
Production
Tathiani Sacilotto
Born 1974-01-28 · São Paulo, Brazil
Tathiani Sacilotto started has a lawyer and after dealing for some years with extreme cases and losing faith in humanity, she later started producing films in Portugal and so it went for the past 20 years. She is the co-founder of the production companies Persona Non Grata Pictures (Portugal/Brazil) and Diálogos Atómicos (Portugal). She has produced over 30 films, including features, documentaries, and short films, producing movies that travel around the world, in festivals, cinemas and broadcasters. Tathiani is a member of the European Women's Audiovisual Network (EWA) EAVE Puentes, Producers on the Move and ACE Producers 2022/2023.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
10.0Rui is in the process of separation from Silvia, his wife and John, his son, realizing that his father can not get out of this situation and that he will never be happy, decides to ask for help from the mythical Bolivian hero "El Justiciero".
El Justiciero
2009
8.0Armindo and Helena celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Jongo
2013
1.0Following the lives of Bunnyranch members, Kaló, Filipe, Calhau and André, we get to know the inside outs of a small but strong rock'n'roll wave that thrives in Coimbra.
Rockumentary
2006
10.0There are hundreds of sex workers to whom the protection of the law at a labour and civilian level is not recognised. For that reason, in a similar way to what happens in many countries, they demand the end of the discrimination, the change of the law and the social power that has been denied to them. This film is a journey into the underworld of sex workers and their struggle for labour rights.
From 9 to 5: Sex Work Is Work
2011
10.0The making of of a making of. The Shooting of a feature. An unpaid intern. One theft. One making-of. The first movie... maybe the last.
Embargoed
2010
7.0What the ocean bringeth, the ocean taketh away
Low Tide
2012
5.5An intimate drama about an aging war veteran forced into a retirement home, where he confronts the ghosts of his past and forms an unexpected bond with his Black caregiver.
The Scent of Things Remembered
2025
NRIn the near future, during a relentless summer break and with a solar eclipse approaching, 12-year-old Bego struggles to find her place within her family and among girls of her age. As the moon seems to eclipse the animals and people around her, she meets REN__, an online friend, who introduces her to “shifting” – a practice where teens believe they can enter other realities through lucid dreaming.
The Days Off
2026
6.0In 1961 the liberation struggles start in Angola against the portuguese colonial power. The African students in Portugal fear for their safety and plan to flee outside the country. With the help of Theology students, French and North-American pastors, the operation code name "Angola" fled over 100 african students abroad towards freedom, amongst them several future leaders of african countries.
Codename: Angola
2015
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Humanos: Ao Vivo
2006
10.0Three men try to be "masculine" again. A clerck, a Saints Salesman and a "house-husband" pack up and decide to travel... to a bar. This is a movie without words, where the communication happens through the eyes and of some violence too.
Super Vodka
2012
6.0Julia returns to her hometown and the neighbourhood she left years ago after being swindled. She’s here to sign a permit to authorize her daughter to move in with her father, but more than anything, she’s come back to recover money that she left there, and which would solve a lot of her problems. Returning to her past is nothing like she expected it to be.
That Weekend
2021
10.0Posfácio works at the factory of Madam Cannon and dates her daughter Claudete. Everything would be going great for Posfácio, if it wasn't for terrorist plans from his work buddies Marques and Mendes.
Posfácio at the Clothing Factory
2012
8.0A couple stuck in a table of a restaurant faces the long hours of the weekend. A short film that explores the limits of warned-out relationships.
Saturday's Lunch
2013
10.0José Bação Leal has born in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, in 1942, and died in Mozambique, during the colonial war, with 23 years old. A promising writer and thinker, he became a symbol of a youth that could not rise, victim of a country that put in cause its own future in a meaningless war. All the people who were close to him were touch by his fascinating personality and his vanguardist free spirit.
Poetically Exhausted, Vertically Alone
2007
10.0During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
Magnetick Pathways
2019
6.3Inspired on the true events of the Portuguese king Don Pedro (14th Century) which unburied his mistress to make her queen after dead. This film tells the story of Pedro, a man admitted to a psychiatric hospital for traveling by car with the corpse of his beloved, recalling simultaneously three different lives: one from the past, another from nowadays and another one from an distopic future.
The Dead Queen
2018
10.0The documentary shows the academic movement and its several crisis by the players perspective and the way they contributed and involved themselves in the movement as students and Men. The main focus will be on the players and the academic leaders in this process during the 60’s.
Football With a Cause
2009
7.0A blind man. A belvedere. One coin.
Pay Per View
2007
6.5The story of Ramiro, a young boy, who is leaving to war; his return and his missing with the love of his life, Laurinda.
It Wasn't God's Will
2007
6.8Lucas, the cook, seduces America, the television star and presidential candidate. He will clandestinely enter her house to seduce her with extraordinary meals, causing the unlikely intersection of the fate of Lucas, the cook, with that of America, the President.
Bela America
2023
5.5Nuno is a man working at a hot dog stand, who also invented a machine which promises to revolutionize the shoe industry- a foot scanner. In the middle of a gasoline embargo and finding himself in a strange predicament, Nuno becomes mysteriously confined to his car, finding his life suddenly embargoed.
Embargo
2010
9.0One day, a forgotten box of shoes is discovered in a shelf of the record company. Inside this box, there were tapes containing home made recordings of the famous Portuguese composer - Antonio Variacoes. When one listens to these tapes, where Variações sings in the most pure ways - without any musical background, many times whispering to the recording not to wake up the neighbors - one perceives that this treasure could not remain hidden. The HUMANOS project was born; a "super"-band, composed by "super"-musicians, where the famous Portuguese singers Manuela Azevedo, David Fonseca and Camane; give their voice to music and lyrics from Antonio Variacoes. This film is about the process of preparation of the live concerts in the summer of 2005 and about the approach that these musicians had to the legacy left by Antonio Variacoes.
Humans: Variations of Life
2006
10.0A film about the incommunicability of two worlds.
Hepicat
2010
