creator and director of the feminist exhibition Século XXI: Mulheres, Ação!. For eleven years she worked as coordinator and curator of the Première Brasil exhibition at the Rio Festival; she was a member of the curatorial committee of the Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema, the Brazilian Film Festival in Israel and Curta Cinema (Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival). She was a curator, presenter and producer of the Curta! Channel. For nine years she directed and presented the radio program Cinema em Sintonia, which specializes in Brazilian cinema. She was part of CurtaFlix and is currently the curator of the Cine Coletivona exhibition, in partnership with the Museu da Maré.
Comissão de Seleção
Producer. She graduated in Cinema from FAAP, studied Documentary Mise en Scène at the École Supérieure D’Études Cinématographiques – ESEC (Paris, France) and has a postgraduate degree in Executive Training in Cinema and Television from FGV (São Paulo, 2006). Executive producer and production director of feature films and television series, such as Sobre Rodas (Mauro D’Addio, 2017), Um Casamento (Mônica Simões, 2016), Zoom (Pedro Morelli), Boca (Flavio Frederico), Estamos Juntos (Toni Venturi), Carmo (Murilo Pasta), Fim da Linha (Gustavo Steinberg) and the series Passionais (Henrique Goldman), Contos do Edgar (Pedro Morelli) and Som e Fúria (Fernando Meirelles).
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.
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.
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 | 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.
Direção | Comissão de Seleção
Director and screenwriter, her filmography includes Sonhos de Lulu (2009), A Musa impassive (2010), Aluga-se (2012) and Ouvir o Rio: uma Escultura sonora de Cildo Meireles (2012). Her short film Ser o que se é (2018) became a digital phenomenon with 5 million views in one month. On TV, she directed episodes of the children’s series Julie e os fantasmas, winner of the 2011 APCA and nominated for the 2012 International Emmy Awards; and of Pasionais (2014), broadcast on Globosat.
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
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.
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.
