Maitê Proença
Nacimiento : 1958-01-28, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Historia
Maitê Proença Gallo is a Brazilian actress and writer.
Proença has worked on Brazilian telenovelas, films and plays. Her role in the telenovela Dona Beija was her first major TV success in Brazil, Portugal and some 50 other countries where it was shown.
Proença has written two books. Her first book, Entre ossos e a escrita, published in 2005, contained the best of her essays. The second book, Uma Vida Inventada, sold 100,000 copies in Brazil and was exported to Portugal. She has also written two plays one of which, As Meninas, won her several prizes. She has a column in the Brazilian magazine Época.
Proença has been a TV host for Video Show (1983), Programa de Domingo (1987) and Saia Justa (2006/2007). In 2006, Proença wrote her first theater play, Achadas e Perdidas. In 2002, she made her debut as a theater producer with the play Buda.
In 2009, due to controversial remarks on the Brazilian TV show Saia Justa, Proença prompted public outrage in Portugal and was accused of being Lusophobic, though she has since affirmed numerous times her love for Portugal. She has since denied the accusation and recorded several apologies, as well as issuing one on her official blog. Proença emphasized that despite the misunderstanding, she is of recent Portuguese ancestry and likes Portugal and the Portuguese. For about a week, the affair was discussed or reported on several Portuguese television networks and major newspapers.
Reading
The film tells the story of a man who was born in 1959 and died in 2070, told by people who knew him and somehow contributed to his trajectory.
Debora
Diego es un director de cine que, al enterarse que su enfermedad maligna puede ser fatal, se casa con su mujer de muchos años, se despide de sus amigos y entra en una rutina de largas jornadas en un hospital. Lidiando con el dolor y conversando con la muerte conoce a un niño hindú, que se vuelve su más nuevo amigo. Un día, el niño ya no aparece. Diego recibe alta, pero su vida ya no será la misma. Se acaba su matrimonio y, solitario, empieza a cuestionarse si no se está muriendo y nadie le dice nada, hasta que conoce una nueva mujer...
Consuelo
On the first day of the year, multiple characters meet in a sumptuous country house nearside Rio de Janeiro. From dawn till dusk, they all face their crisis and limitations, and search for a meaning for their lives.
Soraya
Elvis & Madona is a romantic comedy that deals with an unusual subject in a delicate and realistic way: a love story between young lesbian Elvis and a transvestite Madona. The story takes place in Copacabana, neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The screenplay comprehends a full array of human types and, by following the journey of both protagonists, illustrates the conflicts generated by the evolution of behavior and custom. It is a modern and agile picture, and its soundtrack will follow the latest musical trends. Nevertheless, it is essentially a love story, proving that love can exist in any situation.
Dulce Veiga
Dulce Veiga is an actress and singer who was successful for a short period of time that mysteriously disappeared. Caio, a writer and journalist, publishes a chronicle recounting his memories of Dulce Veiga, which generates a huge response. Meanwhile, the journalist becomes increasingly obsessed with the personality of the daughter of Dulce, which is a beautiful girl with a man's mannerisms.
Dra. Rafaela Dantas
Estrela de Cinema
Catia, una exitosa economista, tiene que repensar su vida cuando su novio Veronese, un cineasta polémico, sufre un ataque cardíaco, dejando un pasado oscuro, una casa de artículos fotográficos, algunos cortos realizados y muchos guiones en la computadora. (FILMAFFINITY)
Mercedes
Basado en el cuento “Manuscrito hallado en un bolsillo” de Julio Cortázar, el director Roberto Gervitz nos propone el juego del título, llevado a cabo por Martín, pianista de un night club. Su imposible juego consiste en dibujar rutas del subterráneo de Sao Paulo en un pequeño cuaderno, tomar un tren y seguir a diferentes mujeres al azar, de llamativa belleza por lo general, para ver si alguna de ellas elige alguna de sus rutas preestablecidas. Si esto sucede, cosas del destino, aquella bien podría ser la mujer de su vida.
Caroline
Isolda (Irene Ravache), tía de Dolores (Laura Ramos), envía a su sobrina a La Habana 5000 dólares desde su casa en Río de Janeiro, para que pueda montar el restaurante que tanto desean ambas. Dolores no sabe que los dólares viajan camuflados en el tacón de unos zapatos de baile. Los zapatos llegan a La Habana, pero son canjeados una y otra vez por diversos artículos y distintas personas, sin que nadie sepa lo que esconden en su interior. Cuando Dolores se entera, intenta recuperarlos a toda costa, revolviendo toda La Habana, ayudada por su amigo José (Jorge Sanz) un buscavidas español que se hace pasar por cubano para sobrevivir y Mercedes (María Galiana) antigua ama de llaves, diabética y algo transtornada.
Dona Yayá
Un joven portugués es obligado a emigrar a Brasil a principios del siglo XX por su convicciones monárquicas. En la selva amazónica tendrá que trabajar en los cauchales del interior y enfrentarse a las extremas condiciones del entorno.
Delfina Delamare
Ivan Canabrava is a writer, turned insurance ivestigator who investigates mysterious deaths involving Bufo Marinus. Bufo Marinus is a frog poison causing catalepsy in humans, simulating death, enabling grand insurance fraud and other crimes. Ten years later, now as a successful writer, similar characters possibly using Bufo Marinus reappear and create an intricate plot full of surprises.
Atriz no Funeral
Reunited for their mother’s funeral, four sisters – Selma, Regina, Laura and Lúcia – find themselves forced to divide much more than a spacious apartment in Copacabana. While dividing the articles – from the apartment’s sale to splitting a toy tea set – the sisters compare options, destinies, lifestyles, expectations. The divergences are inevitable, because they’ve followed very different tracks. The turbulent sale of the apartment represents a turning point in their lives: they know they have never been so deeply involved as accomplices, or as sisters.
Márcia
Julius (Roberto Bomtempo) y Marcia (Maite Proença) decidierón que la lealtad no sería la base de su matrimonio. Nada de los crímenes pasionales, peleas irracionales o divorcios. La pareja sólo quería vivir, amar, crear a su hija Guida y permanecer libres. El es periodista, y ella abogada. Con el tiempo el acuerdo idealista, terminan sometiéndose a una vida "normal", pero eso no incluye la derogación del acuerdo para posibles actividades extra-maritales. Marcia le confiesa dice Julius que ha tenido relaciones sexuales con un cliente. Incluso frustrado, él acepta, en ejercicio de su tolerancia. Poco después, Julius se encuentra con un amigo de su hija, que parece ser la encarnación de sus deseos más profundos.
Anna Rondi
A paralized twelve year boy watches his womanizer dad seduce his baby sitter.
Lyla Van
In the 1950s, while radio is slowly being surpassed by television as the leading broadcast medium, Tito Balcárcel, a voice actor, becomes romantically involved with Lúcia, a fan of his who drags him into a mysterious crime plot.
Self
"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."
A man is accused of shooting his wife and her lover but as we find out. It wasn't her lover...
Rich executive being threatened by a burglar who had been caught trying to steal his mansion hires a hitman to kill him in prison. But another man is killed instead, leaving a widow and three kids. Full of remorse, he tries to help the family, taking everyone home. Soon, conflicts arise from the impossible coexistence of such contrasting families under the same roof.
Catarina
Worker Norival's life turns upside down when he is caught kissing his co-worker Catarina during work hours. He is fired for just cause and faces the hardships of the labor lawsuit he filed against the company.
Maureen
This epic Brazilian film was based on the equally epic novel by Antonio Callado. Set between 1954 and 1964, the film's focus is the saga of Jesuit priest Nando. Fed up with civilization, he ventures deep into Amazon country to live with and work among the Xingu Indians.
Suzana
Former athlete enters an old cinema in São Paulo's decadent city centre and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much like the leading lady on the film. He gets involved with her and her problems and in no time is being accused of a crime.
A-N-A
To get money and produce the play in which his girlfriend acts, an unemployed actor dresses up as a woman and falls in love with a millionaire widower.
Rich girl travels with her fiancé (a cousin) to the family farm, where they're going to marry. But finds another cousin in love with her who does everything to hamper the wedding.
Mãe Sandra
As soon as Mauro, an Administration student, discovers a strong vocation for mediumship, he drops everything to go deeper and dedicate himself to Umbanda, a religion he embraces so strongly that it makes him give up his studies. Determined to open his own spiritist center, Mauro moves to the countryside.
