BrLab + SEBRAE

BrLab and SEBRAE presented for the first time, in 2022, BrLab + SEBRAE, a lab that catered to 16 fiction or documentary feature film projects in their development phase, which were submitted by production companies from throughout Brazil.

The workshop took place alongside the program of the 12th edition of BrLab, from November 21st to 26th, 2022, in person, in São Paulo.

Its activities were held at CINEHUB, in the Historic Center of São Paulo, and the selected projects featured tutorials from Brazilian film professionals including Anita Rocha da Silveira, Ariene Ferreira, Giancarlo Nasi, Marcelo Starobinas, Michel Carvalho, and Tatiana Leite, in addition to several professional speakers from Brazil and other countries.

The submissions processes and activities were free of charge.

BrLab + SEBRAE was a production of Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual and SEBRAE.

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Program

23 Sep

2022

Lecture

Audience Design

BrLab Santa Catarina

3:00 PM

CineShow Beiramar Shopping - Sala Vip

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24 Sep

2022

Training

Training: Santa Catarina Projects

BrLab Santa Catarina

10:00 AM

Majestic Palace Hotel

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26 Sep

2022

Business Round

Business Round

BrLab Santa Catarina

9:00 AM

Majestic Palace Hotel

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26 Sep

2022

Lecture

What do players want?

BrLab Santa Catarina

2:00 PM

Majestic Palace Hotel

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26 Sep

2022

Lecture

The Screenwriters Market in Brazil

BrLab Santa Catarina

4:00 PM

Majestic Palace Hotel

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27 Sep

2022

Business Round

Business Round

BrLab Santa Catarina

9:00 AM

Majestic Palace Hotel

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27 Sep

2022

Business Round

Business Round

BrLab Santa Catarina

2:00 PM

Majestic Palace Hotel

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28 Sep

2022

Business Round

Business Round

BrLab Santa Catarina

9:00 AM

Majestic Palace Hotel

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28 Sep

2022

Business Round

Business Round

BrLab Santa Catarina

2:00 PM

Majestic Palace Hotel

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21 Nov

2022

Lecture

Opening Panel – “Decolonial Narratives: Stories and Audiences” with Ailton Krenak, Everlane de Moraes, Laís Bodanzky and Sébastien Onomo

BrPlot Reach

7:00 PM

Espaço Itaú de Cinema

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22 Nov

2022

Lecture

The Cinematic Argument

BrPlot

5:00 PM

CPF/SESC - Sala 3

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22 Nov

2022

Lecture

Iana Cossoy Paro interviews Eliseo Altunaga

BrPlot

7:00 PM

CPF/SESC - Sala 3

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23 Nov

2022

Lecture

Panel – Talents in Sight

BrPlot

5:00 PM

Transmissão ao vivo

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23 Nov

2022

Lecture

Panel – Open Relationship or Marriage? Good Practices in the Relationship between Screenwriters and Producers

BrPlot

7:00 PM

CPF/SESC - Sala 3

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25 Nov

2022

Lecture

Panel – Off Axis

BrPlot

5:00 PM

CPF/SESC - Sala 3

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25 Nov

2022

Lecture

Case Study: Cabeça de Nêgo – innovative distribution and audience design experiences

Reach

7:00 PM

CPF/SESC

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Participating Projects

The Jaguar

Direction

Emanuel Lavor

Script

Emanuel Lavor

Production

Bruno Fatumbi Torres

Brazil - Distrito Federal

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A Ponte

Direction

Aristeu Araújo

Script

Lielson Zeni

Production

Pedro Fiuza

Brazil / RN

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Bando

Brazil / AL

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Clarice

Direction

Susanna Lira

Script

Débora Mamber

Production

Cristian Marini

Brazil / SP

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Ela não volta

Production

Renata Sette

Brazil / SP

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ENBE

Script

Hela Santana

Production

Bartolomeu Luiz

Emanuela Moura

Brazil / SP

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Geni e o Zepelim

Direction

Anna Muylaert

Script

Anna Muylaert

Production

Iafa Britz

Brazil / RJ

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Graça

Direction

Eliane Coster

Script

Eliane Coster

Production

Rogério Zagallo

Brazil / SP

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Matintas

Direction

Fernando Segtowick

Script

Fernando Segtowick

Production

Tayana Pinheiro

Brazil / PA

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Nós a Sós

Direction

Victor Di Marco

Márcio Picoli

Script

Victor Di Marco

Márcio Picoli

Production

Laura Moglia

Brazil / RS

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Paralelo 14

Direction

Ana Flavia Cavalcanti

Script

Ana Flavia Cavalcanti

Brazil / SP

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Pega a Laço

Production

Guilherme César

Brazil / SP and GO

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Perigo Crocodilo

Direction

Flavio Botelho

Script

Débora Mamber

Daniela Capelato

Production

Flavio Botelho

Brazil / SP

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Rodante

Direction

Renata Diniz

Script

Renata Diniz

Production

Daniela Marinho

Brazil / DF

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Valsa de Luan

Direction

Cássio Kelm

Script

Lui Castanho

Production

Antonio Gonçalves Junior

Brazil / PR

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Tutors

Giancarlo Nasi

Tutor

Giancarlo Nasi

Tutor

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.

Iana Cossoy Paro

Tutor | Speaker

Iana Cossoy Paro

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.

Mariana Rondón

Tutor

Mariana Rondón

Tutor

Her film “Pelo Malo” (2013) won the Concha de Oro at the San Sebastián Film Festival and 44 other awards at festivals such as Thessaloniki, Torino and Mar del Plata. She also directed “Postales de Leningrado” (2007) and “A la Media Noche y Media” (1999). She was invited to the MacDowell Colony and Rockefeller Foundation/The Bellagio Center residencies with her next project, Zafari. She produced “El Chico que Miente”, which premiered in the Generation section of the Berlin Film Festival in 2011, and “Contactado”, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020, both directed by Marité Ugas. In Visual Arts, she works with robotics and electronic art.

Paula Astorga

Tutor | Selection Committee

Paula Astorga

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.

Tatiana Leite

Tutor | Produção

Tatiana Leite

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).

Xenia Rivery

Comissão de Seleção | Palestrante

Xenia Rivery

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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