
Acting
Elio Copini
Born 1969-10-17 · Palmitos, Santa Catarina, Brasil
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 fantasy cinema. Excerpt from Leonardo Fuhrmann's text for Folha de São Paulo, June 9, 2024. Elio's last film was the short Picnic at the Castle, directed by Petter Baiestorf and based on the work of Franz Kafka, and recorded in March 2024 and released just a few days before his death.
Acting credits
NRA 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Yorgo Constellation
2025
NR17 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
5.02020, 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
NRFreak society of mutants is shaken by the birth of a normal being and starts to exploit him financially. Movie partially shot and never finished.
Andy
1999
NRA 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
5.0It'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
NRSinners 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
6.2Dr. Karloff prisons an alien from the Leguminous Planet and calls his friend Dr. Marins to help him in his experiences, because the Leguminous Monster is an anarchist intellectual full of hate against the human beings. While the scientists discuss about the monster, Caquinha is convinced for him to let him go. Done that, the Monster kills the scientists and kills everyone he finds in his way.
The Leguminous Monster from Outer Space
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Teresa Forever
2004
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Somos a Ralé!
2004
4.5A complex children's fable about world domination with homage to classic black and white horror films and monsters.
The Noble Bloodsucker Politician
2007
5.0Zombies, 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
NRA 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
4.4In 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
NRThe Gunslinger Nobody refuses to suck a bull's cock in Colonel Bajon's zoophilia movie, and a musical hunt begins.
Nobody Must Die
2009
NRThe 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
4.5Canibal 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
NRShort 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
NRA short tale about violence, filled with zombies, blood and guts.
Cão de Guarda
2016
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Quadrantes
2004
NRSuper Chacrinha and Glauber Rocha, two millionaires from the earthly plane of Varathrum, manipulate the people around them, including Deus and the Devil, so that their artistic industrial conglomerates grow.
Chaos and Confusion
1997
NRCould 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
Behind the camera
5.0It'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
NRSinners 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
NRIvan 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
NRSmall 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mike Guilhotina
2004
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Terceira Festa de Boas Vindas ao Meteoro Amigo que se Espatifará no Planeta Terra no Ano de 2019
2004