Loli Menezes
Directing
Biography
Brazilian filmmaker and producer, she studied cinema at the University of Southern Santa Catarina. Her debut short, “Ocorredor”, was made when she was still a student and won 10 awards at national festivals. With “Isto não é um Filme”, she was among the finalists of the AXN Film Festival, showing her short film throughout Latin America. With her last short “Selma after the Rain”, she toured 17 countries and won 9 awards, including Best Brazilian Short Film – BIMIFF – Brazil International Monthly Independent Film Festival (USA 2020) / Best Drama Short – Annual CPH Film Festival (Copenhagen 2020) Special Mention in the Women’s Fights and Rights Competition – Porto Femme (2020); Best Direction, Best Actress, Best Editing – Short Taquary (2020); Best Direction – Mix Brasil (2019); Honorable Mention for best narrative short (ISA Hollywood – IMDB); Special Mention (London-X4 Short Film Festival SPRING 2019); Indicated to represent Brazil in the Iris Prize LGBT + Film Festival 2020. She coordinated, produced and co-directed for 3 years series docs for the Rede Globo affiliate in Santa Catarina (NSC-TV). Her work focuses on direction, production, art direction and costumes for fictions and documentaries, for Cinema and TV, having produced more than 40 works between short films, medium docs, features, series, video clips and visual arts projects. She is a founding partner of Vinil Filmes, one of the most active production company in South Brazil. She is currently finishing her first feature documentary “Uncle Tommy”; developing her first feature film “Sangue de Groselha”(project awarded by Mercado Entrefronteras and Madrugada Sangrenta – Roger Corman special); and the Horror Island series – First Season: The Cartilage (script published in Graphic Novel by Darkside – expected to launch in the first half of 2021).
Known For
Lola, for the first time away from her parents, goes camping with her school class. She and her cousins need to find out if The Swamp Thing of the South is the creature of legend, or if someone is trying to curse the campground.
The Southern Swamp Monster
A film that deals with two latent issues: transgender and old age. In the relationship of the two characters, tolerance and acceptance are the main themes.
Selma After the Rain
Ana (Manuela Campagna) is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a border town between Brazil and Argentina. There, she has no leisure options and no internet access. Your only refuge is to visit a tallow / lanhouse known as "The Cave". It is there that, one day, she ends up meeting Murilo (Fagundes Emanuel), the boy she will fall in love with.
Moon in Sagittarius
When the tomb of Thomas John Cardell Martyn, founder of Newsweek magazine, is found in a small town in the interior of southern Brazil, a series of mysteries, secrets, gaps and suspicions is raised about his past as a spy.
Uncle Tommy – The Man who Founded Newsweek
The film portrays the life and work of the composer and samba gaucho Túlio Piva. A native of Santiago do Boqueirão, Túlio consolidated his musical career in Porto Alegre. Owner of a very own beat on the guitar, lived more than 50 years of samba, owned the bar "Gente da Noite", where he composed much of his work and recorded four LPs.
Túlio Piva - Pandeiro de Prata
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O ET da Vargem Pequena
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Beijos de Arame Farpado
The story of a LGBTQIA+ child told through old images from VHS tapes. The videos were recorded by Vicente's father between 1987 and 1993.
My Uncle's Friend
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A Mão do Macaco
A metalinguistic film. A group of friends talk about making a film. As long as they talk, the film starts to happen.
Isto Não é um Filme
In the heart of the city, the current Light Park emerged where the old municipal cemetery used to be. However, Júlia, Maitê and their friends, completely unaware of this peculiar story, decide to have a fun picnic. But what seemed like an innocent prank soon turns into a horrifying adventure when an eclipse triggers an unexpected invasion of shambling zombies.
The Light Park's Cemitery
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Aquela Mistura
Mocinha and Madalena, a lesbian couple, invite a couple of friends to a farewell dinner
Bravehearts
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Ângelo, O Coveiro
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