FABLES (final draft)

Fables is a film that takes place outside of time, it happens in a place unknown to any of us. The film tells the story of a very important man called “God”. God’s wife cheated on him in their home in their bed. God discovers his wife’s betrayal when he finds a shoe under his bed that her lover left behind in a rush. He hires two professional hitmen to search for the man from a list of six suspects. They are called, “HQ” and “Midnight”. HQ is the most sadistic of the two and lives in a certain trance generated by the theories that he has created about life. Midnight is an immense black man, very sensible and much more connected to our universe, even though still quite far, he is a man of few words but very strong, being the leader of the two. The manner in wich HQ and Midnight follow meticulously their “list” of suspects, they encounter different characters in various situations that in some form are familiar to the audience, little by little we discover that they are fragments of scenes from childhood fairytales, fables very well known but approached from an entirely new context. These fragments are in actuality pieces of an enormous puzzle that “HQ” and “Midnight” have to solve. This challenges the audience to remember and decipher the fables and figure out what is going to happen. As the pages turn, the screenplay leads us to believe that we know who the lover of God’s wife really is. But, in the way that each piece of this enormous puzzle fits into place, all that we feel we know begins to seem “false”, and just like that we discover that perhaps all of our incessant search for “Cinderella”, is something that is totally in vain and part of an occult strategy created by some otherness far beyond the understanding of the common man, some “otherness” much greater.

MS GARDENER (first draft of the first season)

A TV Series fashioned over true background stories, Ms Gardener portrays a vigilante hero whose family had been destroyed by the action of corrupt public officials. After that personal tragedy, she embarks on a secretive journey to eliminate the corrupt rats that control her country’s government, including the biggest rodent in the colony, the president of the republic. The sequence of assassinations initially provoke shock and outrage, but violence slowly starts to make sense as an alternative to a justice system that is inoperative, itself contaminated by the same rats it is meant to catch. Ms Gardener murderous diligence is reflected on the most mundane of activities, her gardening, as pure new life blossoms out of the human remains of the lowest, most immoral specimens. Meanwhile, as corruption is weeded out, the country starts to thrive.

 

FEW DAYS (first draft)

A Few Days is a film based on actual events that took place at the beginning of the last century. The film tells the story of the last family that the navy hired to look after a lighthouse in a deserted island for a month, 165 miles away from the Brazilian coast. On this island, there is no water, there is nothing at all apart from coral reefs that makes navigation very difficult. Enough supplies were delivered to last one month while the families looked after the lighthouse.

However, the last fisherman’s family that took on the job of looking after the lighthouse suffered from a great disaster. Their 10-year-old son caused a leak in the drinking water tank while swimming in it, allowing all the drinking water to be lost as soon as they arrived on the island.

CHAIRMAN (script in development)

The film tells the story of a chairman named, Petronius, the survivor of a plane crash, who comes to it in the middle of a forest. On the plane with him were a woman and the pilot. Petronius finds the charred remains of both and sees the pieces of the wreckage scattered around the forest. He remembers nothing and, frightened, runs away. Days and days go by and Petronius is still lost in the forest, with nothing to eat or drink. He is about to pass out when he hears the humming of an engine getting closer. Petronius then climbs up an embankment in the woods and sees a narrow, fully paved highway. Suddenly a wheelchair whizzes past him, driven by a young paraplegic man. Petronius is scared and notices, ahead of him, a road sign that says “Welcome To Wheelers”.

Petronius realises he is in a town where every single person is a wheelchair user. The whole town has been specifically designed for them. Petronius feels odd and is treated by them as such. He needs medical care and remembers nothing from the past.

In a city where it’s all ramps, and extremely low ceilings, with no bathrooms and various other structural adaptations; Petronius tries his best to adapt, as he feels helpless in that universe.

He needs to use the bathroom but he can’t go, there are no bathrooms there. Everyone ‘goes’ on their own chairs, into containers fitted under their chairs, which are changed twice a day. Petronius is a lot slower than everybody else because he has no engine. He gets exhausted from climbing up long ramps. He needs to stoop down every time he goes into a different place. In short, he feels odd, inferior and is despised by all in that society.

Amanda, who lives in Wheelers, feels sorry for him and ends up taking him under her wing and begins to teach him to live in that community. Her first measure is to buy him a wheelchair in the second-hand wheelchair store.

He then undergoes a learning process. First his legs are forgotten and he learns to move about in a wheelchair. As Petronius gets more and more used to living in the town his legs start to atrophy and he loses control over them. Petronius and Amanda start a relationship, much to the displeasure of her family, as they think he may be a burden to her.

One day Petronius has a dream in which he sees several people moving on their own feet. It frightens him enormously and he tells Amanda. She tells him it was just a nightmare, but the dream keeps coming back night after night, and Petronius’ memory starts to come back. He remembers his wife. He remembers she was with him on the plane. He remembers his children, and slowly it all comes back to him. Petronius is now in a crisis, now impotent, unable to get up from that chair. He tries to tell Amanda that there is a world where people walk upright. A world where people who can’t walk are handicapped. Petronius is reported to the police by Amanda herself, who, on her parents’ advice, thinks it’s the best thing to do. He is arrested and placed in a mental institution, together with two other men who also claim to know the world that Petronius swears exists.

THE HEIR (first draft)

An ambitious and greedy couple receive an enigmatic dinner invitation from Mr Vincent Rockefeller, a billionaire and only heir to a group of highly successful companies. On the night of the dinner, Gilberto and Renata are welcomed by the butler and are impressed by the luxury of the mansion. When Mr and Mrs Rockefeller come down the sumptuous stairs of the mansion, the couple realises in shock that the billionaires have Down syndrome.

Under the astonished and disconcerted gaze of the couple, Mr. Rockefeller explains that he is looking for a senior executive to work as CEO in one of his companies and asks Gilberto if he is interested in participating in the selection process. Despite the obvious prejudice, ambition speaks louder and the couple pretend to act naturally and demonstrate interest in performing the tasks required for the selection process. What they do not yet know, however, is how unorthodox the selective process is. So from the on from their own will the couple will live a night of psychological torture and ego degradation and all because they really want the job at all costs.

THE PLAY (first draft)

The Play is a suspense thriller that tells the story of a teenage girl who hasn’t realized she has died in a tragic fire at the theatre where she was performing with her friends and boyfriend. Disturbed by thoughts and memories she wanders through the backstage of the theatre trying to find answers for her anguish until a friend, almost like an angel, appears to help her through the process of acceptance that leads to a new path.

This conclusion however will only be revealed at the end of the film. Throughout the story, mysterious events create suspense and terror in the plot, involving the audience in the sinister experience being lived by the protagonist.

THE DREAM COMPANY (script in development)

The Dream Company is a film about Albert, a successful man, father of two teenagers, who is facing a crisis in his marriage and in his professional life. But one day at an amusement park, along with his family, he experiences an adventure that will change his life.The person in front of Albert at the queue for the ghost train leaves and Albert is forced to sit away from his wife and children in a different train. And so next to him, sits a beautiful girl who makes the ride on the ghost train the most unforgettable sexual experience for Albert. Such an event stirs Albert’s self esteem changing many things for the better in his life, including his business.  Albert then closes a major deal with a Chinese company and is invited to dinner with the president of Asian multinational. Upon arriving at the restaurant he is shown to a private room, where he discovers that the president is a beautiful oriental executive woman. During dinner, the two end up getting along so well that Albert goes through an incredible new sexual experience. Once again Albert’s self esteem goes through the roof and his life improves in every way. With such a high self esteem these sexual experiences end up repeating themselves until Albert falls in love with a beautiful nurse from a public hospital who he gets involved with after being attacked.

His marriage, which had greatly improved, is in crisis again because Albert is in love with the nurse and willing to leave everything behind to live a new life with this woman. However, like all others, the nurse disappears without any explanation. Albert decides to investigate and discovers that the nurse of his dreams has never worked in that hospital. Obsessed by the nurse, Albert follows various clues and ends up finding her again, but now, working as a primary school teacher at a private school. Albert follows her and finds out that the woman actually has several different identities. Intrigued, he follows clues and ends up arriving at The Dream Company, a secret company that successful entrepreneurs hire to provide them unforgettable sexual experiences, in a very natural way,  without realizing that they paid for it. The nurse and all those other beautiful women with whom Albert had relations in the recent months are employees of this secret company, which Albert one day in the past paid to provide him with these experiences. Even the attempted murder he was a victim of was part of the plan that Albert hired in the past. The purpose of The Dream Company is to provide its associates unforgettable sexual experiences that make their everyday lives change for the better, raising their self esteem, improving their marriages and their businesses.

And so, all that hire the company, pay a huge sum of money, sign a contract and are required to take a drug that creates momentary amnesia, causing them to forget they paid for these experiences.

THREE LIVES ONE DREAM (in post-production)

Three Lives and a Dream is a documentary narrated by three mothers whose children have Down syndrome. Corine Goldenberg, Muriel Pokk and Suely Viola are women who have had their lives transformed more than 30 years ago with the arrival of a baby with Down syndrome. They have been pursuing a dream in common ever since, doing everything they can so their children can be part of society like anyone else.

Amid numerous challenges over time, these three warrior women, have succeeded in their goal. Ariel, Rita and Breno have become starts in the film “Buddies”, they have won thousands of fans as well as the special Kikito Prize awarded by the Gramado Film Festival 2012 jury, the most renowned film festival in Brazil.

The documentary investigates what goes on in these mothers’ hearts who now see their dedicated efforts over many years result in a huge success in their children’s lives. Ariel, Rita and Breno are today talented, respected actors, capable of entertaining, thrilling, making cry and laugh an array of different audiences.

The film dives deep into the story and viewpoint of each mother, revealing the most important memories and obstacles faced until their children finally turned into film stars, becoming famous and achieving an incredible personal and professional fulfilment.

THE PIT (to remake)

Based on true facts, the movie “The Pit” was shot 7 years ago for the Brazilian market at a time when UFC was beginning to thrive. The idea is to adapt this movie for the American market where UFC is now consolidated and has a loyal following that grows every day. In the adaptation we will portray the world of young LA millionaires who throw grand private parties for a select few. At the party, the guests, who are young millionaires, bet their money on suburban youngsters fighting without gloves, in a pool without water, without rules, until the other gets knocked out or gives up. Most of these fighters are illegal immigrants or individuals who have criminal records who can not get a job and see the underground clandestine fighting as a chance to change their lives. The party is organized by Patrick, the son of a powerful American businessman, and Garcia, a dealer who knows all about the world of clandestine fighting.

FAREWELL (to remake)

Based on true facts, Farewell tells the story of Admiral, a 92-year-old man, who decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life and spends one last night with his lover who is 55 years younger than him. The movie shows that true love is timeless, ageless and limitless.