Director/Producer

Petra Costa

For more than a decade Petra Costa has been telling stories in the crossroads between the personal and the political, trying to understand the brutally unequal society we live in, much focused in her home country, Brazil. Her latest documentary APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and won best documentary at the Havana and Montclair film festivals. Previously she directed, THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY, which was nominated for an Academy Award and was listed by the New York Times as one of the best 10 films of 2019. It won the Peabody Award, Spirit Awards and best director at DOC NYC. Her first feature, ELENA, was the most watched documentary in Brazil in 2013. ELENA premiered at IDFA and won many prizes such as best documentary at Havana Film Festival (2013), best film at DOCSDF, and was nominated for Best Cinematography at the 2014 Cinema Eye Honors. In 2015, Petra directed together with Lea Glob, OLMO AND THE SEAGULL, which won the young jury prize in Locarno Film Festival. She produced ECSTASY (2020) by Moara Passoni, she is the Associate Producer of BABENCO (2019) and the Executive Producer of BEBA (2021).

Producer

Rémi Grellety

Rémi Grellety is a two-time Oscar-nominated producer whose work has been honored with an Emmy, a Peabody, a César, and a BAFTA. For 15 years he produced Raoul Peck’s films at Velvet Film (Paris, New York), including I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016, Toronto and Berlin) and the HBO miniseries, EXTERMINATE ALL THE BRUTES (2021). He has then founded Warboys Films (Paris). In parallel, Grellety has supported emerging filmmakers and produced six debut documentary films including A TASTE OF WHALE by Vincent Kelner (2022, CPH:DOX) and GARLAND JEFFREYS: THE KING OF BETWEEN by Claire Jeffreys (2023, DOC NYC Audience Award). His last production, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT by Johan Grimonprez (2024), won a Special Jury Award for Cinematic Innovation at Sundance.