RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s Fernanda Torres, a Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee for “I’m Nonetheless Right here,” will star in and has written the screenplay of “Os Corretores,” a characteristic from Brazilian manufacturing powerhouse Conspiraçao that’s scheduled to enter manufacturing by the tip of this yr.
Andrucha Waddington (“Home of Sand”), a companion at Conspiracao and Torres’ husband, will helm the pic. Globo Filmes, the theatrical arm of Globo Group, will co-produce.
Manuel Belmar, Globo’s director of digital merchandise, will announce “Os Corretores” in the course of the firm’s panel right now at Rio2C, Latin America’s largest creativity occasion that unspools in Rio de Janeiro from Could 27 to June 1.
“Os Corretores” is described as an actual property tragic comedy. The plot is facilities on a few actual property brokers. Torres play the feminine lead, and male main position has but to be forged.
For her internationally acclaimed efficiency as Eunice Paiva in “I’m Nonetheless Right here,” Torres was the primary Brazilian to obtain a Golden Globe Award for greatest actress in a movement picture-drama, granted. She was additionally nominated this yr for a greatest actress Academy Award.
Torres can be a author of newspaper columns and has revealed two novels. Her debut novel, “The Finish,” bought over 200,000 copies in Brazil and was translated into seven languages and tailored right into a 10-episode sequence. Torres wrote the screenplay of the sequence that bowed on streamer Globoplay in Oct. 2023.
Torres’ appreciable writing profession additionally takes within the plot for “The Others,” one in all streamer Globoplay’s most profitable unique sequence to this point.
Waddington directed “Me You Them,” chosen for Sundance, Cannes, and Toronto. Starring Torres and mom Fernanda Montenegro and co-written and directed by Waddington, “Home of Sand,” a profitable Sony Footage Classics launch within the U.S., received Sundance’s Sundance/NHK Worldwide Filmmakers Script and Alfred Sloan awards.
