Matias Mariani (Production)

Moving Up

The film follows the daily lives of residents of a community, made up of two favelas and a housing complex in São Paulo, which is about to undergo an urbanization process. However, possible urbanization generates resistance from residents of the most valued area of the neighborhood, in a movement known as “Not in my backyard”.

Release Date:2024-10-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

O Jogo Que Mudou a História

Release Date:2024-06-13

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:9

Shine Your Eyes

A Nigerian musician travels to Brazil to search for his estranged brother, who is living a life very different than the one his family thought.

Release Date:2020-02-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Pendular

The trajectory of a romantic couple of contemporary artists reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their artistic endeavors.

Release Date:2017-09-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:19

Bring It Inside

Telmo is a retired theater director that realizes he doesn't remember the time he spent kept in jail during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He decides to stage a play and, with threads of memory, he improvises the lines with his young cast. Telmo dives into his own history and ends up revealing for himself what, being so painful, he'd rather forget.

Release Date:2016-06-16

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:4

I Touched All Your Stuff

This is a film about Christopher Kirk, an American IT guy who moves to Colombia after reading about Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamuses. It is also a film about the story of V., a story that Kirk obsessively tells and retells about his infatuation with a mysterious Japanese-columbian woman. A story that may or may not have to do with his arrest in 2009 in Brazil for international drug trafficking. Moreover, it is also a film about two directors.

Release Date:2015-05-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Road 47

During World War II, looking up the Mountain, in Italy, a Brazilian Expeditionary Force - FEB - mines weeping platoon is hit by a panic-attack that sets them running aimlessly right in the middle of 'no man's land'. Desperate cold and hungry, the ill-prepared soldiers have to choose between facing military court or delve deeper into enemy lines. After a tense discussion, they decide to save their faces with the Brazilian Army by tackling a daring military objective: to disarm the most feared minefield in Italy. On their way there, they end meeting two others deserters; a remorseful Italian soldier trying to join the Partigianos and German officer who is just simply tired of war. with unexpected help of their ex-enemy, the soldiers are set to accomplish a mission that so far had been deemed impossible.

Release Date:2014-08-01

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:47

Trinta

Biopic about the late Joãozinho Trinta, a self-taught classical dancer who turned Rio's Carnival into an international phenomenon in the 1970s and '80s by directing parades for samba schools and putting focus on costumes and decor.

Release Date:2013-10-18

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:13

Família Imperial

Release Date:2012-09-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:20

Vote Count:3

Fios de Ovos

Release Date:2012-05-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

She Dreamed That I Died

This delicate and impressive collection of life experiences centers on a group of foreigners -- Chinese, Peruvian, North American, Senegalese, Australians, French -- who are trapped in Brazilian jails.

Release Date:2011-07-13

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Rio Sex Comedy

A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet it isn't until their different paths cross that they begin to understand why they came.

Release Date:2010-09-16

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:25

Adrift

A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.

Release Date:2009-07-31

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:72

CODA

Release Date:2008-02-02

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Elevado 3.5

A documentary about the crowd of people that commingle throughout the 3.5km of the Minhocão, an overpass in the central region of São Paulo, built during Brazil's military dictatorship.

Release Date:2007-04-03

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Drained

A pawn shop proprietor buys used goods from desperate locals – as much to play perverse power games as for his own livelihood, but when the perfect rump and a backed-up toilet enter his life, he loses all control.

Release Date:2006-09-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:138

Carandiru

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.

Release Date:2003-03-21

Department:Crew

Job:Post Production Assistant

Vote Count:551