brazil Apr 2011

CINE is a commercial film production company founded 15 years ago by director, Clovis Mello, and executive producer, Raul Doria.

The CINE group, which includes special effects and computer graphics division Digital21, is based between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Half of its 100 employees have been working with CINE since its foundation, and the company is recognised within the industry for keeping a modern human resources policy that ensures a low turnover.

Throughout 15 years of activity the company's focus has been on producing commercial films, serving the leading Brazilian agencies and advertisers. CINE plays not only a creative and economic leadership role in the Brazilian market, but has also helped to improve the international standing of the sector.

Founded in 1982 and led by producer Paulo Dantas, Movie&Art has completed over 3,600 productions following its strict criteria of excellence and uniqueness that has made the company a benchmark in the Brazilian advertising and feature film markets. With its state-of-the-art infrastructure, Movie&Art has produced and provided production services for countless commercials, documentaries, short films, feature films and TV Shows. Over the last few years, the company has intensified its work in feature films and television content.

Headquartered in Sao Paulo and with offices in Rio de Janeiro and Caracas, Venezuela, Movie&Art is comprised of a wide web of partners in countries such as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, the UK, the USA, Portugal and France.

Movie&Art has a solid roster of both Brazilian and Argentinean directors and features an international label with both American and European-based directors in order to better serve agencies in Brazil and abroad.

Vagalume Animation Studios is a Brazilian company specialised in 3D animation and special effects for the advertising, institutional and feature film markets, with international standards and high-quality work that is recognised around the world.

Founded in 2005, Vagalume became one of the most important 3D and post production companies in Brazil. Its highly talented team of awarded artists offers outstanding quality as well as a fresh and artistic approach to clients' needs. Vagalume can assure a commitment to deliver excellence at every step of the creative process without compromising on a project's schedule.

Realising the growth of 3D Stereoscopic applications, Vagalume Animation has applied its expertise in this new field across advertising and cinematic projects. Constantly seeking new challenges, the company is renowned for its strong research and development skills, regularly surprising clients with stunning new techniques.

Fashion photographer Eduardo Rezende was born in Rio de Janeiro and is now based in São Paulo. He became interested in photography after visiting galleries and art exhibitions as a young boy with his mother.

With a dream of becoming a photographer for National Geographic, Edu - as he is known to his colleagues - embarked on a career in the fashion industry after photographing books for a selection of agencies. From this point on he fell in love with the profession and has not looked back.

Over the past 10 years, his flawless work has appeared in major magazines including Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and L’Officiel. In addition, he has been linked to clients such as Mara Mac, Agua de Côco, Dress To, Blue Man, Antonio Bernardo, and many others.

Debby Gram is a Sao Paulo-based Brazilian photographer specialised in fashion and beauty photography. She contributes both national and international assignments to fashion editorials and advertising campaigns.

Debby has been shooting professionally since 2000 and her latest work includes clients such as ID Digital, Vogue Brazil, Alexandre Herchcovitch, Elle Argentina, El Mundo Spain, Daslu Magazine and Yatchman, amongst others.

The work of São Paulo-based photographer Guto Seixas ranges from editorial and commercial portraiture to still life and fashion.

Guto uses the latest technology and keeps himself up-to-date with current market trends, offering a personalised approach that sets him apart form the competition. Adept at capturing spontaneous inspiration, Guto is personable and attentive to detail and can provide solutions to any type of shooting dilemma.

After graduating with honours from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in the UK, Guto established his studio in his native São Paulo in 1999. He has since worked with major advertising agencies and editorial houses in Brazil and abroad, and also works directly with industrial, fashion and jewellery clients.

After studying photography at Chabot College in San Francisco, California, Jorge Lepesteur assisted the leading fashion and advertising photographer in Brazil before beginning his own career in 2001.

Jorge has shot for clients including Nokia, Fiat, Vogue, Stimuli, Rolling Stone, Joyce Pascowitch, FOLLOW and TRIP.

With a keen eye for detail, he tries to match the fantasy of his images with real life in a simple and provocative way.

With an interest in many areas of photography, Gabriel Rinaldi easily transits from culture to showbiz, business to politics, creating his own vision of dramatic narratives in portraiture.

After graduating from RIT and living in NY for seven years, Gabriel returned to Brazil in 2009 and is now based in Sao Paulo. Since 2006, he has won more than 35 international awards, from IPA, Addys, Kodak and others.

His ability to translate artistic vision to commercial assignments has brought him major clients in advertising such as Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson, as well as editorial assignments including Forbes, Bloomberg, Exame, Bravo, Trip, Estilo, Playboy and Crescer, among many others.

Visit Gabriel's website to see more of his work.

Sao Paulo-born fashion photographer Fernando Mazza graduated in Social Communication from the Methodist University of Sao Paulo and went on to study Photography at the Escola Panamericana de Artes.

He spent time living in New York to complete a number of workshops at the International Center of Photography (ICP). Specialising in fashion photography, he completes his own post production and finishing work to ensure a complete identity across his images.

Fernando's clients include Reebok, Roca Wear, Carrefour, Zoomp Jeans, Handbook Fashion, Smirnoff, Harald, Itapoa Shoes, Hammerhead, Giacometti Agency, BBN Brazil, Metro, and many others.

Born in São Paulo, André Klotz has been based in Milan for the five past years. Now living back in his home country, he recently shot for Trip, TPM, Rolling Stone and Casa Vogue, and completed commercial work for clients such as Kimberly-Clark, Meio & Mensagem, Singenta and others.

André enjoys cinema, cooking and family gatherings, and he loves photographing people.

During his 10-year career, photographer André Faccioli has been a constant in both the editorial market and the advertising industry. Head of J.W. Thompson’s photography studio for four years, André’s work has attained many important awards. Since 2008 he has been running his own studio from where he works for some of the most important advertising agencies in Brazil.

Visit his website for more information.

Amaury Simões is a Sao Paulo-based photographer who has been working in the market since 1988 specialising in fashion and advertising photography.

With an adventurous yet perfectionist eye, Amaury believes that only by overseeing the entire creative process - from capture to post production - is it possible to achieve the desired results.

Both rational and a dreamer, Amaury's work is distinguished by his remarkable use of contrasting lighting as well as the clarity of his images that define his own unique style.

Álvaro Povoa is a São Paulo-based photographer who has a professional and sophisticated eye when it comes to working across advertising, fashion and architectural photography.

He personally oversees all the details and different phases of the work he produces, from casting, styling and production to location and post production. He offers total support to all his national and international clients amassed over a 30-year career behind the lens.

Visit his website for more information.

With a degree in architecture from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Stela Morato's proximity to photography comes from four generations of Italian-Brazilian filmmakers. Her passion for gastronomy was born in her Tuscan grandparents' kitchen and fed by constant trips to open markets in search of the perfect ingredients.

Specialised in studio photography and cinema lighting, Stela has worked with large and medium scale productions, leading her to fund her own studio in 1985. The installations were built with cooking facilities in mind.

When she is not taking photos, she coordinates production of food for advertising films and writes about gastronomy and travel for a range of magazines. Kids and animals are a favourite subject of her work.

Clients include: Nestle, Nissin Ajinomoto, Pão de Açucar, McDonald's, Perdigão and Mistral.

Southside Productions provides photo and film production services throughout Brazil. Its main goal is to facilitate the work of clients, agencies and artists by offering production services with a professional, straightforward and transparent approach.

With an enormous multi-ethnic variety for casting, a wide range of locations and extremely competitive costs, Southside Productions can guarantee a smooth process and great results for any type of film or photo production.

The company has worked on prestigious local and international productions for clients including Embraer, GM Motors, Ford Motors, Chrysler Motors, Samsung and Smirnoff, as well as agencies such as McCann Erickson Brazil, MBA London, DDB London, JWT Dubai, Leo Burnett Colombia and Neonred Group GMBH Germany.

Recent productions include:

• 'Chevrolet and Você' campaign for GM Motors photographed by Allard van Wielink.
• Samsung 'Diva' photographed by Allard van Wielink with casting and styling by Annik/Produtoras.
• On-location fashion shoot for Barbara Magazine by Allard van Wielink.

Rio de Janeiro is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with its sexy hot beaches, lush forests, exotic culture, diverse architecture and sunny blue sky. Capture Brazil can take care of every production need with total dedication and professionalism to make shooting in Rio the ultimate experience.

The company has worked with clients including H&M, Avon, Mercedes, Volvo, Audi, Shell, Phonak, Syngenta, Carlsberg, Playboy, Marie Claire, Vogue, Otto, Freundin Magazine, Maxim, Visoo, Renner, Levis, VIX Swimwear and Azaleia Footwear.

Capture Brazil is already looking forward to next season and welcoming old and new clients alike to experience the pleasure and amazement of Rio and the many other fantastic regions Brazil has to offer. The company thanks everyone who helped make this season such a successful one.

Under the supervision of Claudia Secaf, Retrato Falado produces and directs castings with an analytical and innovative approach to searching for new faces and talents. It offers a service open to directors, photographers, producers and creative agencies by continually researching and launching ideas, learning and teaching with the experiences it has gained.

Offering more than simple coordination, the company's acting agency has been producing castings for more than 10 years.

Retrato Falado offers more than just the traditional image bank of actors, actresses and models. The company also possesses an exclusive archive of alternative research (street casting), where it has captured the natural beauty of people of all ages and styles. Its low operational costs offer greater agility and lend a more natural feel to the final product.

Annik Buzian is a casting director and stylist working for clients across the advertising market. Streamlining and simplifying casting solutions, she specialises in uncovering exciting new faces.

"The pleasure I have in my life and work are responsible for the motivation and eagerness I have to discover and study the profile and scope of every new person I meet. This makes my work specific and qualitative so I can make every campaign more real and unique to each individual client. It is part of the routine of my job and of my team to find new faces from different tribes that don't usually fall under the traditional casting system."

Annik does casting in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, London and Germany. Visit her website for more information.