New Projects

Fiction

Cide and Alice

Feature film which had its script selected by Sundance's lab for its originality and theme. A love adventure, sensual and tragic, of a group of teenagers from São Paulo's middle-class.

Director: Hermes Leal
Executive Production: Rita Buzzar
Production Company: Nexus Cinema e Vídeo and HL Filmes

Documentaries

Between Two Worlds

It's a documentary with four episodes, using as source the seven documentaries by Jesco von Putkamer about the Marcha para o Oeste (March to the West), carried out by the Villas-Boas brothers. The project is about the recovery of this important historic material as well as new shootings of the same places captured by Jesco in the 50's and 60's.

Director: Luiz Eduardo Jorge
Production Company: HL Filmes
Executive Production: Hermes Leal

Fawcett - In Search of the Lost City

Documentary that will reveal the path and challenges met by Percy Harrison Fawcett in the search of his lost city. A colonel of the Royal Artillery of Your Majesty and a legendary British explorer, Fawcett disappeared in Brazil in 1925, when he was carrying out risky expeditions to the Lost City "Z", ruins of an ancient city maybe belonging to Atlantis. Narrated in the format of an adventure, the documentary will display the fantastic places encountered by Fawcett when in search of the advanced civilization.

Director and Producer: Hermes Leal
Production Company: HL Filmes

Vão das Almas

Documentary about a community of slaves' descendents who live in the biggest "quilombola" in the country, the Kalungas, located in the state of Goiás, and the story of its leader, Dona Procópia, a 70-year-old illiterate woman who faced all kind of prejudice and attacks of squatters and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Director: Hermes Leal
Production Company: HL Filmes
Executive Production: Julie Tseng

The Punishment Silence

Documentary about a very polemic theme approaching the didactical function of punishment, demonstrating on one side the point of view of the prisoner, in the sphere of the guilty and the prison system, and the other side, which falls over the society, which had conceived the system to put and keep him behind bars.

Director: Leonardo Brant
Producers: Hermes Leal and Julie Tseng