The Inffinito Brazilian Film Festival curators selected 107 out of 320 films viewed which included feature films, documentaries, animations, and short films.
In addition to the Competitive Screenings of feature and short films in Miami, our curators have also selected the screenings that will be shown at inff.online, which are: Panorama Feature Screenings, Documentary Screenings, Inclusion Screenings, Dictatorship Never Again Screenings, Tribute Screenings to Renata Almeida Magalhães, Panorama Short Film Screenings e Destination Screenings.
The selection and their respective screenings portray the production capacity of Brazilian professionals and represent the audiovisual industry in all its power.
We would like to thank our curators for the beautiful selection of films and congratulate all the films submitted.
CURATORS 2024
ADRIANA L. DUTRA
CURATOR OF THE COMPETITIVE SCREENINGS IN MIAMI, SCREENINGS IN NEW YORK AND ON INFF.ONLINE
ADRIANA L. DUTRA As a curator, filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer, her recent works include: reality shows Na Barraca em Busca do Amor (2024), High Esteem (2nd & 3rd seasons, 2024), High Esteem (1st season, 2023). full-length documentaries such as Society of Fear (2022), A Journey Thru Rio's Street Parade (2019), Transtime (2018 Smoking I Wait (2015), Mulheres da Maré (2014). Documentary TV series include: Option America (2017), Slab Option (2016), Sons Brasilis (2019), Transgente (2016), among many others.
She is the director and founder of the Inffinito Group (1995) and the Inffinito Foundation in the US (1995),
In 2020, she founded the streaming platform inff.online, which offers screenings and festivals with Brazilian content available to the national and international markets.
She was a member of the 2019 Oscar Committee in Brazil; Netflix Award Jury; Goya Award Committee, 2018; Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival Jury; Cuiabá Film Festival Jury and is a Director of the Festivals Forum.
CAVI BORGES
CURATOR OF DICTATORSHIP NEVER AGAIN SCREENINGS ON INFF.ONLINE
CAVI BORGES, a reference in independent cinema in Rio de Janeiro, has produced 90 feature films and 154 short films, winning 178 awards at national and international festivals. As a director, He has made 18 features and 54 short films.
His films have been showcased at Cannes, Berlin, Rotterdam, and Locarno. In Brazil at the Rio Festival, Gramado, Brasília, and screening of SP.
LAURA FERNANDES
CURATOR OF THE COMPETITIVE SCREENINGS IN MIAMI, SCREENINGS IN NEW YORK AND ON INFF.ONLINE
LAURA FERNANDES holds a master's degree in psychology and has worked as a producer for several bands and artists. She also worked in production at Globotec, for TV Globo, and was the creator and owner of Doc-Vídeo Produções for over 10 years. Laura is a board member of the Brazilian Flamengo Embassy in Miami, known as FlaMiami, and lives in the city with her two daughters, son-in-law and grandson.
LILIANA KAWASE
CURATOR OF THE COMPETITIVE SCREENINGS IN MIAMI, SCREENINGS IN NEW YORK AND ON INFF.ONLINE
LILIANA KAWASE was born in Bahia and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She holds a degree in engineering and a lifelong passion for cinema. Currently residing in Lisbon, she is a partner in Titanio Films, a production company that specializes in the creation of films, documentaries, and television series. In addition to her work in film production, she has been curating and judging film festivals.
KARINA MELLO
CURATOR OF THE COMPETITIVE SHORT FILM SCREENING IN MIAMI, SHORT FILM SCREENINGS IN NEW YORK, AND ON INFF.ONLINE
KARINA MELLO is a producer, director, screenwriter, and actress with a career spanning more than 30 years. She holds a degree in journalism. And pursued her education at the Darcy Ribeiro Film School, where she specialized in screenwriting. She participated in the Varilux French Cinema workshop in partnership with the European Conservatory of Audiovisual Writing.
In April 2013, she produced, directed, scripted and starred in her short film "Bianca" through her production company S.A.I.D Films. The film was selected for several festivals around the world and was also marketed to Canal Brasil. Her second short film O Pião was selected for Cine Tamoio 2019 (Best Actress Award for Heloisa Jorge and nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Wilson Rabelo), San Diego Black Film Festival 2020 (Best Foreign/Diaspora Short Film Award) and numerous other festivals.
RAPHAEL ALVAREZ
CURATOR OF THE COMPETITIVE SHORT FILM SCREENING IN MIAMI, SHORT FILM SCREENINGS IN NEW YORK, AND ON INFF.ONLINE
RAPHAEL ALVAREZ is an award-winning creative, and artistic director, producer, and editor for both television and film. Raphael's work on the documentary Dzi Croquettes (Direction, Production and Editing) led to international recognition and won over 40 awards. The film received excellent reviews from leading American media outlets, including The New York Times, LA Times, Time Out NY, LA Weekly, Village Voice, among many others. Additionally, Raphael won the award for Best Documentary Editor at the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix and Fest Cine Goiânia (for the feature film Dzi Croquettes) and the Platinum Awards for Editor of the Year at the ISENMA festival in Indonesia (for the film Dancing Wheels). His most recent auteur films include the acclaimed BRTrans, based on Silvero Pereira's incredible play of the same name.
RICARDO COTA
CURATOR OF THE COMPETITIVE SCREENINGS IN MIAMI, SCREENINGS IN NEW YORK, AND ON INFF.ONLINE
RICARDO COTA has been a film critic for over 30 years, contributing to various media outlets, including newspapers, radio, and television. A member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), he has served as a juror and correspondent at film festivals in Brazil and abroad, such as Cuba, Miami, Mexico, Cannes, and Berlin. From 2015 to 2020, he held the position of Curator of the Cinematheque at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM). In this role, he was instrumental in revitalizing the space with a program focused primarily on Brazilian cinema, while also promoting international events, such as the trip to Brazil by director of photography Vittorio Storaro, winner of three Oscars in 2018. He held the role of Curator for the 53rd and 54th editions of the Brasília Brazilian Film Festival. Currently, curator for the Rio Film Festival and the Inffinito Film Festival, held in Miami and New York. Recently, he has published his inaugural work as a fiction writer, entitled "Até o Último Filme.".
VIVIANE B. SPINELLI
CURATOR OF THE COMPETITIVE SHORT FILM SCREENING IN MIAMI, SHORT FILM SCREENINGS IN NEW YORK, AND ON INFF.ONLINE
VIVIANE B. SPINELLI is graduated from Santa Úrsula University in Rio de Janeiro with a degree in Urbanism and Architecture in 1992.
She is one of the founders and the US executive director of Inffinito. She manages and produces the company's events with the Brazilian Film Festival and the Inff.online platform as the forerunners.
She directed and produced the short Pioneers and the musical documentary Orchestra on the Road. She was the assistant director of the documentary Smoking I Wait, executive producer of the documentary Transtime, and the US producer of the TV Series Option America and feature documentary Society of Fear.
In 2018 she received the Brazilian Government and Ministry of External Relations highest honor, the Order of Rio Branco. In 2023 she was part of the feature film Jury of the 21st edition of Cinemato - Film and Video Festival in Cuiabá, MT.
