The filming for CARMO has just begun in Brazil. It is directed by an emerging Brazilian talent, Murilo Pasta (Transit), who was multi-awarded for his shorts Sniffers and The Tale of the Rat who Wrote.

For his first long feature film, this UK-trained Brazilian filmmaker cast Fele Martínez (Bad education, Darkness, Thesis, The Lovers from the North Pole) to play the leading role, as well as sensual Mariana Loureiro (Behind the Sun, Passing by), Seu Jorge (City of God, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Escapist), and other significant Latin talents.

CARMO presents an amazing action and romance road movie through the warm Brazilian landscape. The story is inspired by the classic Bonnie & Clyde and the acclaimed Y tu mamá también, to originally and bravely show “a story of two people whose roads cross in an unexplainable and irreversible way. Together they will find personal freedom and a sensation of dignity through love,” says Murilo Pasta.

This indie film clearly reveals the original mark of Murilo Pasta, who got professional training as a director in British BBC, BskyB and Channel4, but also represents the new Brazilian film culture. Actor Fele Martínez got impressed by this innovative combination of influences and decided to enter the project since he first read the script.

CARMO is an A Contraluz Films (Spain), Magia Filmes Produçoes (Brazil) and Gremi Film Production (Poland) co-production. It is currently being filmed in natural scenery at the dangerous and spectacular border between Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and in Argentina, with a full-colored, sensual and wild landscape. The six-week shooting will be done in Spanish and Portuguese.

CARMO’s filmmaking team includes prestigious professionals like Editor Nacho Ruiz Capillas (The Others, Mondays in the Sun, DarkBlueAlmostBlack, Princesses) and Sound Designer Fabiola Ordoyo (The Secret Life of Words, The Machinist, My Life without Me), as well as the Oscar-winning Director of Photography Robbie Ryan, who won the Academy Award in 2005 for the short Wasp.

Synopsis

Marco is a handicapped petty criminal, who tries to escape a painful past and find a new beginning. On his way, he comes across Carmo, a young Brazilian girl who, in her turn, is trying to get out of the hell she lives in. Marco depends on Carmo’s help to recover a load of bootleg goods –his passport to a new life. This is the beginning of a journey that will change their lives forever.

Carmo presents the unlikely romance between two misguided souls in a dangerous journey on the edge of the law; a personal and mutual discovery across the vertiginous nature of Brazil, at its border with Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina; a fast, harsh and uncontrolled romantic odyssey in South America.