FEATURE FILMS
RECEBA!
[BOOYAH!]
Fiction | Feature Film | BA
“Receba!” is the first feature film of the duo Pedro Perazzo and Rodrigo Luna. The plot of the film involves a purse stuffed with a content that is both valuable and illegal – besides being stolen. The chase for the purse – and the small fortune it contains – engages a former box player, a corrupted police officer that fears shed blood, his partner who is trying to quit smoking and the dangerous command of local crime, and also a boy that, being at the wrong place at the wrong time, ends up in the middle of the turmoil.
Directors: Pedro Perazzo and Rodrigo Luna (BA)
Partnership: Ideograma Produções Culturais (BA), Buhfu! Filmes (BA) and Vatapá Produções (BA/RJ)
Actions: Execution of a fiction feature film (2021) Provided Services: Fundraising, Production and Budgetary Management
Funded by: Secretariat of Culture of the state of Bahia and Audiovisual Sectoral Funds
Stage: Distribution
Awards: Best Film – Popular Jury (25 th Cine Festival PE) and Best Film – Popular Jury (XVII Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema)
CAIS
Documentary | Feature Film | BA
“Cais” is documentary feature film that follows the pursuit by the director, Safira Moreira, of the missing image of her grandmother, Maria do Carmo, a black woman from Bahia, who was born in the 1920s and worked her whole life as a washerwoman and a housekeeper.
Directors: Safira Moreira (BA)
Actions: Execution of a documentary feature film (2022)
Provided Services: Fundraising, Production and Budgetary Management
Funded by: AVON and Rumos Itaú Cultural
Stage: Fundraising
Events and Lab: Doc Brasil Immersion (SP); Brasil Cine Mundi (MG); DOCSP (SP); Miradas Doc (Spain); 2 º Laboratorio Internacional en Desarrollo de Proyectos de Largometraje Documental “Filma Afro Cartagena” [2 nd International Laboratory for the Development of Feature Documentary Projects – Filma Afro Cartagena] (Colombia); V Salón de Productores [5 th Producers’ Saloon] (Colombia); DOCMONTEVIDEO (Uruguai); SANFIC (Chile) e FIDBA (Argentina)
MENARCA
[MENARCHE]
Documentary | Feature Film | BA
A documentary feature film on menstrual cycles, in particular the first menstruation that divides childhood and adolescence of young people of the feminine gender. From testimonials of girls and women in different age ranges and fertile stages of life, the work seeks to discuss the biological, psychological and social experienced changes as well as to reflect on the representation of menstruation in audiovisual projects, mythologies and rituals.
Directors: Lara Carvalho (Lua da Maré / BA)
Actions: Execution of a documentary feature film (2022)
Provided Services: Fundraising, Production and Budgetary Management
Funded by: Ministry of Culture
Stage: Pre-production
QUITERIA
Fiction | Feature Film | BA
In 1822, Maria Quitéria runs away from her father’s farmer in the countryside of Bahia to enlist herself in the National Army and fight the battles for the independence of Brazil. Taken by the desire to defend her nation, Quitéria faced the prejudice of being the only woman in an environment dominated by men, politics and violence, as for becoming one of the highest symbols of bravery and liberty in the history of the country.
Scriptwriter: Lara Carvalho (Lua da Maré / BA)
Actions: Fiction Feature Film Script development (2021)
Provided Services: Fundraising, Production and Budgetary Management
Funded by: Ministry of Culture
Stage: Development
THE HIGH TIDE OF SYZYGIES
Fiction | Feature Film | BA
Inspired by the production of a poet and an Afro-Brazilian forgotten psychiatrist, two black women, recently out of a strong creative block, get together to make a collaborative work. One is a musician and wants to compose a musical-performance play; the other, a filmmaker, desires the creation of an experiential documentary film. The implication is the filming of a difficult and troubled creative process amidst the rainy season in the city of Salvador-BA.
Scriptwriter: Diego Araúja (BA)
Partnership: Àràká Platform
Actions: Fiction Feature Film Script development (2021)
Provided Services: Fundraising, Production and Budgetary Management
Funded by: Secretariat of Culture of the state of Bahia through the Aldir Blanc Act
Stage: Development
O MAR QUE MORA EM MIM
[THE SEA THAT INHABITS WITHIN]
Fiction | Feature Film | BA
Miguel is a Cape Verdean orphan teenage that illegally crossed the Atlantic to land in the city of Salvador driven by the desire to become a soccer player. After overcoming an immediate deportation, he was able to remain in the country thanks to Fátima, a civil servant at the Juvenile Court who was moved by his case. With a maternal relationship established with her, Miguel plunges into a storm of sensations, a profound journey into his own self.
Scriptwriters: Matheus Vianna and Victor Uchôa (BA)
Actions: Fiction Feature Film Script development (2017)
Provided Services: Fundraising and Budgetary Management
Funded by: Audiovisual Sectoral Funds
Stage: Development
Events and Lab: Panlab III - Laboratório de Roteiros do Panorama [Panlab III – Panorama Script Lab]
