Corals Creative Hub
Project Development
Heco Produções was awarded funding by Brazil's Audiovisual Sector Fund (Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual – FSA) in 2016 to establish its first Creative Hub, dedicated to the development of feature films and series. Building on the results achieved through the commercialization of these projects, the company secured the renewal of the Hub in 2025, now focused on seven new feature films brought together under the name Corals, under the creative leadership of filmmaker Eugenio Puppo.
These are stories that span genres and eras: intimate dramas, biographical and period portraits, narratives touched by magical realism, and documentaries that listen to Indigenous peoples and revisit archives. From identity and belonging to obstetric violence, from 1960s haute couture to ancestral knowledge of plants, the Corals projects affirm Heco's commitment to singular authorial voices and to a plural cinema with international reach.
Amid the glamour and power of the 1960s, Brazil's greatest couturier must confront the persona he created to achieve success before it leads him to ruin.
A 104-year-old woman from a favela hijacks a documentary about herself to rewrite the life she never got to live.
In a riverside village on the edge of the Pantanal, a young orphan must learn to live with the violence and tensions of his community, increasingly exploited by predatory tourism.
Daughters of Bolivian immigrants raised in São Paulo's Bom Retiro neighborhood, twin sisters go viral after faking a UFO sighting and set off on a journey across western São Paulo state toward Bolivia to prove it.
The documentary investigates the tensions between Brazilian Indigenous knowledge and Western science's current "psychedelic renaissance," addressing colonial history, biopiracy, and the ancestral use of ayahuasca and jurema.
The Wauja Indigenous people reencounter the images made by anthropologists Harald Schultz and Vilma Chiara, and struggle over the right to tell their story.
After a traumatic birth in a public hospital, a woman is separated from her newborn daughter.
Among women she has never met, she discovers an unexpected network of care that transforms her own experience of motherhood.
Tukutai Lévi Strauss
Feature length documentary
Directed by Lionel Rossini
Five members of the Boe-Bororo Indigenous people travel to Paris to reconnect with a collection of objects gathered by anthropologists Claude and Dina Lévi-Strauss in the 1930s, which leads them to claim the land where the former village of Kejari once stood, now covered by soybean monoculture.
