As part of a strategy to build a new cinephile audience and revive the filmgoing experience in Brazil, São Paulo-based distributor O2 Play is theatrically releasing a selection of classic films, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — Helmer Fernando Meirelles’ O2 Filmes will produce a biopic of star Elza Soares, considered one of the greatest samba singers ever and a symbol of the struggle against racism ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Helmer Fernando Meirelles’ O2 Filmes, one of Brazil’s largest indie production companies in Brazil, will produce animation series “Suria”, O2’s founding partner Andrea Barata Ribeiro ...

O2 Play, the distribution-sales arm of Brazil’s O2 Filmes group, co-owned by “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles, has boarded “Broken” (“Partido”), which is co-directed by Oscar-nominated “City ...

City of God producer O2 Filmes and its co-founder Fernando Meirelles are moving forward with their adaptation of Brazilian comic book O Cidadão Incomum. The adaptation of Pedro Ivo’s comics marks ...

One of the pioneers in Virtual Reality (VR) projects in Brazil, filmmaker Ricardo Laganaro, is leaving Fernando Meirelles’ O2 Filmes to dedicate himself exclusively to immersive narratives. Best known ...