
Elio Copini
Acting
Biography
In small Palmitos, with just over 15 thousand inhabitants, in the west of Santa Catarina, Elio was an accountant at his family's mechanical workshop, even though he was not interested in cars. He didn't even drive. Visits to the city of Teatro do Biriba, a circus that performs in the interior of the states, awakened his dream of being an actor. But his dream did not develop on stages and arenas, but on movie screens. His artistic career began in 1995, when he met director Petter Baiestorf. Over almost 30 years of friendship and partnership, they made more than 20 films together. Based on his experience with Baiestorf, Copini made a career with other directors in the region, mainly in fantasy cinema. Excerpt from Leonardo Fuhrmann's text for Folha de São Paulo, June 9, 2024. Elio's last film was the short Picnic at the Castle, directed by Petter Baiestorf and based on the work of Franz Kafka, and recorded in March 2024 and released just a few days before his death.
Known For

A girl is kidnapped by a drug dealer at the behest of a corrupt senator, who intends to hold a party in the presence of a demented priest and a doctor using the girl as fun.
Arrombada - I'll Piss On Your Fucking Grave!!!

A love story, a love triangle that gets soiled with blood with the arrival of a fourth character: a serial killer who collects vaginas. Lesbian couple is chased by lover betrayed in the areas of Weird. Blood and sex in the tradition of the 80's Boca do Lixo films with eschatological scenes and total cinematographic metalanguage.
The Whore with the Chainsaw

A gore story about a girl who learns to use sharp machetes to avenge the death of her beloved murdered by religious fanatics.
The Sweet Advance of the Knife

Small fragments from the life of a woman tortured to death by a drug addict and a cannibalistic Satanist. The thick blood splatters against director Baiestorf's dirty lenses, which shows in a surreal way the most realistic scene of heroin use ever filmed in the history of Brazilian cinema. The short was created from scenes filmed for the feature "Stay Sick!" which Baiestorf was unable to finish.
Fragments of a Life

Freak society of mutants is shaken by the birth of a normal being and starts to exploit him financially. Movie partially shot and never finished.
Andy

It was supposed to be a romantic afternoon on a “deserted” island in the Uruguay River, but a couple of wealthy ecologists had a bad luck because they ended up finding not love and peace, but hungry zombies wanting guts and brains under the command of a priestess. diabolical, and this couple will have to fight for their survival in that place. Parallel to this, a serial killer dressed as an old lady drags a "blonde" from the city to her isolated shed to serve as a victim in her sadistic tortures.
Zombio

Zombies, beautiful dead girls, newly-dead and a wide variety of colorful and slimy undead invade the West of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Guts roll while "yerba mate" Cronenberg is consumed by the farmers. But the zombies aren't the biggest problem when all the humans are sadistic and selfish.
Zombio 2

In this anthology of horror episodes, 13 bizarre stories are told by independent film directors of Southern Brazil. Between ghosts, serial killers and demons, they conduct their strange, very strange stories.
13 Weird Stories

17 self-taught directors come together to give new meaning to their work in the form of 20 new episodes that are part of the feature film "Noisy Silencers", an extrasensory video experience that takes us on a journey through the history of cinema, from the 1880s to the present in a tangle of deliriums of the seventh art.
Noisy Silencers

The Gunslinger Nobody refuses to suck a bull's cock in Colonel Bajon's zoophilia movie, and a musical hunt begins.
Nobody Must Die

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Queer na Srebrnym Globie

"The dead's passion" is an animated short-photonovela, telling the origin of the character "Zumboa", a potential innocent victim (and a fan of horror films) who, attacked by disgusting and lustful undead out of an old cemetery, turns into a much more lethal creature ... A very alive, dominating and seductive dead.
The dead's passion

Sinners of a rural community having his flesh melted as an atonement for his Christian offenses. A revolutionary army of two people feuding with hordes of rotting zombies, and a mad scientist philosopher that builds a mummy of Christ to control the world.
The Enjoyment of the Avacalho

In the future, metanoia erupts from the filth of the world. The monstrous primate that roars out of the mud, imposes itself before the erratic and alienated human being, molding its violence against the cathodic domain.
Kanibaru Primitivism in the Mud of Technology

A Cor que Caiu do Espaço (2016) is freely based on the text "The Color Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft. Filmed as if it were a delirious nightmare, Color that Fell from Space is a short with independent production of Baiestorf and Silvia Prado that integrated the collective long "13 Stories Strangers". Experimentalism.
The Colour Out of Space

In 1992, a group of teenagers began recording horror films with VHS cameras in Palmitos, in the west of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Led by Santa Catarina director Petter Baiestorf, the production company came to be called Canibal Filmes. Far from large urban centers and in times of stagnation in Brazilian cinema, the group learned in practice how to make low-budget cinema. The films found their own way of financing and showing to the public. Through reports, photographs, documents and videos, the documentary covers Canibal's early years, retracing the group's efforts and challenges in making independent cinema in a region with no cinematic tradition.
Mato Mato Mato - Canibal Filmes e as Produções de 'Horor' no Oeste de SC

Super Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the Devil, so that their artistic industrial conglomerates grow.
Chaos and Confusion

A gang of criminals is taken by surprise by colonists contaminated by a drug (tested by the government) that unleashes their murderous instincts.
Rage-O-Rama

Canibal Filmes and Bulhorgia Produções proudly present the most faithful and realistic version, released so far, about what goes on in the mind of the accursed filmmaker Petter Baiestorf. With direction and script by Baiestorf himself and editing by Gurcius Gewdner, the film shows in a clear and objective way the entire trajectory of life, ideology and passions experienced by Santa Catarina. With a soundtrack of impact and moments of joy and anguish, entirely taken from the incredible vinyl collection of Gurcius Gewdner, Palhaço Triste has already been considered the best film of the tireless Canibal Filmes, in 2005
Sad Clown

A punk scientist formed the formula of the deadly drink that transforms drunks into hallucinated zombies and awakens the fury of Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and her afternoon tea buddies, who armed and dangerous decide to get revenge.