FILMES DE BOLSO
is a Brazilian production company which has as its main feature the quest for quality in independent productions of films d’auteur.
The production company has already excelled with two of its projects for TV and cinema: “Fernando” (71”), which was invited to various festivals, like the Málaga Festival 2018 and received an honourable mention award at the International Film Festival Olhar de Cinema in Curitiba (2017), and “Ferrugem” (50”), exhibited in Canal Brasil and Prime Video.
PAULA VILELA is a director, screenwriter/playwright, and architect. Founding partner of the production company FILMES DE BOLSO. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo (USP), master in Scenography from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), and actress from the Laranjeiras School of Arts (CAL).
She is the creator and director of the feature film Fernando, which she co-wrote and directed alongside Igor Angelkorte and Julia Ariani. The film premiered commercially in 2019 in several Brazilian capitals, distributed by Olhar Filmes with support from the Audiovisual Sector Fund – Ancine, after screening at festivals such as Olhar de Cinema (honorable mention and audience award), Tiradentes Film Festival, Ela Faz Cinema (Salvador), and the Málaga Film Festival (Spain).
She conceived, produced, and acted in Ferrugem, directed by Igor Angelkorte and written by Diogo Liberano, featuring Daniel de Oliveira and Analu Prestes, which aired on Canal Brasil in 2016. That same year, she developed the dramaturgy of the play A Square Between Two Buildings, Near a Locksmith, Graffiti on the Wall and a Tree, by Probástica Theater Company, winner of the 2016 Municipal Arts Grant in Rio de Janeiro and recipient of the 2017 Shell Award for Best Lighting, directed by Georgette Fadel.
In 2020, she produced, directed, and performed in the play Víspora at the renowned Teatro Poeira in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021, she won 1st place in the National Architecture Competition for Sustainable Social Housing, organized by the German Agency GIZ and the Brazilian Ministry of Cities. The winning project is currently being implemented in Campo Grande/MS with 164 housing units.
She worked with Christiane Jatahy on the stage/film productions And If They Went to Moscow and Fidélio as a set object producer. Since 2010, she has also worked with scenography and exhibition design, collaborating with artists such as Lidia Kosovski, Marcelo Lipiani, Julieta Sobral, and Claudia Pinheiro.
Currently, she is developing the screenplay for the feature film Guapuruvu and the short film Esmeralda. She recently collaborated on the editing, alongside André Novais Oliveira and Igor Angelkorte, of the docufiction Iron Rain, directed by Igor Angelkorte and Sofia Maria, about the city of Ceilândia in the interior of Maranhão. She is also developing the script and direction of the feature film The Day to Leave, in partnership with Chandelly Braz, who also stars in the film alongside Gisele Fróes.