May 7, 2020
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 Presented as part of The Cinema Tropical Collection’s Veredas: A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers

Gabriel Martins graduated in Filmmaking from the Centro Universitário UNA in Belo Horizonte. Besides making short films, he has been writing for the electronic magazine Filmes Polvo since 2007. In 2009 Martins started up the production company Filmes de Plástico, together with André Novais Oliveira, Thiago Macêdo Correia and Maurílio Martins. With Maurílio he directed Contagem/The Inside (2010). The short was awarded at several international film festivals. The co-directorship from Maurílio and Gabriel Martins, In the Heart of the World / No Coração do Mundo had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2019.

Maurílio Martins is a filmmaker, screenwriter and sound technician. He is also the co-founder of production company Filmes de Plástico. His first short film The Inside / Contagem (2010), which he made with Gabriel Martins Alves, received awards at several festivals around the world. The co-directorship from Maurílio and Gabriel Martins, In the Heart of the World / No Coração do Mundo had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2019.

Fábio Andrade is a Brazilian film critic, scholar, and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Cinema Studies department at NYU, and an adjunct professor in the Film and Media Studies department at Columbia University.