”Before the pandemic started it was easy to find international coproduction companies… Now we are on hold.”
Brazilian producers are fighting to find ways to get a national audiovisual industry crippled by a funding freeze back on its feet after the soaring number of Covid-19 cases has further compounded problems.
As the Covid-19 pandemic ravages the country and throws an already embattled Brazilian film industry into deeper turmoil after national film agency Ancine ceased funding in January 2019, the ongoing health crisis is scaring off international partners.
“Before the pandemic started it was easy to find international coproduction companies interested in our projects in development,...
Brazilian producers are fighting to find ways to get a national audiovisual industry crippled by a funding freeze back on its feet after the soaring number of Covid-19 cases has further compounded problems.
As the Covid-19 pandemic ravages the country and throws an already embattled Brazilian film industry into deeper turmoil after national film agency Ancine ceased funding in January 2019, the ongoing health crisis is scaring off international partners.
“Before the pandemic started it was easy to find international coproduction companies interested in our projects in development,...
- 7/24/2020
- by 245¦Elaine Guerini¦40¦
- ScreenDaily
Rio De Janeiro — HBO announced during Rio2C it has commissioned three new series in Brazil. As happened with the other HBO productions in the country, the series will run on HBO Brazilian channels and eventually on HBO channels worldwide subtitled or dubbed.
“Hard” will be the first HBO Brazilian series adapted from a foreign production. Leading local production house Gullane Filmes will adapt Cathy Verney’s French series that airs on Canal Plus since 2008. In it, a recent widow learns her deceased husband was in the porn production business and faces the challenge of saving the company she’s inherited. Daniel Rezende (an Oscar-nominee for best editing in 2003 on “City of God”) is the artistic supervisor of the series, which will have six episodes and will be lensed in the second half of 2018.
“One of the challenges is to adapt to Brazilian reality the French approach to sex, as...
“Hard” will be the first HBO Brazilian series adapted from a foreign production. Leading local production house Gullane Filmes will adapt Cathy Verney’s French series that airs on Canal Plus since 2008. In it, a recent widow learns her deceased husband was in the porn production business and faces the challenge of saving the company she’s inherited. Daniel Rezende (an Oscar-nominee for best editing in 2003 on “City of God”) is the artistic supervisor of the series, which will have six episodes and will be lensed in the second half of 2018.
“One of the challenges is to adapt to Brazilian reality the French approach to sex, as...
- 4/6/2018
- by Marcelo Cajueiro
- Variety Film + TV
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