Joel Pizzini

Ocupagem (2021)

Zimba (2021)

The trajectory and artistic imagery of actor and director Zbigniew Ziembinski (1908-1978), precursor of modern theater in Latin America and master of generations of Brazilian actors. The polyphonic montage builds on vast unpublished material, covering half ...

Madalena (2021)

The body of a trans woman lies lifeless in a soy plantation and three lives react to her missing and presumed death. ...

Rio da Dúvida (2018)

The film recreates the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914), commanded by the Brazilian colonel Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and former US president Theodore Roosevelt. Together, they crossed the Pantanal and Amazon Rainforest to explore ...

Mar de Fogo (2014)

In 1930, the Brazilian filmmaker and poet Mario Peixoto produced a masterpiece of Brazilian film history, the two hour long silent film Limite, inspired by European expressionist and avant-garde cinema. In 2014, Joel Pizzini paid homage to the film, and in ...

Naked Eye (2014)

"Naked Eye" is a film-documentary of long-length of the artistic and existential universe of the singer Ney Matogrosso, which proposes to recreate through archive's images in counterpoint with the current production of the artist, thirty-five years of care ...

Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz (2012)

A documentary on prolific underground Brazilian filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla. ...

Elogio da Graça (2011)

A Hora do leão - Os sete leões de Glauber (2010)

Documentary about Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças ...

Milagrez (2008)

Documentary on "Antonio das Mortes", Glauber Rocha's 1969 film. ...

Anabazys: O Terceiro Testamento de Glauber Rocha (2007)

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Glauber Rocha's 1980 production "A Idade da Terra" (The Age of Earth), including unedited clips taken from the sixty hours of recovered raw footage. ...

500 Almas (2007)

The delicate process of rebuilding the memory and identity of the Guatós Indians, currently scattered throughout the Pantanal region. ...

Helena Zero (2006)

Manual de Barros - Retrato do poeta quando coisa (2006)

Depois do Transe (2006)

The documentary "Depois do Transe" covers the entire process of creating the masterpiece "Entranced Earth", which was released and awarded at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967. "Entranced Earth" charmed the world and won great admirers such as filmmaker Mar ...

Travelling as 4 Gares (2006)

The director films the trains, and the unusual, ruined and desolate places they travel through. The landscape is deconstructed through a rapid succession of shots, and becomes an abstract motif: that which was a ruin thus becomes an Andalusian mosaic or Im ...

Dormente (2005)

Retrato da Terra (2004)

Rogério Sganzerla: Elogio da Luz (2003)

Abry (2003)

At 84 years of age, Lúcia Rocha admitted herself to a hospital in São Paulo to undergo heart tests. Upon receiving the news about the risk to her life, Lúcia, laconic, tells the doctor: 'Then open it'. This is the second time she has undergone bypass su ...

O Evangelho Segundo Jece Valadão (2002)

Leonardo Villar - Um Homem Só (2001)

A tribute to the actor Leonardo Villar who, in his debut on the big screen, immortalized one of the most memorable characters in Brazilian cinema, Zé do Burro from the classic O Pagador de Promessas. ...

Glauces: Estudo de um Rosto (2001)

The story of one of the greatest stars of Brazilian cinema, Glauce Rocha. ...

Enigma de um Dia (1996)

A museum worker - the watchman - motivated by the homonymous painting by Giorgio De Chirico, is introduced, through everyday life, into the metaphysical universe of the Italian painter. ...

Caramujo-Flor (1988)

Film based on Manoel de Barros poetry. Story about poet's life in the swamp area of Brazil (Pantanal) and its wildlife; & his obsession with the sea and his new life in the big metropolis in Brazil. ...

Os Cravos e a Rocha (2015)

On April 25, 1974 the iconoclastic Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha was in Portugal. There, he joined the collective collective film "As Armas e o Povo". With his foreign and peculiar look, he broke the rules of conventional filmmaking. ...

Only Ten Percent Is a Lie (2010)

The life and literature of Mato Grosso do Sul poet Manoel de Barros. Alternating sequences of interviews with the poet, verses from his poetry, and statements of connoisseurs of his literature, the film portrays a revealing panel of the author's language. ...

O País dos Tenentes (1987)

With death getting near, a retired officer remembers the most important passages in his life and his participation in historical events in Brazil, such as the Lieutenants' Movement, and the 1964 coup. ...