Felipe Braga

Felipe Braga is the creator of Samantha! and co-creator of Sintonia, shows produced by LB Entertainment for Netflix, and Lov3 (for Amazon, in its pre-production stages), as well as Latitudes and Neymar Jr's Life Outside the Fields - both nominated for International Emmys. Recently selected by Variety as one of Latin America's New Emerging Talents behind the screen, Felipe has written HBO Latin America series such as "Mandrake" (nominated for an International Emmy) and Destino, and feature films like Legalize Já and Cabeça a Prêmio. His first work as a director was B1, a feature documentary, followed by the feature fiction film Latitudes, part of a cross-media project in partnership with YouTube and TNT, presented at Locarno Festival. Felipe Braga, a founding partner of LB Entertainment alongside Rita Moraes, worked as a writer for production companies such as O2 (City of God) in Brazil, and others like London-based Working Title (in Trash, by Stephen Daldry). A SXSW Film panelist for four consecutive years, Felipe's latest projects include directing the HBO original feature documentary Principal Dancer, and the screenplay for Marighella, directed by Wagner Moura, with world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.

Works

Lov3

Siblings Ana, Sofia and Beto try to outrun conventional relationships, like their parents' 30-year-long marriage, which has just come to an abrupt end.

Release Date:2022-02-18

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:7

Marighella

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

Release Date:2021-01-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:125

Sintonia

Told through three different characters' perspectives, the story of Sintonia explores the interconnection of the music, drug traffic, and religion in São Paulo. In the quest to be somebody, many paths will converge.

Release Date:2019-08-09

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:210

Samantha!

A child star in the '80s, Samantha clings to the fringes of celebrity with hilarious harebrained schemes to launch herself back into the spotlight.

Release Date:2018-07-06

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:19

Principal Dancer

Principal Dancer is a mesmerizing look on how a young artist's journey is defined by his ability to challenge his own limits and to reinvent himself. Brazilian hip-hop performer turned into Royal Ballet's principal dancer Thiago Soares unveils the backstage of the Royal Opera House, in London, as he rehearses alongside some of the most outstanding names in contemporary dance - and prepares to go back home, in Rio de Janeiro, where he'll face one of his life's most challenging presentations.

Release Date:2017-10-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Legalize it!

The meeting between two young guys, Marcelo —in the future, Marcelo D2— and Skunk , who sold t-shirts and cassette tapes in the center of Rio de Janeiro to survive, resulted in one of the most popular bands in Brazil in the 1990’s, Planet Hemp. Suppressed by a prejudiced society, the two made of their music a cry of alertness and resistance, conquering the hearts and minds of an entire generation.

Release Date:2017-10-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:33

Trash

Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

Release Date:2014-10-09

Department:Crew

Job:Additional Writing

Vote Count:616

Latitudes

Olívia, a fashion executive, and José, a photographer, gets together in Paris, having casual sex and talking a little about relationships. And, in some days, they meet again in another city. And another one. And another... Latitudes is a trip around the world, the love and the poem of living.

Release Date:2014-02-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:9

Mandrake

An intriguing case lands on Mandrake's desk. Just when he thinks he has it solved, some unexpected news changes the course of events.

Release Date:2012-11-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Cabeça a Prêmio

The Menezes, a powerful family of animal breeders from the Mid-West, have always been at the helm of all illegal dealings in the region. In recent times, they've watched as the system that protected them for so many years slowly disintegrates. Mirão Menezes lives at the mercy of the drug-trafficking industry, the ever-encroaching authorities, and the constant and violent power struggle with his brother Abílio. Mirão's daughter Elaine becomes involved with her father's pilot, finds herself pregnant and decides to flee with him after her Uncle Abílio bribes them. Brito, the hitman sent to find the couple and finish them off, is ironically also victim of a love story.

Release Date:2010-08-20

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:3