The Producer

 

Katia Machado debuted as a film Producer in 2004, when she founded her own production company Passaro Films, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her first feature was the internationally awarded The Other Side of the Street by Marcos Bernstein starring Silver Bear awarded actress Fernanda Montenegro. Since then, she has been involved with several Brazilian feature films and has received over 20 international awards.

 

Her most recent theatrical feature work includes Marcos Guttmann’s Maresia to be released in 2016 and Bernstein’s second feature My Sweet Orange Tree,  based on the best-selling novel by the same name. The film has received 7 international awards for Best Youth Picture in 2014.

 

She previously co-produced Bruno Barreto’s Last Stop 174, Warming House Party, by Toni Venturi & Pablo Georgieff which received the Honour Mention from the Brazilian Association of Documentaries in 2006 and Paula Gaitan’s Agreste. She has been involved as an associate producer for the feature documentaries Barracão by Waldir Xavier and Amazonia Eterna by Belisario Franca

 

Ms Machado began her career in Paris France in the animation industry and later became Director of International Distribution and Co-Productions for the major independent fiction production company, Hamster Productions/ Capital Cities/ABC.

 

She is currently developing several projects including a Brazilian-French-German coproduction Whatever the cost by Rita Gloria-Curvo, Scarlet Moon by Waldir Xavier and Revenge Therapy, Bernstein’s third picture.