Gramado Film Market Launches First 60-Filmmaker Youth Residency
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- Gramado Film Market will host its first Residency for Young Filmmakers Aug. 17–19, selecting 60 participants from more than 200 applications, all aged 18–35 with at least one film's work experience.
- Rio Grande do Sul, where Gramado is located, accounted for 28 of the 60 participants, with the remainder drawn from Bahia, Goiás, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Sergipe, Pernambuco and the Federal District.
- The three-day program packs 17 morning and afternoon sessions — spanning distribution, screenwriting, directing, public policy, true crime, internationalization, cinematography and environmental sustainability — plus evening screenings of the Gramado Film Festival.
- Paris Filmes CEO Marcio Fraccaroli and Paris Entretenimento producer Veronica Stumpf will lead the opening masterclass on distribution, with Fraccaroli framing the session as a strategic deep dive beyond theatrical release into positioning, audience targeting and release-window decisions.
- Silvio Guindane, director of the 2023 Gramado premiere "Mussum, o Filmis" (which took six awards including film and audience prize), will teach the directing masterclass, describing the filmmaker's role as orchestrating talent across departments "including and especially the actors."
Why it matters: For Brazil's audiovisual sector, the residency formalizes a pipeline: 60 emerging filmmakers from nine states get direct instruction from the country's leading independent distributor (Paris Filmes) and an award-winning director (Guindane) over 17 sessions. Stumpf explicitly framed the initiative as essential to producing professionals who understand the full value chain — distribution, internationalization, sustainability — not just craft.
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