CONVIDADOS 2024 - Brasil
Ilda Santiago
Born in Rio de Janeiro and holding degrees in Journalism and Cinema from UFF, she is the executive director and person in charge of programming and international projects at the Rio Festival. She is one of the founders of Grupo Estação, the Cannes Film Festival correspondent in Brazil for 15 years, and a member of both the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the Platino Awards Academy. She has organized retrospectives for filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Louis Malle, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard, and has curated the Premiere Brasil exhibitions in New York (at MoMA), Berlin (at Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Lisbon, and Washington D.C. She founded the distribution company Pagu Pictures, where she worked in acquisitions and releases from 2017 to 2020. She was a producer on Bem Casados, an associate producer on Rio, Eu Te Amo, and a co-producer on As Vitrines. Ilda is currently developing projects with producer Mayra Faour Auad (MyMama), including Réquiem, by Mónica Demes, Descasos, by Flávia Castro, and Crisântemo Amarelo, by André Saito.
Festival do Rio – Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival
Founded in 1999 from the merger of the Banco Nacional Exhibition and the Rio Cine Festival, which had been part of the city's cultural calendar since the 1980s, the Festival do Rio – Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival is now the largest film festival in Latin America and the main gathering of audiovisual industry professionals in the region. The festival is recognized as an important platform for promoting films for release in Brazil and for showcasing independent filmmakers whose productions might otherwise not be seen by the Brazilian public. The event is organized by Cinema do Rio and CIMA – Center for Culture, Information, and the Environment.
Rio Market
RioMarket is the business hub of the Festival do Rio – Rio de Janeiro Int'l Film Festival, dedicated to contributing to the development of the audiovisual industry. It facilitates the exchange of knowledge between renowned professionals, emerging producers, and established companies in the field, fostering new business opportunities and professional training.