O2 Filmes Executive Producer for Development since January 2021, Gustavo Gontijo has a long career in entertainment and development. Before that he was with Globo Studios (Brazil and Latin Americas´s biggest content producer) since 2000 when hired as a writer. In 2014 with the creation of the Drama Weekly division dedicated to drama and comedy series, he was named its Content Manager. During his tenure, he helped to conceive and develop hits like the medical drama UNDER PRESSURE (the number 1 series in Brazil), the adventure IRON ISLAND, the classroom drama SECOND CALL, Brazil’s first supernatural big-budget drama SUPERMAX (and its spanish spoken spinoff), the racial comedy MISTER BRAU, Fernando Meirelles´ THE WISE ONES, the 2017 MIPtv Grand Jury Prize winner JAILERS and other twenty shows, in a total of over 30 seasons broadcasted. The executive was personally in charge of taking those shows abroad, making Globo’s series, for the first time, available to international and prestigious Festivals like the Berlinale, TIFF, SXSW, Canneseries, Seriesfest and many more. During the same time, Gustavo was also behind the conception and establishment of the House of Writers (Casa dos Roteiristas), a physical space with 13 Writer’s Room dedicated exclusively for series developing, writing and production, with the best Brazilian talent available like Guel Arraes, Jorge Furtado, Bráulio Mantovani, George Moura, Cláudio Paiva, Marçal & Bonassi, Mauro Wilson, Lucas Paraizo, Antonio Prata and many more. From 2019 to 2020, he was the content manager for Globo Filmes with the main focus in features.