ABOUT

Created in March of 2018, Ponta de Anzol Filmes is an audiovisual production company based in Belo Horizonte city, Brazil. It is formed by Bruno Greco, Higor Gomes, Jacson Dias and Maick Hannder.

BRUNO GRECO

Producer and Executive Producer. He has a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from Centro Universitário UNA and Escola Livre de Cinema. He attended the Fémis Creative Production Workshop, organized by the Projeto Paradiso in partnership with the school La Fémis (France), and taught by producer Juliette Grandmont. He participated in MÁLAGA TALENTS 2022, during the 25th Festival of Malaga. He integrates the Talents Network of Projeto Paradiso.

Producer and Executive Producer of the short films LOOPING (Maick Hannder, 2019), LINING THE VASTNESS (Higor Gomes, 2021) and TIME TO RIDE (Higor Gomes, 2023), films exhibited in dozens of shows and festivals, such as FICValdivia, Olhar de Cinema, Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Mostra de Tiradentes, FestcurtasBH, Curta Cinema - Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro, among others. He also produced the short film MOTHER OF GOLD (Maick Hannder, unpublished), in post-production phase and scheduled for release in 2024.

He worked in the executive production department of the feature filmes O ÚLTIMO EPISÓDIO (Maurílio Martins | Filmes de Plástico), O SILÊNCIO DAS OSTRAS (Marcos Pimentel | Tempero Filmes, Anavilhana), ANA, EN PASSANT (Fernanda Salgado | Apiário, Sardinha em Lata) and É TUDO PARENTE (Mariana Fagundes | Noctua - Ideias e Conteúdo | Inédito).

He currently produces, alongside Jacson Dias, the feature films projects NINJA STORM, written and directed by Higor Gomes, which received two awards at the 10th Brasil CineMundi - International Coproduction Meeting, CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT, written and directed by Maick Hannder, which received three awards during the 10th BrLab - Laboratory of Audiovisual Projects, and the documentary OCTOBER, by Vinicius Correia.

He is a member of API (Association of Independent Producers) and ATCIMG (Association of Independent Cinema Workers of Minas Gerais).


He is a founding partner of the production company PONTA DE ANZOL FILMES. He lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Contact: [email protected]

HIGOR GOMES

Director and screenwriter. He has a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from the Centro Universitário UNA and the Escola Livre de Cinema. He integrates the Talents Network of Projeto Paradiso.

His debut short film WATERPROOF WICK (2018) received the Zózimo Bulbul award at the 51º Festival de Brasília do Cinema Brasileiro, and the Best Film award at the 20º FESTCURTASBH - Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte and at the 4° MOV - Festival Internacional de Cinema Universitário de Pernambuco, besides having been exhibited at the 8º Olhar de Cinema - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Curitiba and in more than 30 festivals. In 2019 the movie was shown on pay TV by Canal Brasil channel. 

LINING THE VASTNESS (2021), his second short film, premiered in the Brazilian competition of the 23rd FestCurtasBH - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival. It was screened at more than 20 film festivals, such as the 28th Vitória Film Festival, 25th Tiradentes Film Festival, Semana Paulistana do Curta-Metragem and 3rd Mostra Quilombo de Cinema Negro e Indígena. He received the jury prize at the Mostra do Filme Livre.

TIME TO RIDE (2023), his third short film, had its premiere at the 12th Olhar de Cinema - Curitiba IFF 2023, where it won the award for Best Short Film and the Abraccine critics' award for Best Film. The film has already been shown at dozens of festivals and exhibitions such as the 30th FICValdivia and the 34th São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum. It also won the Audience Favorites Award at the 34th São Paulo International Short Film Festival - Curta Kinoforum, and Best Cinematography at the 5th Festcimm - Mid-World Film Festival.

He is writing the script for his first feature film NINJA STORM, which won in 2018 the Best Pitching Award at Kinoforum Labs - Do Curta ao Longa, during the 29º Curta Kinoforum - Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de São Paulo. In 2019, the project received two awards at the 10th Brasil CineMundi - International Coproduction Meeting, including the Paradiso Incubator 2020, a program for the development of brazilian projects created by Projeto Paradiso. The project was also contemplated in the 2019 edition of the BH nas Telas fund, in the script development category. 

He edited the documentary NOSSA MÃE ERA ATRIZ (2023), directed by André Novais Oliveira and Renato Novaes, produced by Filmes de Plástico, which premiered at the 26th Tiradentes Film Festival and received the Best Short Film award by the Popular Jury.

In 2018 he was a teacher at the Imagens em Movimento project, a program linked to the French Cinematheque, in which he offered cinema workshops to public school students. 

He is a member of APAN (Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals) and ABRA (Brazilian Association of Screenwriters Authors). 

He is a founding partner of the production company PONTA DE ANZOL FILMES. He lives in Sabará, Brazil.

Contact: [email protected]

JACSON DIAS

Producer and Production Director. He has a degree in Cinema and Audiovisual from Centro Universitário UNA.  

Producer of the short films LOOPING (Maick Hannder, 2019), LINING THE VASTNESS (Higor Gomes, 2021) and TIME TO RIDE (Higor Gomes, 2023), films exhibited in dozens of film festivals, such as FICValdivia, Olhar de Cinema, Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Mostra de Tiradentes, FestcurtasBH, Curta Cinema - Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro, among others. He also produced the short film MOTHER OF GOLD (Maick Hannder, unpublished), in post-production phase and scheduled for release in 2024.

He worked in the production department of series and feature films, such as SEVEN YEARS IN MAY (Affonso Uchoa | Vasto Mundo, Un Puma, Camila Bahia, 2019), FARAWAY SONG (Clarissa Campolina | Anavilhana | 2023), AZUL CELESTE (Silvia Godinho | Dromedário Cinema e Vídeo | inédito) e PARALELO 60 - A CIÊNCIA BRASILEIRA NOS EXTREMOS DO PLANETA (Leandro Lopes, Ian Lara | Qu4rto Studio | inédito)

He currently produces, alongside Bruno Greco, the feature films projects NINJA STORM, written and directed by Higor Gomes, which received two awards at the 10th Brasil CineMundi - International Coproduction Meeting, CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT, written and directed by Maick Hannder, which received three awards during the 10th BrLab - Laboratory of Audiovisual Projects, and the documentary OCTOBER, by Vinicius Correia.

He was an LGBTQIA+ Counselor for the Civil Society of Contagem-MG, and the Executive Coordinator of the UNA-Se Contra a LGBTfobia extension project. 

 He is a memmer of APAN (Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals), of API (Association of Independent Producers) and ATCIMG (Association of Independent Cinema Workers of Minas Gerais), and Director of Equality and Inclusion of SINDAV-MG.

He is a founding partner of the production company PONTA DE ANZOL FILMES. He lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Contact: [email protected]

MAICK HANNDER

Director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He is graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual at Centro Universitário UNA, in Belo Horizonte. 

His first shot film INGRID (2016) was selected for the 44° Festival de Gramado, 27° Curta Kinoforum - Festival Internacional de Curta-metragens de São Paulo, 24° Festival Mix Brasil – de Cultura da Diversidade, 31st BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival and 40 more festivals in Brazil and worldwide. The movie won the SESCTV award at the 16º Goiânia Mostra Curtas and won 4 more awards at other festivals, and was show on TV by Rede Minas channel. 

LOOPING (2019), his second short film, received two Honorable Mentions at the XII Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, the Best Sound Award at the 8° Curta Brasília - Festival Internacional de Curta-metragem, and the Best Director and Best Soundtrack awards at GRIOT - III Festival de Cinema Negro Contemporâneo. The movie was exhibited at important brazilian festivals such as the 29º Curta Cinema- Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro, 23ª Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes and the 21º FESTCURTASBH - Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte. In 2021, Looping was invited to the SESSÃO VITRINE 10 ANOS and was exhibited on the commercial cinema circuit in several movie theaters in Brazil.

He is developing his third short film, MOTHER OF GOLD, a project that participated in the Short Film Laboratory of the 28° Curta Cinema, in Rio de Janeiro , and in the MetroLAB, of the Metro - Festival do Cinema Universitário Brasileiro, in Curitiba. The film was contemplated at the BH nas Telas fund and it is in the pre-production phase. 

CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT, his first feature film project, received three awards during the 10th BrLab - Laboratory of Audiovisual Projects, the Vitrine Filmes Development Award, the Cesnik, Quintino & Salinas Advogados Award, and the C/as4atro Award. Tha project was also selected to the 12th Brasil CineMundi - International Coproduction Meeting.

He is an APAN (Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals) member.


He is a founding partner of the production company PONTA DE ANZOL FILMES. He lives in em Betim, Brazil.

Contact: [email protected]