CEO and Executive Director of Barry Companyshe will participate in the Film Market at the table “Parity, equality, diversity: international initiatives”
The CEO and executive director of the entertainment division of Barry CompanyJuliana Funaro, will participate in the Film Market, one of the most important markets in the audiovisual sector in the world, which takes place during the Cannes Festival of Creativity. At the invitation of Collective 50/50, one of the largest female collectives in the world on the issue of gender parity in audiovisual, in partnership with The World Cinema FactoryJuliana will be one of the panelists at the panel “Parity, equality, diversity: international initiatives”, which will be held on May 19, at 3 pm.
Juliana, who is the director of the international arm of the Mais Mulheres collective, will also participate in an exclusive meeting with the general delegate of the Collective 50/50, Fanny de Casimacker, and already has meetings scheduled with producers, distributors and sales agents during the Market. A Barry Company will take three projects under development and the film “Uma Família Feliz”, in the finalization phase, to be presented and marketed to players and foreign partners.
In addition Barry is one of the five prominent Brazilian production companies that will participate in the Producers Networka co-production event organized by Film Market to promote meetings between foreign producers and encourage international co-productions.
Company
A Barry Company is an independent production company, with great achievements in film and television. It produced films and series recognized for their artistic quality with a large audience, awarded nationally and internationally. Among the productions is the feature film “Eduardo and Mônica”, directed by René Sampaio, which guaranteed the second highest box office in national cinema in the first half of 2022, in addition to being the most watched on the platform of streamingGloboplay, selected for international festivals, winning the Jury Prize for Best International Production at the Edmonton Festival and winning in five categories, including Best Film, at LABRFF, in Los Angeles.
Another outstanding film, also directed by René, is “Faroeste Caboclo”, which took more than 1.5 million spectators to the cinemas, winning seven categories at the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix, including Best Fiction Film, and abroad, the Special Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival.
Another major production is the police drama “Impuros”, the most watched non-English series on the STAR+ platform in Latin America, which earned two Emmy nominations for protagonist Raphael Logam and has just finished filming the fifth season, in partnership with Disney. In recent years, the production company has specialized in productions based on the international co-production model and has successfully developed new business models with foreign partners.
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