FILMES DE BOLSO
is a Brazilian production company which has as its main feature the quest for quality in independent productions of films d’auteur.
The production company has already excelled with two of its projects for TV and cinema: “Fernando” (71”), which was invited to various festivals, like the Málaga Festival 2018 and received an honourable mention award at the International Film Festival Olhar de Cinema in Curitiba (2017), and “Ferrugem” (50”), exhibited in Canal Brasil and Prime Video.
PAULA VILELA
is a director, screenwriter/playwright and architect. Founding partner of the production company FILMES DE BOLSO. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (USP), master in Scenography from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and actress from the Escola de Artes de Laranjeiras (CAL-RJ). She is the creator and director, through her production company, of the feature film "Fernando", directed and written by her together with Igor Angelkorte and Julia Ariani, which premiered in cinemas in 2019 by Distribuidora Olhar Filmes (Aly Muritiba) and Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual – Ancine. She conceived, directed and acted in "Ferrugem", directed by Igor Angelkorte and written by Diogo Liberano, which featured the performance of Daniel de Oliveira and Analu Prestes, shown and aired on Canal Brasil in 2016. Still in 2016, she developed the dramaturgy of the show "A square between two buildings, close to a keychain, graffiti on the wall and a tree", by Probástica Cia de Teatro, winner of the Promotion Notice from the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro in the same year and winner of the Best Shell Lighting 2017, directed by Georgette Fadel. She directed and wrote, in collaboration with Juuar and Raíssa Venâncio, the show “Víspora”, in 2020 at Teatro Poeira, in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021, she won 1st place in the Sustainable Interest Housing Competition promoted by the German Agency GIZ and the National Housing Secretariat – Ministry of Regional Development, work that will be developed alongside the new federal social housing program. Currently, she is developing the script “A casa de Antônio” in addition to editing with André Novais Oliveira and Igor Angelkorte the documentary “Chuva de Ferro”, directed by Igor Angelkorte and Sofia Maria in the city of Ceilândia, in the interior of Maranhão.