Jorge Alberto Furtado is a Brazilian film and television director and screenwriter.
Luís Lázaro Sacramento de Araújo 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.
You, Me and Him is a 2007 Brazilian short film written and directed by Brazilian director Daniel Ribeiro. The film has won many awards including the Crystal Bear for best short film at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival.
The Festival de Brasília, officially the Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro, is a film festival held in Brasília, Brazil. Known as Semana do Cinema Brasileiro during the first two editions, it was founded by University of Brasília's diplomat Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes in 1965 and is the oldest film festival in Brazil.
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.
A Painting of Roses is a short documentary by Miguel Ribeiro.
The history of Brazilian animation is relatively recent. In the first half of the 20th century, there were some small experiments produced in animation without much continuity, to the emergence of several animated films in the other half of the century. The 21st century saw the advent of many animated series for television.
Riocorrente is a 2013 Brazilian drama film written and directed by Paulo Sacramento. The film debuted at the 46th Festival de Brasília in September 2013, where it received the awards for best editing and best cinematography, then at the 37th São Paulo International Film Festival in October 2013, it was chosen as the best Brazilian Film according to criticism Abraccine.
Alê Abreu is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter, character animator, film editor and producer. Sírius, his first short film, debuted at the 1993 Anima Mundi as the only Brazilian animation that year. It won the Best Film Award at the Festival de Cine para Niños y Jovenes and was also screened at the Mostra Internacional de Cinema São Paulo and at the section Animation for Children of the Hiroshima International Animation Festival. His second short film, Espantalho, released in 1998, won the 3rd Best Brazilian Animation at the Anima Mundi, the Best Art Direction Award at the Brazilian Film Festival of Miami, and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 1st Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil. His first feature film, Garoto Cósmico, debuted at the 2007 Anima Mundi. In 2013, at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, he released his second film, Boy and the World. This film became an international success, was nominated at the 88th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, and won several prizes, including the Best Feature Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and the Best Animated Feature-Independent at the Annie Awards.
Ivo Müller is a Brazilian film and stage actor. Müller started his career in short films and school theater, and appeared in the 2012 independent Portuguese silent film Tabu.
Gustavo Nasr is a cinematographer and film director from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His first film as a cinematographer and director, Aqueles Dias, starring Cynthia Falabella, exhibited at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival market, had won 11 awards and nominations nationally and internationally, including the Best Cinematography Language at the Amazonas Film Festival. He also won the award for Best Cinematography at the Guarnice Festival.
Gabriel Mascaro is a Brazilian visual artist and film director.
O Dia do Galo is a 2014 Brazilian documentary film about the 2013 Copa Libertadores Finals. The film follows five supporters of Brazilian football club Atlético Mineiro in the day of the final match of the competition. It was released in Brazilian theatres on 24 July 2015.
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.
Serras da Desordem is a 2006 Brazilian film directed by Andrea Tonacci. The film reproduces the trajectory of Carapirú, an Awá-Guajá Indian, who sees his tribe invaded and massacred by farmers and loggers. Serras da Desordem won the best film, direction and cinematography awards at the Gramado Film Festival.
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.
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.
Spcine is a state-owned company in São Paulo, founded in 2015 as an initiative of the São Paulo Municipal Government focused on the development of the film, TV, games and new media industries.
