Gramado is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is located in the Serra Gaúcha region. The city was originally settled by Azorean descendants and later received a contingent of German and Italian immigrants. Gramado is one of the cities along the scenic route known as Rota Romântica.
Simone Spoladore is a Brazilian actress. Her first film role was Ana in To the Left of the Father.
The Gramado Film Festival is an international film festival held annually in the Brazilian city of Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, since 1973. In 1992, the festival began to award Latin American films produced outside of Brazil. It is the biggest film festival in the country.
Sergeant Getulio is a 1983 Brazilian drama film directed by Hermanno Penna. It was shot in Rio de Janeiro's neighborhood São Cristóvão and Laranjeiras, as well as in Sergipe's municipalities Nossa Senhora da Glória, Aracaju, Barra dos Coqueiros, and Poço Redondo.
The Man in the Black Cape is a 1986 Brazilian drama film directed by Sérgio Rezende. Shot in Rio de Janeiro, it portrays the life of Tenório Cavalcanti, a Duque de Caxias politician who used to carry a machine gun dubbed "Lurdinha" with him.
Elisabeth Maria Silva de Faria known professionally as Betty Faria is a Brazilian actress.
Antônio Abujamra was a Brazilian theatre and television director and actor. Having majored in journalism and philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in 1957, he started a career as a theatre critic while he directed and acted in his own plays at the university theatre. Professionally, he made his debut as a theatre director in 1961, and as an actor in 1987, acting in both theatre and television. In 1989, he gained national fame for his role as Ravengar in Rede Globo's telenovela Que Rei Sou Eu?, which became his best known role. In that same year, Abujamra won the Best Actor award at the Gramado Film Festival for his role in the film Festa. From 2000 onward, he was the presenter on TV Cultura's interview program Provocações. His son André Abujamra is a score composer, while his niece Clarisse Abujamra, is also an actress.
Ana Luiza Machado da Silva Muylaert, known professionally as Anna Muylaert, is a Brazilian film and television director, producer and screenwriter.
Lauro Escorel Filho, most known as Lauro Escorel, is an American-born Brazilian cinematographer and film director. He was born during his father, a Ministry of External Relations, stay in Washington, DC. He first worked as an assistant to Dib Lutfi and Affonso Beato, and made his debut in 1971 on Leon Hirszman's São Bernardo, which won Gramado Film Festival Best Cinematography Award. He directed the short film Libertários, winner of Margarida de Prata Award from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, in 1976. In 1978, he would win again the Gramado Film Festival Best Cinematography Award for his work on Héctor Babenco's Lúcio Flávio, o Passageiro da Agonia. His first feature film, Sonho sem Fim, won the Jury Special Award at the 1986 Gramado Film Festival. Ironweed (1987), another Babenco's film, would make him more known internationally.
Maria Zilda Bethlem, also known as Maria Zilda, is a Brazilian actress. She is known for the role of Verônica in the Rede Globo telenovela Vereda Tropical.
Anjos do Arrabalde is a 1987 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Reichenbach.
Juliano Cazarré is a Brazilian actor and writer. He appeared in more than thirty films since 2002.
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.
A Casa Assassinada is a 1971 Brazilian drama film directed by Paulo Cesar Saraceni, based on Lúcio Cardoso's book Chronicle of the Murdered House.
Master: A Building in Copacabana is a 2002 Brazilian documentary film by Eduardo Coutinho, about residents of a building in the Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.
Neon Heart is a 2023 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Lucas Estevan Soares, and produced by Rhaissa Gonçalves. It stars Lucas Soares himself, Ana de Ferro and Wawa Black. In Neon Heart, Fernando (Soares) works with his father delivering romantic messages given as gifts to people all over town on board a telegram service car called Neon Heart.
Lucas Estevan Soares is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer, actor and musician.
Aunt Virginia is a 2023 Brazilian comedy-drama film written, directed and co-produced by Fabio Meira. Starring Vera Holtz. It had its world premiere at the 51st Gramado Film Festival on August 13, 2023, where it competed for the Golden Kikito and was honored with the Kikito Critics Prize for Best Film, Best Actress for Vera Holtz, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Design, and a Honorable Mention for Vera Valdez.
Angela is a 2023 Brazilian drama film directed and produced by Hugo Prata & written by Duda de Almeida. It stars Ísis Valverde accompanied with Gabriel Braga Nunes, Bianca Bin, Emílio Orciollo Netto, Chris Couto, Gustavo Machado, Carolina Manica and Alice Carvalho. It is inspired by the life and murder of Minas Gerais mining socialite Ângela Diniz.
Heavier Is the Sky is a 2023 Brazilian drama film directed by Petrus Cariry who co-wrote with Firmino Holanda and Rosemberg Cariry. Starring Matheus Nachtergaele and Ana Luiza Rios. It had its world premiere at the 51st Gramado Film Festival on August 14, 2023, where it competed for the Golden Kikito and was honored with the awards: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing and the Special Jury Prize for Ana Luiza Rios.
