Julio Matos

Directing

Julio Matos

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Afrontosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Afrontosa

2026

Olhos Negros: Compartilhando Imagens poster
NR

In 2000, a multidisciplinary team of Unicamp students carried out the "Olhos Negros: Compartilhando Imagens" project, an exchange of images and representations between the states of São Paulo and Amazonas. Through workshops in schools and social projects, the team produced a video capturing the views and perceptions that children and adolescents in São Paulo held regarding Amazonas and themselves. With this video, they traveled down the Rio Negro (Amazonas), screening it in various communities and conducting interviews to gather responses for the people of São Paulo. The documentary offers a look at the material generated during this process.

Olhos Negros: Compartilhando Imagens

2003

No artwork available
NR

Homeless people from two major Brazilian cities talk about themselves, fabulous their lives and reinventing themselves before the camera. They recognize and reveal different dimensions to be considered when addressing the issue of street populations. They point out subjectivities and the place of harm reduction in society.

Marginal Territories

2019

Quem? Entre Muros e Pontes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Quem? Entre Muros e Pontes

2015

Blooming on the Asphalt poster
6.0

As Jack begins his gender transition process, Brazil is plunged into a wave of extreme conservatism. The film follows the transformations in his life and in the country, crossed by an extreme right-wing government and a devastating pandemic. Through an intimate account of the daily life of Jack and his friends, we see a network of affection and solidarity flourishing in the midst of an adverse context.

Blooming on the Asphalt

2022

No artwork available
NR

Brazil and Angola while on either side of the Atlantic Ocean have the same language, a common colonial past and many shared stories. In this film, correspondence is exchanged between these two places – some people are longtime friends, others have never met. Their stories intertwine and tell about migration, nostalgia, belonging, war, prejudice, exile and distance. The search for identity and flow of memory are driven by the line of affection that binds the seven pairs of speakers presented in this documentary, people whose life stories are traced between Brazil, Angola and Portugal.

Letters to Angola

2012

Behind the camera

Afrontosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Afrontosa

2026

Afrontosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Afrontosa

2026

Olhos Negros: Compartilhando Imagens poster
NR

In 2000, a multidisciplinary team of Unicamp students carried out the "Olhos Negros: Compartilhando Imagens" project, an exchange of images and representations between the states of São Paulo and Amazonas. Through workshops in schools and social projects, the team produced a video capturing the views and perceptions that children and adolescents in São Paulo held regarding Amazonas and themselves. With this video, they traveled down the Rio Negro (Amazonas), screening it in various communities and conducting interviews to gather responses for the people of São Paulo. The documentary offers a look at the material generated during this process.

Olhos Negros: Compartilhando Imagens

2003

Olhos Negros: Compartilhando Imagens poster
NR

In 2000, a multidisciplinary team of Unicamp students carried out the "Olhos Negros: Compartilhando Imagens" project, an exchange of images and representations between the states of São Paulo and Amazonas. Through workshops in schools and social projects, the team produced a video capturing the views and perceptions that children and adolescents in São Paulo held regarding Amazonas and themselves. With this video, they traveled down the Rio Negro (Amazonas), screening it in various communities and conducting interviews to gather responses for the people of São Paulo. The documentary offers a look at the material generated during this process.

Olhos Negros: Compartilhando Imagens

2003

No artwork available
NR

Homeless people from two major Brazilian cities talk about themselves, fabulous their lives and reinventing themselves before the camera. They recognize and reveal different dimensions to be considered when addressing the issue of street populations. They point out subjectivities and the place of harm reduction in society.

Marginal Territories

2019

No artwork available
NR

Homeless people from two major Brazilian cities talk about themselves, fabulous their lives and reinventing themselves before the camera. They recognize and reveal different dimensions to be considered when addressing the issue of street populations. They point out subjectivities and the place of harm reduction in society.

Marginal Territories

2019

Quem? Entre Muros e Pontes poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Quem? Entre Muros e Pontes

2015

Blooming on the Asphalt poster
6.0

As Jack begins his gender transition process, Brazil is plunged into a wave of extreme conservatism. The film follows the transformations in his life and in the country, crossed by an extreme right-wing government and a devastating pandemic. Through an intimate account of the daily life of Jack and his friends, we see a network of affection and solidarity flourishing in the midst of an adverse context.

Blooming on the Asphalt

2022

Blooming on the Asphalt poster
6.0

As Jack begins his gender transition process, Brazil is plunged into a wave of extreme conservatism. The film follows the transformations in his life and in the country, crossed by an extreme right-wing government and a devastating pandemic. Through an intimate account of the daily life of Jack and his friends, we see a network of affection and solidarity flourishing in the midst of an adverse context.

Blooming on the Asphalt

2022

Blooming on the Asphalt poster
6.0

As Jack begins his gender transition process, Brazil is plunged into a wave of extreme conservatism. The film follows the transformations in his life and in the country, crossed by an extreme right-wing government and a devastating pandemic. Through an intimate account of the daily life of Jack and his friends, we see a network of affection and solidarity flourishing in the midst of an adverse context.

Blooming on the Asphalt

2022

No artwork available
NR

Brazil and Angola while on either side of the Atlantic Ocean have the same language, a common colonial past and many shared stories. In this film, correspondence is exchanged between these two places – some people are longtime friends, others have never met. Their stories intertwine and tell about migration, nostalgia, belonging, war, prejudice, exile and distance. The search for identity and flow of memory are driven by the line of affection that binds the seven pairs of speakers presented in this documentary, people whose life stories are traced between Brazil, Angola and Portugal.

Letters to Angola

2012

Cartas do Desterro poster
NR

Oksana is an Armenian born in Azerbaijan, from where she was expelled at the age of 14 when the Soviet Union collapsed and the persecution of her people began; Salamu is Sahrawi, but his family fled Western Sahara due to the Moroccan invasion in 1975, and he was consequently born in the refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria. Both live in London, a city that is home to thousands of immigrants and refugees from all over the world. For this film, they were invited to write letters telling their stories.

Cartas do Desterro

2014

The Enchanted Day of the Erês poster
NR

Come to a unique party in Brazil with trans woman Suzy Santos, where for one enchanted day she invites child-spirits called Erês to join her in a sacred ritual of music and dance. Suzy is a priestess of Candomblé - an Afro-Brazilian religion which is one of the few to welcome the vulnerable "travesti" and LGBTQI+ community. It’s not easy to be black and queer in Brazil; a country with deep structural racism where more trans people are murdered than anywhere else in the world. Shunned and cast out from their homes and religious communities, many trans women end up living as street prostitutes to survive. Suzy has created her Candomblé temple as a place of refuge and acceptance for all gender identities, where she guides her community in a religious ceremony to celebrate and incorporate the Erês.

The Enchanted Day of the Erês

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Saudade: Vídeo-cartas para Cuba poster
NR

The documentary consists of a video-based exchange of messages between Brazilian and Cuban friends. By facilitating this audiovisual dialogue, the production team enables communication between these individuals and captures—through video letters—stories and life experiences from both countries.

Saudade: Vídeo-cartas para Cuba

2005

As Far as the Eye Can See poster
NR

Three generations of Kariri-Xocó indigenous people are set on an expedition to recognize the memorial territory of this people, stolen from them over the course of centuries of painful colonization. Their language, their knowledge and even their sacred rituals have been hidden as a survival strategy. Now, armed with cameras, drones, pipes, headdresses and maracas, they travel through the geographical landmarks of their territory in a road movie that is the preparation for new land retakes.

As Far as the Eye Can See

2025

Utopia Muda poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Utopia Muda

2023