Maurício Lissovski

Movies

Nise: The Heart of Madness
Screenplay
After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Serra Pelada: The Legend of the Gold Mountain
Writer
Serra Pelada's discovery in 1979 precipitated one of the world's largest contemporary gold rushes. In a matter of days miners could make hundreds of thousands of dollars as chunks of gold kilos in weight were found.
Born To Be Blind
Writer
You Are What you Were Born For
Writer
Documentary about three blind sisters who sing for money in the streets of Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil
Nosso Sonho
Writer
OUR DREAM is the biobiography of Claudinho and Buchecha, the most successful duo of the national melody funk in all times and the greatest icon of the genre in Brazilian popular music. The story of a friendship that becomes a force of overcoming and conquest. A film that shows how the rhythm and poetry of the periphery conquered Brazil. A real story full of fantasy. A musical feature, thrilling and entertaining, made of drama and tragedies, but also full of humor, surprises and redemption.