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São Paulo 13 - 15 April 2026
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São Paulo 13 - 15 April 2026
São Paulo 13 - 15 April 2026
São Paulo 13 - 15 April 2026
São Paulo 13 - 15 April 2026
LatAm Content Meeting is an international market for nonfiction content where professionals can connect and build successful partnerships. From feature-length documentaries to factual entertainment, we're here to generate business by connecting qualified industry players from Latin America with global partners.
LatAm Content Meeting - 1st Edition
700
Participants
21
Countries
81
Decision-makers
618
Meetings
242
Projects showcased
The complete schedule will be released soon, but in the meantime, take a look at what’s planned!
Watch 18 projects pitch to international decision-makers. It’s your chance to see some of the best international stories and gather tips from the Q&A sessions.
Showcasing the best original formats and reality shows from Latin America. Discover the incredible talent from the region making waves worldwide.
Gain direct access to over 600 contacts, schedule meetings with them directly, and create your own personalized agenda for the market through the MyLCM platform.
Our team will connect you with the best commissioning editors for your project, exclusive to the Pitch Sessions’ selectees.
Lectures, keynotes, and seminars with top experts in the international industry. Dive into the latest trends and get ready for what’s next!
Decision-makers from channels and platforms will share what they’re looking for — your inside scoop! Don’t miss the opportunity to learn directly from the experts.
Explore the latest archival conversations on AI applications, copyright challenges, and the reexamination of images to elevate minority narratives, sports docs, true crimes, and more!
Time to mingle with new and old fellow attendees. Build meaningful relationships in a relaxed and engaging atmosphere.
Elisa Chalfon
Director | Nonfiction Original Series | Netflix | BR
Adriana Cechetti
Director Unscripted | Warner Bros. Discovery | BR
Felipe Ferrari
Creative Executive of Non Fiction Originals | Disney+ | BR
Marina Ragusa
Creative Manager Nonfiction Series | Netflix | Brazil
Joy Ernanny
Unscripted Creative Executive | Amazon MGM Studios | BR
Julia Priolli
Head of Scripted | Amazon MGM Studios | BR
Roberto Martha
Head of Prod. & Post, Intl. Originals | Amazon MGM Studios | BR
Zeca Camargo
Journalist | Brazil
Tracy Beckett
Commissioning Editor, Co-Pro & Acquisitions | PBS Distribution | USA
Verônica Villa
Nonfiction Development & Production Manager | Warner Bros. Discovery | BR
Patricia Koslinski
Sr Content Manager | Globo | Brazil
Caroline Behar
Director of Co-Pro & Acquisitions | France TV | FR
Tiago Ornaghi
Content Manager | Globoplay | Brazil
Mariana Loibiso
Content Production Sr Manager, Unscripted Br | Warner Bros. Discovery | BR
Claudia Bucher
Head of Thema and Geopolitics | ARTE G.E.I.E | FR
Marina Pedral
Content and Production Manager | Warner Bros. Discovery | BR
Marcelo Siqueira
CEO | Mistika | Brazil
Patrício Díaz
Content Production Sr Manager | Warner Bros. Discovery | BR
Shaminder Nahal
Head of Factual | Channel 4 | UK
Luciana Soligo
Unscripted Content Manager | Warner Bros. Discovery | BR
Caio de Carvalho
Executive Director | Bandeirantes / Arte 1 | BR
Maria Angela De Jesus
CEO | TV Cultura | Brazil
Antonia Pellegrino
Content and Programming | EBC | Brazil
Nevine Mabro
Head of Storyville | BBC | UK
Andre Saddy
Managing Director | Canal Brasil | BR
Marina Pompeu
Head of Projects and Content | Canal Brasil | BR
Juliana Algañaraz
Chief Executive Superintendent | TV Gazeta | BR
Tomonori Take
General Manager | NHK | Japan
Alberto Márquez
Director | Teleformat | Spain
Laura Vinci
Business Affairs Executive | Amazon MGM Studios | LatAm
Amanda Groom
CEO | The Bridge | UK
Clarisse Goulart
Executive Director of Development | Conspiração Filmes | BR
Laura Tusi
Researcher and Archival Producer | Kino Bureau | Argentina
João Vitor Corrêa
Producer, Writer & Archives Specialist | D as in W Productions Inc | Canada
Chico Felitti
Journalist, Writer & Podcaster | Brazil
Zico Góes
Creative Producer | Kromaki | Brazil
Alejandro Hartmann
Director, Producer & Screenwriter | Argentina
André Bomfim
Researcher | PAVIC | Brazil
Branca Vianna
President | Rádio Novelo | Brazil
Bruna Rodrigues
Researcher | PAVIC | Brazil
Eduardo Gaspar
Creative Director | TV Gazeta | Brazil
Eduardo Rajabally
Director, Screenwriter & Journalist | Brazil
José Emilio Ambrósio
Head of News & Sports | TV Gazeta | Brazil
Lucas Gentil
Director of Programming & Creative Content | TV Gazeta | BR
Luis Zaffaroni
Executive Director | DOCSP | Brazil
Marco Antônio Coelho
Executive Director | IMAGin | Brazil
Mauro Garcia
Executive President | BRAVI | Brazil
Rita Marques
Researcher | PAVIC | Brazil
Samuel Huh
Head of Management | Abril | Brazil
Vera Egito
Filmmaker, Screenwriter & Director | Brazil
Gabriela Queiroz
Technical Director | Cinemateca Brasileira | Brazil
Fernando Lauterjung
Editor | Tela Viva | Brazil
José Maurício Fittipaldi
Partner | CQS/FV Advogados | Brazil
Juan Andrés Bello
Archive Producer | Triana Media | Canada
Marcia Vinci
Producer | Coiote | Brazil
Marcio Yatsuda
President | Movioca | Brazil
Mauro Guedes
Managing Director | Shutterstock | Brazil
Raquel Lemos
Founder & Partner | Lemos Consultoria & Art.is Cultural | Brazil
Denise Assumpção
VP Sales Liaison | NBCUniversal Media, LLC | LatAm
Guilherme Carréra
Film Curator | Canal Curta! | Brazil
Helena Tassara
Researcher | PAVIC | Brazil
Ramiro Azevedo
Channel Director | Box Brazil Media Group | BR
Beptuk Metuktire
Administrative & Financial Coordinator | Raoni Institute | Brazil
Janaina Augustin
Artificial Intelligence Consultant | Brazil
Ninder Billing
VP, Intl. Co-Prods. & Nonfiction Formats | A+E Global Media | UK
Adriana Silva
VP & Managing Director | Floresta | Brazil
Hugo Gurgel
Partner & Business Development Supervisor | Quanta | Brazil
Donata Von Perfall
Managing Director | Documentary Campus | Germany
Danilo Futema
Creative Director & Creative Effectiveness | YouTube | BR
Douglas Rodrigues
TV & Film Partnerships | YouTube | Brazil
Claudia Dreyer
Head of Intl. Partnerships & Acquisitions | Grupo Box Brazil | BR
Mariana Seivalos
Channel Supervisor | Canal Futura | Brazil
Rodrigo Medeiros
Senior Brazil Lead | Re:wild | Brazil
Rosangela Wicher
Executive Director | Floresta | Brazil
Otto Vitelleschi
Creator | Cheff Otto | Brazil
ALL PROJECTS
Nature & Environment
Investigations & True Crime
History
Nature and Environment
The story of two courageous young women fighting for the future of one of the world’s rarest wild canines - the maned wolf- in the spectacular wilderness of Brazil's Cerrado.
Nature and Environment
In Brazil’s spectacular Cerrado, wildlife biologist Maju Sternberg and filmmaker Bruna Lucheze join forces to reveal the hidden world of the endangered maned wolf. Over a year, Bruna captures unprecedented footage of a wolf family led by wolf pair Savanna and Baron as they raise their pups, from intimate moments within the den to dramatic hunting behaviour. Inside Trijunção reserve, the wolves thrive, yet all around them agro-businesses raze the Cerrado - threatening their future. Through science, storytelling, and community outreach, Maju and Bruna fight to protect this fragile ecosystem. Women of the Wolves is a powerful portrait of resilience - of a threatened wilderness, an iconic species, and the women determined to help it endure.
Gunjan Menon
Gunjan Menon is a Producer-Director, National Geographic Explorer, and co-founder and CEO of Beyond Premieres, a Vancouver-based creative studio focused on films at the intersection of biodiversity conservation, climate resilience, and Indigenous stewardship. Her work examines human-wildlife relationships through a lens of ecofeminism and has been recognized with over 50 international accolades across 20 countries. She has also worked on shows that have been broadcast on National Geographic, Disney+, Hulu, ABC, PBS, BBC, Amazon Prime, Discovery, Animal Planet, and Roundglass Sustain.
Director
Gunjan Menon
Production Company
River Road Films Ltd.
Amplexo filmes
Producers
Chelsea Turner
Bruna Lucheze
Country
Canada
Brazil
Nature and Environment
Martinho, the first Yanomami master’s student in Anthropology, and his advisor Davi share knowledge in the heart of the Amazon. Through chants and rituals, Martinho amplifies his people’s voice while guiding Davi, subtly reversing traditional roles. The film honors the profound meeting between ancestral wisdom and modern science.
Nature and Environment
Set against the backdrop of the Amazon rainforest and the academic world, "Kõkãmou – Together" follows the journey of Martinho, the first Yanomami master’s student in Anthropology, and his advisor Davi, an anthropologist who has devoted decades to the study of Indigenous peoples. As Martinho works to preserve his community’s knowledge and give voice to a perspective long silenced, Davi undergoes a profound transformation through his immersion in Yanomami cosmology. The traditional roles of advisor and student are overturned when Martinho becomes the guide in Yanomami territory, teaching sacred chants and rituals. Their exchange embodies the vision of a future where distinct cultures coexist, enrich one another, and inspire a renewed understanding of tradition and collaboration.
Rafael Machado
Director, editor and partner at Viralata. Graduated in Communication at UFRJ with a specialization in Documentary Cinema at FGV. In 2018, premiered the documentary Palace II – 3 Bedrooms With a Sea View at Festival do Rio in partnership with GloboNews. He was lead editor of Negro Muro (GNT, 2022), which honors Black Brazilian figures through murals and interviews. In 2023, released Euclydes (Cine Brasil TV). In 2024, edited Sobre Essa Pele (Discovery), about women reclaiming self-esteem through scar-covering tattoos.
Director
Rafael Machado
Production Company
Viralata Produções
Human Filmes
Producers
Gabriel Correa e Castro
Juliana Bravo
Cisso Modenezi
Country
Brazil
Nature and Environment
In Brazil’s Espírito Santo, two descendants of Italian immigrants face opposite destinies: Augusto Ruschi, a visionary guardian of nature, and Rainor Grecco, a logger who razed forests worldwide. Their lives collide in a dramatic tale of ambition, loss, and environmental legacy.
Nature and Environment
Two descendants of Italian immigrants in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo follow opposing paths that would forever shape the country’s environmental story. Augusto Ruschi becomes a global symbol of conservation, uncovering new species, producing groundbreaking research, and fiercely defending the Atlantic Forest. Rainor Grecco, in stark contrast, rises to infamy as the logger who felled more trees than any other man, driven by ambition, wealth, and the tragedies that haunted his life. Their divergent destinies — one committed to protecting life, the other to relentless exploitation — reveal the profound consequences of human choices and the clash between preservation and destruction that transformed an entire landscape.
Lucas Bonini
Lucas Bonini is a producer and director with a growing interest in creating documentaries built from archival materials. His training in audiovisual preservation and restoration strengthens his research and curatorial practice, guiding an approach that values collections, digitization processes, and the reinterpretation of historical images as creative raw material. He has directed several short films and is currently directing a feature-length documentary, while developing a project constructed entirely from archival sources. As the owner of Garupa Filmes, he is dedicated to exploring new ways of producing documentary narratives.
Director
Lucas Bonini
Production Company
Garupa Filmes
Producer
Federico Nicolai
Country
Brazil
Nature and Environment
Set in the Xingu Territory in Brazil, Mapulu follows the journey of the first woman to become a shaman among her people, as she challenges tradition and fights to protect the forest that sustains her community.
Nature and Environment
Set in the Xingu Territory in Brazil, Mapulu follows the journey of the first woman to become a shaman among her people, as she challenges tradition and fights to protect the forest that sustains her community. Through a blend of documentary and dramatization, the film reveals the spiritual, social, and political forces that shape Mapulu Kamayura’s life and the survival of her culture.
Viviane D'Ávila
Graci Guarani
Viviane D’Ávila is a documentary filmmaker, director, and photographer. She is represented by the ArtSpace gallery in New York and the Mentana gallery in Italy. Her debut feature film, GOPI, a documentary about a young intersex person in India, was selected for the Rio Festival and won the Best Film award at the Bangalore Festival in India.
Graci Guarani grew up in the Jaguapiru village, home to the Guarani and Kaiowá peoples. She has directed, written, and worked on the cinematography of more than eight audiovisual works. She stood out for her direction and cinematography in the internationally awarded documentary My Blood is Red (2019). In 2023, she was part of the directing team for the Netflix series Invisible City.
Directors
Viviane D'Ávila
Graci Guarani
Production Company
O par
OA Filmes
Random Good
Producers
Camilo Cavalcanti
Viviane Mendonça
Paulo Farias
Country
Brazil
Nature and Environment
The Xingu Sky follows an Indigenous filmmaker, a photographer and an astronomer as they travel up the Xingu River, passing through the Kayapó and Kuikuro communities. Along the way, they explore the connections between Indigenous cosmology and Western science, while ensuring the survival of local knowledge and traditions for future generations.
Nature and Environment
The Xingu Sky is a feature documentary that follows Indigenous filmmaker Takumã Kuikuro, photographer Renato Soares and astronomer Flávia Lima as they travel through the Xingu Basin to document the cosmologies of two Indigenous communities: the Kuikuro and the Kayapó. The film reveals how centuries of celestial observation have shaped these Indigenous cultures, as science, ritual and mythological tradition combine to form a living system through which they interpret the universe. Blending spectacular cinematography and documentary storytelling with 2D animation created by Indigenous artists, The Xingu Sky illuminates a profound cosmos now threatened by extinction, highlighting themes such as climate change, the safeguarding of cultural heritage, Indigenous activism, and oral tradition.
Takumã Kuikuro
Susanna Lira
Takumã Kuikuro is a filmmaker from the Kuikuro indigenous people, currently living in the Xingu Indigenous Territory. He directed several nationally and internationally award-winning films, such as As Hiper Mulheres(2011), screened at Rotterdam and Sheffield and Território Pequi (2021), awarded by the Brazilian Cinema Academy. In 2017, he received the honorary fellowship award from Queen Mary University in London. He was the curator of the Xingu exhibition at the Moreira Salles Institute in São Paulo. He is coordinator of Coletivo Kuikuro de Cinema, dedicated to training new indigenous filmmakers in Xingu.
Susanna Lira is one of Brazil’s most renowned filmmakers. She has directed more than 18 features and dozens of series, accumulating over 120 awards at festivals in Brazil and internationally. Recent works are feature Salve Rosa (with Karine Teles and Klara Castanho) and doc series such as Not My Fault (Disney+), Routes of Hate (Paramount), Adriano Imperador (Paramount), and Casão: A Game Without Rules (Globoplay). Over her 20-year career, she has been honoured in several countries: FEMCINE Festival, Chile 2019; Tenemos que Ver Festival Uruguay 2018; Mar del Plata Independent Film Festival, Argentina 2016, with retrospective “Susanna Lira – Hasta el Límite.” In Brazil, she was honored in 2021 with SUSANNA LIRA Retrospective, organized by Infinitto Festival.
Directors
Takumã Kuikuro
Susanna Lira
Production Company
Viva Productions
Instituto Rouanet
Producers
Christina Daniels
Adriana Rouanet
Country
Brazil
Nature and Environment
An international science team ventures into one of Earth’s last uncharted regions to uncover ancient rock art, human remains and cosmic origin myths—evidence that could rewrite the story of the first Americans and reveal the truth behind the mysterious “Jaguar People.”
Nature and Environment
Led by anthropologist Carlos Castaño-Uribe and geologist Francesco Sauro a pioneering expedition into Chiribiquete reveals 19,500-year-old pictographs, bone fragments, ancient tools and rare microbial “living rocks.” Guided by local shamans the team pieces together evidence that may transform our understanding of early South American settlement and the enduring cultural horizon of the Jaguar People. Their discoveries—rock art, human relics and traces of a sophisticated ancient culture—unfold alongside the story of the uncontacted Jaguar People, revealing a fragile world where the past and present fight for survival.
Jochen Schmoll
Jochen Schmoll is a filmmaker, director and DOP. Born in Ludwigburg Germany, he has become known in the sports and adventure film scene for his documentaries covering some of the top athletes and accompanying them on their personal goals and expeditions. He started working in the film industry in 1994 as cameraman for German TV stations. In 1999 he moved to southern France and worked on various long format documentaries for ARTE and France3. From 2000 – 2003 he lived in Mexico City working for Austrian broadcaster ORF. He returned to Germany in 2004 and is now based in Barcelona, Spain with an office in Ludwigsburg.
Director
Jochen Schmoll
Production Company
Cutting Edge Productions S.L.
Wanted Media Productions
Producer
Tina Preschitz
Country
Spain
History
A vibrant archival journey through Latin American New Song festivals, where Mercedes Sosa, Víctor Jara, Milton Nascimento, and Chico Buarque, among others, transformed these spaces into trenches against dictatorships, revealing how their art and resistance connect the past with current struggles for freedom and identity on the continent.
History
“American Heart” is a feature documentary built around the music festivals that shaped the Nueva Canción Latinoamericana, a movement that, between the 1960s and 1980s, turned music into a force of resistance against Latin American dictatorships. Through archival montage, the film connects three axes: festivals as spaces of political confrontation, the public lives of key artists, and the historical context of each event. Following festivals from Cosquín to Viña del Mar, Havana, Brazil, and Managua, it shows how figures like Mercedes Sosa, Víctor Jara, Silvio Rodríguez, Milton Nascimento, and Chico Buarque became voices of collective struggle. Highlighting Black women, Indigenous and peasant artists, the film links past and present, affirming the enduring power of art in defending democracy
Aiano Bemfica
Aiano Bemfica is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and researcher. His work addresses territorial struggles, collective memory, and social processes, with a sensitive use of archives as a narrative engine. His films have been screened at over a hundred festivals and institutions in Brazil and abroad. Awards include the Abraccine Prize for Best Feature (Entre Nós Talvez Estejam Multidões, 2020) and the Rucker Vieira Prize for Best Documentary Screenplay (Videomemoria, 2020).
Director
Aiano Bemfica
Production Company
Amarillo Produções Audiovisuais
Producer
Tatiana Meneses Mitre
Country
Brazil
History
TAPE PEABIRU! A poetic, inspirational documentary that revives the story of one of Latin America’s most enigmatic trails, the Peabiru Path. Moving through ancestral myths and the natural landscapes of Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru, it traces an ancient Indigenous route and reveals its historical, cultural, and spiritual meaning.
History
The documentary follows traces of an ancestral path carved by Indigenous peoples thousands of years ago, linking the Atlantic to the Pacific and connecting territories and cultures. More than a route, it remains a living presence, still traveled yet often invisible. Through a sensorial approach, the film starts close to the ground, revealing faint trails, dirt roads, cracked asphalt, and landscapes that preserve ancestral memory. Indigenous voices emerge through fragmented oral tradition. Research, maps, and historical records expose both traces and erasures. Experts from Brazil, Spain, and Peru revisit key moments as Tape Peabiru reconnects past and present and reclaims a future beyond silence.
Juliano de Paula Santos
Bruna Steudel
Juliano de Paula Santos is a Brazilian director, screenwriter, and producer with over 15 years of experience in the audiovisual industry. Among his most notable works are the three-season series Better World (2016–2019), a major success on Canal Futura, and the award-winning film Spring Diary. Juliano specializes in documentaries, blending different audiovisual languages to create immersive narratives focused on social, historical, and cultural themes. With extensive experience in advertising, he integrates live action and animation, and also develops feature films and fantasy series for young audiences.
Bruna Steudel is a screenwriter and director with 16 years of experience across theater, film, and television. She directed and wrote “All the Registered of Ness,” winner at the Valdivia Festival, SACI, and a finalist at ComKids 2023. She produced and wrote the TV movie “Antarctic Territory,” shot in Antarctica and co-produced with Canal Modo Viagem/Globo. Co-writer of the youth series “Manual for Surviving Brazilian Literature” and part of the team of “Brazil of Immigrants” (ABRA 2020 finalist). She also directed “The Little Bench,” with over 2 million views, and the documentary “I See Flowers,” produced with the Avon Institute.
Directors
Juliano de Paula Santos
Bruna Steudel
Production Company
FRAME 22
Producer
Desirée Portela
Country
Brazil
History
Bernardo Esteves, one of Brazil’s leading science journalists, embarks on an adventure across the Americas to uncover the true story of human occupation on the continent. With top scientists, he investigates remarkable archaeological sites, delves into paradigms and controversies, and reveals long-unrecognized South American protagonism.
History
Bernardo Esteves travels through the Americas to uncover how humans first settled the continent. With leading scientists, he visits labs and remarkable archaeological sites. His journey begins in Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, where Peter Lund’s 1840s excavations opened research into the deep human history of the Americas. He then travels through Piauí, Pará and Mato Grosso, US, Chile and Argentina. He revisits theories like Beringia and the Clovis-first model, and later encounters huge South American discoveries that suggest an older story. Esteves concludes that political interests have long shaped scientific narratives and that this past remains disputed. The series is an adaptation of the book Brave New World – A History of Human Occupation in the Americas (2023), written by Esteves.
Tatiana Toffoli
Tatiana Toffoli is a journalist and works as a producer, director, screenwriter, and editor of TV series and documentaries. Her credits include Amazônia, Arqueologia da Floresta (SescTV, 2025), winner of the Humanities Award at the 3rd CURTA! Documentary Festival; Baré, Povo do Rio (2015), winner o f Best Artistic Achievement at TELAS - Sao Paulo TV Festival, and Louceiras (2013), Honorable Mention a t the 14th FICA Festival.
Director
Tatiana Toffoli
Production Company
Kana Filmes
Producer
Filipe Machado
Country
Brazil
History
Upon discovering a beautiful, mysterious ring adorned with hieroglyphics, passionate amateur Jérôme Gyss helped to rehabilitate the perilous expedition to Egypt led by Richard Lepsius in the 19th century.
History
Upon discovering a beautiful, mysterious ring adorned with hieroglyphics, passionate amateur Jérôme Gyss helped to rehabilitate the perilous expedition to Egypt led by Richard Lepsius in the 19th century. This extraordinary collective adventure would make the young Prussian, Champollion's successor, the second father of Egyptology. Even today, excavations in Egypt still draw on his remarkable work.
Pauline Coste
She has directed 6 documentaries including Ladies and Princes of Prehistory (52', Arte, Czech TV, TV5, 2021 production Enfant Sauvage and Day for Night) and Looking for Sapiens (56' 2018, FIFAN Jury Prize in Nyon in Switzerland 2019, Special mention “Independent Film” at the RAN festival in Narbonne 2018, Festival Icronos Bordeaux 2018). She also received an award for a medium-length screenplay. She worked for 15 years in the cinema on feature films, documentaries and telefilms, in Paris before moving on to directing. Furthermore, passionate about Prehistory, she obtained her Master in Archeology-Prehistory at Paris.
Director
Pauline Coste
Production Company
Enfant Sauvage
Day for Night Productions
Punk Film S.R.O.
Producers
Camille Monin
Jan Vasak
Guilhène Iop
Jakub Pinkava
Country
France
Czech Republic
History
Filmmaker Marcela Lordy and a group of actresses investigate the history of nudity in Brazilian cinema, questioning the male gaze and challenging stereotypes to explore new ways of representing and emancipating the female body on screen.
History
By intertwining her career with the history of nudity in Brazilian cinema, São Paulo-based filmmaker Marcela Lordy, alongside actresses, investigates the male gaze and the changes brought about by female directors. WHO'S LOOKING NOW? offers a free space for women to ask never-before-asked questions and reflect on how they have been represented—and how they can imagine the emancipation of this body and themselves in new ways, beyond confining stereotypes.
Marcela Lordy
Marcela Lordy is a Brazilian director, screenwriter, and producer, who studied at EICTV (Cuba) and assisted filmmakers like Walter Salles and Hector Babenco. Her works have been screened and awarded at major festivals globally (Toulouse, BAFICI, Rio). She founded Cinematográfica Marcela in 2012 to produce her own cultural projects. Lordy also works as an educator and jury member. Her debut fiction feature, ‘O Livro dos Prazeres’, premiered in 2022, marking her as part of the notable new wave of Latin American filmmakers (Variety). TV credits include the Emmy-nominated series “Julie e os Fantasmas”.
Director
Marcela Lordy
Production Company
Coentro Produções
Producer
Barbara Cunha
Country
Brazil
History
What remains of us after we die? How long do the traces of our existence endure? Through human bones and memories, this documentary unveils personal stories of Brazilians from different eras, all bound by a common thread—the imposition of oblivion.
History
In a cemetery in São Paulo—designed in the 1970s to hide bodies—we witness the burial of three unidentified bodies (John Does). Two women search for their fathers’ remains, decades after their disappearances. A mother, transformed into an amateur forensic expert, has been fighting for justice since the police murdered her son in 2006. An archaeologist uncovers the world's largest slave port, concealed beneath the structures built for the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. These personal stories unfold against a backdrop of growing historical denialism. A laboratory dedicated to recovering memories faces imminent closure. The struggle for memory, truth, and justice is more challenging than ever. We realize that the imposition of oblivion can be even more insidious than physical violence itself.
Ricardo Martensen
Ricardo Martensen has a master’s degree in Documentary Production at the University of Salford (UK). Since 2012, he runs a production company in Brazil. His first feature, “Cine São Paulo” (2017), won the Best Documentary Award at the Biarritz Festival, and was selected for festivals such as AFI DOCS and It's All True. The film premiered in theaters and on network tv in 2019. “Confisco”, a documentary he directed for HBO, is available on HBO Max in all of Latin America. Ricardo also had a project selected for the Berlinale Doc Station lab in 2019.
Director
Ricardo Martensen
Production Company
Muiraquitã Filmes
Producer
Eliane Ferreira
Country
Brazil
Investigations & True Crime
After American missionary Dorothy Stang is brutally murdered, a 14-year-long investigation begins, revealing corruption, land grabbing, and impunity at the heart of the Amazon. Behind the crime lies the story of a woman who challenged the Vatican and faced the mafia in the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
Investigations & True Crime
In 2005, the American missionary Dorothy Stang was murdered in Pará for defending the land rights of rural workers and the preservation of the Amazon rainforest. This documentary series reconstructs the years preceding the crime and reveals the long and turbulent legal battle that unfolded, managing to reach — at least part of — those who ordered the killing. Narrated by people involved in the investigation and by Dorothy herself (through her old letters), the series traces the journeys of victims, murderers, masterminds, and authorities. A puzzle of power and resistance in the heart of the Amazon, a death that exposed a silent war — and sparked a fight for justice that still echoes in the deaths of other environmental activists.
Alfredo Manevy
Eliza Capai
Alfredo Manevy is a graduate of the University of São Paulo (USP). He presided over Spcine between 2014 and 2016, coordinating the implementation of the SP Film Commission, Circuito Spcine, and Spcineplay. His academic background includes a bachelor's degree and a PhD in film from ECA-USP, as well as postdoctoral studies in film at Babelsberg University. In 2022, he directed the feature film "Lupicínio Rodrigues: Confissões de um Sofredor" (2022), which was selected for the São Paulo International Film Festival and the Tiradentes Film Festival, in addition to winning the audience award for Best Documentary at FESTIN (2023).
Eliza Capai premiered her fourth feature film, “Incompatible with Life”, at the “It’s All True” International Documentary Festival (2023), where it won Best Film. The documentary is her most intimate work to date, reflecting on pregnancy loss, abortion, and grief. Eliza directed Netflix’s original true-crime series, “Elize Matsunaga: Once Upon a Crime” (2020). Her third feature, “Your Turn”, premiered at the Berlinale (2019) and screened at more than 100 festivals, winning over 20 awards. Most recently, she directed the series “O Prazer é Meu”, nominated for an International Emmy in the Best Documentary category and produced by GNT.
Directors
Alfredo Manevy
Eliza Capai
Production Company
Marea Cine
Producer
João Roni
Country
Brazil
Investigations & True Crime
A family rebuilds after the patriarch's murder, who exposed pesticide harms near the world's largest fruit farms. His firstborn lives torn between both sides of his legacy: the fear of following his fate and the desire to build a better world for her daughter, who has health issues from contamination.
Investigations & True Crime
After the murder of a local environmental defender who reported on the harms of pesticides, his family struggles to rebuild, in a community, surrounded by farms owned by the world’s largest fruit producers. A few years after losing her father, the firstborn, Márcia, faces her own daughter’s health condition: at just one year old, she developed early puberty. The case draws the attention of a scientist, who studies the connection between pesticides and the situation of Sophia and 7 other children showing signs of early puberty and congenital malformations in the same community of 2,000 inhabitants. Over the course of 6 years, the film follows Márcia’s intimate journey, divided between the fear of repeating her father’s tragic fate and the desire to build a better world for her daughter.
Ana Aranha
Documentary filmmaker and journalist Ana Aranha has won 20 awards for her work. Paid in Blood (2025) is her first feature film, which premiered at the It’s All True Festival and won awards for Best Film, Direction, Editing, Sound, and Original Score at festivals across Brazil. Her short film Accounts of a War Correspondent in the Amazon (2023) won the Human Rights Journalism Award. Ana also directed the short Slaves to Fashion and served as executive producer and screenwriter for Jaci, winner of the García Márquez Award and the Ecofalante Film Festival.
Director
Ana Aranha
Production Company
Amana Cine
Repórter Brasil
Producers
Mariana Genescá
Ana Aranha
Country
Brazil
Investigations & True Crime
The 1980 Hague Convention was signed to protect children across borders, but it has been used to punish women fleeing domestic abuse. All over the world, authorities treat foreign mothers as criminals and their children as mere luggage to enforce an international treaty that disregards human rights and prioritizes patriarchy and state interests.
Investigations & True Crime
The documentary follows the stories of women accused of abducting their own children, when all they did was flee violence to protect themselves and their families. It reveals how the 1980 Hague Convention, meant to defend the child, is too often turned against the very mothers it should support. Through real cases, the film uncovers legal contradictions, systemic biases, and the deep emotional scars inflicted on families, especially women from the Global South living in the Global North, exposing a pattern where human rights are sacrificed to uphold state power and patriarchal norms.
Julliana Soares
A creative producer and screenwriter for over 15 years, she has worked with renowned talents such as Karim Aïnouz, Anna Muylaert, and Laís Bodanzky, among others. She has collaborated on the screenplays of several fiction features and TV series, and in 2026 she will premiere an original series of her own creation on HBO Max. Hague Mothers marks her directorial debut.
Director
Julliana Soares
Production Company
Destemida Filmes
Maria Zimbro
Producers
Ana Clara Squilanti
Elisa Bogalheiro
Country
Brazil
Portugal
Investigations & True Crime
White Savior is an investigative documentary following people who lived in orphanages in Kenya as they expose how Western-driven volunteer tourism fuels an orphanage trafficking network operating through illegal children's homes, offering a necessary and ethically reflexive critique of the "white savior" complex in global aid.
Investigations & True Crime
Care leavers in Kenya are exposing a form of modern-day slavery: children trafficked into orphanages to satisfy the demand created by foreign volunteers. The film follows these former residents—now social workers—as they uncover how some homes illegally recruit children, profit from international donors, and separate families to keep beds filled. Their investigation leads to a Nairobi institution operating outside the law, revealing a global system that turns childhood into a commodity. As they fight for reunification and new models of family-based care, filmmaker Nicholas Col briefly interrogates his own outsider role, ensuring the film holds itself accountable while amplifying the voices of those driving real change.
Nicholas Col
Nicholas Col is a producer and director with a Film Production degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He began his career in the U.S., working in development for Temple Hill Ent. and the Oscar-nominated Intuition Productions. Since 2019, he has focused on non-fiction, researching the true-crime series Brother From Another and Swiftboat, directed by Lysa Heslov and executive produced by George Clooney. He later developed projects for Lemonade and Reagent Media. In 2022, he began directing his first feature doc, White Savior, about how voluntourism in Kenya fuels child trafficking.
Director
Nicholas Col
Production Company
Doxie Filmes
Producer
Nicholas Col
Country
Brazil
Investigations & True Crime
Víctor Saldaño, sentenced to death and waiting for his execution for 30 years, becomes free to imagine what his life could have been.
Investigations & True Crime
Víctor Saldaño vs. US is a documentary series that blends investigation, speculation, and digital storytelling to imagine what might have happened if Víctor had been released after his death sentence. A performer embodies the life he never lived, while a YouTuber and a team of podcasters reopen the case online, exposing contradictions, hidden documents, and racial bias. This “documentary within the documentary” uncovers trauma, discrimination, and systemic injustice — raising urgent questions about truth, memory, the human cost of the death penalty, and the fate of other migrants trapped in similar circumstances.
Carlos Bruno Cejas
Carlos Bruno Cejas is an Argentine film director, documentarian, and cinematographer with more than 25 years of experience. Trained at the University of Buenos Aires, he focuses on social issues and human rights, portraying political prisoners, veterans, Indigenous communities, and migrants. He has worked for History Channel, Canal A, and Canal Encuentro, bringing a precise and socially engaged visual style to each project. He directed Ayahuasca Now, an award-winning film on war trauma and healing, guided by ethics, empathy, and a deep commitment to truth in storytelling — always seeking cinematic intimacy and meaningful social impact.
Director
Carlos Bruno Cejas
Production Company
Tulumba Cine & Magnetis Productions
Producers
Mario Stecher
Carlos Bruno Cejas
Country
Argentina
Investigations & True Crime
A spectacular summit. A shocking killing. The cost of change.
Investigations & True Crime
It’s one of South America's most stunning summits, but Peru’s colourful Rainbow Mountain hides a dark story. A village leader has been brutally murdered in a dispute over its tourism riches. Lightning strikes kill several visitors annually. The landscape is being destroyed and traditions abandoned. Rainbow Mountain’s popularity is bringing fortune to some, and tragedy to others.
William Wroblewski
Joel Dullroy
Joel Dullroy is a VJ and reporter for DW (Deutsche Welle), producing short documentaries for news and reportage programs. He previously worked as a researcher at ABC Four Corners, Australia’s premier investigative journalism program.
William Wroblewski is an award-winning multimedia journalist and producer based in La Paz, Bolivia. He is the main Bolivia stringer for AFP and a contributor to Business Insider. He has worked for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, BBC Studios, Vice, and others.
Directors
William Wroblewski
Joel Dullroy
Production Company
Joel Dullroy
Producer
Joel Dullroy
Country
Germany
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