João Manuel Relvas Leopoldo Botelho is a Portuguese film director.
Brígida Baltar was a Brazilian visual artist. Her work spanned across a wide range of mediums, including video, performance, installation, drawing, and sculpture. She was interested in capturing the ephemeral in her artwork.
Luís Lázaro Sacramento Ramos is a Brazilian actor, television presenter, director, writer, and voice actor. He started his acting career with the Flock of Olodum Theater group, in Salvador, and is best known for his portrayal of João Francisco dos Santos in the 2002 film Madame Satã. In 2007, he was nominated for the 35th International Emmy Awards for Best Actor for his role in Cobras & Lagartos.
The São Paulo International Film Festival, also known internationally as Mostra, is an annual film festival held in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. A non-profit event, the festival is organized by ABMIC. The state and city of São Paulo have established October as the festival's official month.
The Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica is a New media art festival that usually takes place in three cities of Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre and it has also participated in other events around the world. It is the biggest art & technology festival in Brazil, and it serves as a lead indicator of the plurality of the work created in the interactive art field not only nationally but also internationally.
Letícia Sabatella is a Brazilian actress and singer.
André Felippe Di Mauro is a Brazilian actor, director, producer, writer and screenwriter. As an actor he played characters in popular works such as "Rodrigues" in the film Elite Squad and "Lipe" of the soap opera Chamas da Vida. He is the great-nephew of filmmaker Humberto Mauro, pioneer of cinema in Brazil, author of the book Humberto Mauro - the father of Brazilian cinema and director of the film "Humberto Mauro" selected for the 75th Venice International Film Festival the world premiere took place on September 5, 2018. And the premiere in Brazil took place at the 51st Festival de Brasília of Brazilian Cinema and still in 2018, the film participated in other important festivals and shows such as the 42nd São Paulo International Film Festival the 20th Festival do Rio and the 40th Havana Festival, among others. In 2019, he participated in two more important film festivals in Europe, the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam and the 15th Play-Doc International Documentary Film Festival where the film won the award for "Best Film".
Joel Zito Araújo is a Brazilian film director, writer and producer of films and TV programs. Since 1984, Araújo has produced one feature film, two short films and 25 documentaries. Some of these works have won prizes or been selected for screenings at film festivals throughout the world. From 2006 to 2007, Araújo was president of the Brazilian Filmmakers Association. He received his Ph.D. in Communication Sciences from the Escola de Comunicações e Artes at the University of São Paulo in 1999. He was Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Professor in the Departments of Radio, TV, and Film and Anthropology as well as the Center for African & African-American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin from August 2001 to May 2002.
Petra Costa is a Brazilian filmmaker and actress. She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2018.
Gabriel Mascaro is a Brazilian visual artist and film director.
Susana Schnarndorf Ribeiro is a Brazilian Paralympic swimmer. In 2005, after a lengthy triathlon career, at the age of 37, Schnarndorf began to experience the first symptoms of a mysterious degenerative disease that was later diagnosed as multiple system atrophy (MSA). After a break from professional athletics, Schnarndorf returned to the sports world as a swimmer and is presently a member of the Brazilian Paralympic Swimming Team.
Juliana Rojas is a Brazilian filmmaker who was born in Campinas, São Paulo. She graduated in Cinema in Escola de Comunicação e Artes da USP where she met fellow Brazilian filmmaker Marco Dutra. This was the beginning of a long partnership between them. In 2004, while still in school, they codirected a short film called Lenço Branco. Their short film was part of a section of the Cannes Film Festival that is dedicated to university films, Cinéfondation. Three years later, in 2007, Um Ramo, another short film directed by Rojas and Dutra, would be nominated to Semaine de la Critique of Cannes Film Festival. In 2011, her first feature film would be premiered in the Festival, in the "Un Certain Regard" section. Her film, Good Manners was nominated in 2017 at the Locarno Film Festival. She has also worked as an editor.
The It's All True – International Documentary Film Festival, also known as É Tudo Verdade, is an international film festival held annually in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
When the Marquee's Lights Go Out is a 2018 Brazilian documentary film by Renato Brandão. The film tells the story of the traditional movie theaters in an area called Cinelândia Paulistana, in the Downtown São Paulo.
Franthiesco Anthonio Ballerini Manso, is a Brazilian journalist, art critic who is specialized in cinema, a writer, professor and PhD student in communication. He was the coordinator of free courses at Academia Internacional de Cinema in São Paulo, and is a member of the Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte. In 2015 he started researching about the power of culture in the world, with an emphasis on artistic productions and audiovisual entertainment in the 21st century.
Fisnik Maxville is a Kosovo-Swiss film director, screenwriter and producer.
Stewart Richards is an English film producer, television executive, publisher and writer. He is notable for producing award-winning British arthouse films in the 1980s, including 1988 Palme d'Or-nominated Out of Town, the 1990 Un Certain Regard-selected 1871, and the 1991 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-nominated Dear Rosie.
Animal is a drama film directed by Sofia Exarchou. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in early August 2023.
Maidens' Tower is a 2018 Brazilian documentary film, lasting 97 minutes and directed by Susanna Lira, who defined the film as a call to resistance.
Caroline da Cunha Duarte, better known as simply Carol Duarte, is a Brazilian actress. She has won various awards, including an APCA award, an Extra Award, and a Platino Award, along with being nominated for a Grande Otelo award and a Prêmio Guarani.
