Exclusive: Cristina Garza and her team will introduce worldwide buyers on the Croisette to the Brazilian thriller.
Tomas Portella directed Special Operations (Operações Especiais), about an elite crime-fighting unit in Rio.
When a female recruit arrives and must prove her worth she solves a crime that sparks celebration among the town’s inhabitants.
However it soon becomes clear that more powerful forces are at work and the community’s elite houses a corrupt core that does not appreciate the unit’s respect for the law.
Cleo Pires, Fabrício Boliveira from Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, Marcos Caruso, and Fabíula Nascimento star.
Mauro Lima, Tomas Portella and Martina Rupp wrote the screenplay, and Rodrigo Castellan and Lucas de Andrade served as producers. Paris Filmes distributed Special Operations in Brazil.
Mundial is a co-venture between Mexican producer and distributor Canana and Im Global.
Tomas Portella directed Special Operations (Operações Especiais), about an elite crime-fighting unit in Rio.
When a female recruit arrives and must prove her worth she solves a crime that sparks celebration among the town’s inhabitants.
However it soon becomes clear that more powerful forces are at work and the community’s elite houses a corrupt core that does not appreciate the unit’s respect for the law.
Cleo Pires, Fabrício Boliveira from Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, Marcos Caruso, and Fabíula Nascimento star.
Mauro Lima, Tomas Portella and Martina Rupp wrote the screenplay, and Rodrigo Castellan and Lucas de Andrade served as producers. Paris Filmes distributed Special Operations in Brazil.
Mundial is a co-venture between Mexican producer and distributor Canana and Im Global.
- 5/4/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Shout! Factory has signed a deal with California-based distributor Cinevox to release Brazilian Western (Faroeste Caboclo) in the Us and Canada.
René Sampaio directed and produced the crime drama that premiered in Toronto last autumn and is scheduled to play the Miami International Film Festival on March 8.
Fabrício Boliveira, Isis Valverde, Felipe Abib, Antônio Calloni, César Troncoso, Marcos Paulo and Flavio Bauraqui star.
Shout! Factory acquired select theatrical, exclusive digital and broadcast and home entertainment rights for the Us and Canada and plans a strategic rollout on multiple platforms and packaged media later this year.
Shout! Factory co-founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos made the announcement with Cinevox executive Andre Gaines.
René Sampaio directed and produced the crime drama that premiered in Toronto last autumn and is scheduled to play the Miami International Film Festival on March 8.
Fabrício Boliveira, Isis Valverde, Felipe Abib, Antônio Calloni, César Troncoso, Marcos Paulo and Flavio Bauraqui star.
Shout! Factory acquired select theatrical, exclusive digital and broadcast and home entertainment rights for the Us and Canada and plans a strategic rollout on multiple platforms and packaged media later this year.
Shout! Factory co-founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos made the announcement with Cinevox executive Andre Gaines.
- 3/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
It’s called Brazilian Western, but director René Sampaio’s debut feature film could better be described as something of an amalgamation of genres. The movie, set in 1980s Brasilia and loosely based on a popular Brazilian folk song of the same name, tells the story of an outlaw named João (Fabrício Boliveira) who moves to the bustling city to start his life anew. At first, things seem to go well: his distant cousin Pablo (Cesar Troncoso), a local drug pin, graciously takes him in. But then, a drug delivery on behalf of his cousin goes horribly wrong, putting him on the bad side of not only the corrupt cops but also the crazy drug dealer Jeremias (Felipe Abib) who has them all in his...
- 9/7/2013
- by Zeba Blay
- ShadowAndAct
From director René Sampaio comes an action/drama titled Brazilian Western (Faroeste Caboclo) which will screen at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, (making its Canadian premiere), in the Contemporary World Cinema section - a group that was announced this morning. Here's how Tiff describes it: Loosely based on legendary Brasilia rock band Legiao Urbana’s seminal folk song, René Sampaio’s lyrical, fable-like debut feature follows a young man from the provinces who decides to try his luck in the capital, where he falls in with a rough crowd — and falls for a senator’s daughter. The film stars Fabrício Boliveira, Isis Valverde, Felipe Abib, Antônio...
- 8/13/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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