Over the years, Laboratório Cisco has become a project factory.
We spend a good part of our time and neurons coming up with ideas, writing scripts and looking for funding. The projects below are those that, somehow, have already left the drawing board and are starting to come to life.
Iridescent
By Coraci Ruiz and Julio Matos
In a small and old house in the central region of Campinas, six trans and transvestite women live together and struggle to survive. Coming from different backgrounds, they have in common a history of family rejection, having lived on the streets and a decisive meeting with Suzy Santos, creator of Casa Sem Preconceitos. By portraying life in a collective, the film breaks with stereotypes and gives depth to marginalized characters in society.
Project selected by the AlterCine Foundation.
The farthest we can see
By Hidalgo Romero and Alice Villela
In 2015, a chief and pajé Kariri-Xocó was one of the leaders of the occupation of part of the traditional territory of his people invaded by squatters, in a movement known as Retomada. Today the dispute is pending in court. The Kariri-Xocó people fear the court decision. If they lose, they will either have to vacate the area or stay and fight.
Project under development selected for the 11th edition of Brasil CineMundi, for BrLab-SP Interior e Litoral 2021 and for the 19th of Ibermídia, of 2021.
Coup in 3 Acts
By Hidalgo Romero
The film, screened at script labs Labex and Ficviña, tells the political history of Brazil between 2016 and 2019, the period in which President Dilma Rousseff was impeached and Jair Bolsonaro's first year in office. A well-orchestrated coup against democracy, executed in three phases, which went far beyond the inauguration of a democratically elected president. In the light of concepts such as Liquid Authoritarianism and lawfare, the work traces a parallel narrative between Brazil and Latin America at the beginning of the 21st century, while articulating a series of archival materials and interviews with the main Latin American political leaders of that period.
Masquerades, revelers and partygoers
By Coraci Ruiz and Hidalgo Romero
The series "Mascarados, foliões e festeiros" (Masked People, revelers, and partygoers) addresses Brazilian cultural manifestations that have, among their main characteristics, the use of masks.
In order to highlight the cultural diversity of the country, some manifestations were selected to compose this series, in which remarkable traces of the indigenous, African, and Portuguese cultures are present, with representatives from all five geographic regions of the country.
The Photographs
By Andrea Pasquini
A woman seeks to find her father to retrieve her only teenage photos, given to him when she was 15. A documentary feature film about the search for the father, but also the reconstruction of his memory.
Da Nascente à Foz - Season 2
By Hidalgo Romero
"Da Nascente à Foz - Season 2" is a road series that follows the course of some of Brazil's main rivers from a socio-environmental perspective. How are water resources managed in Brazil? Is water a natural resource that we can enjoy, or is it an asset that we must protect? These questions form the basis of this project which, after a successful first season, is expanding its scope to include seven other major Brazilian rivers.
