Urbano Filmes
Urbano Filmes is a Brazilian content producer founded in 2012 by Marco Antônio Pereira. For 13 years of experience on the audiovisual market, several documentary films, feature and short films, series for TV have been produced.
Urbano mission is to figure out people, territories and their changing processes, with human rights as a central theme.
Films
Environmental VR Festival
The city of Volta Redonda hosts the Environmental VR Festival: Cinema and Sustainability from November 6th to 9th, an initiative by Urbano Filmes, in partnership with SEBRAE and Ecofalante – the largest socio-environmental film festival in Latin America.
The event aims to raise public awareness about the challenges of the UN's 2030 Agenda, which brings together 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at building a more just, equitable, and balanced world. Volta Redonda was chosen for its historical role in Brazilian industrialization.
Urbano Filmes at It's All True 2023
Urbano Filmes participates in the O Estado das Coisas exhibition with the documentary Favela do Papa directed by Marco Antônio Pereira.
The film addresses the resistance movement of the residents of Favela do Vidigal against the eviction order, an important chapter in the history of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s.
Through rescuing period images and interviews, the film shows how the support of entities and personalities was given in the defense of the permanence of residents in their territory.
Favela do Papa at the 13th Ecofalante Film Festival
The film Favela do Papa has been selected to participate in the inaugural edition of the Territórios & Memórias - Feature Films competitive section, as part of the 13th Ecofalante Film Festival, which takes place from August 1st to 14th.
The film will have two screenings during the festival: the first on August 6th in room 3 of the Reserva Cultural in São Paulo, and the second on August 10th in the Lima Barreto room of the Circuito SPcine, located in the Centro Cultural de São Paulo.