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Who we are

CUP Films

Company based in São Paulo created by brothers Ivan and Ilaine Melo to produce and distribute Brazilian and international independent films an TV content. CUP was created in 2018, and since then has produced Short Films Word Stuck It is Anas, by Ilaine Melo and co-produced the feature filmsDawn, by Anna Muylaert and Lô Politi,The mother, by Cristiano Burlan and Bob Cuspe - We Don't Like People, by Cesar Cabral, all with commercial releases scheduled for 2021. Currently, CUP is finalizing, in partnership with Bambu Filmes, the feature filmCongratulations girl!, by Luís Carlos Soares, and developing two international co-productions,Baby, by Marcelo Caetano, in partnership with the Brazilian producers Plateau and Desbun, the Dutch Circe Films and the French Still Moving, and the second feature film in Stop Motion by Cesar Cabral, the children'sA Tupiniquim Penguin, in partnership with Coala Filmes from São Paulo and Mutante Cine, from Uruguay. With the production company  Ypê Produções, from Santa Catarina, CUP should shoot the documentary in 2021Word Stuck, by Ilaine Melo.  CUP also has projects in development with filmmakers Juliano R. Salgado and Ivi Roberg, from Uacari Filmes, and filmmaker Gregório Graziosi.

As distributor, CUP released the documentaryTunga, the Oblivion of Passions, by Miguel De Almeida, and the Palestinian feature filmWajib – A Wedding Invitation, by Anne Marie Jacir. In 2021 the company will launchThe Last Country, by Gretel Marín,. in partnership with the producer from Goiás F64; The mother, by Cristiano Burlan, in co-distribution with Bela Filmes, and five other classic films in partnership with Cinesesc – the quartet of films that forms the latest series by one of the most representative filmmakers of the French New Wave. It is known asTales of the Four Seasons and contains the emblematic ones: Spring Tale,Winter's Tale, Summer's Tale It isAutumn's Tale. Still part of the New Wave, the Cup will presentA Walk through Paris(Le Pont Du Nord), by Master Jaques Rivette.

The team

Who is part of the CUP

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IVAN MELO

DIRECTOR

cupfilmesinfo@gmail.com

ILAINE MELO

PRODUCTION
ilaine.melo@me.com

LUCIANO FUSINATO

PRODUCTION
ilaine.melo@me.com

CAÍQUE FERREIRA

PRODUCTION
caiquealvesf@gmail.com

IAGO SARTINI

DESIGNER

iagosartini@gmail.com

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