MPC & Associados is a Brazil-based film and television production company founded in 1982 by Alberto Graça, who brought with him years of experience as an associate of Zoom Cinematográfica, where he produced four feature films. That year, he also produced and directed his first feature Memories of Fear (official selection at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes). Two years later, the producer Luciana Boal Marinho joined the company in partnership, enlarging its scope of activities.
MPC & Associados has produced over 50 documentaries and television programs for both the Brazilian and the international market, and has co-produced several television series with European television groups, such as MK2, Arte, Canal +, France 2, France 5, RTP and BBC.
In 1985, MPC & Associados were executive producer for Ruy Guerra's A Ópera do Malandro, co-produced with the French company MK2. In 1992, the company, together with KRE (USA), co-produced Richard King's The Art of War. For Gaumont International, MPC also produced the French feature Le Jaguar directed by Francis Veber, shot on location in the Amazon, in 1996.
In 2000, the company produced and released the feature film Hunter's Moon, directed by Alberto Graça. The film was part of the official selection of numerous festivals (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Biarritz, Havana, Shanghai, Brazilian Film Festival of Miami, Latin-American Cinema Festival of New York, among others) and was granted many awards.
Also in 2000, MPC & Associados implemented Movies on the Move, today the largest non-commercial film exhibition network in Latin America. The circuit, under the management of Instituto Cultura em Movimento - ICEM, shows recent Brazilian feature-length films, free of charge, throughout 700 cities of the 27 States of the country.
At the end of 2005, MPC & Associados released a 60' documentary for television, Estradas Reais - Das Minas ao Mar, in co-production with DirecTV, and two documentaries co-produced with France: The Wild Rush, directed by Alexandre Valenti (France 5), and Jungle Magic, by Simon Brook (ARTE/BBC/RTP).
For 2007 and 2008, the company is preparing two fictions: Absence, to be directed by Alberto Graça, in co-production with Filmes do Tejo II (Portugal), and Frontiers of Paradise. It is developing the documentaries Cacimbados, by José Pedro Santos, in co-production with Costa do Castelo Filmes (Portugal), Potiguares, about the population of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte, and River of Doubt, by Alexandre Valenti; and the documentary in series Cicatrices del Mundo - Brazil.
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