ARANHAS FILMS PRODUCTION COMPANY Founded by AnahĂ Borges and Marcos Verdugo, Aranhas Films is a new production company from SĂŁo Paulo (Brazil) that invests in language research and experimentation of ideas and audiovisual forms. Launching young talent and participating in the interconnection of various filmmakers countries - particularly Latin America and Europe - the portfolio that Aranhas is building is marked by author projects in the area of film and television, as well as video clips and formats aimed at brand communication. Among the guiding values of the constitution of the company, there are: the plurality of artistic expression - reflected by the subdivision of the brand in the creative segments: Aranhas Books, Aranhas Kids, Aranhas Cultural and Aranhas Transmedia; the assemblage of ideas and internationalization, as demonstrated by partnerships with other Brazilian producers in the form of co-productions and others collaborations that transcend national borders.
FOUNDERS AND DIRECTORS ANAHÍ
BORGES
is graduated in Film at the University
of São Paulo and has specialized in script at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma. She was the screenwriter and the assistant director on several short films, Brazilian and Italian, including “Jennifer”, Renato Candido (5º CINECUFA Brazil-Mozambique) e “Un’altra volta”, Piero Messina (Milano Film Fest 2009). Collaborated in the argument of the short “L’estate che non viene” by Pasquale Marino, selected in the 64 th Festival du Cannes in the Cinéfondation and won the Onda Curta prize at the Venice International Film Festival 2011. She was the executive producer and 1st assistant director in the feature film “La felicità non è allegra” by Pasquale Marino, and the second assistant director in the soap opera Passione, Rede Globo Brazil, while filming in Italy. Recently she finished her short film “The Almighty Pety” and is writing the feature film “Portorosa”, by Pasquale Marino, selected by the Cannes Résidence 2012.
MARCOS VERDUGO
is a producer and screenwriter graduated
in cinema and philosophy. Worked as an executive producer for films and television series in several projects in São Paulo, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, as well as the producer in the shorts: “JB” by Celio Franceschet, “My Voice My Life” by Deivison Fiuza and “Beyond the seven colors”, by Camila Biau. He was the executive producer of the feature film “La felicitá non é allegra” by Pasquale Marino. Currently, he develops the feature film “Flores de Aurora” of the director Deivison Fiuza. In the academic area, besides the several courses in Production Planning and Executive Production, has studied and written about cinema policies in Brazil and Latin America, and is mastering a degree in script analysis at the University of Barcelona.
ARANHAS FILMS and the Creative Factory Concept It is designing the audiovisual production as “creative factory�, and therefore believing that a film is the sum of ideas, knowledge, intuition, talent, creativity and ideologies made in its interior, that Aranhas Films is entering the market as a production company/reflective movement that aims reflection and international rallying.
CONTRIBUTORS ARANHAS FILMS is the son of Italian
ANTONINO CARDILLO is an itinerant Italian architect. He
immigrants and spent his childhood and adolescence in Switzerland and in
was selected among the thirty best new young architectural practices
Calabria. He graduated in script at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di
from around the world in Wallpaper* magazine’s architect directory.
Roma and has in his curriculum numerous short films selected and awarded
Largely influenced by the film editing – above all by Antonioni, Kubrick,
in some of the most important film festivals in the world: “Giganti”, by Fabio
Lynch, Tarkovsky and Visconti –, his architectonic spaces attempt to
Mollo (58 ° Official Selection Berlinale), “L’estate che non viene,” by Pasquale
get to a new syncretic synthesis, which reconciles diverse fragments of
Marino (64 ° Official Selection Cannes Film Festival - Cinéfondation, a finalist
the reality, among which traditions, beliefs and cultures: he interprets
in Natri d’Argenti - journalists of Italian cinema). He is writing four feature
architecture as a way to connect people.
ANDREA
PAOLO
MASSARA
films projects for new directors, including: “Portorosa,” by Pasquale Marino (selected by the Résidence 2012) and “Il sud è niente”, by Fabio Mollo (selected by Atelier Cannes Film Festival and the Berlinale Talent Project Market and its production will start in the summer of 2012).
CHAIA DECHEN was born in India and spent her childhood and
DRIKA NERY is a writer, works in films, theatre and television. She is
adolescence in London, Brazil and California. Video Maker graduated in Digital Media Production at the University of the Arts – London and specialized in Film Direction at Academia Internacional de Cinema. She has been working as a video editor, producer, director and graphic designer. She’s part of Abravídeo’s team, a NGO whose mission is to work for the democratization of access to media tools and communication in order to enable social change. She’s also partner director of the socio-cultural production company Griô Productions that produces the yearly Afro Latin American and Caribbean woman’s festival in Brasilia.
formed by the Center for Dramatic Arts at SESI- British Council and she’s part of the Center for Contemporary Drama - CDC - since 2006. Currently working with Companhia Fábrica São Paulo, a theater company founded in the 80s and with the Teatro para Alguém, a group of scenic creation via internet which is innovation the relations between theatre and technology. Wrote and directed the shorts “Rua Augusta” (2005), “Realidade Experimental” (2004) and “Réstias” (2003).
ELENA FEDELI is an italian director of photography who was born in
ILARIA MACCHIA was
the 70s and developed several projects in the area of visual arts in Brazil and Italy. Filmmaker with over 18 years of experience, trained in cinematography at the London Independent Filmakers Coop, she held various positions in cinema and television, studying and working with professionals such that Abbas Kiarostami, Carlo Lizzani and Fernando Solanas. As a director of photography worked with several directors, including the german Tim Trachte (“A Girl Like You”, 2005), the Italians P. Demarzo (“Punto di Vista”, 2005), candidate for the award David of Donatello in 2006, Pasquale Marino (“La felicità non è allegra”, in post production). She was director of photography of the short film “The Almighty Pety”, by Anahí Borges.
southern Italy, between the sea and olive trees. She began to write because
born in San Donato, a small town in
she suffered from insomnia and hasn’t stopped since then. Wrote several short films, including “La Porta”, by Piero Messina (39° Rotterdam Film Festival); “La prova dell’uovo”, by Pasquale Marino (28° Torino Film Festival); “L’estate che non viene” by Pasquale Marino (64° Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation). She is writing three feature films projects for new directors, including: “Portorosa,” by Pasquale Marino (24th Résidence – Cinéfondation - Cannes).
LAURA CARVALHO
is an art director graduated at
University of São Paulo. She was a prop master and wardrobe assistant on several feature films including “A Deriva” (Heitor Dhalia, 2009) and “Estamos Juntos” (Toni Venturi, 2009). She was the art director on short films: “Samba Canção” (Jasmin Tenucci, 2006), “Descompasso” (Jasmin Tenucci, 2008) and “The Almighty Pety” (Anahí Borges, 2012). In the academic area, she has developed several projects about Color and film art direction: “Color in the Film analysis: the modern french movies”(Malaga University and Sevilha University, 2012), “Macunaima (Brazil, 1969): cinema and painting in their anthropophagic connections”(University of Leeds, 2010) and “Godard and Matisse: The modern way of color” which was presented at the international conference The Colour and the Moving Image (University of Bristol, England, 2009).
PASQUALE MARINO was born in the city of Messina, Sicily, Italy, in 1981. He graduated from the University of Rome 3 and specialized in film direction at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Between 2008 and 2011 he directed several short films including: “Le Sorelle Pasetto” (Belaria Film Festival 2010), “il tuo è un cigno corvo” (Torino Film Festival 2009) and “La prova dell’uovo” (Torino Film Festival 2010). His latest short film, “L’estate che non viene”, was selected in the 64 th Festival du Cannes in the Cinéfondation and won the Onda Curta prize at the Venice International Film Festival. He is in final post-production of his feature film “La felicitá non é allegra”, produced by Aranhas Films. Awarded by the program Résidence Cannes Film Festival, he is currently in Paris developing his latest feature film project entitled “Portorosa.”
GUSTAVO
MAXIMILIANO is graduated in Film and TV Studies at University of São Paulo. He’s also attended courses in directing and screenwriting at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was production manager on several short films including: “The almighty Pety” (Anahí Borges, 2012), “The Mai Brothers” (Thais Fujinaga, 2012) and in many internet advertisemens for companies like Ford Motors, Citroen, Itau Bank, Petrobras, among others. Gustavo produced the pilots “Tales of Obituary”, screened in the 2010 FIPA (Biarritz, France) and in the FITV 2010 (Rio de Janeiro), “Arrhythmia” (Claudia Pucci , 2011), and the web series “Botolovers”, aired in 2012. He was production assistant on the feature film “We’re Together” and in the telefilms “Alice – um especial em duas partes” shown on HBO in 2011. In 2010, he was the production manager of the fictional series “Vida de Estagiário” (“Intern’s life”), broadcast in 2011 on TV Brasil.
PORTFOLIO 2012 LINE UP
A FELICIDADE NÃO É ALEGRE (Happiness isn’t joyful) Bra/Ita ● HD ● post-production ● 75 min ● b/w ● 2012 dir: Pasquale Marino Manlio and Mary are recruited by a priest to take the body of Christ to the elderly and sick people. Manlio works in a melancholic ballroom. Mary lives as a servant of her brothers. When their lives touch themselves, both cling to the perspective of building up together an experience of love in the desolate landscape of Messina. (Sicily, Italy).
A word from the director Extensions of trash, dropped boats on the beach, irons bars for concrete beams that come out in the sand like contemporary art. Put on stage these elements usually related to the degradation isn’t an act of denunciation but an act of love for this landscape that has always existed in this state, and that before a trained eye to the framework, offers unique possibilities. It may be kidnapped by the ugliness, and having to give it a form, we encounter certain classical forms, a world… a world is necessary if one wants to tell a story.
(Pasquale Marino)
- Don’t be noisy while eating. It’s annoying.
- You can’t imagine how long they can stay alive. But, well,
- Sorry
they are going to die.
- I didn’t mean to be rude.
- And this is not shocking, for you?
- You meant to be sincere.
- No, it isn’t. One day you come and you find the coffin. You
- Maybe.
get used to it.
- I don’t know if I’m suitable for this service.
- The coffin for me is shocking. I want to be burnt.
- Maybe you would like to be on your own?
- I want to be thrown away in the rubbish!
- Not at all, I like staying with you… I like you. - So? - Old people…they are dying.
O MUNDO MÁGICO DE PETY (The Magical World of Pety) An animated series
technological progress. It’s the Brazil of our times, of the economic boom, of the G-8 and of the World Cup. In this landscape “futuristictropicalist” inspired by pictorial elements by brazilian modernist artists as Tarsila do Amaral and Alfredo Volpi, “The Magical World of Pety” recreates the magical world of childhood, addressing
children’s
archetypal
themes
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fear, loss, jealousy, possession, death, envy, omnipotence - and connects with legends, songs and Brazilian myths, besides the universal fables Bra ● in development ● 13 episodes ● 2012 Criação: Anahí Borges, Elena Fedeli, Laura Carvalho and Marcos Verdugo. It’s an animation series of 13 episodes with 15 min duration each. Tells the adventures of Petrolina, nicknamed Pety, a fanciful, creative six years old girl. The world around her is composed of quirky characters, sometimes extravagant, which illustrate an emerging, progressive and under social advancement Brazil. The story takes place in Tutaméia - tutta and mezza - brazilian imaginary small town under the process of industrialization, where the archaic coexists with the modern, the rural and urban, and reveals contradictions between the popular and the cosmopolitan, the rainforest and the development of
and folk tales.
Techniques used: cutout,
silhouette
animation
and
graphic
animation combined with the moving panorama.
THE LADY TRUCK DRIVER TEAM Screenplay development by Anahí Borges, Andrea Paolo Massara, Drika Nery, Ilaria Macchia dir: Anahí Borges Brazil’s economic boom. Four stories linked by a unique event: the election of the first female president. Inaê Amana, Pati Preta, Naty Guerrero and Lili Glamour are three women and a transsexual who work driving trucks and freight trucks on the roads of Brazil. Each one comes from a region of the country (North, Northeast, South and Southeast) and is characterized by different life histories, conflicts and private decisions. They are united by a common dream: to go to Brasilia, the federal capital and heart of Brazil, to witness the inauguration of the first female president of the country. “The Lady Truck Driver Team” is a feminine roadmovie that notes with optimism the sociocultural landscapes of a country at its economic miracle: the Brazil of international magazines and newspapers covers.
About the Film “The Lady Trucks” is a “tropicalism rock” story made by freedom and highways, with a hint of pink color. A film about the nuances of femininity in convoys of thirty meters and ninety tons. Women who work driving heavy trucks: a reality that reveals itself more present every day in Brazil and that shapes the landscape of national economic development. It is what attests the Union of Freight Conductors of São Paulo (Sindicapro) in recent national and from São Paulo data: <<at the wheel of large vehicles, women are now present in almost all transport companies in São Paulo. The number grows every day>>. “The Lady Truck Driver Team” is a feature-length fiction that besides putting in focus the discussion of issues related to gender and sexuality brings to light the backdrop of a nation’s development. We are interested in the new industries, technologies, the heating market, new concepts of femininity, and Lili Glamour’s stupendous Scania truck dedicated to Marlene Dietrich. The meetings in the Road Dinners, the daily struggle against prejudice, passion for freedom, Brazil of the G-8 and World Cup, and the stunning imagery that blends tropicalia rock songs of Caetano Veloso and Os Mutantes with the dreamed chrome of Harley Davidson.
SHORTS
PETY PODE TUDO (The Almighty Pety) Bra ● HD ● 18 min ● color ● 2012 dir: Anahí Borges Co-Producer Company: Preta Portê Filmes Pety is a girl with a majestic sense of control of everything around her. One day, walking to school, she believed that has received a warning from the angel Gabriel forsaking the death of her pet named Bunny, a rabbit. The fear of looseness and the desire to control everything lead her to the olimpic attempt to somehow dismiss the prophesied destiny.
A word from the director I wanted to create a diverse and idiosyncratic character, valuing in a child their socially accepted traits of character but also point the typical perversities of childhood. Imaginary fears, unconscious cruelty. The central theme of the story is one of ontological aspirations of human beings: omnipotence, which in childhood is the space of its primitive psychic elaboration. With this short film I meant to work in the record of subtlety, the delicacy and concentration in the experiences, producing life and reality in harmony with unreal and metaphysical elements, because as the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa said: “Everything, moreover, is the tip of a mystery, even the facts. Or lack of them. Doubt? When nothing happens there’s a miracle that we’re not seeing” (in “Grande Sertão Veredas”).
(Anahí Borges)
ALÉM DAS 7 CORES (Beyond the 7 colors) Bra ● HD ● 19 min ● color ● 2012 dir: Camila Biau Immersed in the lively night scene in the region of Augusta Street - the heart of São Paulo – Daniela Glamour Garcia leads us through this queer chronic about the conflicts on who decides to live on the fringes of what is considered “normal” by majority. The rules, limits, classes and categories that are imposed on us really have the ability to make us feel habitable in ourselves? Facebook do filme: facebook.com/Alemdas7Cores
MINHA VOZ MINHA VIDA (My voice my life) Bra ● HD ● 25 min ● color ● 2011 dir: Deivison Fiuza Co-produced by SINPRO - Teachers’ Union of São Paulo - the film tells the story of three teachers and their alternative manners of using their main tool in a classroom: their voice.
About the director DEIVISON FIUZA is a director and screenwriter. Born in Salvador, Bahia, directed “Casa de Anjo”, a documentary about two children who live in the streets. Filmed in Salvador in 2007, the documentary has been widely used in seminars and lectures whose subject was the rights of children and adolescents. In 2010 Fiuza became nationally known by the feature “Carregadoras de Sonhos” which portrays the daily work of four teachers within Sergipe state.
EVOL Bra/UK ● HD ● 12 min ● color ● 2012 by Chaia Dechen Co-Producer Company: Griô Produções Evol is an experimental art video based on the choreography piece by Ella Mesma, originally created to be experienced as a live performance, the video proposes a new experience through the use of colour and special effects. Evol was inspired by research into the grey areas around sexual consent and rape within relationships.
LEMBRANÇAS (Memories)
VIDEOCLIP
Bra ● HD ● post-production ● 8 min ● color ● 2012
“Out of the window into the house”
by Humberto Borges
by Elena Fedeli
Intended for distribution in associations of relatives and friends of people with Alzheimer, “Memories” shows the evolution during one year of Alzheimer’s disease into a 76 years old woman who considered herself truly happy. She loved to sing songs on her youth, of the 1950 and 1960. The filming was made every few months in which the protagonist watched herself singing in the filming earlier and tried to follow at the present the same previous song.
● post-production Artist: JOWJO Album: “Out of the window into the house” Record Label: Riff Records Year: 2012 A rain in the city… cars, buildings, wet glasses, light beams abstract… the city is transfigured.
UP COMING PROJECTS
NIGHTS OF GIRAFFES AND ELEPHANTS
MANGUEIRA
● Screenplay development screenplay: Andrea Paolo Massara, Marcos Verdugo dir: Anahí Borges
● pre-production ● documentary screenplay: Anahí Borges, Drika Nery, Marcos Verdugo dir: Chaia Dechen
World Cup in Brazil. Amid in the national euphoria for international spotlights focused on the country, the boy Andre faces the biggest challenge of his life: to understand his own sexuality. “Nights of Giraffes and Elephants” is a fictional feature film that tells the sensitive and compelling universe of Andre, 13 years old, who through the pain caused by the death of his uncle (famous national soccer player) lives the arising of his sexuality. Harassed by his classmates, facing all by himself the novelty of his desire, gathering here and there clues and information that surround this small fan of Van Gogh and X-Men, a born pianist and aspiring to be Veterinary, assimilates the world with the poetic filter of his teenager’s eyes.
The tribe of “bambas” (rowdy), a joy that has become religion. Mangueira is one of the most traditional samba teams in Rio de Janeiro and one of the world’s most popular. It was founded in 1928 on the Morro da Mangueira, near the region of the Maracana by Carlos Cachaça, Cartola, Zé Espinguela, among others. The symbol of the school, the “surdo” means the samba, the parrots, the victories, the crown, the imperial district of São Cristovão; and the stars, the Championships. It was the champion for 16 times in the Parade of the Special Group. Barn great emblematic figures, such as Jamelão, the greatest interpreter of SambaEnredo (Plot) of all time. “Me leva que eu vou, sonho meu, atrás da verde rosa só não vai quem já morreu” (Takes me I go, my dream, behind the green and pink, not only go those who have died) ... “Mangueira” seeks to show the delights, championships, crises, conflicts, rebirth, errors, innovations, Cartola, Super-Champion, one that can say it is the music of Brazil.
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