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Exclusive: Kaiwi Lyman is producing and starring in a romantic drama film out of Brazil.

The Den of Thieves and American Violence star is playing opposite Juliana Lourenção (Vale dos Esquecidos) and Daniel Volpi in A Matter of Choice. Filming has begun in Florianópolis, Brazil, with the capital of Santa Catarina state being the main setting.

Lyman’s production company, Odin’s Forge Entertainment, is making the film along with Anderson Dresch’s Ocotea Filmes. Fabio Cabral is the director, and it is has investment from motorcycle company Royal Enfield.

The film stars Lourençãoas as Andréia, who finds herself trapped in an abusive relationship with Pedro (Volpi), a deceitful and unscrupulous man.

She discovers motorcycling and initiates a transformation in her life, where she finds the support of Michael (Lyman), whose personality embodies the true essence of freedom and companionship. Together, they embark on a journey filled with challenges, discoveries and...

Exclusive: The plight of ‘Confederados’ who left the U.S. for Brazil after the American Civil War will provide the backdrop to Disney drama series Americana.

We’ve learned the streaming series, which is for Disney’s Star+ in Brazil, is shooting in São Paulo with a cast including Den of Thieves and American Violence actor Kaiwi Lyman. São Paolo production house CineFilm is making the show based on scripts from Maurilio Martins and Manuel Moruzzi. Two six-episode seasons have been ordered ahead of a 2024 launch date.

Brazilian actors Caco Ciocler, Andre Ramiro, Bruno Gissoni, Larissa Nunes, Zeze Motta, Thalma de Freitas, David Júnior, Maria Luiza Mendonça, Luciano Quirino, Zahy Tentehar, Lucila Gandolfo, Diego Leske, Arthur Garbe and Ditte Marie le-Fèvreare also part of an ensemble cast.

The series is set in Americana, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, during the late 19th century and follows the Confederates who left the U.

Breaking out of traditional, male, Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo strongholds to finally embrace regional, Black and Indigenous writer-directors, Brazil’s next generation of cinematic talent tackles a huge gamut of themes, styles and concern about social issues. Variety profiles 10 figures who look set to help shape the future of Brazilian filmmaking.

Caru Alves de Souza

Alves de Souza has such films as 2020 Berlin Generation winner “My Name Is Baghdad,” a plucky tale of adolescence on the fringes of society, and 2013’s San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos debut “Underage,” a riveting look at juvenile justice under her belt. She shreds ignorance with her belief “in the power of a cinema that questions established norms but also offers some alternative.”

At this year’s Berlin Co-Production Market, her “Lonely Hearts” deals with the fate of a family porn theater business, its characters “contradictory, flawed, idiosyncratic, and on the other hand, extremely empathetic,...

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Brazilian director, screenwriter and cinematographer Gabriel Martins has signed with CAA for representation.

Martins’ working class family drama Mars One (Marte Um) was selected as Brazil’s submission for best international feature film at the next Academy Awards, and marks the first film helmed by a Black Brazilian director to represent the South American country.

Mars One, which bowed in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, portrays a family on the margins of Belo Horizonte as they quietly reinvent themselves while reconciling themselves to life under extremist president Jair Bolsonaro in late 2018.

The Portuguese language film, which also marked Martins’ solo feature directorial debut, stars lead Rejane Faria, Cicero Lucas, Carlos Francisco and Camilla Damiao. Martins’ first feature film, In the Heart of the World, which debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival, was written and co-directed with Maurilio Martins.

The duo also directed the short film,...

Growing up is never easy. Especially if you’re a parent. Winner of Ventana Sur’s $10,000 Paradiso Wip Award, one of the biggest prizes at the event, and one of the buzzed up titles this year in its Copia Final pix-in-post section, “Mars One” ‘Mars One’ portrays a lower middle-class Black family keeping its dreams alive in a vertiginous changing present-day Brazil. But its parents’ dreams for their children are not shared by their offspring, forcing the older generation to adapt to a more unpredictable world where old values are replaced by new.

“Mars One” is produced by Filmes de Plástico’s Thiago Macêdo Correia who’s had four films selected for Cannes, three in Directors’ Fortnight and “The Dead and the Others,” winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard in 2018. Such big fest success has established Filmes de Plástico – and writer-directors André Novais Oliveira, Gabriel Martins...

Madrid — Continuing its strong line in Brazilian films, often from first feature or emerging talent, Sandro Fiorin’s Miami-based FiGa Films has acquired world sales rights to ‘Temporada,” directed by André Novais Oliveira, one of Brazil’s foremost young social realists.

FiGa Films will introduce “Temporada” to buyers at next week’s Locarno Festival, where it world premieres in the Swiss festival’s Filmmakers of the Present section, reserved for newer auteurs. Variety had had exclusive access to the film’s first international trailer.

Sneak-peeked in rough cut at Toulouse’s 33rd Films in Progress, “Temporada,” Novais Oliveira’s second feature, follows on shorts “About a Month” and “Quintal,” both chosen for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, and his feature debut, “Ela Volta na Quinta” (She Comes Back On Thursday), which won a Special Jury Prize in main competition at Argentina’s 2015 Bafici festival.

“She Comes Back on Thursday” was set in the suburbs of Belo Horizonte,...