Director Pedro Jorge
Producer Heverton Lima
Brazil
Synopsis
Emilio, a young Black queer man, lives with his mother and works at a call center. After an argument, she reveals his father, Cezão, is alive. Emilio seeks him and joins his boxing gym without revealing who he is. Conservative and homophobic, Cezão trains him after his top fighter is injured. He doesn’t know Emilio is both his son and the drag queen Sahara Diamante. In the ring or onstage, Emilio fights for respect without giving up who he is.
Contact heverton@paideiafilmes.com.br
Director´s Biofilmography
Pedro Jorge is a Brazilian director, writer, editor and teacher. He has directed seven award-winning shorts, including The Ballerina (2016), Grandfather’s Razor (2013), Nerve (2019) and I See Colorful Mists (2020). His films have screened at more than 170 festivals and earned over 60 awards, among them Gramado, Havana, Brussels Shortfilm and Shorts México. For television he directed the youth series The Day My Life Changed (2024–25), the non fiction series It’s a Match! (2018) and Brave New Furniture (2018), and the live-action unit of Ico Bit Zip (2019), and sports documentaries for ESPN and Bandsports.
Total budget $1.175.573
Funds secured $529.064
Objectives to be achieved
Our goal is to present Diamonds Are Forever at the Málaga Film Festival to expand its international co-production structure. The film is already a Brazil–Chile–Uruguay co-production, with approximately 45% of the budget secured. In Málaga, we aim to engage European co-producers and advance discussions with international sales agents and distributors to complete financing and define a strong international circulation strategy across Europe and Ibero-America.
Co-production´s interesting countries
We are interested in co-producing with European countries such as Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom due to their strong support for auteur cinema, access to public and private funding, and established sales and distribution networks. These territories strengthen the project’s financial structure and expand its circulation in festivals, markets, and commercial windows.
PRODUCER’S BIOFILMOGRAPHY
Heverton Lima is the founder, creative producer, and executive at Paideia Filmes, with 19 years of experience in independent cinema. He produced the release of The Edge of Democracy (2019) and is the executive producer of the documentaries Platamama (2018), Elections (2018), and My Body Is Political (2017), directed by Alice Riff. He also produced the fiction films Guigo Offline (2017), Marina´s Ocean (2014), and Cartas de Amor (2022).
His works have been awarded and screened at more than 100 festivals, including Dok Leipzig, Visions du Réel, Bafici, Havana, and Festival do Rio, and have received around 30 awards at festivals such as the New York Int'l Children's Film Festival, Olhar de Cinema, and Mix Brasil. They have also been licensed for television and streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, Globoplay y MUBI.
