Valdy Lopes

Películas

The Father's Shadow
Art Direction
When a child is forced to become the house's adult because her father is sick and her mother is dead, there's an inversion in the natural order of things. Childhood becomes a saga. And the frustrated parenthood turns into a conviction.
O Banquete
Production Design
An elegant dinner, which takes place in real time, brings together a group of intellectuals in the early 90s in São Paulo, Brazil: the hosts are the editor of the country's top news magazine and her husband, the company's lawyer, and the occasion is the wedding anniversary of the magazine publisher and his wife, a famous theater actress. The publisher has written an open letter to the president of the country, with serious denunciations, which will run in the upcoming issue. He risks being arrested this very evening. As tensions increase with the imminence of prison, secrets come to light revealing the conflict between the ethics sought in public life and the ethics practiced in private life.
Paradise Lost
Production Design
Un policía trabaja como guardaespaldas de una joven drag queen en una discoteca y establece un vínculo con la familia de cantantes inadaptados que actúan allí.
The Devil's Scarab
Production Design
A series of crimes against redheads scares the people from a little town. After the death of his brother, the 13 year old Alberto decides to investigate what is happening and is helped by the experienced but forgetful Inspector Pimentel.
Holy Biker
Art Direction
In an arid and poor region of Brazil, bikers search for a miracle to make it rain and save the land, risking their lives.
Mañana nunca más
Art Direction
Walter es un padre y marido ausente que trabaja en un hospital que lo consume tanto que practicamente no tiene tiempo para la familia. Su redención acontece cuando su esposa lo manda a por el pastel de cumpleaños de su hija, pero lo que no sabe es que en el transcurso del viaje de vuelta a casa, le sucederá lo imposible para que todo salga mal.
Rosa Morena
Art Direction
Dinamarca /// Thomas, un arquitecto danés, dice que está en Brasil de vacaciones, pero la verdad es otra. En realidad, Thomas profundamente anhela tener un hijo propio. Su solicitud de adopción fue rechazada en Dinamarca porque es gay, pero Thomas se enteró de que él podría ser capaz de comprar un bebé en Brasil. Thomas pronto se encuentra en conflicto con la ley. Él mismo se mete en graves problemas, pero entonces conoce a una mujer y después de eso, nada volverá a ser lo mismo otra vez.
The Story of Me
Art Direction
Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.
The Story of Me
Production Design
Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.
Línea de pase
Production Design
Inspirada en gran parte en hechos reales, cuenta la historia de cuatro hermanos que buscan su camino en la vida. De padres diferentes, los cuatro viven con su madre, empleada doméstica que espera otro hijo, de padre desconocido.
Fake Blonde
Art Direction
Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father and gets involved with two different pop stars, from whom she learns traumatic life lessons.
Confiscated Goods
Set Designer
Betrayed wife of a powerful and corrupt Senator, turns him in, and his fraud schemes and lies are exposed. After one of his lovers commits suicide, he has his illegitimate son kidnapped and taken to a decadent seaside resort in the country's extreme southern coast. The Senator chooses another former lover to take care of his son, and the two of them become involved beyond that of a mother son relationship.
Carandiru
Assistant Set Designer
La película está basada en las experiencias del doctor Drauzio Varella en la prisión estatal Carandiru, en São Paulo, Brasil, durante sus trabajos de prevención del SIDA. En la prisión se encontró con cientos de convictos bajo condiciones infrahumanas hasta el punto culminante de 1992 cuando una revuelta provocó el asesinato de 111 hombres.