Yoya Wursch (Writer)

The Screenwriter

32 renowned Brazilian screenwriters of the contemporary Brazilian cinema talk about their creative processes. From the concept of script to their agreements and disagreements, going through their experiences with filmmakers, their reaction to the finished film, critic, and even controversies on auteurism.

Release Date2012-01-01

Charactersd Herself

Vote Count1

O Beijo

Two women, caught up in existential questions, search for answers to the best way to live.

Release Date1980-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Young Hearts

Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School.

Release Date1995-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count270

Vote Count32

Vende-se um Véu de Noiva

Release Date2009-06-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count177

Dance Dance Dance

Release Date2007-10-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Metamorphoses

Release Date2004-03-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count122

Vote Count1

Bete Balanço

A small town girl, who's an aspiring singer, tries to make a living out of music in the big city of Rio de Janeiro.

Release Date1984-07-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count17

Summer Dream

Grieved over the loss of their daughter, an elderly couple has decided do spend their vacation travelling around Europe. The cab driver who takes them to the airport, Leo, overhears their conversation and decides to profit from their situation: Leo convinces the couple's staff he's their nephew, and invites his friends and girlfriend over for a special summer. Things go awry when his friend Marcelo arrives with a bus full of teenagers, who believe the mansion is actually a summer camp.

Release Date1990-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count15

O Bebê

Marta, a young mother, hardly believes when she hears her young baby speak. She tries to convince the other people in the family of the fact, but soon discovers the baby only speaks with her, even in English.

Release Date1987-10-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Crystal Moon

The fairy tale story of Maria da Graça, a small town girl with big time dreams of becoming a singer, who moves to Rio de Janeiro to pursue her ambitions.

Release Date1990-06-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count101

Copacabana

Moments before turning 90 years of age, Alberto remembers his life, lived in Copacabana, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The film is a comedy about old age nowadays, with Copacabana as a background.

Release Date2001-07-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Minha Vida Em Suas Mãos

After being fired from his job and have his unemployment insurance money robbed, a young man decides to become a robber himself. While escaping authorities, he meets a female teacher of whom he takes hostage. Things get complicated when they fall in love with each other.

Release Date2001-05-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Sexo Frágil

To get money and produce the play in which his girlfriend acts, an unemployed actor dresses up as a woman and falls in love with a millionaire widower.

Release Date1986-08-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

O Mistério no Colégio Brasil

Two students make a date in a secluded cave behind their school, where they could be undisturbed. But on arrival they see a corpse. They run to inform the authorities, but when they arrive the corpse has mysteriously disappeared.

Release Date1988-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Black Gaucho

In the south of Brazil, cattle raiding and criminal fires are a huge problem to farmers, until the arrival of the Black Gaucho, a masked knight, a mixture of legend and punisher.

Release Date1991-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Rádio Pirata

A couple is charged with murdering a friend after discovering a fraud scheme at a data-processing center. They hide in a van, where they set up a clandestine station, so they start to report the fact, seeking to mobilize public opinion until it becomes a national scandal.

Release Date1987-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8