- Born
- Height5′ 10¾″ (1.80 m)
- Brazilian Ambassador Frederico Lapenda has presided the Beverly Hills Film Festival Grand Jury since 2018 and one of his most significant project, was the creation of Allies of the Amazon, a children's book about four super-powered talking animals who protect the Amazon Rainforest, with Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee.
He moved to Los Angeles to study filmmaking and eventually formed The Fight Game Network & Paradigm Pictures. He started the worldwide mixed martial arts movement by producing the World Vale Tudo Championships in Japan. Since 1995 he has produced and promoted numerous Cagefights (MMA) in such diverse countries as Japan, Russia, Brazil, Israel, Holland, Jamaica, Bosnia, Aruba, etc.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- In 1996 at the age of 27, he created his Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) franchise called the Wold Vale Tudo Championships (WVC). He was the first non-Japanese impresario to stage a fight show in Japan. It was successfully held in Tokyo and paved the way for the world famous Pride Fighting Championship.
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