Fernando Bonassi (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 Himself

Vote Count1

Supermax

Release Date2017-04-04

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Series Creator

Episode Count12

Vote Count6

Força-Tarefa

Força-Tarefa is a Brazilian television series directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and Mário Márcio Bandarra and written by Fernando Bonassi Marçal Aquino. The series aired two season since April 16, 2009 on Rede Globo.

Release Date2009-04-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count30

Vote Count3

Tainted

After three years locked up for a crime he didn’t commit, former police officer André Câmara is back on the streets working as a bounty hunter and determined to prove his innocence. Gripping, south American sizzler charting the action from the mean streets of Brazil to the bedrooms of the law enforcers.

Release Date2014-04-11

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count4

Carcereiros

Release Date2017-09-04

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count7

Supermax

Twelve people are confined together in an abandoned maximum security prison in the middle of the Amazon forest, and end up having to fight for their lives against unknown creatures and supernatural odds.

Release Date2016-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count12

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 Date2003-03-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count565

Carandiru: The Series

Release Date2005-06-10

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

Release Date2004-06-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count238

Plastic City

Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle, stand at the head of a massive pirated goods operation that brings in both money and influence. But their empire is crumbling, as corrupt politicians and rival gangs seek to end their power in the city. Yuda is soon got arrested and his dedicated son tries his best to save not just the family business, but his father's reputation.

Release Date2009-03-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Tungstênio

A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.

Release Date2018-06-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count13

Sonhos Tropicais

A Polish Jew becomes a prostitute after failing to get a marriage in Brazil. Meanwhile, the public health doctor Oswaldo Cruz ends up involved in the Vaccine Revolt.

Release Date2001-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Lula, the Son of Brazil

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in Brazilian history.

Release Date2010-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count84

Através da Janela

Selma, a retired nurse, is an extremely loving mother for his son Raimundo, in an almost incestuous relationship. One day, she becomes aware of some changes in her son's behavior. At first, she thinks it may be some girlfriend. But soon she learns it's something else.

Release Date2000-04-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Carcereiros: O Filme

Adriano is an honest prison guard who is averse to violence. He tries to keep the prison peaceful, even though he is struggling with major family problems. The arrival of Abdel, a dangerous international terrorist, increases the tension in the prison, which is already experiencing days of terror due to the fight between two criminal factions. Now, Adriano will have to face a rebellion and control Abdel's every move.

Release Date2019-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count26

It's Dough That Girls Like

After watching an erotic animation in the movie theater, Ana falls in love for the lead character, the "macho man" Valdisnei. She tries to reach him through telephone, and she deceives him through an invitation to an audition. While in the audition, a tragedy happens.

Release Date1998-08-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Belly Up

Two hit men, a veteran and a beginner, chatter in a bar on Brazil-Paraguai border, while waiting for their victim to appear.

Release Date1997-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count7

A Starry Sky

A woman ready to move away from Brazil is kidnapped by her jealous ex-lover.

Release Date1996-07-08

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count3

Garotas do ABC

Aurélia is a young black woman who works at a factory and lives in a working-class neighborhood in São Paulo, whose boyfriend Fábio gets involved with a racist neo-nazi group.

Release Date2003-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobCo-Writer

Vote Count18

Dov'è Meneghetti?

Release Date1989-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobCo-Writer

Vote Count2

Luz, Câmera, 50 Anos: Força-Tarefa - O Filme

Release Date2015-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

A Revolta dos Carnudos

In this world of appearances, patients at a weight loss clinic revolt and decide to prove that they can be happy the way they are.

Release Date1991-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

O Trabalho dos Homens

Release Date1997-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector