Elio Copini

Acting

Elio Copini

Born — Died

1969-10-17 — 2024-05-28

Place of birth

Palmitos, Santa Catarina, Brasil

Known for

Acting

Credits

46 titles

In small Palmitos, with just over 15 thousand inhabitants, in the west of Santa Catarina, Elio was an accountant at his family's mechanical workshop, even though he was not interested in cars. He didn't even drive. Visits to the city of Teatro do Biriba, a circus that performs in the interior of the states, awakened his dream of being an actor. But his dream did not develop on stages and arenas, but on movie screens. His artistic career began in 1995, when he met director Petter Baiestorf. Over almost 30 years of friendship and partnership, they made more than 20 films together. Based on his experience with Baiestorf, Copini made a career with other directors in the region, mainly in fantas…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

Yorgo Constellation poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yorgo Constellation

2025

Noisy Silencers poster
NR

17 self-taught directors come together to give new meaning to their work in the form of 20 new episodes that are part of the feature film "Noisy Silencers", an extrasensory video experience that takes us on a journey through the history of cinema, from the 1880s to the present in a tangle of deliriums of the seventh art.

Noisy Silencers

2024

Canibal Filmes em Um Minuto poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Canibal Filmes em Um Minuto

2025

Queer na Srebrnym Globie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Queer na Srebrnym Globie

2025

Mato Mato Mato - Canibal Filmes e as Produções de 'Horor' no Oeste de SC poster
NR

In 1992, a group of teenagers began recording horror films with VHS cameras in Palmitos, in the west of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Led by Santa Catarina director Petter Baiestorf, the production company came to be called Canibal Filmes. Far from large urban centers and in times of stagnation in Brazilian cinema, the group learned in practice how to make low-budget cinema. The films found their own way of financing and showing to the public. Through reports, photographs, documents and videos, the documentary covers Canibal's early years, retracing the group's efforts and challenges in making independent cinema in a region with no cinematic tradition.

Mato Mato Mato - Canibal Filmes e as Produções de 'Horor' no Oeste de SC

2023

A Invasão dos Canibais Independentes: editando, produzindo e trabalhando com a Canibal Filmes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Invasão dos Canibais Independentes: editando, produzindo e trabalhando com a Canibal Filmes

2022

Scrambled Eggs poster
NR

Could a cruel doubt about eggs, which has consumed humanity's thoughts for thousands of years, be the starting point for a universal observation of the new millennium?And is this observation true? Or is it just a symptom of the social disease that is affecting humanity post-social media?Scrambled Eggs theorizes about this.

Scrambled Eggs

2024

Piquenique no Castelo poster
NR

Friends who intend to have a picnic at the Castle go through a bureaucratic tangle to obtain authorization for the picnic to take place. Based on the book "The Castle" by Franz Kafka.

Piquenique no Castelo

2024

The Crazy Origin of Covid-19 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Crazy Origin of Covid-19

2020

2010s · 9 titles

Zombio 2 poster
5.0

Zombies, beautiful dead girls, newly-dead and a wide variety of colorful and slimy undead invade the West of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Guts roll while "yerba mate" Cronenberg is consumed by the farmers. But the zombies aren't the biggest problem when all the humans are sadistic and selfish.

Zombio 2

2013

Brazil 2020 poster
5.0

2020, Brazil is ruled by a military crentecracy in alliance with the great agribusiness industry and the armament industry. Free thinking has become a major barrier to the Brazilian government. Anarchists, teachers, artists, small organic farmers, independent publishers and freethinkers have become the new Witches of the 21st Century and are the main targets of this crusade against wisdom. Thus, the Brazilian government created small groups of catechists who visit infidels who dare to think freely, with the mission of purifying their souls.

Brazil 2020

2019

The Sweet Advance of the Knife poster
3.8

A gore story about a girl who learns to use sharp machetes to avenge the death of her beloved murdered by religious fanatics.

The Sweet Advance of the Knife

2010

Ándale! poster
5.0

It's a film about the world today, about the need for a revolution, an uprising of the masses against the exploiters, so that the financial system can be completely rethought. It's an anarchist vision of the chaos we need for this change to occur (because anarchism is not mess, it's mutual support and solidarity). Of course, in 4 minutes there's no way to theorize about something so complex, but given the inequalities of today we have to do something, even if it's a short 4-minute short that, perhaps, awakens the inner revolutionary of those who watch (or not ).

Ándale!

2017

13 Weird Stories poster
4.4

In this anthology of horror episodes, 13 bizarre stories are told by independent film directors of Southern Brazil. Between ghosts, serial killers and demons, they conduct their strange, very strange stories.

13 Weird Stories

2015

The Colour Out of Space poster
NR

A Cor que Caiu do Espaço (2016) is freely based on the text "The Color Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft. Filmed as if it were a delirious nightmare, Color that Fell from Space is a short with independent production of Baiestorf and Silvia Prado that integrated the collective long "13 Stories Strangers". Experimentalism.

The Colour Out of Space

2016

Cão de Guarda poster
NR

A short tale about violence, filled with zombies, blood and guts.

Cão de Guarda

2016

The dead's passion poster
5.0

"The dead's passion" is an animated short-photonovela, telling the origin of the character "Zumboa", a potential innocent victim (and a fan of horror films) who, attacked by disgusting and lustful undead out of an old cemetery, turns into a much more lethal creature ... A very alive, dominating and seductive dead.

The dead's passion

2011

Páscoa Sarnenta poster
NR

Project consisting of four short films, partially filmed. Scenes from one of these short films were included in the feature film Zombio 2.

Páscoa Sarnenta

2011

2000s · 18 titles

Atomic Beer poster
NR

A punk scientist formed the formula of the deadly drink that transforms drunks into hallucinated zombies and awakens the fury of Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother and her afternoon tea buddies, who armed and dangerous decide to get revenge.

Atomic Beer

2003

Teresa Forever poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Teresa Forever

2004

The Noble Bloodsucker Politician poster
4.5

A complex children's fable about world domination with homage to classic black and white horror films and monsters.

The Noble Bloodsucker Politician

2007

Sad Clown poster
4.5

Canibal Filmes and Bulhorgia Produções proudly present the most faithful and realistic version, released so far, about what goes on in the mind of the accursed filmmaker Petter Baiestorf. With direction and script by Baiestorf himself and editing by Gurcius Gewdner, the film shows in a clear and objective way the entire trajectory of life, ideology and passions experienced by Santa Catarina. With a soundtrack of impact and moments of joy and anguish, entirely taken from the incredible vinyl collection of Gurcius Gewdner, Palhaço Triste has already been considered the best film of the tireless Canibal Filmes, in 2005

Sad Clown

2005

Rage-O-Rama poster
NR

A gang of criminals is taken by surprise by colonists contaminated by a drug (tested by the government) that unleashes their murderous instincts.

Rage-O-Rama

2001

Love on Uranus poster
NR

A couple in crisis is about the Brazilian middle class.

Love on Uranus

2007

The Leguminous Monster from Outer Space 2 poster
NR

The Vegetable Monster survived the shot fired at the end of Part 1. Wounded, he is saved by a shy veterinarian who is abused by the rude colonists of southern Brazil, and who will use the alien plant creature as an instrument of revenge.

The Leguminous Monster from Outer Space 2

2006

No Staging Today! poster
NR

Radical experimentalism of anti-cinema metalanguage that wants to experience sensations. It was filmed with a bunch of people who wanted to have a party, but that we at Canibal Filmes tested them to see who was good at interpreting.

No Staging Today!

2002

Somos a Ralé! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Somos a Ralé!

2004

Olhando a Cor da Melodia de Baixo para Cima com a Cabeça Raspada Parada poster
NR

A bunch of drunks at a party. Video poetry.

Olhando a Cor da Melodia de Baixo para Cima com a Cabeça Raspada Parada

2004

Nobody Must Die poster
NR

The Gunslinger Nobody refuses to suck a bull's cock in Colonel Bajon's zoophilia movie, and a musical hunt begins.

Nobody Must Die

2009

Dementia of the Putrefact poster
NR

Short inspired by the dramas of George Kuchar, it starred Elio Copini, Everson Schütz and Coffin Souza. Despite being an extremely homemade production and made with friends in a moment of supreme fun, it shows what director Petter Baiestorf thinks about religions and their fanatical followers.

Dementia of the Putrefact

2002

Terceira Festa de Boas Vindas ao Meteoro Amigo que se Espatifará no Planeta Terra no Ano de 2019 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Terceira Festa de Boas Vindas ao Meteoro Amigo que se Espatifará no Planeta Terra no Ano de 2019

2004

The Enjoyment of the Avacalho poster
NR

Sinners of a rural community having his flesh melted as an atonement for his Christian offenses. A revolutionary army of two people feuding with hordes of rotting zombies, and a mad scientist philosopher that builds a mummy of Christ to control the world.

The Enjoyment of the Avacalho

2006

Brazilian Bukowski poster
NR

Cuban crisis analyzed from the perspective of a decadent filmmaker and his hot neighbor arrived in poetic-philosophical interludes. One of the first films to imply the mastery of the collectivist identity of Timóteo Pinto. Petter Baiestorf's homage to all film festivals in Brazil in the true story of Coffin Souza and his miserable life full of disappointments and, at times, some almost joyful joys.

Brazilian Bukowski

2004

Quadrantes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Quadrantes

2004

Kanibaru Primitivism in the Mud of Technology poster
NR

In the future, metanoia erupts from the filth of the world. The monstrous primate that roars out of the mud, imposes itself before the erratic and alienated human being, molding its violence against the cathodic domain.

Kanibaru Primitivism in the Mud of Technology

2003

Daddy Mangy poster
4.5

A believer, when reading the bible, feels the power of God entering his body, and fights against the Holy Ghost in the holy battle of metalanguage.

Daddy Mangy

2009

1990s · 4 titles

Behind the camera

Ándale! poster
5.0

It's a film about the world today, about the need for a revolution, an uprising of the masses against the exploiters, so that the financial system can be completely rethought. It's an anarchist vision of the chaos we need for this change to occur (because anarchism is not mess, it's mutual support and solidarity). Of course, in 4 minutes there's no way to theorize about something so complex, but given the inequalities of today we have to do something, even if it's a short 4-minute short that, perhaps, awakens the inner revolutionary of those who watch (or not ).

Ándale!

2017

Carniça poster
NR

Ivan Pohl is perhaps the most delusional and clueless director in Brazilian SOV. This is his first media project, and it's utterly ridiculous.

Carniça

2001

Fragments of a Life poster
NR

Small fragments from the life of a woman tortured to death by a drug addict and a cannibalistic Satanist. The thick blood splatters against director Baiestorf's dirty lenses, which shows in a surreal way the most realistic scene of heroin use ever filmed in the history of Brazilian cinema. The short was created from scenes filmed for the feature "Stay Sick!" which Baiestorf was unable to finish.

Fragments of a Life

2002

Terceira Festa de Boas Vindas ao Meteoro Amigo que se Espatifará no Planeta Terra no Ano de 2019 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Terceira Festa de Boas Vindas ao Meteoro Amigo que se Espatifará no Planeta Terra no Ano de 2019

2004

The Enjoyment of the Avacalho poster
NR

Sinners of a rural community having his flesh melted as an atonement for his Christian offenses. A revolutionary army of two people feuding with hordes of rotting zombies, and a mad scientist philosopher that builds a mummy of Christ to control the world.

The Enjoyment of the Avacalho

2006

Mike Guilhotina poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mike Guilhotina

2004