Ana Paula Cardoso

Movies

Formosa Beach
Production Design
Like any industrious coastal town or city, Rio de Janeiro's port region has always been a hub for the confluence of cultures, nationalities and identities. Since 2013, it has also formed the basis of a research project for filmmaker Julia De Simone. Her third feature-length film – which was supported by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund in 2014 – shifts away from straightforward documentary and towards a more fictionalised form as it presents the story of Muanza, a woman born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the early nineteenth century and trafficked to Brazil, who awakens to find herself in the present, roaming the streets of Rio’s rapidly changing port region, known as ‘Pequena Africa’, or Little Africa.
The Pastor and the Revolutionary
Art Direction
O Pastor e o Guerrilheiro is a Brazilian feature film inspired by a true story, which takes place in the 1960s and 1970s and at the turn of the millennium - in the last days of 1999.
The Fever
Production 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.
The Fever
Art Direction
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.
Pendular
Art Direction
The trajectory of a romantic couple of contemporary artists reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their artistic endeavors.
Hopefuls
Production Design
Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid – to become a famous player. Although he trains hard with his amateur team, he’s not one of the best. He won’t admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What’s more, his prospects don’t look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with her dominant mother poking her nose in...
People Forward
Costume Design
Through the recovery of found Super-8mm footage captured by his brother during the 70´s dictatorship, André tries to revive the memories of his father, who’s been waiting for his missing son for over 30 years.
People Forward
Art Direction
Through the recovery of found Super-8mm footage captured by his brother during the 70´s dictatorship, André tries to revive the memories of his father, who’s been waiting for his missing son for over 30 years.
O Crime e o Burguês
Art Direction
O Crime e o Burguês
Production Design
Enterre Seus Mortos
Art Direction
Two animal road corpse removers end up finding a dead woman and decide to collect her body clandestinely.
Enterre Seus Mortos
Production Design
Two animal road corpse removers end up finding a dead woman and decide to collect her body clandestinely.