Giba Assis Brasil
Gilberto José Pires de Assis Brasil, known as Giba Assis Brasil (Porto Alegre, April 5, 1957) is a Brazilian professor, director, screenwriter and film and television editor.
Works
Enxame
Release Date2024-12-17
Charactersd V.O
Na Ilha
Immersive documentary in the film editing process. Twenty Brazilian cinema editors expose the nuances of this art, its secrets and processes.
Release Date2019-07-25
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Brava Gente
Brava Gente was a television series aired by TV Globo in Brazil between 2000 and 2003, initially as a special year-end. The program was adapted from stories and national stories, and plays by famous playwrights, screenwriters and signed by a number represented by several actors and actresses. The genres of the stories varied each week with the style of each director or author. Brava Gente in the stories ranged from comedies and dramas. In all 53 episodes were shown, broadcast on Tuesday nights.
Release Date2000-12-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Agosto
The series tells the story of a criminal investigation into the murder of businessman Paulo Gomes de Aguiar at the beginning of August. In the midst of the Vargas government crisis, the murder case is taken by police commissioner Alberto Mattos, an honest and incorruptible man who is not well regarded by his co-workers, as the place is totally turned over to corruption.
Release Date1993-08-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count16
Vote Count4
Sweet Mother
Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends. Sweet Mother illustrates the everyday life of the elderly with clarity and levity, and shows that youth actually starts at 80. In the role that earned her the 2013 International Emmy® Awards for Best Actress, Fernanda Montenegro adds another success to her list of characters, which includes an Oscar nomination for the film Central Station.
Release Date2014-01-30
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Episode Count14
Vote Count4
Luna Caliente
Ramiro is a 40-year-old lawyer and university professor who returns to Brazil after eight years of exile in France as a result of the military dictatorship. Recently separated from Dora, he meets Elisa, the youngest daughter of a couple of friends of his parents, who will turn his life upside down.
Release Date1999-12-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
dr4g0n
Release Date2024-07-18
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Episode Count1
The Man Who Copied
A young photocopier operator becomes infatuated with his neighbor and, unable to afford anything from her shop, turns to shady schemes to make money.
Release Date2003-06-13
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count354
Basic Sanitation, the Movie
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, but does have a federal grant to make a movie, a group of villagers decide to make a sci-fi joint about a monster who lives in the building site of a septic tank.
Release Date2007-07-20
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count109
Isle of Flowers
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women and children. And then the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
Release Date1989-09-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count212
Virgínia e Adelaide
Adelaide and Virgínia met in 1937, a year after the German arrived in Brazil, fleeing the Nazi persecution of the Jews, where she came with her husband and two daughters. Together, they founded and popularized psychoanalysis in Brazil, breaking down barriers and prejudices. They were doctor and patient for 5 years, colleagues for more than 30 years, great friends their entire lives.
Release Date2025-05-08
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count1
Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This
During the Carnival in the historical site of Pelourinho, Salvador da Bahia, we follow the lives of the tenants of a falling-to-pieces tenement house who try to get by using creativity, irony, humor, and music.
Release Date2007-03-30
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count193
The Sandwich
A couple's last moments: their meetings, separations and a sandwich.
Release Date2000-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count5
Tolerância
Julius is a photographer working as a men's magazine photo retoucher. His wife, Marcia, is a criminal lawyer who defends Teodoro, a squatter accused of murder. For years they had a quiet wedlock. However, Marcia gets involved with her client, and as revenge, Julius sleeps with Ana Maria, a friend of their daughter Guida. From this episode on, their lives are no longer the same.
Release Date2000-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count16
Homens de Bem
Ciba (Rodrigo Santoro) is an independent investigator who works together with the police. A typical fallible hero who struggles with strong personal issues, while preventing crime and injustice. His partner, Deputy Ulisses (Luis Miranda), is a well-meaning professional who recognizes the difficulty in securing his function using only common artifacts, and Ciba's unofficial contact is of utmost importance for the progress of his investigations.
Release Date2011-12-29
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count1
My Uncle Killed a Guy
Éder is arrested after confessing the murder of a man. Duca, his nephew, is sure that his uncle confessed the crime to protect his girlfriend, Soraya, ex-wife of the deceased, so he enlists two of his friends to help prove his theory.
Release Date2004-12-12
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count164
Super Colosso
Movie version of Brazillian children's television series TV Colosso.
Release Date1995-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Real Beleza
Photographer gets involved with a family as he seeks for a new model in a small town.
Release Date2015-07-13
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count8
O Mentiroso
The friendship between four men is at stake when one of them is invited to work in another city. But the other three decide to go along.
Release Date1988-01-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Obscenidades
A bourgeois housewife's life is shaken by a series of anonymous letters that she periodically receives, increasingly obscene. At first, she believes the sender to be a complete stranger, then she begins to suspect her husband's friends. But she doesn't dare talk to her husband about the letters or their contents: she remains anxious, thinking about suicide, and always waiting for the postman.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Sweet Mother
Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. As the matriarch of a big family, she is involved in the daily lives of her children, grandchildren and other relatives. Undeterred by the typical problems of old age, she uses her many years of experience to solve problems in the best way possible.
Release Date2012-12-27
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count17
Estrada
Release Date1995-01-02
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count1
Rend Your Heart
40 years after fighting for what he thought was new and revolutionary, a former anonymous militant against the now fallen Brazilian dictatorship is accused of being conservative, antiquated and anachronistic by his own son.
Release Date2018-10-15
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count13
Before the World Ends
The countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, and high-school student, Daniel, spends a normal adolescence life with his family, studying, riding his bicycle, playing games on the Internet and expecting one day to move to the big city of Porto Alegre. Daniel has a crush on his girlfriend Mim, who has just broken up with him but is still his friend, and his best friend, Lucas, is one of the best students in São Lucas High-School. Daniel is the son of Elaine and the photographer Daniel, who left Elaine when she was pregnant and moved alone to Thailand. Daniel is raised by Elaine and his stepfather Antônio, and shares a house with his half-sister, Maria Clara. One day, Daniel receives a letter from his biological father, who has malaria, and he is reluctant to open the envelope.
Release Date2010-08-20
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count9
Verdes Anos
In the 1970s, in the midst of political repression and the ideology of the "Brazilian miracle", a group of teenagers live their daily concerns: the future, nights full of dancing, dating fights, conflicts with their parents. For three days they live their green years, a little more than a dream.
Release Date1984-05-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Barbosa
Thirty-eight years after the 1950 World Cup, a man went back in time to prevent the goal that defeated Brazil, destroyed his childhood dreams and ended goalkeeper Barbosa's career.
Release Date1988-06-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
Rummikub
To whom does the poison belongs? to the young lovers? or to their parents, whom in old hands "behold rusted hatred"?
Release Date2007-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
The Staple of News
Written in 1625 by the British playwright Ben Jonson, the play “The Staple of News” provides a historic root for this discussion about the role of the press in modern day Brazil. Journalists of several generations discuss the dilemmas of the selection and focus of their subjects, the resistance of the media in accepting itself as a political agent, the inevitability of interpretation as there are no hard facts in nature, and above all the search for an always complex balance between credibility and the public’s growing demand for news.
Release Date2014-04-09
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count3
The Day Dorival Faced the Guard
Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison.
Release Date1986-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count19
Trampolim
Teenager preparing for diving competition identifies with suicides who jumped from an old viaduct in Porto Alegre.
Release Date1998-08-14
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Até a Vista
Young filmmaker is looking for a story for his first feature film. In an attempt to obtain the copyright for a novel, the young man accepts the author's unusual proposal and together they set off in search of an old love of the writer.
Release Date2012-05-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Ventre Livre
Is the country of the future where children get pregnant? Is the largest Catholic country in the world where more than thirty thousand women die as a result of abortion? Is the 10th largest economy on the planet where 27% of women are sterilized? VENTRE LIVRE tells the story of Vera, Ivonete, Carmen, Denise, Maria do Carmo, Marlove - people who were born in the country with the most unequal income distribution on the planet. A documentary about reproductive rights in Brazil, while the future is not yet here.
Release Date1994-08-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
3 Minutes
Three minutes. The time to leave a message. Passing the baton and run 1600 meters. To cook an egg. The time to make a decision that can change your life.
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count4
Cretinália
Short film by Jorge Furtado, for the "Programa Convida", from IMS, dedicated to creation during quarantine.
Release Date2020-09-03
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Through Ernesto's Eyes
Ernesto, a seventy-eight-year-old Uruguayan photographer living in Brazil, faces the limitations of old age. One day, Bia storms into his life. And Ernesto realizes that aging can be about rejuvenating with the company of a girl.
Release Date2019-10-04
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count3
Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Ó Paí, Ó - O Filme
During Carnival at the historic site of Pelourinho, we follow the lives of tenants in a run-down rental house who try to survive using creativity, irony, humor and music. This is an adaptation of the TV show, not the 2007 movie which inspired the TV show.
Release Date2015-01-14
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count8
Sal de Prata
After her boyfriend's death, a successful executive finds some unfinished scripts in the dead man's computer, and decides to make a film of them. Her relationship with the world of movie-making is going to change her life.
Release Date2005-09-23
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count2
Quem É Primavera das Neves
The starting point is an unlikely name, Primavera das Neves, a translator of Lewis Carroll, Daniel Defoe and Julio Verne, who disappeared without a trace in the 1960s. Could it be a pseudonym? The search for a name found an extraordinary woman and a life dedicated to beauty and truth. And then a letter arrived warning that the story was only just beginning.
Release Date2017-04-22
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count2
Temporal
In the same house, on the same night, two groups meet. One, made up of very serious gentlemen, members of a religious-monarchist order. The other, a bunch of crazy people in animal costumes, at a party with sex and rock’n’roll. When the storm starts and the lights go out, anything can happen.
Release Date1984-04-12
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Veja Bem
Release Date1994-01-02
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vai Dar Nada
Kelson is a young worker who uses his motorcycle to escape the police and win Neide's love. He buys a new motorcycle from swindler Fernando, without knowing that it belonged to a dangerous drug dealer, who got out of prison and now wants it back.
Release Date2022-05-18
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count6
Two Summers
A coming of age dramatic comedy dealing with the effect that two "summers" have on the lives of several teenagers. The main story involves an innocent teenage boy and a conniving teenage girl who meet on a beach one summer in Southern Brazil. They meet up again the following summer
Release Date2002-12-28
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count18
A Matadeira
Canudos was a small village in northeastern Brazil, founded by the messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and massacred by a powerful army until the death of the last of its 30,000 inhabitants, on October 5, 1897. The film tells the story of the Canudos massacre from an English cannon, nicknamed by the backlands people "A Matadeira", which was transported by twenty teams of oxen through the backlands to fire a single shot.
Release Date1994-01-02
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
El padre de Gardel
For thirty years, Carlos Escayola was the main politician of the small town of Tacuarembó, Uruguay. This farmer was known both for his political and cultural achievements (including the construction of a theater), and for the reputation of seducer, which earned him one of the greatest family polemics in the history of the region.
Release Date2013-06-06
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vicious
Sid and Nancy: impossible love between unviable beings. Anguish explodes into blood delusions. Torn by contradictions, the desperate search is the only way. But every crime brings its punishment. The synthesis between agony and ecstasy is often fatal.
Release Date1988-06-20
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Deu Pra Ti Anos 70
Deu Pra Ti Anos 70 is a Brazilian film, shot in super-8 in 1981 in the city of Porto Alegre. It tells the story of the meetings and disagreements between Marcelo and Ceres through the 1970s, in bars, dance meetings and camps. It has the special participation of artists who would become important in the gaúcho music scene, such as Nei Lisboa, Júlio Reny, Augusto Licks, Wander Wildner and Carlos Gerbase. It was the first film by actor Werner Schünemann.
Release Date1981-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Gigantes do Deserto
Mandatory article in the home of any Colorado fan, DVD Internacional Gigantes do Deserto recalls the epic Dubai Cup conquest by Internacional in 2008. Review as many times as you want the historic goals of Fernandão and Nilmar, in the final against Internazionale in Milan. Watch testimonials, plays and interviews that tell another achievement of Inter de Porto Alegre
Release Date2008-04-29
DepartmentEditing
JobEditorial Manager
Dona Cristina Perdeu a Memória
Antônio, an 8-year-old boy, discovers that his neighbor Cristina, 80, tells different stories about her life, the names of her relatives and the saints of the day. And Mrs. Cristina believes that Antônio can help her recover her lost memory.
Release Date2002-08-14
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count1
Anauê! - O Integralismo e o nazismo na região de Blumenau
Release Date2017-06-22
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Deus Ex-Machina
Dolores, a beautiful, wealthy and paralyzed woman, hires detective Otávio to follow her husband Inácio and find out what his real relationship is with a young woman named Alice. A story of lies, false leads and obscure motivations, in which four characters of dubious morals try to appear honest to each other.
Release Date1995-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
O Resto é Silêncio
A reporter goes out to investigate a suicide.
Release Date2005-06-07
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Naval Battle
The disaster of the fall of a bridge, followed by the greatest of all disasters: human stupidity.
Release Date1992-08-16
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Me Beija
Release Date1984-06-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Aqueles Dois
Raul and Saul work at the same office. Raul, outgoing and good-natured, comes from a broken marriage. Saul is shy, with a critical and bitter disposition, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt. In spite of their differences, they become quite good friends. But their colleagues begin to wonder whether there's something beyond friendship between them.
Release Date1985-05-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count7
This Is Not Your Life
Noeli lives in a suburb of Porto Alegre, is a housewife and has two children. She was born in a country town, went to the capital, worked in a bakery, got married. She's an ordinary person. But there are no ordinary people.
Release Date1991-01-02
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count2
O Futuro da Terra
In the 30 de Maio settlement, in Charqueadas, Rio Grande do Sul, 40 families settled in 1990 show that it is possible to resist, produce and live collectively from the land. Just one example of how generous the Brazilian land can be when men and women work with everyone's future in mind.
Release Date1997-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Sexo & Beethoven - O Reencontro
Two straight (but not really) guys invite two naive (but not really) prostitutes for a night of sex. In the preliminary conversations, a little poetry, a lot of philosophy and heavy doses of vulgarity, all with Beethoven in the background. But when it comes to sex, the truth comes out.
Release Date1997-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Meu Pai
Álvaro, 12 years old, is the only child of separated parents. He is in a phase of many doubts and concerns. He wants to grow up soon, but did his father take too long to grow up? What did the father do with the girls? It's difficult to ask, Alvaro's father has a strange way of saying things.
Release Date2014-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Interlúdio
Between a desperate love, the kind that ends up with the dishes on the floor, and a romantic passion, the kind that seems like it will never end, a supermarket goer has a temporary affair with the girl at the checkout.
Release Date1983-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
E se Cale
The young poet Cristal Rocha, winner of the Slam Brasil 2017 circuit, reflects on what Censorship means for the Brazilian peripheral black population.
Release Date2018-10-16
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Ângelo Anda Sumido
Two friends try to get to a restaurant for dinner and get lost in the labyrinth of bars, walls and fences in a city.
Release Date1997-01-02
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Coisa na Roda
Four students live in an urban community, where, in principle, everything can be discussed, divided, shared: each one's allowance, personal objects, relationships, political commitments. But things start to change with the arrival of a fifth resident, older and disillusioned, who puts in check the capacity of each one to live according to their ideas.
Release Date1981-08-15
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
O Velho do Saco
Ricardo is 10 years old, lives in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and has nightmares about Velho do Saco, sort of a Brazilian bogeyman, “who takes out the eyes of misbehaving children”. It is not easy to distinguish truths and lies when the loss of innocence is confused with the loss of sight.
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Festa de Casamento
A wedding in the interior of Rio Grande, 1930. Among the guests, a lover of the bride, accompanied by his pregnant wife. Amid the joy of the party, the lovers decide to run away. So, the groom gathers a group of friends and sets out to seek revenge.
Release Date1990-08-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
O Corpo de Flávia
A fifteen-year-old girl is beaten by her father and seeks shelter at a friend's house. Between tears and sobs, she watches her friend's father. He feels sorry for a child, but she is a woman. Tonight, they will have to discover the difference between passion and compassion.
Release Date1990-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
O Zeppelin Passou por Aqui
Porto Alegre anxiously awaits the passage of the German airship towards Montevideo. Júlio, an accountant, finds a way not to take his wife Mariana, a seamstress, who stays at home, sad. But while Júlio and his lover Leda see very little of Zeppelin, Mariana, at home, indulges in an overwhelming passion.
Release Date1993-08-09
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Au Revoir Shirlei
Release Date1991-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Ponte Hercílio Luz: Patrimônio da Humanidade
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Passengers
A typical criminal. A typical taxi driver. A typical route through the night of Porto Alegre, from the bus station to a deserted street. But at the time of the crime, the driver doesn’t react as he should. Meanwhile, on TV, Brazilian Minister of Justice make a speech against violence.
Release Date1987-04-28
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
O Caso do Linguiceiro
Release Date1995-01-01
Filme Sobre um Bom Fim
Bom Fim, in Porto Alegre, was a stronghold of the youth movement that took place between the 1970s and 1980s. The trajectory of the place is revisited through interviews with musicians and artists who lived those golden years.
Release Date2015-08-19
Vote Count1
Colônia Cecília
Release Date1989-07-31