INFFINITO STAFF 2024 - NEW YORK
We are very proud to present the team for the 28th edition of the Inffinito Brazilian Film Festival:
DIRECTOR & FOUNDERS
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.
Cláudia Dutra
Producer and one of the directors and co-founders of the Inffinito Group. She has been working in the audiovisual and cultural industry for 30 years and is one of the creators and producers responsible for important cultural events and all marketing and advertising campaigns, such as the Inffinito Festival Circuit, Cine Pedal Brasil, Noites do Rio, Viena, Cidade dos Sonhos, 15 x Austria, Cine Verão do Rio, Cine Itinerante, Conexão Samba, among many others.
In the audiovisual field, she is both a producer and approves the executive production and production direction of several series and films, among them; Fumando Espero, Quanto Tempo o Tempo Tem, Quero Botar Meu Bloco, Opção Laje, Deu Verde, Sons Brasilis, among her most recent works are the realities Alta Estima and Na Barraca em Busca do Amor, the feature film Sociedade do Medo, among many others.
She served as a juror at the São Paulo (SP) and Goiânia short film festival and was awarded for her contributions at the CINE Pernambuco (PE) and São Luís do Maranhão Festivals.
She is a founding member of the Forum of Festivals and has participated in the CBC, Congresso Brasileiro de Cinema ( Brazilian Congress of Cinema) and the Brazilian Film Academy. In 2018, she founded the Mulheres Mix platform, where she acts as a director, presenter, and content creator. She is also one of the founders and creators of the platform inff.online.
Viviane B. Spinelli
Executive Director US.
Viviane 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.
BOARD MEMBERS
Claudia Amboss
Eloisa Lopez
John Maass
Luiz Paulo Souza
Neuza Farache
Tanira Ferreira
Stella Holmes
CURATORS
Adriana L. Dutra
Laura Fernandes
Liliana Kawase
Ricardo Cota
Viviane B. Spinelli
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
Thiago Guimarães
PRODUCTION
Mari Magalhães
Mikhaela Riche
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Natalia Guedes
ART CREATION
Alma Salgada
ART & DESIGN
Felipe Nogueira
Gabriel Penido
SOCIAL MEDIA
Miguel Penido
PROMOTION
Nick Lucianni- Conquest Marketing
PROMOTION ASSISTANT
Gabriela Gasparini
PRESS RELATIONS
Cristina Rio Branco - Palavra Assessoria
CONTENT TRANSLATION
Alessandra Pekelman
OFFICIAL DJ
Marcela Biondo
ADMINISTRATIVE
Adriana Ribeiro
FINANCIAL
Leandro Salomão
ACCOUNTANTS
Cláudia Nascimento - DTL BIZ - US
Rogério Moreira – Brazil
WEB DEVELOPMENT
Nerd Etcetera
Mateus Tavares
Thiago Bueno
Gabriel Tavares
