Talents

Jorge Furtado: Director, Writer

Furtado's art is based on valuing the situations, the changes of attitude, the possible choices of behaviour. Since Island of flowers, we have been able to appreciate the goldsmith of Porto Alegre's virtuosity. Furtado plays all the time with retinal persistence and hearing acuity. Only Godard, in The power of speech (Puissance de la parole) will go as far. Furtado pretends to focus on totally unusual and secondary subjects to bring up, through the film, covertly, the essential subjects: iconoclastic, new and shocking marriage of the comic and the tragic, which brutally comes to this apparently amusing universe. A humour of the absurd is attained, close to Queneaus's, Perec's, and to the Oulipo. With these latest movies, the wizard of Porto Alegre has won the first row in the cinema of Latin American, and, maybe, even of the whole American continent.

Filmography

• Saneamento Básico, O Filme (2007)
• Rummikub (2007)
• Meu Tio Matou um Cara (2004)
• Homem Que Copiava, O (2003)
• Houve Uma Vez Dois Verões (2002)
• "A Invenção do Brasil" (2000) (Serie de TV)
• "Brava Gente" (2000)
• Sanduíche, O (2000)
• "Luna caliente" (1999) (Serie de TV)
• Angelo Anda Sumido (1997)
• Felicidade É... (1995)
• Veja bem (1994)
• A Matadeira (1994)
• Esta Não É a Sua Vida (1991)
• Temporal (1984)

Alice Braga

Alice is one of Brazil's most promising talents. She first grabbed the world's attention in City of God. Then earned multiple awards for her lead role in Lower City. Alice also starred in Only God Knows (Mexico/Brazil), Journey to the End of the Night, The Milkyway, alongside Will Smith in I am legend, with Sean Penn in Crossing Over and in David Mamet's Redbelt. Her latest roles are in Fernando Meirelles' Blindness, currently in production, and in Repossession Mambo (2009) along with Jude Law.

Filmography

• Repossession Mambo (2009)
• Blindness (2008)
• Redbelt (2008)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• Crossing Ov er (2007)
• A Via Láctea (2007)
• Rummikub (2007)
• Cheiro do Ralo, O (2006)
• Journey to the End of the Night (2006) Sólo Dios sabe (2006)
• "Carandiru, Outras Histórias" (2005) (Serie de TV)
• Cidade Baixa (2005)
• Cidade de De us (2002)
• Trampolim (1998)

Lucas Akoskin: Producer

Lucas Akoskin has spent most of his life near a camera. By his early twenties, he had already worked as an actor in several Argentine hit TV shows. In 2001, Lucas relocated to NY where he started writing The Doorman, a feature film he starred, wrote and produced with Gigantic Pictures, and currently playing the festival circuit. Lucas was instrumental at bringing together one of the industry's key players, Harvey Weinstein, with Argentine art connoisseur Eduardo Costantini, which resulted in a partnership to produce and distribute films: The Latin American Film Fund. Lucas recently finished producing Terra Shorts: a collection of independent stories woven together by the common Latin American experience. Rummikub is one of these stories.