Bio

Matias Mariani – Director and Screenwriter

After graduating from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Matias Mariani worked extensively as a producer in films such as Fish Dreams (Cannes’ Critics Week), Drained (Sundance), Adrift (Cannes Un Certain Regard). In 2014 Matias directed the documentary feature I Touched All Your Stuff, which had its world premiere at FID Marseille and won Best Editing at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, as well as being released theatrically both in Brazil and the US, followed by the fiction feature Shine Your Eyes, which had its premiere in the Panorama session of the 2020 Berlinale and was purchased by Netflix for worldwide release on July 2020, earning glowing reviews from Variety and Hollywood Reporter.

As a scriptwriter Matias worked on I Bring it With me (best film at Brasília Film Festival), Pendular (FIPRESCI award at Berlinale 2017) and Shine Your Eyes (Berlinale 2020). On streaming TV Matias has directed in 2022 three episodes in the upcoming Globoplay series The Game that Changed History.

“A debut feature shimmering with confidence and talent. (…) Shine your eyes displays a singular vision. It should, rightly, again attention of Mariani as a bright new filmmaker.”
Caryn James, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“[Shine your Eyes is] an assured and fascinating fiction debut from Mariani. An expertly crafted gem that glows with both originality and artistic flair. And I for one canʼt wait to see what Mariani delivers next.”
Neil Baker, CINERAMA

“Matias Mariani has made one heck of a narrative feature debut, his film having far more personality than those made by most first-time directors. (…) [Shine Your Eyes] shows Matias Marianiʼs tremendous potential.”
Sean Boelman, DISAPPOINTMENT MIDIA

“Shine Your Eyesʼ is a visionary tour de force. A genuinely fascinating mystery film that asks just as many questions as it answers, Shine Your Eyes is an intelligent and aesthetically pleasing foray into a fantastical vision of São Paulo that makes Mariani a filmmaker to look out for.”
Andrew Murray, THE UPCOMING

SHINE YOUR EYES has maintained a 100% FRESH rating at ROTTEN TOMATOES website, with reviews by the New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Cineuropa amongst others.

Guilherme Peters – Screenwriter

Lives and Works in between São Paulo and Berlin, Guilherme Peters was born in São Paulo, in 1987. Peters has had his work exhibited at international institutions and exhibitions such as the Institute of Contemporary Art of Singapore (Singapore, 2019), Fundação Iberê Camargo (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2018), Instituto Tomie Ohtake ( São Paulo, Brazil, 2018-2017), Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo [MAM SP] (São Paulo, Brazil, 2018), Do Disturb – Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France, 2018), XXXV Festival Internacional do Uruguay – Cinemateca Uruguaya (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2017), Wiesbaden Kunsthaus (Wisbaden, Germany, 2014), Oi Futuro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014), Museu de Arte do Rio [MAR] (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014), Zacheta National Gallery (Warsaw, Poland, 2013) 1st Montevideo Biennial (Montevideo, Uruguay, 2012), Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil, 2012), 17th Videobrasil International Festival of Contemporary Art (São Paulo, Brazil , 2011) and the 8th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

Peters received the Special Jury Awards, Edt Award. De Montage and Invention and ABD Award for Best Feature for Proxy Reverso (shared with Roberto Winter), at the VII Directors’ Week (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015). His work is present in the Figueiredo Ferraz Collection (Ribeirão Preto, Brazil) and the Konex Collection (Buenos Aires, Agentina), among others.

Roberto Winter – Screenwriter

Roberto Winter (b. 1983, São Paulo, Brazil) is an artist with a Bachelor degree in Physics from the University of São Paulo, currently he is the lead web developer at Studio Olafur Eliasson (Berlin). Over the past decade he has exhibited extensively in museums, galleries and a number of other venues, both in Brazil —such as MASP (São Paulo), MAR (Rio de Janeiro), Fundação Iberê Camargo (Porto Alegre), CCBB (Belo Horizonte)—, and elsewhere —such as Santander Fundación (Madrid), A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), matière-revue (Paris), Franklin Street Works (New York), National Gallery of Art (Warsaw) and Galerias Municipais (Lisbon).

He co-directed “Reverse Proxy”, alongside Guilherme Peters — for which they received the Special Jury Award and the Editing Award at Rio de Janeiro’s VII Directors’ Week, 2015. He wrote and produced “A role play”, which was screened, among others, at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria, 2019. He co-wrote “Shine your eyes”, directed by Matias Mariani, which premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, 2020. He also co-wrote “Rule 34”, which was awarded the Golden Leopard at the 75th Locarno Film Festival, 2022.

Contact

matias@primofilmes – 347 458 5019