Sérgio Machado
The Violin Teacher
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The Violin Teacher
2015 / Drama / Family / Direction Sérgio Machado
Laerte (Lázaro Ramos) is a promising musician who suffers a crisis in the middle of an audition for a position at the Symphony Orchestra of the State of São Paulo (Osesp). He loses his chance to work in the biggest symphony orchestra in Latin America, Feeling frustrated and in financial trouble, he accepts a job teaching music in the famous favela of Heliopolis. At the school, surrounded by poverty and violence, he rediscovers music in such a passionate way that he eventually transforms his young students. “The Violin Teacher” is inspired by the true story of the formation of the Symphonic Orchestra of Heliopolis and tells the moving saga of a musician and his students who had their lives transformed by art.
Prizes and festivals
Locarno International Film Festival
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Year
2015
Directed by
Sérgio Machado
Genre
Drama, Family
Inspirado na peça
Acorda Brasil de Antônio Ermírio de Moraes
Lead Cast
Lázaro Ramos, Kaíque Jesus, Élzio Vieira, Sandra Corveloni, Fernanda de Freitas, Hermes Baroli, Thogun Teixeira
Production
Gullane em coprodução com Fox Internacional Productions
Director
Sérgio Machado
Screenwriter
Maria Adelaide Amaral, Marcelo Gomes, Sérgio Machado, Marta Nehring
Cinematographer
Marcelo Durst, ABC
Production Design
Valdy Lopes Jn
Acting Coach
Fátima Toledo
Editor
Márcio Hashimoto
Editor (First process)
Lívia Serpa
Costume Designer
Cássio Brasil
Makeup Artist
Mary Paiva
Direção Musical
Alexandre Guerra, Felipe de Souza
Participação especial na Trilha Sonora
Edilson Venturelli, Orquestra Sinfônica Heliópolis / Instituto
Production Sound Mixer
Romeu Quinto
Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording Mixer Supervisor
Alessandro Laroca, Eduardo Virmond Lima, Armando Torres Jr.
Visual Effects
Quanta Post
Post-Production Supervisor
Patrícia Nelly
International Coordinator
Manuela Mandler
Release Coordinator
Dannielle Alarcón
Production Manager
André Montenegro
Co-Executive Producer
Ana Saito, Mariana Mecchi
Coordenação Executiva
Sonia Hamburger
Executive Producer
Rui Pires, Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane
Associate Producer
Instituto Baccarelli, Lázaro Ramos, Aurora Filmes, Barcelona Filmes
Co-producer
Ricardo Aidar, Sérgio D’Antino
Producers
Caio Gullane, Fabiano Gullane, Debora Ivanov, Gabriel Lacerda
Distribution
20th Century Studios