Anita Rocha da Silveira
Directing
Biography
Anita Rocha da Silveira (Rio de Janeiro, 1985) is a Brazilian filmmaker. She graduated in Cinema from PUC-Rio. Worked as an editor and writer, as well as directing short films. In 2012, she participated in the Film Factory of the World, a project carried out in partnership between the French Institute and the Cannes Film Festival, to be able to film her first feature film Mate-Me Por Favor. The film was awarded at the Festival do Rio and selected for the Venice Film Festival.
Known For
By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.
Medusa
Barra da Tijuca, West Side Zone of Rio de Janeiro. A wave of murderers plague the area. What starts off as a morbid curiosity for the local youth, slowly begins to spoil away at their lives. Among them is Bia, a 15-year-old girl. After an encounter with death, she will do anything to make sure she is alive.
Kill Me Please
Bia is a teenager just like the others: she's into rock, handball and blood.
Handball
During the hottest summer of his life, teenager discovers pleasure among buses, balloons, Darth Vader and Newton's laws.
O Vampiro do Meio-Dia
Rio de Janeiro, May, 2012. João waits for Bia in front of the women’s restroom. However, she mysteriously disappears. Now, he doesn’t know if she died, was raptured or just fell in love with somebody else.