Joana Gatis

Joana Gatis

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Joana Gatis

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Alien Nights
Beatriz
Rio Branco, Acre, an Amazon city near the border with Peru and Bolivia, has been suffering the violent impacts of recent changes in trafficking routes, which have arrived with violence in the Brazilian Amazon. In this scenario, the lives of three young childhood friends intertwine and ultimately, they find themselves in a common tragedy.
King Car
Costumer
Uno has a fantastic gift: he can talk and listen to cars since he was a child. After a new law prohibiting the use of aged cars puts his father's taxi company in danger, he takes a decision to recover an old family car into a “new one”, and its name is King Car – a car that speaks, listen, and even fall in love. A car that has plans for everyone.
The Fever
Costume Design
Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to soon depart to Brasília, Justino comes down with a mysterious fever.
Azougue Nazareth
Darlene
No measure of hellfire preaching can quell the boisterous and bawdy passions of Maracatu, an Afro-Brazilian burlesque carnival tradition with roots in slavery that takes place in the northeast state of Pernambuco. As the Falstaffian character Tiao, Valmir do Coco leads a nonprofessional cast of authentic Maracatu practitioners in a tale told through dance, music, and the supernatural, set in the sugarcane fields outside Recife.
Tungstênio
Costume Design
A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do everything to end this environmental crime. But in the search for the paths that seem most correct, each one of them will go through more personal and moral conflicts.
Quarto para Alugar
Leticia
Leticia is lost in time. Her nightly, melancholic routine reveals her wild, dark and bloody state of mind. When she meets Gabriela at a party and brings her to her house, strange things begin to take place in her old manor. One of the two will never leave that apartment. This is a film about tensions, memories and social dominations.
Aquarius
Tia Lucia 1940
Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
Soledad
A thug love. A ruthless passion. A devastating fire. Thus began the saga of death and revenge by the one they called Soledad.
Soledad
Director
A thug love. A ruthless passion. A devastating fire. Thus began the saga of death and revenge by the one they called Soledad.
Reptile Shop
Aluisio loves the shop and his animals. Cristina can’t wait to sell the place.
Au Revoir
Costume Design
Love, Plastic and Noise
Costume Design
Shelly, a young dancer who dreams of becoming a singer, and Jaqueline, an experienced singer who has had some successes and bitter the decline of her career, are partners in a brash band in a scenario that It mixes the romanticism and the sensuality of the Brazilian periphery. Inserted in the universe of show business, between nightclubs and local TV shows, they discover that everything is disposable, like success, love and other human relations. Together, they seem to form a single trajectory of life, where Shelly represents the past of Jaqueline, while this figure like the probable future of the colleague.
Rat Fever
Costume Design
Zizo, a radical and anarchist poet living in a marginal quarter of Recife in the north eastern state of Pernambuco, distributes his social angst-filled thoughts through a publication named Febre do Rato, and spews poetry to anyone who’d listen. Our character always revolves within the universe that he has created around himself. A very particular world, in which satisfying the unfortunate is a mixture of a kind of benefit with high dose of malice.
If Nothing Else Works Out
Costume Design
In 2006, a journalist in financial problems, a woman who dresses as a man and a troubled taxi driver become friends, and gradually, an awkward, strong emotional bond emerges among them, especially when they decide to play a confidence game.
Bog of Beasts
Costume Design
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.