Cannes-winning Quijote Films Boards Brazilian Docu ‘Mariana X BHP’
Quijote films, the producer of Chile’s entry to the upcoming Oscars ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’, has directed and produced on board ‘Mariana X BHP’, a Brazilian documentary and produced by Renan Flumian from Droma Productions.
The documentary on three continents developed in six years and filmed in 17 cities, dives into the largest environmental procedure in history, after the devastating collapse of the Mariana Dam in Brazil. With more than 200 hours of images, the project won a cash prize at the Lau Haizetara Forum in San Sebastián and this week was presented to buyers and platforms in Madrid’s 5one Iberseries & Platino industria.
Quijote films is also a co-producer of the Berlinale Silver Bear winner “The Blue Trail” from 2025, who has already surpassed 150,000 recordings in Brazilian cinemas, and the upcoming “A Colmeia”, filmed earlier this year Silveira with Brazilian desert.
“Working together with Brazil has been an incredible experience,” said Giancarlo Nasi of Quijote films, who said that his connection with Brazil is going back for many years when he studied there and served as a mentor with BRLAB for more than ten years. “I have seen the power and resilience of their film industry up close. Work-in-hand working with Brazilian partners continues to confirm why Brazil is such a valuable ally for Quijote,” he said.
“With ‘Mariana X BHP’ we continue to strengthen our international co-producing strategy, develop content in America and beyond. Next year we will be in production in projects with partners in Canada, Argentina, Mexico and the US who create worldwide content with international talent is part of our DNA-Net as the dedication we have fiddled and craftsman, craftsman, pointed.
“This week at Iberseries, when we presented it to platforms, we thought we had a film with a strong identity-social and political resonant, but with the potential to reach a wide audience. We are the tone of a legal thriller: compelling, crucial about the system, the saving of the system, who said Quijote. Head of Eugenia Campos, “together with Giancarlo, is behind the entire creative universe – the pitches, the decks, all the incredible materials that we use every day.”
“As a Brazilian director, I am first -hand to witness the stories of the victims in Brazil and the lawyers who formed an unprecedented alliance to enter into the largest mining company in the world,” said Flumian who had followed the unprecedented classification in London for six years.
He added: “This documentary follows their struggle for justice and the broader potential of the case to reform how multinational companies are held responsible – not only in Latin -America, but throughout the Global South. Starting with a local tragedy, the film reveals how worldwide is actually and resonates that stimulating,”
The earlier credits of Flumian include “the most difficult conversation to have with your parents” (NYT Op-docs, 2024), which was praised internationally because of the rough representation of intergenerational conversations about intimacy; the documentary series “Acende a Luz “(Globoplay, 2023), which explores sexuality in later life and the upcoming action-comedy “Velhos Bandidos,“ starring the legendary Fernanda Montenegro, nominated for an Academy Award for her perf in Walter Salles’ “Central Station” and a star of “I’m Still Here.”
