ABOUT
Otavio Chamorro is a Brazilian screenwriter and director who has a Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual at University of Brasilia. He has a background in social activism in LGBTQ+ matters in Brazil. He is a person with a physical disabilty and a member of Mensa International.
His four short films have already been exhibited in five continents, in more than one hundred festivals, having received several awards for script, direction, art direction and acting. One of them was the Most Controversial Film in QueerSicht 2013 - in Bern, Switzerland. His main field of work is LGBTQ+ over-the-top comedies.
He co-directed the full-length documentary "Women who care for Women" and is the screenwriter of the documentary "Faces of Malawi". For streaming/TV, he is part of the screenwriting team of the hit-show Rensga Hits! (Rede Globo/Globoplay, 2022), Time Switch (Star+, 2023), Neighbors (Canal Brasil, 2023) and a couple of fictional shows for premium streaming platforms (yet to be announced). He has co-created and directed the doc-series "Deu Positivo" (four seasons, MTV/Globoplay), about people living with hiv, "Solução MTV" (reality show, 2023) and "Turma da Robótica" (three seasons, Canal Futura).
In 2020, he co-wrote and directed the fourth season of "Art in Photography" at Arte 1 Channel. He is currently pre-producing "It takes two", his first feature film, and also has developed TV series projects for which he seeks partnerships to produce them.
FILM REEL
Apoteotica Cinematográfica is a rising production company set in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, that puts effort in trying to broaden the range of LGBT culture and representation. With a history of gay and lesbian themed short-length films, the company now seeks support or partners to co-produce two current feature film projects, participate in international script labs and career mentorship.
The two partners, Otavio Chamorro and Rafaela Camelo, are also developing their careers by specializing in screenwriting series fiction - one hour dramas and thirty minutes comedies and dramadies. Both of them have written projects and screenplays in such formats and are negotiating with TV channels and other screening platforms to produce their work.
The urge to lead a production company came from the need to lean their focus towards the ambition not only to create and write films and series but also to be directors or showrunners of their original projects, always with a unique point of view, as well as being part of writers' rooms and direction teams of projects that report to their work.
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