Maju de Paiva

Maju de Paiva is a director and screenwriter of the short movies “Small Animals Without Owner” (2015) and “Carnation, Lily, Rose” (2018), winner of public calls from SECEC-RJ and exhibited and awarded in festivals such as Ficunam, FESTin, Kinoproba, Kinoforum, Festival de Tiradentes, Curta Cinema and Mostra Sesc de Cinema In 2017 “Small Animals Without Owner” was broadcasted on the shows Curta na Tela and Pausa pro Café, in Canal Brasil. Her feature film project, Seaside Avenue, won the category Best Feature Film Screenplay in Frapa, runner-up on Prêmio Cabíria, and was chosen by Lab. Novas Histórias in 2018. In 2020 was awarded the Selo Elas Cabíria, becoming a co-production with Elo Company. In 2021 the project was selected for a workshop in Produire au Sud (France). The movie was sponsored by Telecine and is expected to be released in September 2023. Her second feature film screenplay “Fire Diary”, written with Bernardo Florim, was selected by RioFilme 2021 public call and will be filmed in 2022.

Bernardo Florim

With a bachelor in Cinema (UFF) and a masters in Creative Media (ECO – UFRJ), Bernardo Florim wrote the feature films “Mission 115” (Festival É Tudo Verdade), Nelson Pereira dos Santos: a cinematic life (Canal Brasil and Globo Filmes), Zé Kéti: I am Samba (CineBrasil TV), Euclydes Pinto Martins (CineBrasil TV), Tragic (Festival de Tiradentes) and the series “Where the Beauty Is” (Canal Curta).  His fiction projects won national and international awards. Seaside Avenue was voted Best Screenplay in FRAPA, won Selo Elas Cabíria, and Cabíria award, being selected by Lab. Novas Histórias SESC/SENAC and by Produire au Sud, renowned workshop on Festival des 3 Continents (Nantes). The project is a co-production between Telecine, Elo Company and Viralata Produções. Night Animals was selected for Brazil Cinemundi and is distributed by O2 Filmes. Fire Diary was sponsored by Riofilme.

Find out more about the Viralata’s Directors

Each one with its particularities and creative aspirations, meet the directors of Producer Viralata, their trajectories, awards, nominations and projects signed by each of them:
Andrey Augusto

With over 10 years of experience in entertainment projects for major brands, Andrey has a portfolio with various film formats that have achieved great audience engagement on multiple platforms in recent years. He was one of the directors of Paramaker, the first YouTube channel network in 2015...

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Rafael Machado

Rafael is the creative one and follows to the letter the old saying: talent is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent transpiration. That is because of his extreme commitment to all Viralata projects. Director and editor, Rafa is also a partner of the production house.

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Zac Chia

Zac kickstarted his directing career by pioneering content and laying the groundwork for the inaugural season of OVERWATCH LEAGUE - an Esports league by Blizzard Entertainment - as segment director, where his work has been shown on an international platform, most notably in the U.S., China, and Europe.

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Diretora Karen Suzane
Karen Suzane

Karen Suzane is a film director. He won 4 awards with the short film “The Woman I Was”. In 2020, he held the three-episode web series “Gastronomic DNA”. He won a development award from the Hubert Bals Fund, with the feature film project entitled Four Girls.

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Diretor Rilson Baco
Rilson Baco

Rilson Baco is an advertising film director, post-graduated in Executive Production from FGV. Directed the feature film "O ÚLTIMO VIRGEM '' (2016), distributed in theatres by the brazilian company Downtown Filmes in partnership with Paris Filmes and co-produced by Paramount Pictures, Telecine and RioFilme.

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Fulvio Maia

With a great passion for cinema, Fulvio entered this universe very young and, still at a young age, had shown his talent already in teaching Radio, TV, and Cinema. From this love for the audiovisual arts, a great director was born, today with a 23-year career traveling the world directing international productions.

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Paulo Fontenelle

With a vast portfolio, Paulo is a director who chooses his portfolios with pinpoint precision. And he always gets it right! His experience as a screenwriter and great chemistry with actors make him one of the greatest talents in the Brazilian cinema scene in the present day.

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