BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MIAMI
23 editions
The Brazilian Film Festival of Miami celebrates its 23rd edition in 2019 with an extraordinary program consisting of competitive screenings, parallel events, market meetings, awards ceremony, and an extensive advertising campaign with international impact.
After 23 consecutive years, the Festival has become a reference in Brazil and abroad as an essential platform for the diffusion and promotion of the Brazilian audiovisual. It has created new audiences for Brazilian content and a business environment for the audiovisual sector in the international market.
BRAFF Miami was the first Festival with exclusively Brazilian content produced abroad and consequently a pioneer in this format and the international promotion and dissemination of Brazilian audiovisual. In its 23 years, BRAFF Miami has shown about 850 films in various genres and formats. It has created opportunities to generate new business for the movies presented in the Festival through industry meetings and pitching panels.
In 2001, we took this Festival format to various cities around the world and created the Inffinito Festival Circuit, an annual showcase for recent Brazilian productions in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Vancouver, New York, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, London, and Miami. Since then, 82 editions of the Inffinito Circuit took place in these cities for an audience of over 1 million people worldwide.
WHO WE ARE
ADRIANA L. DUTRA
Director and Founder
CLÁUDIA DUTRA
Director and Founder
VIVIANE B. SPINELLI
Director and Founder
In 1995, two sisters from Rio de Janeiro, Adriana L. Dutra and Claudia Dutra, and their friend from Cuiabá, Viviane Spinelli, were living in Florida and decided to produce a film screening event with only Brazilian films in the United States. It seemed like they were pursuing a utopian idea back then. But, two years later these three young partners held the first edition of BRAFF - Brazilian Film Festival of Miami, a pioneering event in the diffusion of Brazilian audiovisual products in the largest market in the world.
Thus, came about "Inffinito", from the dream of this restless and entrepreneur trio to conquer the world, expand Brazilian borders, showcasing its diversity and cultural richness through films.
To this day, BRAFF is the largest gateway for Brazilian production in the Latin American market and the great showcase of Brazilian cinema abroad. The trio expanded their work creating the Inffinito Festival Circuit, which in recent decades has brought Brazil's cultural diversity to cities such as New York, Miami, Vancouver, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, London, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Colombia.
CURATORS
BRAFF Miami is curated by professionals from the audiovisual sector.
ADRIANA L. DUTRA
Filmmaker and Screenwriter
Inffinito
JAL GUERREIRO
Development Director
Box Brazil
LILIANA KAWASE
Executive Producer
Titanio Films
VIVIANE B. SPINELLI
Producer and Director
Inffinito
JURY
In the jury of the festival we have professionals from the audiovisual sector of the Latin American market.
ANA FRANÇOIS
Assistant Professor of Practice University of Miami
MARIA SANCHEZ
Principal Content Acquisitions
Amazon Prime Video
ADRIANA SABINO
President
Centro Cultural BRASIL-USA
YAGO MARIÑO
Head of Production
Vice Latin America
MONICA SUFAR
Film and TV Producer
TEAM BRAFF MIAMI 2019
Board Chair
Neuza Farache Porto
Board Members
Eloisa Lopez
John Maass
Luiz Rodrigues
Luis Paulo Souza
Tanira Ferreira
Production
Ana Oliveira
Thais Rios
Production Assistants
Ananda DeMello
Francisco Pedro
Gabriela Cheli
Julian Israel
Manuela Rosenthal
Marcia Raposo
Ricardo Tomassoni
Stephanie Brokers
Financial Manager
Célia Cristina Rodrigues Moreira
Human Resources & Financial Analyst
Adriana Ribeiro
Art, Website & Design
Felipe Nogueira
Corporate Outreach & Hospitality
Frances Pina
Transportation
Arno Soares
Photographer
Demetrius Borges
Braff Camera
Marina Ziehe
Closing Awards & Events DJ
Lupa
Closing Awards Ceremony Host
Daniel Del Sarto
Red Carpet E! & Awards Ceremony
Flavia Guimarães
Press Relations
Palavra Assessoria em Comunicação
Social Media
Pipoca Entretenimento
Growth Hacker and Performance
Sandro Nogueira
Red Carpet E! Camera
André Freitas
Red Carpet E! Camera Assistant
Ana Paula Murta
Co-production
HPB MANTEUFEL PRODUTORA
João Manteufel
Lilian Sant´anna
Hilce Barros
Regal South Beach
Kristin Kettunen
Mai Ling
Nick Green
Silverspot Cinema at Downtown Miami
Soledad Gonzalo
Luis Fernandez
David Maddox
Fred Meyer
Colony Theater
Claudia Urdaneta
Steven Nuñez
Michel Hausmann
Moisés Kaufman
* IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT 1990, PEOPLE WHO NEED SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 23rd BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL OF MIAMI MUST CONTACT OUR PRODUCTION TEAM AT 305-600-3347 NO MORE THAN ONE WEEK OF THE EVENT. TO GET ASSISTANCE FOR HEARING DISABILITIES, PLEASE CALL (800) 955-8771 (TDD) OR (800) 955-8770 (voice) .
