CONVIDADOS 2024 - Brasil
Julia Alves
Master in Cultural Heritage, Landscapes, and Citizenship from the Federal University of Viçosa (MG) and Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique), and a graduate in Audiovisual from ECA-USP, she works as a producer and executive producer on independent productions, focusing on auteur films and international co-productions. Her productions include Filme Particular, by Janaína Nagata (IDFA 2022 – The Beeld & Geluid Reframe Award), Os Delinquentes, by the Argentine Rodrigo Moreno (Cannes Film Festival 2023 – Un Certain Regard), A Flor do Buriti, by Renée Nader Messora and João Salaviza, winner of the Ensemble Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2023, and Tudo o que Você Podia Ser, by Ricardo Alves Jr. (Rio Film Festival 2023 – Best Director and Félix Jury Award). She collaborated with the Portuguese production company Oublaum Filmes, leading productions and co-productions with Mozambique, France, Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Taiwan. In 2024, after nine years as a producer at Sancho&Punta, she founded QUARTA-FEIRA FILMES, an independent production company specializing in auteur film productions and international partnerships. She is an alumni of Berlinale Talents 2019 and the EAVE Producers Workshop 2023, through which she received a Paradiso Scholarship.
QUARTA-FEIRA FILMES
Quarta-feira Filmes is an independent production company based in São Paulo, Brazil, focusing on auteur cinema and international partnerships. Created by producer Julia Alves in 2024 after nine years leading productions at Sancho&Punta, Quarta-feira aims to broaden the dialogue between Brazilian auteur cinema and other cinemas of the Global South. Its ongoing projects include the fiction feature Rapina, directed by Bruno Risas and Francis Vogner dos Reis, the fiction feature La Pyramide, by Nigerian director C.J. Obasi, a co-production between Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, the experimental documentary Uma Lagoa de Pedras, by Bruna Carvalho Almeida, and the documentary La Química, by Emilia Franco de Mello.