Brazilian production powerhouse Gullane, which is behind Netflix’s “Senna” and Karim Aïnouz’s Cannes competition title “Motel Destino,” has closed international co-production pacts on new projects from Cao Hamburger (”The Year My Parents Went on Vacation”) and Sandra Kogut (“Three Summers”).
France’s Playtime Group and Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes will co-produce Hamburger’s “School Without Walls.” A Playtime Group company will also handle international sales on the true and inspiring story of Braz Nogueira, principal of a public school in Heliopolis, one of Brazil’s biggest slums.
Kogut will direct “New Cancun,” co-created by and starring Sundance actress winner Regina Casé. The film teams Gullane with Kogut’s regular producer in France, Gloria Films. It’s slated to shoot by the first quarter of 2025.
In the film, Casé plays Madá, who has never dwelled on her family’s tragedy in an environmental disaster. When chosen for a Christmas campaign,...
France’s Playtime Group and Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes will co-produce Hamburger’s “School Without Walls.” A Playtime Group company will also handle international sales on the true and inspiring story of Braz Nogueira, principal of a public school in Heliopolis, one of Brazil’s biggest slums.
Kogut will direct “New Cancun,” co-created by and starring Sundance actress winner Regina Casé. The film teams Gullane with Kogut’s regular producer in France, Gloria Films. It’s slated to shoot by the first quarter of 2025.
In the film, Casé plays Madá, who has never dwelled on her family’s tragedy in an environmental disaster. When chosen for a Christmas campaign,...
- 5/19/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “Rivers of Dust,” Anna Muyleart’s “Geni and the Zeppelin” and “Pearl Motel,” fromJorge Furtado, feature among potential nine brand new projects announced at the Cannes Festival by Globo Filmes, the theatrical film co-production arm of Brazilian TV giant Globo.
With Mendonça Filho deep in pre-production on political thriller “The Secret Agent,” co-produced by France’s Mk Productions, details on “Rivers of Dust,” save that he will re-team on it with Juliano Dornelles after their 2019 Cannes Jury Prize winner “Bacurau.”
Elsewhere, the new projects speak volumes of Globo Filmes’ current content focus. There’s the broad spectrum. . Titles straddle commercial plays – gay espionage operatives comedy “Special Agents” from Pedro Antônio – “A” list festival plays such as “Rivers” and Geni” and cross-over titles such as sex-laced situation comedy “Pearl Motel.”
Above all, additions to Globo Filmes’ development slate underscore two of its biggest investment priorities.
One is diversity.
With Mendonça Filho deep in pre-production on political thriller “The Secret Agent,” co-produced by France’s Mk Productions, details on “Rivers of Dust,” save that he will re-team on it with Juliano Dornelles after their 2019 Cannes Jury Prize winner “Bacurau.”
Elsewhere, the new projects speak volumes of Globo Filmes’ current content focus. There’s the broad spectrum. . Titles straddle commercial plays – gay espionage operatives comedy “Special Agents” from Pedro Antônio – “A” list festival plays such as “Rivers” and Geni” and cross-over titles such as sex-laced situation comedy “Pearl Motel.”
Above all, additions to Globo Filmes’ development slate underscore two of its biggest investment priorities.
One is diversity.
- 5/16/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Karim Aïnouz is harnessing the sweaty desire of corruption for his latest erotic thriller “Motel Destino.”
The Brazilian filmmaker returns to his native country for the feature, which was shot entirely in Aïnouz’s homeland of Ceará. “Motel Destino” stars Iago Xavier and Nataly Rocha, who were selected from an extensive casting process, and renowned Brazilian actor Fabio Assunção.
Per the official synopsis, neon-hued Motel Destino is a roadside sex hotel under the burning blue skies of the Northeastern coast of Brazil, run by the boorish Elias and his frustrated, beautiful wife Dayana. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself at the motel, after messing up a hit and going on the run from both the police and the gang he let down, Dayana finds herself intrigued and lets him stay. As the two navigate a dance of power, desire and liberation, a dangerous plan for freedom emerges. In this tropical noir,...
The Brazilian filmmaker returns to his native country for the feature, which was shot entirely in Aïnouz’s homeland of Ceará. “Motel Destino” stars Iago Xavier and Nataly Rocha, who were selected from an extensive casting process, and renowned Brazilian actor Fabio Assunção.
Per the official synopsis, neon-hued Motel Destino is a roadside sex hotel under the burning blue skies of the Northeastern coast of Brazil, run by the boorish Elias and his frustrated, beautiful wife Dayana. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself at the motel, after messing up a hit and going on the run from both the police and the gang he let down, Dayana finds herself intrigued and lets him stay. As the two navigate a dance of power, desire and liberation, a dangerous plan for freedom emerges. In this tropical noir,...
- 5/15/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Netflix’s Senna biopic has moved up the gears with a first teaser.
Premiering later this year, the show stars Gabriel Leone as the eponymous driver. The trailer recreates his historic victory at the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix in Interlagos, following a challenging race where he was mostly stuck in sixth gear and also marking the first time he won in his hometown of Sao Paulo.
The teaser also displays possible thoughts and experiences, interspersed with images of the race, that led Senna to where he had got to in his career before he tragically died in 1994. The six-parter starts with the genesis of the three-time F1 champion’s motor racing career, when he moves to England to compete in Formula Ford, and runs until his tragic accident in Imola, Italy, during the San Marino Grand Prix.
Senna also stars The Gentlemen’s Kaya Scodelario, whose mother is Brazillian, fresh off...
Premiering later this year, the show stars Gabriel Leone as the eponymous driver. The trailer recreates his historic victory at the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix in Interlagos, following a challenging race where he was mostly stuck in sixth gear and also marking the first time he won in his hometown of Sao Paulo.
The teaser also displays possible thoughts and experiences, interspersed with images of the race, that led Senna to where he had got to in his career before he tragically died in 1994. The six-parter starts with the genesis of the three-time F1 champion’s motor racing career, when he moves to England to compete in Formula Ford, and runs until his tragic accident in Imola, Italy, during the San Marino Grand Prix.
Senna also stars The Gentlemen’s Kaya Scodelario, whose mother is Brazillian, fresh off...
- 4/30/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Karim Aïnouz is following up his 2023 English-language debut “Firebrand” with a return to his Brazilian roots.
For his second consecutive Cannes premiere, Aïnouz helmed erotic thriller “Motel Destino” which will screen in competition at the festival. “Motel Destino” is Aïnouz’s sixth Cannes premiere, with his 2019 feature “Invisible Life” winning the Un Certain Regard award.
“Motel Destino” stars Iago Xavier and Nataly Rocha, who were selected from an extensive casting process, and renowned Brazilian actor Fabio Assunção. The official synopsis reads: “The neon-hued Motel Destino is a roadside sex hotel under the burning blue skies of the Northeastern coast of Brazil, run by the boorish Elias and his frustrated, beautiful wife Dayana. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself at the motel, after messing up a hit and going on the run from both the police and the gang he let down, Dayana finds herself intrigued and lets him stay. As the...
For his second consecutive Cannes premiere, Aïnouz helmed erotic thriller “Motel Destino” which will screen in competition at the festival. “Motel Destino” is Aïnouz’s sixth Cannes premiere, with his 2019 feature “Invisible Life” winning the Un Certain Regard award.
“Motel Destino” stars Iago Xavier and Nataly Rocha, who were selected from an extensive casting process, and renowned Brazilian actor Fabio Assunção. The official synopsis reads: “The neon-hued Motel Destino is a roadside sex hotel under the burning blue skies of the Northeastern coast of Brazil, run by the boorish Elias and his frustrated, beautiful wife Dayana. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself at the motel, after messing up a hit and going on the run from both the police and the gang he let down, Dayana finds herself intrigued and lets him stay. As the...
- 4/11/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Gullane, one of Brazil’s biggest production powerhouses, has attached Fernanda Montenegro, Oscar-nominated for “Central Station,” to star in “The Hanged,” the new anticipated film from “Narcos” director Fernando Coimbra.
The news comes as Gullane unveiled in Cannes its first post-pandemic movie slate, led by two movies from director Cao Hamburger.
“We want to continue providing production services for the platforms, producing with them. But we also want to own the IP of some of our projects, and movies give us that,” Gullane co-founder Fabiano Gullane said..
Produced with Globo Filmes and Telecine, “The Hanged” is co-produced by Portugal’s Fado Filmes. Paris Filmes distributes in Brazil. It will go into production second semester 2022,
“’The Hanged’ has been long delayed due to the pandemic but we are very honored to have two of the biggest acting stars, part of recent Brazilian cinema history,” said producer Caio Gullane.
Other pics on...
The news comes as Gullane unveiled in Cannes its first post-pandemic movie slate, led by two movies from director Cao Hamburger.
“We want to continue providing production services for the platforms, producing with them. But we also want to own the IP of some of our projects, and movies give us that,” Gullane co-founder Fabiano Gullane said..
Produced with Globo Filmes and Telecine, “The Hanged” is co-produced by Portugal’s Fado Filmes. Paris Filmes distributes in Brazil. It will go into production second semester 2022,
“’The Hanged’ has been long delayed due to the pandemic but we are very honored to have two of the biggest acting stars, part of recent Brazilian cinema history,” said producer Caio Gullane.
Other pics on...
- 5/20/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
As the only Brazilian film selected in Berlinale’s Panorama sidebar, documentary “The Last Forest” by Luis Bolognesi hopes to shine a blazing light on the grave issues affecting the Amazon and its indigenous inhabitants.
Since taking office in 2019, populist president Jair Bolsonaro has allowed gold prospectors to exploit these lands despite a law meant to protect them. Deforestation of the Amazon has more than doubled during his tenure. The gold miners have also polluted the waters and brought diseases, including Covid-19, to these remote villages.
“The Last Forest” focuses on the Yanomami tribe who live in the Brazilian-Venezuelan border region, where Bolognesi, an anthropologist-documentarian, combines observational footage with staged sequences developed with shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, one of the most renowned spokespersons for the Yanomami who has spoken at Harvard and before the Swedish and U.K. Parliaments as part of his awareness campaign.
Asked how he was able...
Since taking office in 2019, populist president Jair Bolsonaro has allowed gold prospectors to exploit these lands despite a law meant to protect them. Deforestation of the Amazon has more than doubled during his tenure. The gold miners have also polluted the waters and brought diseases, including Covid-19, to these remote villages.
“The Last Forest” focuses on the Yanomami tribe who live in the Brazilian-Venezuelan border region, where Bolognesi, an anthropologist-documentarian, combines observational footage with staged sequences developed with shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, one of the most renowned spokespersons for the Yanomami who has spoken at Harvard and before the Swedish and U.K. Parliaments as part of his awareness campaign.
Asked how he was able...
- 3/2/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Event to run online from November 30-December 4.
Ventana Sur 2020 Online has unveiled the selections for the annual post-production showcases Primer Corte and Copia Final sections.
The Latin American market runs from November 30-December 4 and typically takes place in Buenos Aires. This year’s event takes place online.
Argentina remains under lockdown and recently crossed one million reported cases of Covid-19.
The Primer Corte section progress includes:
A felicidade das coisas (Brazil)
Dir: Thais Fujinaga
Pdr: Thiago Macêdo Correia
Álbum para la juventud (Argentina)
Dir: Malena Solarz
Prd: Cecilia Pisano
Fogaréu (Brazil / France)
Dir: Flávia Neves
Pdr: Vania Catani
Trigal (Mexico...
Ventana Sur 2020 Online has unveiled the selections for the annual post-production showcases Primer Corte and Copia Final sections.
The Latin American market runs from November 30-December 4 and typically takes place in Buenos Aires. This year’s event takes place online.
Argentina remains under lockdown and recently crossed one million reported cases of Covid-19.
The Primer Corte section progress includes:
A felicidade das coisas (Brazil)
Dir: Thais Fujinaga
Pdr: Thiago Macêdo Correia
Álbum para la juventud (Argentina)
Dir: Malena Solarz
Prd: Cecilia Pisano
Fogaréu (Brazil / France)
Dir: Flávia Neves
Pdr: Vania Catani
Trigal (Mexico...
- 11/2/2020
- ScreenDaily
Netflix is making a miniseries about Ayrton Senna, the famed Brazilian racing driver who died tragically in a car accident at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994.
The eight-episode fictional miniseries is based on Senna’s life and will be made with active involvement from his family. The 34-year-old, whose full name was Ayrton Senna da Silva, was known for having won the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship three times.
Exploring Senna’s family relationships and “the man behind the national hero,” the series will offer a more personal look at his life. It will be filmed in both English and Brazilian Portuguese and is set to launch in 2022.
The yet-untitled series is produced by Brazil’s Gullane and will be shot at international locations as well as the house where he grew up in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
“It is very special to be able to announce...
The eight-episode fictional miniseries is based on Senna’s life and will be made with active involvement from his family. The 34-year-old, whose full name was Ayrton Senna da Silva, was known for having won the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship three times.
Exploring Senna’s family relationships and “the man behind the national hero,” the series will offer a more personal look at his life. It will be filmed in both English and Brazilian Portuguese and is set to launch in 2022.
The yet-untitled series is produced by Brazil’s Gullane and will be shot at international locations as well as the house where he grew up in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
“It is very special to be able to announce...
- 9/3/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Netflix is producing an eight-episode fictional miniseries based on the life of Ayrton Senna da Silva (1960-1994), the Brazilian racing legend who won the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship three times.
The miniseries will explore Senna’s personality and family relationships. The starting point will be Ayrton’s career debut, when he moved to England, and will culminate in the tragic accident in Imola, Italy, during the San Marino Grand Prix, when he died.
The series is produced by Brazil’s Gullane (“The Traitor”) for Netflix with the active participation of Senna’s family. The miniseries will have international locations in addition to intimate locations such as the house where Senna grew up, in São Paulo state, and to which his relatives granted unprecedented access.
“It is very special to be able to announce that we will tell the story that only a few people know about him. The Senna...
The miniseries will explore Senna’s personality and family relationships. The starting point will be Ayrton’s career debut, when he moved to England, and will culminate in the tragic accident in Imola, Italy, during the San Marino Grand Prix, when he died.
The series is produced by Brazil’s Gullane (“The Traitor”) for Netflix with the active participation of Senna’s family. The miniseries will have international locations in addition to intimate locations such as the house where Senna grew up, in São Paulo state, and to which his relatives granted unprecedented access.
“It is very special to be able to announce that we will tell the story that only a few people know about him. The Senna...
- 9/3/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — In a sign of one direction Latin America’s film industry is going, building ever more significant production partnerships on banner art films around the region, premier Brazilian production house Gullane has boarded Benjamín Avila’s “The Cardinal.”
Already produced by Chile’s Storyboard Media and Argentina’s Magma Cine, “The Cardinal” has just been selected for San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum.
News of Gullane’s equity participation comes as it is finalizing Argentine financing on “Bachelor Party,” its latest big commercial play, distributed in Brazil and Latin America by Warner Bros.
Now packing three partners as multi-lateral production partnerships increasingly mark out the biggest movies from Latin America, “The Cardinal” will weigh in to San Sebastian as one of the highest-profile at the Forum.
Part of Argentine Avila’s lifelong concern for opposition to dictatorship and tyranny – both his parents were montoneros, who died fighting Argentina’s Junta,...
Already produced by Chile’s Storyboard Media and Argentina’s Magma Cine, “The Cardinal” has just been selected for San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum.
News of Gullane’s equity participation comes as it is finalizing Argentine financing on “Bachelor Party,” its latest big commercial play, distributed in Brazil and Latin America by Warner Bros.
Now packing three partners as multi-lateral production partnerships increasingly mark out the biggest movies from Latin America, “The Cardinal” will weigh in to San Sebastian as one of the highest-profile at the Forum.
Part of Argentine Avila’s lifelong concern for opposition to dictatorship and tyranny – both his parents were montoneros, who died fighting Argentina’s Junta,...
- 8/16/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the North American, Latin American, Scandinavian, Australian and New Zealand rights to Marco Bellocchio’s mob drama “The Traitor,” or “Il traditore,” following its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday.
Bellocchio also wrote the script with Ludovica Rampoldi, Valia Santela, and Francesco Piccolo. “The Traitor” is produced by Beppe Caschetto, Michael Weber, Viola Fugen, Simone Gattoni, Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane and Alexandra Henochsberg, while Paula Cosenza and Thiago Mascarenhas are serving as executive producers.
The drama follows the real life of Tommaso Buscetta, a Sicilian Mafia boss who became an informant for authorities in Sicily during the 1980s. Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Candido and Luigi Lo Cascio star.
Also Read: 'The Traitor' Film Review: Sturdy Mafia Biopic Loses Something in Translation
“The Traitor” is a co-production between Ibc Movie, Rai Cinema, Kavac Film, Gullane Productions, Ad Vitam Production, and Match Factory Productions.
Bellocchio also wrote the script with Ludovica Rampoldi, Valia Santela, and Francesco Piccolo. “The Traitor” is produced by Beppe Caschetto, Michael Weber, Viola Fugen, Simone Gattoni, Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane and Alexandra Henochsberg, while Paula Cosenza and Thiago Mascarenhas are serving as executive producers.
The drama follows the real life of Tommaso Buscetta, a Sicilian Mafia boss who became an informant for authorities in Sicily during the 1980s. Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Candido and Luigi Lo Cascio star.
Also Read: 'The Traitor' Film Review: Sturdy Mafia Biopic Loses Something in Translation
“The Traitor” is a co-production between Ibc Movie, Rai Cinema, Kavac Film, Gullane Productions, Ad Vitam Production, and Match Factory Productions.
- 5/24/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
The Match Factory announces territory sales on The Traitor.
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up worldwide rights excluding France and German-speaking Europe to Michael Angelo Covino’s comedy and Un Certain Regard selection The Climb.
The distributor additionally confirmed on Friday (24) that it had acquired Marco Bellocchio’s Competition entry The Traitor from Match Factory, which announced a string of territory sales.
Covino and Kyle Marvin wrote The Climb based on their own experiences. The story tells of best friends and cycling enthusiasts whose close bond is strained when one sleeps with the other’s girlfriend. Covino and Marvin star alongside Gayle Rankin,...
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up worldwide rights excluding France and German-speaking Europe to Michael Angelo Covino’s comedy and Un Certain Regard selection The Climb.
The distributor additionally confirmed on Friday (24) that it had acquired Marco Bellocchio’s Competition entry The Traitor from Match Factory, which announced a string of territory sales.
Covino and Kyle Marvin wrote The Climb based on their own experiences. The story tells of best friends and cycling enthusiasts whose close bond is strained when one sleeps with the other’s girlfriend. Covino and Marvin star alongside Gayle Rankin,...
- 5/24/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Coming-of-age drama screens at the market.
Blue Fox Entertainment has launched sales at Efm on the coming-of-age comedy Abe starring Noah Schnapp from the Netflix show Stranger Things.
Brazilian documentarian Fernando Grostein Andrade made his narrative debut on the film, which premiered at Sundance and centres on a 12-year old boy from Brooklyn who dreams of being a chef.
Instead of going to the traditional summer camp his parents signed him up for, he sneaks off to Manhattan to work with an innovative street chef with hopes of using his culinary skills to unite his multicultural family. Rounding out the cast are Seu Jorge,...
Blue Fox Entertainment has launched sales at Efm on the coming-of-age comedy Abe starring Noah Schnapp from the Netflix show Stranger Things.
Brazilian documentarian Fernando Grostein Andrade made his narrative debut on the film, which premiered at Sundance and centres on a 12-year old boy from Brooklyn who dreams of being a chef.
Instead of going to the traditional summer camp his parents signed him up for, he sneaks off to Manhattan to work with an innovative street chef with hopes of using his culinary skills to unite his multicultural family. Rounding out the cast are Seu Jorge,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Traitor
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, whose radical early works were a seminal part of 1960s and 1970s Italian cinema, embarks on his latest feature The Traitor, a biopic of Cosa Nostra member Tommaso Buscetta, the first high ranking official of the mafia organization to break their code of silence. Pierfrancesco Favino stars as Buscetta, joined by Brazilian actress Maria Fernando Candido, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fabrizio Ferracane and Fausto Russo Alesi. Oscar winning composer Nicola Piovani of 1998’s Life is Beautiful is writing the score and Vladan Radovic will serve as Dp. The feature is a four-country co-pro financed through Italy’s Ibc Movie, Kavac Film and Rai Cinema, while France’s Ad Vitam, Arte France Cinema and Canal Plus are also joined by Brazil’s Gullane and Germany’s Match Factory.…...
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, whose radical early works were a seminal part of 1960s and 1970s Italian cinema, embarks on his latest feature The Traitor, a biopic of Cosa Nostra member Tommaso Buscetta, the first high ranking official of the mafia organization to break their code of silence. Pierfrancesco Favino stars as Buscetta, joined by Brazilian actress Maria Fernando Candido, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fabrizio Ferracane and Fausto Russo Alesi. Oscar winning composer Nicola Piovani of 1998’s Life is Beautiful is writing the score and Vladan Radovic will serve as Dp. The feature is a four-country co-pro financed through Italy’s Ibc Movie, Kavac Film and Rai Cinema, while France’s Ad Vitam, Arte France Cinema and Canal Plus are also joined by Brazil’s Gullane and Germany’s Match Factory.…...
- 1/7/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Partners revisit beloved Oscar Wilde novella.
Cinema Management Group (Cmg) launches worldwide sales at Afm next week on an animated adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost in association with Robert Chandler’s Space Age Films and Gina Carter and Stephen Fry’s Sprout Pictures.
Veteran British performer, writer and raconteur Fry will voice Sir Simon de Canterville, a spirit that has scared off anybody who has dared to inhabit his stately home for several centuries.
All that changes when an American family move in and turns the tables on the spectral resident. The exhausted ghost rediscovers hope when...
Cinema Management Group (Cmg) launches worldwide sales at Afm next week on an animated adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost in association with Robert Chandler’s Space Age Films and Gina Carter and Stephen Fry’s Sprout Pictures.
Veteran British performer, writer and raconteur Fry will voice Sir Simon de Canterville, a spirit that has scared off anybody who has dared to inhabit his stately home for several centuries.
All that changes when an American family move in and turns the tables on the spectral resident. The exhausted ghost rediscovers hope when...
- 10/26/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Edward Noeltner boards animation after Ventana Sur pitch.
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg), riding high on an Oscar nomination for animated feature Loving Vincent, will launch world sales at the Efm on Brazilian project Noah’s Ark with Walter Salles on board as a producer.
Sérgio Machado, who cut his teeth as assistant director on Salles’ Central Station, directs for Gullane Entretenimento, which produces with Salles’ Video Filmes and is run by brothers Caio Gullane and Fabiano Gullane.
The brothers are producing the musical adventure with Salles and will also be in Berlin to present Luiz Bolognesi’s Panorama documentary selection Ex-Shaman (Ex Pajé).
For Noeltner, Noah’s Ark marks the second animation Cmg has boarded after initial contact with producers at the Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires, following Peruvian title Ainbo from Lima-based Tunche Films at the 2016 edition.
Noah’s Ark is based on the songs and lyrics by celebrated Brazilian singer and composer...
Edward Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group (Cmg), riding high on an Oscar nomination for animated feature Loving Vincent, will launch world sales at the Efm on Brazilian project Noah’s Ark with Walter Salles on board as a producer.
Sérgio Machado, who cut his teeth as assistant director on Salles’ Central Station, directs for Gullane Entretenimento, which produces with Salles’ Video Filmes and is run by brothers Caio Gullane and Fabiano Gullane.
The brothers are producing the musical adventure with Salles and will also be in Berlin to present Luiz Bolognesi’s Panorama documentary selection Ex-Shaman (Ex Pajé).
For Noeltner, Noah’s Ark marks the second animation Cmg has boarded after initial contact with producers at the Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires, following Peruvian title Ainbo from Lima-based Tunche Films at the 2016 edition.
Noah’s Ark is based on the songs and lyrics by celebrated Brazilian singer and composer...
- 2/9/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Neil Armfield.s Holding the Man, Simon Stone.s The Daughter, Jeremy Sims. Last Cab to Darwin and Jen Peedom.s feature doc Sherpa will have their world premieres at the Sydney Film Festival.
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
The festival program unveiled today includes 33 world premieres (including 22 shorts) and 135 Australian premieres (with 18 shorts) among 251 titles from 68 countries.
Among the other premieres will be Daina Reid.s The Secret River, Ruby Entertainment's. ABC-tv miniseries starring Oliver Jackson Cohen and Sarah Snook, and three Oz docs, Marc Eberle.s The Cambodian Space Project — Not Easy Rock .n. Roll, Steve Thomas. Freedom Stories and Lisa Nicol.s Wide Open Sky.
Festival director Nashen Moodley boasted. this year.s event will be far larger than 2014's when 183 films from 47 countries were screened, including 15 world premieres. The expansion is possible in part due to the addition of two new screening venues in Newtown and Liverpool.
As previously announced, Brendan Cowell...
- 5/6/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Film-maker Kleber Mendoça, who won the Fipresci Prize at Rotterdam and Wroclaw’s New Horizons for his fiction feature debut Neighbouring Sounds in 2012, will be in Locarno next month as part of an almost 60-strong Brazilian delegation.
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
Mendoça, who is also the director of Recife’s Janela International Film Festival, will be joined by, among others, festival director colleagues Renata de Almeida and Ivan Melo of the Sao Paulo Iff as well as Manoel Rangel and Eduardo Valente of film funder Ancine, André Sturm of Cinema do Brasil, producers Sara Silveira (Dezenove Som et Imagem), Eliane Ferreira (Muiraquita Filmes) and Elias Ribeiro (Urucu Media), distributors Jean-Thomas Bernardini (Imovision) and Marcos De Oliveira (Europa Filmes), and sales agent Sandro Fiorin (Figa Films).
Carte Blanche focus on Brazil
The fourth edition of Locarno’s Carte Blanche showcase will be the focus of the Brazilian presence at the Swiss festival with the presentation of new Brazilian features and documentaries by their...
- 7/29/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
BERLIN -- The surfaces of Cao Hamburger's fine film, "The Year My Parents Went on Vacation" (O Ano em Que Meus Pais Sairam de Ferias) are clean and concise and filled with keen observations about day-to-day life in a multiethnic quarter of Sao Paulo in 1970. This allows the director all sorts of opportunities to explore the rich subtext of his film -- themes about alienation, community and a life in exile.
This Brazilian film has the power to reach out to audiences all over the world. So after its Competition debut in Berlin, "Year" is a solid bet to win further festival dates and wide distribution in international territories.
The story, written by the director and Claudio Galperin, Braulio Mantovani and Anna Muylaert, tells of an adolescent boy who finds himself cut loose by fate in a strange community where he has to make friends and fend for himself. Twelve-year-old Mauro (Michel Joelsas) has grown up in a small town, consumed by a love for soccer. The entire country is electrified as its team is marching toward a potential third World Cup in Mexico. Citizens can almost forget they are in the sixth year of a brutal military dictatorship.
Abruptly, Mauro's mother, who is Catholic, and father, who is Jewish, must "go on vacation." It's clear to the viewer but not to Mauro that dangerous politics is forcing them underground. They drive the boy to Sao Paulo and leave him at his grandfather's apartment building. Unfortunately, the grandfather has dropped dead only minutes before Mauro's arrival.
Shlomo (Germano Haiut), an elderly next-door neighbor who works at the nearby synagogue, takes him in. But the boy resists Shlomo's reluctant overtures and wants to get into his grandfather's apartment. A precocious neighbor his age, Hanna (Daniela Piepszyk), tells him to get the superintendent to let him in. He then sits by the telephone, waiting for his parents to call and take him home.
Weeks go by and Shlomo doesn't know what to do with this boy who, despite a Jewish grandfather, he considers a "goy." Gradually, Mauro builds a sense of community in the Bom Retiro district, which in those days was home mostly to immigrants of Jewish, Greek, Italian and black origin. But Mauro sees himself as a goalie, a solitary figure that, while a team member, stands apart. He already understands himself as somehow different, as a person in exile just like his parents.
With Hanna he experiences a rite of passage that exposes him to affection, friendship and a peep hole in her mother's dress store where she charges neighborhood boys to watch women undress. Shlomo brings him in touch with his Jewish heritage, not that it has much impact. The beauty of Irene (Liliana Castro) sparks the fantasy lives of many adolescent boys. And through the student Italo (Caio Blat), Mauro sees the cracked skull one can receive for holding the wrong political beliefs.
Serious movies about children often are burdened with symbolism and coyness. But Hamburger has superbly crafted a film of considerable subtlety and shrewdness. As Mauro makes his way through the world of his parents and late grandfather, he comes into contact with people and ideas that expand his horizons and challenge his thinking.
Hamburger's depiction of a time and community under the stress of political upheaval is full and engaging but steers clear of nostalgia. Cassio Amarante's beautifully detailed production design benefits from somber, natural lighting by cinematographer Adriano Goldman. Beto Villares' music is just so. It never intrudes but brings in its Brazilian melodies at just the right spots.
THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION
Gullane Filmes/Caos Producoes, Miravista, Globo Filmes/Petrobras
Credits:
Director: Cao Hamburger
Screenwriters: Claudio Galperin, Braulio Mantovani, Anna Muylaert, Cao Hamburger
Based on a story by: Claudio Galperin, Cao Hamburger
Producers: Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane, Cao Hamburger
Director of photography: Adriano Goldman
Production designer: Cassio Amarante
Music: Beto Villares
Costume designer: Cristina Camargo
Editor: Daniel Rezende
Cast:
Mauro: Michel Joelsas
Hanna: Daniela Piepszyk
Shlomo: Germano Haiut
Bia: Simone Spoladore
Italo: Caio Blat
Daniel: Eduardo Moreira
Irene: Liliana Castro
Edgar: Rodrigo dos Santos
Opa Motel: Paulo Autran
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
This Brazilian film has the power to reach out to audiences all over the world. So after its Competition debut in Berlin, "Year" is a solid bet to win further festival dates and wide distribution in international territories.
The story, written by the director and Claudio Galperin, Braulio Mantovani and Anna Muylaert, tells of an adolescent boy who finds himself cut loose by fate in a strange community where he has to make friends and fend for himself. Twelve-year-old Mauro (Michel Joelsas) has grown up in a small town, consumed by a love for soccer. The entire country is electrified as its team is marching toward a potential third World Cup in Mexico. Citizens can almost forget they are in the sixth year of a brutal military dictatorship.
Abruptly, Mauro's mother, who is Catholic, and father, who is Jewish, must "go on vacation." It's clear to the viewer but not to Mauro that dangerous politics is forcing them underground. They drive the boy to Sao Paulo and leave him at his grandfather's apartment building. Unfortunately, the grandfather has dropped dead only minutes before Mauro's arrival.
Shlomo (Germano Haiut), an elderly next-door neighbor who works at the nearby synagogue, takes him in. But the boy resists Shlomo's reluctant overtures and wants to get into his grandfather's apartment. A precocious neighbor his age, Hanna (Daniela Piepszyk), tells him to get the superintendent to let him in. He then sits by the telephone, waiting for his parents to call and take him home.
Weeks go by and Shlomo doesn't know what to do with this boy who, despite a Jewish grandfather, he considers a "goy." Gradually, Mauro builds a sense of community in the Bom Retiro district, which in those days was home mostly to immigrants of Jewish, Greek, Italian and black origin. But Mauro sees himself as a goalie, a solitary figure that, while a team member, stands apart. He already understands himself as somehow different, as a person in exile just like his parents.
With Hanna he experiences a rite of passage that exposes him to affection, friendship and a peep hole in her mother's dress store where she charges neighborhood boys to watch women undress. Shlomo brings him in touch with his Jewish heritage, not that it has much impact. The beauty of Irene (Liliana Castro) sparks the fantasy lives of many adolescent boys. And through the student Italo (Caio Blat), Mauro sees the cracked skull one can receive for holding the wrong political beliefs.
Serious movies about children often are burdened with symbolism and coyness. But Hamburger has superbly crafted a film of considerable subtlety and shrewdness. As Mauro makes his way through the world of his parents and late grandfather, he comes into contact with people and ideas that expand his horizons and challenge his thinking.
Hamburger's depiction of a time and community under the stress of political upheaval is full and engaging but steers clear of nostalgia. Cassio Amarante's beautifully detailed production design benefits from somber, natural lighting by cinematographer Adriano Goldman. Beto Villares' music is just so. It never intrudes but brings in its Brazilian melodies at just the right spots.
THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION
Gullane Filmes/Caos Producoes, Miravista, Globo Filmes/Petrobras
Credits:
Director: Cao Hamburger
Screenwriters: Claudio Galperin, Braulio Mantovani, Anna Muylaert, Cao Hamburger
Based on a story by: Claudio Galperin, Cao Hamburger
Producers: Fabiano Gullane, Caio Gullane, Cao Hamburger
Director of photography: Adriano Goldman
Production designer: Cassio Amarante
Music: Beto Villares
Costume designer: Cristina Camargo
Editor: Daniel Rezende
Cast:
Mauro: Michel Joelsas
Hanna: Daniela Piepszyk
Shlomo: Germano Haiut
Bia: Simone Spoladore
Italo: Caio Blat
Daniel: Eduardo Moreira
Irene: Liliana Castro
Edgar: Rodrigo dos Santos
Opa Motel: Paulo Autran
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 2/16/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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