BLINDNESS
A FILM BY FERNANDO MEIRELLES

02 FILMES
WITH A PRODUCTION SERVICE BY EL CAMINO FILMS

MAIN CAST
Main Actress: Juliane Moore
Main Actor: Mark Ruffalo
Actor: Gael García Bernal
Actor: Danny Glover
Actress: Alice Braga
Actress: Sandra Oh

MAIN CREW
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cinematographer: César Charlone
Writer: José Saramago

BLINDNESS is a feature film, based on the romance “Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira” (Blindness), by José Saramago, Literature Nobel Prize winner.

This movie is the first international co-production of Brazilian film industry, between Brazil (O2 Filmes), Canada (Rhombus Media) and Japan (Bee Vine Pictures).

It was shot in Brazil, Uruguay and Canada. Directed by Fernando Meirelles, with César Charlone as cinematographer, who have been working together since the international success of “Cidade de Deus” (City of God) and “O Jardineiro Fiel” (The Constant Gardener).

BLINDNESS narrates the story of a sudden and devastating epidemic, "The White Blindness", which destroys society, placing the characters and spectators of this film, face to face with the most basic values of our civilization. In the struggle for survival, Blindness will make us see humanity’s essence.

The intention is to reveal, through society’s total chaos and decay, what human beings are able to loose and win with our civilization’s fall experience. As characters submerge into the crisis caused by the white blindness, they will have to face up to different phases of human nature: struggles for power and famine, which can cause killing or dying, and unbridled sexuality. However, the epidemic will also make them rescue, in their struggle for survival, solidarity, humanity and dignity, above all.

Fantastic allegory of our civilization and about humanity itself.

Becoming a drama with such potential, that disruptes and touches people from all over the world. BLINDNESS is a fiction feature film that transcends boundaries in all senses.

SPEED OF THOUGHT
A FILM BY EVAN OPPENHEIMER
BLACKSAND & SCOPER FILMS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH
EL CAMINO FILMS

MAIN CAST
Main Actress: Mia Maestro
Main Actor: Nick Stahl
Director: Evan Oppenheimer
Producer: Julio De Pietro
Co-Producer: Nicolas Aznarez
DP: Luke Geissbuhler

JOSHUA LAZARUS is a scoper, a telepath who listens to people's thoughts by entering their "internal landscape". There are only a handful of scopers in the world, and all of them were originally diagnosed as schizophrenics; the voices that barraged their heads were actually those of other people, which, when properly trained, they learned how to weed out. But the scopers’ gift is also their downfall -- without fail, a scoper goes insane by the age of twenty-nine.

The script begins on Joshua's twenty-eighth birthday. While on a government job in Uruguay , Joshua's mentor, SANDY, often loans out his students to the NSA, as a way to pay for research on the syndrome that causes the mindreaders mental instability, Joshua meets a similarly-gifted foreigner, ANNA.

Through their unique ability to mentally "open up", they instantly learn all about each other, and quickly fall in love. For a scoper, this is a miracle, since they don't have the benefit of the little secrets and privacies that love usually needs to thrive.

Joshua and Anna want to spend their few remaining days together, but Joshua knows the NSA won't allow this - as a scoper, he's a security risk, and constantly under surveillance.

With the help of his father (whom he hasn't seen since being turned over to Sandy twenty years earlier), Joshua and Anna plot an escape, but the NSA is tipped off, and Joshua is captured.

Using mysterious new abilities that he's begun to develop, Joshua manages to free himself, but it's too late, Anna has been captured by the NSA, and is being held at the hidden compound where Joshua grew up.

Alone, Joshua returns home, desperate to save Anna. What he finds at the compound changes everything, and, after a dramatic final confrontation, points the way to a new future for all mindreaders.

INVASOR
THE PROJECT

Synopsis
“A once in a lifetime horse”

History – Drama – Sports

FEATURE FILM DEVELOPMENT BY
EL CAMINO FILMS 

South American people have always been related in some way or another with Horses.

Regional establishments are devoted to horse breeding, to their genetic improvement and competitions.

As a consequence, South American families, breeders, trainers, riders, horse walkers...get recognized worldwide.

Uruguay among them, is a horse - loving country; there is a huge passion for horse racing in all its varieties. In Europe and the United States is a “king’s” sport...in the south is the “people's” sport.

Gustavo Hernandez a devoted turf man was known as a “down-upon- his-luck man...” when his horses didn’t get broken, they got cracked, or bitten by a snake and the one who got intact came in the last place.

After his father's death, Pablo gets obsessed with trying to change his father’s bad luck. Teaming up with the Vio Bado brothers, close friends of the family, they travel to Argentina to get a purebred. In the Stud Clausan, they met QUIET STYLE. A foal who had a flaw in its hands composure: they were extremely stiff and that is synonym of trouble... still, they were captivated.

Pablo stated: “I like this one, it is not an exposed horse, has a good haunch and is pretty plump”, Juan Vio added: “I like his expression and the tameness...he looks far!”. The perception was shared, and the buyers felt a strange mix of adrenaline and peacefulness while facing the horse that would change their lives forever. Paying no attention to superstitions, they changed the original name...to Invasor. This is the touching story of the horse that would turn into an icon and worldwide symbol.

Alternatives of races with unpredictable endings, incredible head to head and deserved coronations are narrated; as well as the intricacies of the sale to a Stud in United Arab Emirates, of the horse that would turn into not only THE BEST HORSE IN THE WORLD, but a synom of self improvement, overcoming all odds.