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// ALEXANDRE TAIRA
FILM & VIDEO EDITOR
longas
// feature films
// LUIZA'S DESERT
(TO BE RELEASED)
Coming of age film about the aspiring young artist Luiza. Determined to hold her family together after her mother is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Luiza finds the strength to face fear, loneliness and discrimination to unite her family.
Direction Alan Minas
Caraminhola Filmes
// THE JOY OF THINGS
2021 | fic | 85 min
Paula dreams of building a swimming pool for her children at her modest beach house. When the plans fall apart due to financial problems, she finds herself increasingly overwhelmed by the weight of responsibilities.
Direction Thais Fujinaga
Filmes de Plástico
2021 Rotterdam International Film Festival
<Best Film by a First-Time Director> São Paulo International Film Festival
FestCine Araunda
Prêmio Guarani
// VALENTINA
2020 | fic | 85 min
Valentina, a 17-year-old trans girl, moves with her mother to a small town for a fresh start.
Direction Cássio Pereira dos Santos
Campo Cerrado Produções
< Audience Award > 44º Mostra de Cinema de São Paulo
< Best Film, Audience Award, Best Acting and Best Script > Festival Mix Brasil 2020
< Best Acting > L.A. Outfest 2020 (US)
< Audience Award > Image + Nation Festival (Montreal, Canada)
< Audience Award > Cine Latino Minneapolis Saint Paul (US)
< Best Debut Film > International Film Festival of India
< Best Film Young Competition and Jury Honorable Mention > 61º Zlín Film Festival (Czech Republic)
< Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance > 47º Seattle International Film Festival
< Hivos Free to be me Award > 24º Pink Days (Netherland)
< Best Film and Audience Award > Translations Seattle Transgender Film Festival
< Honorable Mention > 50º Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival (Ukraine)
24ª Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes 2021
22º Festival do Rio
Warsaw Film Festival (Poland)
Rochester ImageOut LGBT Film Festival (US)
OUTshine Film Festival (US)
Queer Screen's Mardi Gras Film Festival (US)
35º Festival Mix Milano (Italy)
Vancouver Queer Film Festival (Canada)
Gold Coast Film Festival (Australia)
Barners Film Festival 2021 (UK)
42º Durban International Film Festival (South Africa)
14º Lichter Filmfest Frankfurt International (Germany)
// docs
// documentaries
// YOUR FATHER IS MY PROBLEM
(TO BE RELEASED)
The life of a family altered by the consequences of an illness, after a stroke put his father in a bed with half his body paralyzed. The film follows the eldest son's vision of the intimacy and relationships of his family with his father in the prison of his body. The window, the world outside.
Direction Celio Franceschet
// YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ME
2021 | doc | 80 min
Rejane, Armandinho, Fátima, Paulo, Pedro, Eduardo, Fabiano, and their companions are preparing to create their own films. In the investigation of what they want to accomplish, they go through their memories, their observations about life and society, building their own narratives in a forceful reflection on madness, love and loneliness, the challenges that life imposes on us.
Direction Alan Minas
Caraminhola Filmes
DOCLISBOA 2021
// CROWNING
2019 | doc | 75 min
They use their bodies to color, have fun, confront society and point out what's old in the concept of gender. Being a drag queen is to provoke and resist.
Direction Paulo Castro
Lusco Fusco Movies | Globe Movies | Globonews
// GRIN
2016 | doc | 41 min
A Maxakali filmmaker rescues memories of the formation of the Indigenous Rural Guard (Grin) during the military dictatorship, with reports of violence suffered by their relatives.
Direction Roney Freitas
Lusco Fusco Filmes
< Honorable Mention > 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_videobrasil (SP, Brazil)
< Honorable Mention > São Paulo Short Film Week 2017 (SP, Brazil)
< Best Film and Best Documentary > I Indigenous FestCine of Águas Belas (PE, Brazil)
Show Amerindia | Doclisboa'19 (Lisbon, Portugal)
Cycle Ciné Amériques / Inalco - 2019 (Paris, France)
VII Cachoeiradoc (BA, Brazil)
20th Forumdocbh (MG, Brazil)
19th Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival (MG, Brazil)
Brésil en Mouvements 2017 (Paris, France)
12th Muestra Cine + Indigenous Video 2018 (Santiago, Chile)
curtas
// short films
// FIFTEEN ALMOST SIXTEEN
2023 | fic | 20 min
With a scholarship at a private school, Tamiris participates in the theater group, discovering other ways to release the energies of her teenage body. Until she experiences harassment during a class.
Direction Thais Fujinaga
Desalambrar Filmes
33º Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens de São Paulo
22º Goiânia Mostra Curtas
25º Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Belo Horizonte
24ª Retrospectiva do Cinema Brasileiro - Cinesesc
27ª Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes
10ª Mostra de Cinema de GostosoPanorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema XIX
33º Curta Cinema
31ª Festival de Cinema de Vitória18º CineBH34º Cine Ceará2ª Goiânia Kino Mostra
6º Festival de Cinema da Amazônia Olhar do Norte
Prêmio Grande Otelo - Finalista - 2024
// MBORAIRAPÉ
2023 | fic | 25 min
RAP is a music path. Jaraguá is Guarani.
Direction Roney Freitas
Arte In Vitro Filmes
34º Curta Kinoforum (SP, Brasil)
Mostra enCantos e rExistências (SP, Brasil)
Miradas Compartilhadas (SP, Brasil)
<Melhor Curta> IV Jornada de Estudos do Documentário (PE, Brasil)
27º Forumdoc.bh (MG, Brasil)
Citronela Doc 2023 (SP, Brasil)
Shortfilm Market Pick at Clermont-Ferrand (France)
27ª Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes (MG, Brasil)
12ª Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes SP (SP, Brasil)
33º Curta Cinema (RJ, Brasil) *menção honrosa
<Melhor Direção> Festival de Cinema de Itabaiana (SE, Brasil)
In-Edit Brasil 2024 (SP, Brasil)
Mostra Ecofalante 2024 (SP/PA, Brasil)
18ª Muestra Cine + Vídeo Indígena (Chile)
26º Festival de Curtas de Belo Horizonte (MG, Brasil)
XV Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife (PE, Brasil)
15º Cine Esquema Novo - Arte Audiovisual Brasileira (RS, Brasil))
Mostra ENTRENEGRO (Itaú Cultural Play)
MIMO Festival 2025 (PE/SP/RJ/PI - FR)
// IARA
2018 | fic | 14 min
When the weekend arrives, mother and daughter hit the road and have a picnic by the edge of a reservoir. A lost routine tries to rebuild itself in the silence of the forest.
Direction Cássio Pereira dos Santos / Érika Santos
Campo Cerrado Produções
// RIVER'S MEMORY
2013 | fic | 13 min
" Fate, predestinations... my fate. These waters
From my Tietê they are abject and muddy,
They give fever, they certainly bring death, and they give herons and antitheses."
Direction Roney Freitas
Superfilmes
< Best short documentary > Caracas Film Festival 2014
< Best São Paulo Film > São Paulo Short Film Week 2014
< Honorable Mention > Norway Short Film Festival 2013
< Honorable Mention > 30th Bogocine – Bogota/Colombia
< Special Jury Award > 3rd Lume International Film Festival - São Luis/Brazil
26th Cinelatino - Meetings of Toulouse - Toulouse/France
24th São Paulo International Short Film Festival, São Paulo/Brazil
17th forumdoc.BH - Belo Horizonte/Brazil
17th Tiradentes Film Festival - Tiradentes/Brazil
6th Fest'AFilm - Montpellier/France
7th Cabo Frio Short Film Festival, Cabo Frio/Brazil
4th DocBrazil Festival - Beijing, Shanghai and Macau/China
IX FATU – Brazilian Festival of Adventure, Tourism and Sustainability Films – Paraty/Brazil
29th Interfilm - Berlin/Germany
6th Cine Fest Arraial - Porto Seguro/Brazil
8th Miracema Film Festival - Tocantins/Brazil
13th Mostra do Filme Livre (2014) - Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília/Brazil
// L
2011 | fic | 21 min
Teté is an 11 year old girl who hates her feet, when she meets Héctor, a nice Chinese descendant, she decides to change her appearance
Direction Thais Fujinaga
tamago
< Best Editing > 35th Festival Guarnicê de Cinema
< Special Mention > Berlin Film Festival 2012
< Honorable Mention > Festival de La Havana 2011
< Best Short, Best Direction, Best Short by the Jury and Critics > Brasilia Festival of Brazilian Cinema 2011
< Best Short Film > Festival de Mar del Plata 2012
< Best Short Popular Jury > Tiradentes Film Festival 2012
Guadalajara Festival 2012
InDPanda International Short Film Festival of Hong Kong 2012
Asiana International Film Festival of South Korea 2012
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