Globo Filmes Boards 20 Movies, Ups Range, Overseas Ambitions (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentSetting the agenda for much top Brazilian cinema bowing over 2022-25, Globo Filmes has boarded 20 new Brazilian movies, powering up by far the biggest production slate of any company in Brazil.New titles from many of Brazil’s good and great range from Cinema Novo veteran Zelito Viana to Oscar-shortlisted Cao Hambuger.

The production slate features obvious big commercial plays for domestic audiences such as “Tô de Graça, o Filme,” a movie spin-off from the hugely popular sitcom franchise.The lineup, however, displays a far larger auteurist edge than in the past, with awaited new movies from young female auteurs such as Juliana Rojas and Beatriz Seigner and battling Black filmmakers Jeferson De, Grace Passo and Sabrina Fidalgo.

The slate also features big crossover titles which bid fair to feature at some of the biggest film festivals around the world, such as Hamburger’s “School Without Gates,” “Macunaíma 21,” from Felipe Bragança and Zahi Guajajara, a contemporary reinvention of the Brazilian modern classic novel; and “Tale of a Certain Orient,” an immigration tale set in early’ 50s Manaus, deep in the Amazon.New movies join already announced Globo Filmes titles which include many of the most ambitious movies currently being readied out of Brazil: Alê Abreu’s “Perlimps,” set to world premiere at Annecy;“The Business Woman’s Club,” from “The Second Mother’s” Anna Muylaert’s, unveiled at last year’s Cannes; Sergio Machado’s animated feature “Noah’s Ark,” sold handsomely by CMG; and Karim Aïnouz’s “Destiny Motel,” marking the “Invisible Life” director’s return to Brazilian filmmaking.“We are trying to have more diversity in our slate of films.