One-on-one Meetings
The DOCSP will select projects of feature or series documentary to participate in this activity.
An opportunity to build bridges with the market for financing and local and international positioning.
ONE ON ONE MEETINGS 2022 – ONLINE PROGRAM
DOCSP one-on-one meetings are individual meetings of 20 min, between representatives of documentary or series projects (director/producer) and representatives of TV channels, distributors, markets and national and international festivals. The meetings will be arranged based on decision makers interests.
Are available to apply documentary films and series from Brazil in their different stages (development, work in progress, first cut or finished). The cost of the registration for the selected projects is R$280,00 + (Sympla fee).
The selected projects will be invite to participate in the meetings sessions programmed between 8, 9 and 10 of November.
REGISTRATION CLOSED
SELECTED PROJECTS FOR DOCSP 2022:
Doc Lab projects

Arteries
by Camila Dutervil
Brazil
Creation Documentary, Environment, Human Rights
1:20:00

Arteries is a film about the native Latin Americans’ struggle through the lens of the political leadership of indigenous women in the Brazilian Amazon.
Director: Camila Dutervil / Producer: Alisson Machado / Production company: Machado Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary, Environment, Human Rights / Duration: 1:20:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese, Spanish and Munduruku / Year: 2024
Awards and festivals:Torino Film Lab Extended – Documentary 2019
Rodadas de negócios 52° Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro
Edital Fac Multicultural II do Fundo de Apoio à Cultura do DF 2021.

Caleldoscope
by Fernando Pereira dos Santos
Brazil
Creation Documentary, Culture
2:00:00

Awakening from an uneasy dream, the Mayan Kaqchikel artist Edgar Calel consults a spiritual guide and receives the call to leave Guatemala and spread his ancestral knowledge. After the revelation in a fire ritual dedicated to his late grandmother, Calel will set out to meet friends and art spaces in Brazil,Germany, and Senegal. Caleldoscópio is a documentary project that investigates Edgar Calel’s mythical,dreamlike, and poetic universe.
Director: Fernando Pereira dos Santos / Production company: Sendero Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary, Culture / Duration: 2:00:00 / Format: 2k / Language: Kaqchikel, Portuguese, Spanish and French / Year: 2024

Caught in a snare
by Lilian Solá Santiago
Brazil
Creation Documentary, Human Rights and Social affairs
01:30:00

Lilian is the mother of Dandara, a family of Amerindians, African and European origin. Together they
embark on a journey in search of a common ancestor: the indigenous great-great-grandmother who was robbed and raped. The journey reveals a female plot that blends in with the history of Brazil’s
neocolonial mestizaje: miscegenated families blended by violence, by Christian fundamentalism,
supported womb to womb by caboclas “caught in a snare”.
Director: Lilian Solá Santiago / Producer: Guilherme César / Production company: Terra Firme Digital / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary, Human Rights and Social affairs / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: 5k / Language: Portuguese ,Javaé and English / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Edital Proac Lab número 48/2021 – Prêmio por histórico de realização em audiovisual –Diretores. Edital PROAC 2022 de apoio a Documentários de Longa Metragem.
Roteiro analisado pelo Núcleo Formigueiro – núcleo de criação
apoiado pelo Edital da SPCINE 2021 de Núcleos criativos.

Good morning, Mr. President
Human Rights, Polítics, Social Affairs

When former Brazilian president Lula was taken as a prisoner to Curitiba, the Federal Police repressed with bombs the supporters that waited him. Yet, policemen had no idea that those supporters would remain there for the following 580 days, saying daily: Good morning, president Lula. We went to a MST camp to meet the people that helped to sustain this movement, in the year that Lula returns to run in the presidential elections.

Green Kids
by Pedro Nishi
Brazil
Current affairs,Music
01:30:00

Green Kids is a rap group based in Japan, composed by children of Brazilian dekasseguis. They grew up there under strong social stigma and xenophobia. Against all prejudices, they create hip-hop in the tension between being Japanese and Brazilian. Moved by the feeling of being a foreigner, they wish to stop working in factories and live from their music. They dream to coming to Brazil, the country they are citizens of, to perform their raps here.
Director: Pedro Nishi / Producer: João Pedro Bim / Production company: Terra Estranha / Country: Brazil / Genre: Current affairs,Music / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese, Japanese and Spanish / Year: 2024

Iolanda was murdered
by Talita Carvalho
Brazil
Biographies, Creation Documentary and Social affairs
01:20:00

Iolanda was murdered by her boyfriend; stabbed in the chest with a skewer. They found her body, but they hadn’t found Joel, the killer. Iolanda was my grandmother and nearly 30 years later I began a relentless search for the man who killed her. I wanted justice to be done, but what is justice anyway?
This story is not about my grandmother, nor is it about me; it is about us, women, and the violences that hovers over our lives and our deaths.
Director: Talita Carvalho / Producer: Gustavo Amora / Production company: COMOVA / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies, Creation Documentary and Social affairs / Duration: 01:20:00 / Format: 4k / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2025
Awards and festivals:Edital do Fundo de Apoio à Cultura do Governo do Distrito Federal (FAC-DF)
5o Sapi – Mercado Audiovisual do Centro-Oeste, 2021.
The Chemist
by Emilia Mello
Brazil, Belgium and U.S.A
Creation Documentary, Human Rights and Youth
01:30:00
A university student, code name Chemist (Quimi), hides in a safe house in Managua, Nicaragua with
fellow leaders of a cell of a student movement. Quími recalls the months that lead up to their life in
hiding, occupying her university, surviving a paramilitary siege, and leading what is now known as the April Rebellion. In this quiet pause between violence and displacement, Quími wages her internal battles as fiercely as those on the outside.
Director: Emilia Mello / Production company: Enciclopédia de Lugares Imaginários / Country: Brazil, Belgium and U.S.A / Genre: Creation Documentary, Human Rights and Youth / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: HD / Language: Spanish / Year: 2025
Awards and festivals:Laboratório de Desenvolvimento de documentários do Festival Visions du Réel(Suíça) 2022 . Logan Nonfiction Program do Carey Institute for Global Good(EUA).

TRASHLAND DREAMS
by Duda Almeida e Nego Bala
Brazil
Music, Social Affairs and Youth
01:10:00

The trajectory of MC Nego Bala, from Cracolândia, in changing the life of his family and bringing dignity to his community through music. To redeem his father’s dream, a musician who became a street vendor, Nego Bala also seeks to rescue his sister from the addiction that took their mother’s life. Withal he sees his debut album “Da Boca do Lixo” gain national recognition taking him to bigger and bigger stages.
Director: Duda Almeida e Nego Bala / Producer: Helena Dias / Production company: Sapucaia / Country: Brazil / Genre: Music, Social Affairs and Youth / Duration: 01:10:00 / Format: HD 1080 and 4k / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023
Rough Cut Lab projects

MS’D UP
by Thais Fernandes
Brazil
Biographies and Culture.
01:30:00

Ms’d Up tells the story of Rafael Corrêa, a cartoonist diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2010. In a hybrid narrative, the action starts from a childhood memory. As a child, Rafael cruelly and without reason killed a frog, crushing its left side. The first symptoms of the disease paralyze his left hand, the hand with which he draws, and he starts to believe in a kind of karma.
Director: Thais Fernandes / Producer: Rafael Corrêa / Editor: Jonatas Rupert / Production company: Vulcana Cinema e Thais Fernandes ME / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies and Culture. / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: Digital - 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2024
Awards and festivals:Financiamento Itaú Rumos Cultural
Edital SEDAC n° 01/2022 FAC Filma RS – Prêmio de Finalização.

Nothing about my father
by Susanna Lira
Brazil and Equador
Biografias and Social affairs
01:30:00

Nothing about my father is director Susanna Lira’s search for the true story of her father, whom she never knew. Susanna grew up knowing she was the daughter of a young Ecuadorian guerrilla fighther who came to Brazil to fight the military dictatorship in the 1970. Susanna flies to Quito, her father’s birthplace, and tells her story to dozens of Ecuadorian press outlets in hope to find him.
Director: Susanna Lira / Producer: Susanna Lira / Editor: Victor Abreu / Production company: Modo Operantes Produções / Country: Brazil and Equador / Genre: Biografias and Social affairs / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Prêmio de Melhor Pitching no Morelia Lab doc (México)
Market projects

A partner to call my own
by Kelly Spinelli
Brazil
Culture,Current, affairs, Human Rights, Music, Polítics and Social affairs
01:22:00

After the death of her husband, Eni Spinelli, mother of documentary filmmaker Kelly Cristina Spinelli, found herself without a partner – to dance and to share her life with. In A Partner to Call My Own, Kelly follows her mother and four other women who hire taxi dancers, thus investigating loneliness, sexuality and privilege among elderly women.
Director: Kelly Spinelli / Producer: Gal Buitoni e Luiz Ferraz / Production company: Olé produções / Country: Brazil / Genre: Culture,Current, affairs, Human Rights, Music, Polítics and Social affairs / Duration: 01:22:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2022
Awards and festivals:50º Festival de Gramado – vencedor do prêmio de mel- hor documentário

A piece of the world
by Victor Costa Lopes , Wislan Esmeraldo e Tarcísio Rocha Filho
Brazil
Biographies, Current affairs, Human Rights and Social affairs
01:15:00

Four distinctive women and mothers of LGBTQI+ people share their lives and their experiences in relation to motherhood.
Director: Victor Costa Lopes , Wislan Esmeraldo e Tarcísio Rocha Filho / Producer: Luciana Vieira / Production company: Orla Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies, Current affairs, Human Rights and Social affairs / Duration: 01:15:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2022
Awards and festivals:PANLAB do Festival Panorama de Cinema (Laboratório de Rough Cut);

Aldeia Roots
by Carolina Maria dos Santos
Brazil
Culture,Current affairs, History and Music
01:05:00

Aldeia Roots is the name of a small black community that exists in São Luís do Maranhão, a festive space where a network of families meet to celebrate Jamaican music on weekends. In Aldeia Roots, the regueiro people have memory and produce history: as demonstrators of intangible heritage, they carry – in themselves – the regueira memory of the capital of Maranhão.
Director: Carolina Maria dos Santos / Producer: Carolina Maria dos Santos Country: Brazil / Genre: Culture,Current affairs, History and Music / Duration: 01:05:00 / Format: 4096 x 2160 / 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Premio Nicho 54 _ rodadas de negócios DocSp.

Before the next flight
by Natália Keiko
Brazil
Current affairs,Human Rights,Music
01:12:00

Based on the musical presentations of the South African artist Nduduzo Siba, “Before The Next Flight” is a character driven documentary about Siba, whose short vacational trip to Brazil is extended to more than she could ever have thought. Having been arrested at the Brazilian international airport , she becomes a prominent artist after being freed from jail. Nduduzo, however, must fight a deportation order that puts her plans on hold.
Director: Natália Keiko / Producer: Marcela Coelho / Production company: Kali Durge / Country: Brazil / Genre: Current affairs,Human Rights,Music / Duration: 01:12:00 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese, English and zulu / Year: 2022
Awards and festivals:Residências Walden, Diáspora Lab, Prêmio Aldir Blanc de Finalização/ Miradas Doc – AfroLatam

Black Panther- A Brazilian fighter legend
by Emílio Domingos
Brazil
Biographies,Current affairs,Human Rights and Social affairs
01:30:00

MMA, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and the Gracie family are a worldwide phenomenon that is widely known. But what about the story of the Black Panther, a disciple of Hélio Gracie, who defeated the master, challenged the dynasty of the most powerful family in martial arts and faced racism in Brazil?
Director: Emílio Domingos / Producer: Camilo Cavalcanti / Production company: Clariô Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies,Current affairs,Human Rights and Social affairs / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: Digital / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2024
Awards and festivals:Mara Santana, Waldemar Santana daughter(the Black Fighter) will be the consultant.

Boy
by Michel Carvalho
Brazil
Current affairs and Social affairs
01:30:00

BOY is a feature-length documentary about the daily life of black male escorts in the city of São Paulo. Through observational language, personal diaries and lyrical moments, the film intends to reflect on desire, coloniality and (hyper)sexualization of the black man.
Director: Michel Carvalho / Producer: Fernando Sapelli / Production company: Pandora Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Current affairs and Social affairs / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023

Bring on the revolution
by Aleixo Leite e Alexandre Fischgold
Brazil
Biographies,History,Human Rights and Social affairs
6 episodes
00:22:00

“Bring on the Revolution!” is an animated documentary series that brings to life major revolutions led by men and women whose importance was diminished from History. The series’ protagonists are forgotten heroes who fought back against their oppressors.
Director: Aleixo Leite e Alexandre Fischgold / Producer: André Pereira / Production company: Lupa Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies,History,Human Rights and Social affairs / Duration: 00:22:00 / Episodes: 6 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2024
Awards and festivals:Vencedor do prêmio principal de pitching no Ventana Sur Animation!;
Pitching no MIFA/Annecy;
AniDocs do MiradasDoc;
prêmio DocSP no DocMontevideo;
Edital de Desenvolvimento de Série do FSA/BRDE; Pitching no Fórum de Animação Brasil-Portugal

Cavalcanti
by Jairo Neto e Graubi Garcia
Brazil, England and France
Biographies,Creation Documentary and Culture
1:15:00

Based on newly discovered archives and materials, the film tells the story of Brazilian filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti, a brilliant artist who, although he participated in the main historical events of cinema in the 20th century and achieved critical success in Europe,but had his career jeopardized by an ambitious project in Brazil.
Director: Jairo Neto e Graubi Garcia / Producer: Guilherme Severo / Production company: Animal Filmes / Country: Brazil, England and France / Genre: Biographies,Creation Documentary and Culture / Duration: 1:15:00 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese, English and french / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Pitching doc da Rio2C 2022

Condor Operation
by Alexandre Petillo
Brazil, Argentine, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Italy
History,Human Rights and Polítics
5 episodes
00:45:00

With exclusive and secret documents, the film will show how a terror network of South American dictatorships in the 1970s was already functioning many years before it became official, and that, unlike what the books tell, was created by Brazil. A documentary capable of changing official history.
Director: Alexandre Petillo / Producer: Renata Braga / Production company: Doc.Films / Country: Brazil, Argentine, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Italy / Genre: History,Human Rights and Polítics / Duration: 00:45:00 / Episodes: 5 / Format: Codec: Blackmagic RAW Constant Bitrate 3:1Formato 4608 x 2592 / Language: Portuguese and Spanish / Year: 2023

Father Júlio
by Andrea Pasquini
Brazil
Biographies,Human Rights and Social affairs
01:30:00

Father Julio Lancellotti is, above all, a subversive. His deeds go beyond religious discussions and his rebellion consists in fighting a system based on social inequality. He supports women, scorns racism, defends transvestites and transgender people. PADRE JÚLIO is a feature film about the actions and reflections of a man who personifies what is most revolutionary in one of the most unequal countries in the world: the fight for human rights.
Director: Andrea Pasquini / Producer: Julio Matos e Marinho de Andrade / Production company: Laboratório Cisco / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies,Human Rights and Social affairs / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023

Future Brilliant
by Abílio Dias
Brazil
Creation Documentary,Current affairs and Social affairs
02:01:00

Abílio visits his family in Jundiaí, an inland city in Brazil. His sister, Gisele, is tetraplegic and dreams about doing a postgraduate course in order to become an English teacher. In the following days, the two brothers strengthen their bonds in a city where promises seem like ghosts and hope echoes like resignation.
Director: Abílio Dias / Producer: Luiza Marques e Tiago Pinheiro / Production company: Frontera filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary,Current affairs and Social affairs / Duration: 02:01:00 / Format: HD 4K / Language: Portuguese and English / Year: 2022

Gil’s Passage
by Isaac Donato
Brasil
Creation Documentary,Human Rights and Social affairs
1:20:00

A professional dancer, black and leader Candomblé religion goes to retiring. He searches a successor across the great mystery of his life: Gil dances professionally
at Ballet Company and dances ritually in the religious cerimonies, where your identity cannot be revealed.
Director: Isaac Donato / Producer: Marília Cunha / Production company: MAA Filmes / Country: Brasil / Genre: Creation Documentary,Human Rights and Social affairs / Duration: 1:20:00 / Format: Digital / Language: Portuguese
Awards and festivals:13o Brasil CineMundi – International Coproduction Meet- ing. – categoria Brasil DocsMeeting
Prêmio DOCSP no 13o BrasilCinemundi 2022

Girl-Tubers
by Tali Yankelevich
Brazil
Creation Documentary,Social affairs and Youth
1:20:00

A story of four girls growing up as You-tubers. In the process of recording their own youth, the camera becomes a personal prison and a way in which they seek affection and human contact. They are constantly testing the limits of their own performance as they interact with an invisible audience of strangers. A coming of age story about young girls struggling to build a sense os self and identity while trapped in a virtual fantasy world.
Director: Tali Yankelevich / Producer: Leonardo Mecchi / Production company: Enquadramento Produções / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary,Social affairs and Youth / Duration: 1:20:00 / Format: Full HD e celular / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2024

I didn’t come either
by Ana Carolina Marinho
Brazil
Biographies,Human Rights and Social affairs
01:30:00

Letícia is pregnant but doesn’t know who the father is. She contacts the four possible parents and they all claim the child isn’t theirs because they didn’t come. A solitary pregnancy causes an upheaval and when the child is born she decides to search for the father of her child.
Director: Ana Carolina Marinho / Producer: Amanda Bortolo / Production company: Bela Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies,Human Rights and Social affairs / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: Digital - Full HD / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2022
Awards and festivals:DOC LAB – DocSP 2018;
Good Pitch Brasil – 2022.
Prêmio Work in Progress concedido pelo programa Histórias que Ficam da Fundação CSN – 2021;
Edital Prêmio Aldir Blanc -Finalização de longa.
WIP MEETING – 25a Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes.

I’ll tell you my most terrible secret
by Carla Gallo
Brazil
Creation Documentary,Current affairs and Polítics
01:12:00

Aline, Vânia, Tathiane and Marília are real women, rape survivors. In the film, they are friends on a small trip: in a country house, nature is a territory of fictional impact that gathers them around its landscape, at the same time that it activates the memory of the past they try to forget.
Director: Carla Gallo / Producer: Rafaella Costa / Production company: Lua Azul Audiovisual e Manjericão Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary,Current affairs and Polítics / Duration: 01:12:00 / Format: Digital / Language: Português / Year: 2023

IN DENER ́S COURT
by Michelle Chevrand
Brazil
Biographies,Culture
01:50:00

Dener is the inventor of Brazilian fashion. The first to market his brand name. He created the myth of the “star couturier”, artist and sensitive. The first to dress a first lady, with whom he became close friends. He was also the first to suffer political attack. It was Dener who turned opera into fast-paced music during a parade. He became a millionaire. He lost everything. He was censured for being considered too effeminate. He drank to death.
Director: Michelle Chevrand / Producer: Renata Braga / Production company: Doc.Films / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies,Culture / Duration: 01:50:00 / Format: Format 4608 x 2592; Blackmagic RAW Constant Bitrate 3:1 / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023

It’s not the first time we fought for our love
by Luis Carlos de Alencar
Brazil, Argentine and U.S.A
Human Rights, Polítics and Social affairs
01:44:00

This doc recounts the unprecedented stories of persecution and violence with which the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship acted against the LGBT population and how this same group constituted its resistance, transforming itself into fundamental subjects of the redemocratization process. The coup of 64 didnt introduce this prejudice, but, during that period, the LGBT population was considered an enemy of the traditional family and good behavior
Director: Luis Carlos de Alencar / Producer: Vladimir Seixas / Production company: Couro de rato / Country: Brazil, Argentine and U.S.A / Genre: Human Rights, Polítics and Social affairs / Duration: 01:44:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese, English and Spanish / Year: 2022
Awards and festivals:Mostra Première Brasil: competição de documentários de longa metragem do Festival do Rio 2022
“Prêmio Felix: Menção Honrosa” – Festival do Rio 2022

Itacoatiaras
by Sérgio Andrade e Patricia Gouvêa
Brazil
Current affairs,Environment and History
01:15:00

“Itacoatiaras” is a project that deals with the search for the ancestry of two different and distant places that share the same name and their pasts as indigenous territories. Itacoatiara from Amazonas and Itacoatiara from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. The project aims to collect forgotten stories from both places to offer the public a product that rescues part of their identity.
Director: Sérgio Andrade e Patricia Gouvêa / Producer: Henrique Amud, Gabriela Pascal e Chris Ferreira / Production company: Rio Tarumã Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Current affairs,Environment and History / Duration: 01:15:00 / Format: Digital / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Lei Aldir Blanc nos estados do Rio de Janeiro e Amazonas Brasil Cinemundi 2021.

Letters to…
by Vânia Lima
Brazil
Culture,History e Human Rights
1:20:00

Casted into the seas of diaspora, nine letters travel across the Atlantic Ocean, fighting against male chauvinism, xenophobia and racism. Through the trajectory and poetry of Elisa Lucinda, Paulina Chiziane and Raquel, Lima, we delve into a daily life of art and activism in Brazil, Mozambique and Portugal. These countries where an insurgent Portuguese language echoes, which in the film Letters To, … claims the voice, time and body of women, black women, as protagonists of the future.
Director: Vânia Lima / Producer: Keyti Souza / Production company: Lima Comunicação e Têm Dendê Produções / Country: Brazil / Genre: Culture,History e Human Rights / Duration: 1:20:00 / Format: DCP / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Rio2C
NordesteLab para o laboratório de produção de impacto em 2020-2021Pitching no FAM 2020.
2018 prêmio de desenvolvimento de linguagem, que resultou em série financiada pelo Estado da Bahia e ANCINE em edital de co-investimento.
Pitching documentário Rio2C 2019.

Margins of gold
by Sandro Kakabadze
Brazil
Current affairs, Environment and Social affairs
01:33:00

The Tapajós River region is the largest gold producer in Brazil and offers work to hundreds of people, but in an illegal and predatory way. Penedo is a ‘currutela’ where they exchange their gold for food and in the cabarets. But there is room to dream, like Lucas, who sends money to his family and wants to have a more comfortable future, or Cristyane, who managed to graduate a daughter in medicine with the money she earned working in the mines.
Director: Sandro Kakabadze / Producer: Renato Ciasca / Production company: Drama Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Current affairs, Environment and Social affairs / Duration: 01:33:00 / Format: HD 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023

Mounir Ismael
by Juliana Borges e Clara Ramos
Brazil
Biographies and Social affairs
1:20:00

In 2013, filmmaker Juliana Borges meets Mounir Ismael,a Central African refugee living in São Paulo, and they decide to make a film about him. Nine years and a lot of filming later – including a trip to Africa financed by the character and an arrest for drug trafficking in Europe – the documentary never quite lifted off the paper. The two then meet again to revisit Mounir’s fantastic memories and reflect on the film each one wish to complete.
Director: Juliana Borges e Clara Ramos / Production company: Ver Pa Crer Produções Culturais Loma Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies and Social affairs / Duration: 1:20:00 / Format: RED 4k e Full HD / Language: Portuguese, English , ingala and french / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Guadalajara Festival 2017 (México);
Doc SP 2017 (Brazil) projeto selecionado para o DocLab; Histórias que Ficam 2015 (Brazil) – projeto finalista; DocsDF 2014 (México);
Cinergia Lab 2014 (Costa Rica) – prêmio de Melhor pitching;
Bolivia Lab 2014 (premiado com laboratório de roteiro

My flesh knows
by Zica Pires e Simone Giovine
Brazil
Creation Documentary,Culture,Environment,Human Rights, Social affairs and Youth.
01:30:00

Over 300 years ago, a people who were kidnapped from Guinea-Bissau rebuilt their home and cultivate, in the Quilombo of Santa Rosa dos Pretos, their ancestrality, spirituality and culture, which goes through the sense of union with the land in a deep relationship of involvement. Invaded and shredded by the hands of the State and multinationals, today the Quilombo resists the threat of a new genocide, incarnate in the duplication of BR 135
Director: Zica Pires e Simone Giovine / Producer: Ana Barbára Ramos / Production companies: Pigmento Cinematográfico / / Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary,Culture,Environment,Human Rights, Social affairs and Youth. / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Good Pitch Brasil (Doc Society)
Afro Latam

My friend Lorenzo
by André Luis Oliveira
Brazil
Human Rights, Music and Social Affairs
01:35:00

“My friend Lorenzo” shows the beautiful friendship between an extremely musical 19-year-old autistic young boy with a 75-year-old filmmaker/musician, director of
the film. It all started with a meeting at a music therapy setting 15 years ago when the filmmaker started recording all the therapeutic sessions. The musical friendship
was born, developed over the years and became a film to tell this story of music, reception and friendship.
Director: André Luis Oliveira / Producer: Carina Bini Country: Brazil / Genre: Human Rights, Music and Social Affairs / Duration: 01:35:00 / Format: MiniDV, HDV, FullHD, 4k / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2024

Rui’s Trunk
by Diogo Marques e Brenno Castro
Brazil
Biographies,Culture and Music
01:30:00

Rui Mendes is honored for his 40-year career with a 600 m2 panel in downtown São Paulo – a photograph of Raul Seixas covering the entire side of a building. Rui infiltrated the musical universe. He was responsible for the most iconic images of Brazilian rock in the last decades. Rui, his friends and celebrities will reveal the stories behind this and many other emblematic photos.
Director: Diogo Marques e Brenno Castro / Producer: Juliana Vedovato / Production company: PBA filmes e Loma Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies,Culture and Music / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: ProRess / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2024

She, the saman
by Carla Bini
Brazil
Current affairs,Environment andSocial affairs
8 episodes
00:26:00

AS PAJÉS is a documentary series that travels through indigenous territories of several Brazilian regions in search of women shamans, a position of great respect, usually occupied by men. This journey brings the story of eight women who overcame barriers to occupy a leadership role in maintaining ancestral knowledge of healing, cosmology and rituals that values the preservation of nature for the perpetuation of humanity and the planet earth.
Director: Carla Bini / Producer: Julia Tolentino / Production company: Atman Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Current affairs,Environment andSocial affairs / Duration: 00:26:00 / Episodes: 8 / Format: 4k - 16:9 / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2024
Awards and festivals:Prêmio FAC Audiovisual 2018 – (Financiamento para Produção e Finalização)

Social Housing – Projects of Latin America
by Andre Mafrim
Brazil
History,Human Rights and Social Affairs
8 episodes
00:42:00

Social Housing – Projects of Latin America is a documentary series about the history of popular housing on the continent. From the great modernist housing estates of the past to popular self- management movements, we present the urban history of eight major Latin American cities. Our characters are inhabitants of Latin American cities, heirs of a history marked by contradictions.
Director: Andre Mafrim / Producer: Joao Bim / Production company: Flor e a Nause / Country: Brazil / Genre: History,Human Rights and Social Affairs / Duration: 00:42:00 / Episodes: 8 / Format: 4K UHD / Language: Português / Year: 2024
Awards and festivals:Edição 2022 do Pitching Series do DocMontevideo. Pitching APACI 2022.

Superagui
by Pedro Giongo
Brazil
Biographies
01:20:00

On a remote island in southern Brazil, a group of fishermen have visions with the maned wolf stamped on the 200 reais bill. Desiring quick wealth, Martelo, a 70-year-old man who cannot retire, begins a treasure hunt in search of the Jesuit gold that legends say is buried in the region.
Director: Pedro Giongo / Producer: Fran Camilo / Production company: Estudios Tijucas / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies / Duration: 01:20:00 / Format: 2k / Language: Portuguese, Polítics and Social affairs / Year: 2024

Tempo Ruy
by Adilson Mendes
Brazil
Biographies, Culture and History
01:12:00

Documentary about the work of filmmaker Ruy Guerra. The film rearranges ideas and gestures present in its first short, adding to them testimonies and interviews. In this sound-visual montage, we know his trajectory, from his first cinematographic experience to his current words about his work: the artist as a critic of society, cinema in favor of political transformation, the emancipation of women and the return of the repressed.
Director: Adilson Mendes / Producer: Juliana Lira e Roberto Gonçalves de Lima / Production company: Lira Filmes e Brisa Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies, Culture and History / Duration: 01:12:00 / Format: Digital / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2022
Awards and festivals:45ª Mostra Internacional de Cinema (2021); 23º Festival do Rio (2021); 24ª Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes (2022); 17ª Mostra de Cinema de Ouro Preto (2022)

The Plant
by Beto Brant
Brazil
Educative,Science and Technology eSocial affairs
01:20:00

Through a series of testimonies from multiple characters, in different perspectives, all orbiting around the fact
that medical cannabis is relieving symptoms of illness and bringing a better quality of life, the film’s narrative will demonstrate the plant’s influence on the lives of patients and families, and the effect the topic is having on the shape of medical care and scientific research.
Director: Beto Brant / Producer: Renato Ciasca / Production company: Drama Filmes / Country: Brazil / Genre: Educative,Science and Technology eSocial affairs / Duration: 01:20:00 / Format: HD 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Edital ProAC Expresso LAB No 54/2020 – Eixo Premiação

Thermodieletric
by Ana Costa Ribeiro
Brazil
Creation Documentary, Environment and Science and Technology

After receiving the archives of her grandfather Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro, a pioneer of experimental physics in Brazil, Ana began to investigate the mysteries of the Thermodielectric, a phenomenon he discovered in 1944. This enigmatic encounter, full of questions and doubts, but also of curiosity and poetry, has resulted in a deep reflection on the electricity of life.
Director: Ana Costa Ribeiro / Producer: Ana Costa Ribeiro Country: Brazil / Genre: Creation Documentary, Environment and Science and Technology / Format: 4k / Language: 1:33:00 / Year: 2022
Awards and festivals:Projeto contemplado pelo Rumos Itaú Cultural.

Through the flames
by Daniel Cali
Brasil
Current affairs, Environment and Social affairs
01:15:00

What would you do if your backyard was burning, but the fire department never came? I’d put out the fire myself. And that’s what the Volunteer Brigade of São Jorge does every year, except the backyard in this case is the vast Chapada dos Veadeiros Goiás. In a direct cinema documentary, Alex Gomes, 42, leads volunteer firefighters in a dangerous fight against the destruction of nature caused by criminal forest fires.
Director: Daniel Cali / Producer: Renato Ogata / Production company: Pira filmes / Country: Brasil / Genre: Current affairs, Environment and Social affairs / Duration: 01:15:00 / Format: Digital - 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2024
Awards and festivals:AcampaDoc 2022 (junho),prêmio de Melhor Pitch e vaga direta para o Bolívia Lab 2022.
Durante o Bolívia Lab 2022 (agosto)
Producao Incentivo Goyazes – ICMS (Goiás).

Timotheos
by Bruno Galindo
Brazil
Biographies,Creation Documentary and Cullture.
01:30:00

100 years after the São Paulo Modern Art Week, the black painter brothers João and Arthur Timotheo da Costa return from the dead with a question: why were they forgotten by the modernist movement they helped to found? Trying to answer the question the brothers begin where they worked as teens, pass through the atelier where they improve their techniques and end up at the Psychiatric Hospital of Rio de Janeiro, where both died before 45 years old.
Director: Bruno Galindo / Producer: Fernanda Lomba Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies,Creation Documentary and Cullture. / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: FULL HD - 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2025
Awards and festivals:Apan – Doc Lab
Centro AfroCarioca – Gira de Projetos

Verde-Esperanza -Legal abortion in Latin America
by Maria Lutterbach
Brazil, Colombia and Argentine
Human Rights, Polítics and Social affairs
1:10:00

A women-led street movement has led Argentina and Colombia to decriminalize abortion in recent years. By presenting the “Green Wave” and the successful experiences in neighboring countries, the film shows the urgency of this debate in Brazil. Women who are at the forefront of the fight for reproductive rights report the present situation in each country. Those who have already conquered autonomy over their own bodies tell how it was possible.
Director: Maria Lutterbach / Producer: Claudia Lima / Production company: Filmes da Fonte / Country: Brazil, Colombia and Argentine / Genre: Human Rights, Polítics and Social affairs / Duration: 1:10:00 / Format: H.264 / Language: Português e Espanhol / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Financial support R$ 60 mil Ford Foundation and Open Society Foundations

You shall see no country
by Thiago B. Mendonça e Marcos Escrivão
Brazil
History,Human Rights and Polítics.
02:00:00

What is the relationship between extreme right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro and criminal groups in Rio de Janeiro? This documentary narrates the relationship between power and organized crime groups that were established during the military dictatorship, reaching the present day with the militias, which control extensive territories, in a logic that began in Rio de Janeiro and is slowly extending to the rest of the country.
Director: Thiago B. Mendonça e Marcos Escrivão / Producer: Renata Jardim / Production company: Memória Viva / Country: Brazil / Genre: History,Human Rights and Polítics. / Duration: 02:00:00 / Format: HD / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Prêmio de complementação PROAC SP
Brasil CineMundi

Zozimo Bulbul – The flight of nightingale
by Vantoen Pereira Jr e Sabrina Garca
Brazil
Biographies, Polítics and Social affairs
01:30:00

Zózimo Bulbul, born Jorge da Silva, was a great black ator and cineast in Brazil. He fought against the dictatorship and racism in society. With his art, Zózimo occupied places not reached before by black people. What is the impact of this artistic influence on a black family
in a country as deeply racist as Brazil? How his legacy dialogues with the lives of young till this day? Rescuing the memory of Zozimo Bulbul is an open debt to society.
Director: Vantoen Pereira Jr e Sabrina Garca / Producer: Leo Ribeiro / Production company: Tv Zero / Country: Brazil / Genre: Biographies, Polítics and Social affairs / Duration: 01:30:00 / Format: 4K / Language: Portuguese / Year: 2023
Awards and festivals:Riofilme 2021 – Desenvolvimento de Documentários Brasil Cinemundi – 13o International Coproduction Meeting 2022