
Directing
Daniel Nolasco
Place of birth
Catalão, Goiás, Brazil
Known for
Directing
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Daniel Nolasco is a Brazilian director and writer, known for Dry Wind (2020), Mr. Leather (2019), and Uranus (2013).
Known for
NRIn 2011, Daniel Nolasco moved from his small hometown in the Brazilian countryside to Rio de Janeiro. He went to college. He was the first of a group of queer friends to leave the city. Ten years later, none of the people who made up that group live there anymore; some have died, and those who are alive have moved away. The city is called Catalão, a place that everyone says is too good to live in.
Little Tragedies
2026
4.6Dom Barbudo, a pioneer in the São Paulo gay and BDSM community and elected first Mister Leather Brasil in 2017, prepares to pass on the mantle to one of the four contestants in the second edition of the contest.
Mr. Leather
2019
6.3The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.
Dry Wind
2020
NRA collection of sensual and provocative male-centric LGBTQ+ short films including: Pedro Had a Horse, Monte, The Gemini Has Two Faces, Death is Not the End of the World, Cobalto, The First Kiss, and The Oddity in the Blue Crayfish.
Male Shorts: International V7
2024
2.5A tour guide of the best hook-up gay places in the city centre of Rio de Janeiro.
Pluto
2015
5.0Catalão, Brazil, 1984. The rural region of Batalha dos Neves is made up of large crop pastures, a few farms and divided in half by the São Marcos River. Antonio lives alone and isolated taking care of his small farm until the day he encounters Marcelo, a lonely motorcycler who suffers an accident crossing the region. Antonio takes care of Marcelo’s wounds. The two fall in love and live a story that transforms, destabilizes, and causes ruptures in each of them.
Only Good Things
2025
Behind the camera
NRIn 2011, Daniel Nolasco moved from his small hometown in the Brazilian countryside to Rio de Janeiro. He went to college. He was the first of a group of queer friends to leave the city. Ten years later, none of the people who made up that group live there anymore; some have died, and those who are alive have moved away. The city is called Catalão, a place that everyone says is too good to live in.
Little Tragedies
2026
NRIn 2011, Daniel Nolasco moved from his small hometown in the Brazilian countryside to Rio de Janeiro. He went to college. He was the first of a group of queer friends to leave the city. Ten years later, none of the people who made up that group live there anymore; some have died, and those who are alive have moved away. The city is called Catalão, a place that everyone says is too good to live in.
Little Tragedies
2026
NRIn 2011, Daniel Nolasco moved from his small hometown in the Brazilian countryside to Rio de Janeiro. He went to college. He was the first of a group of queer friends to leave the city. Ten years later, none of the people who made up that group live there anymore; some have died, and those who are alive have moved away. The city is called Catalão, a place that everyone says is too good to live in.
Little Tragedies
2026
4.6Dom Barbudo, a pioneer in the São Paulo gay and BDSM community and elected first Mister Leather Brasil in 2017, prepares to pass on the mantle to one of the four contestants in the second edition of the contest.
Mr. Leather
2019
4.6Dom Barbudo, a pioneer in the São Paulo gay and BDSM community and elected first Mister Leather Brasil in 2017, prepares to pass on the mantle to one of the four contestants in the second edition of the contest.
Mr. Leather
2019
4.6Dom Barbudo, a pioneer in the São Paulo gay and BDSM community and elected first Mister Leather Brasil in 2017, prepares to pass on the mantle to one of the four contestants in the second edition of the contest.
Mr. Leather
2019
6.3The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.
Dry Wind
2020
6.3The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.
Dry Wind
2020
6.3The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.
Dry Wind
2020
NRA collection of sensual and provocative male-centric LGBTQ+ short films including: Pedro Had a Horse, Monte, The Gemini Has Two Faces, Death is Not the End of the World, Cobalto, The First Kiss, and The Oddity in the Blue Crayfish.
Male Shorts: International V7
2024
2.5A tour guide of the best hook-up gay places in the city centre of Rio de Janeiro.
Pluto
2015
2.5A tour guide of the best hook-up gay places in the city centre of Rio de Janeiro.
Pluto
2015
2.5A tour guide of the best hook-up gay places in the city centre of Rio de Janeiro.
Pluto
2015
5.0Catalão, Brazil, 1984. The rural region of Batalha dos Neves is made up of large crop pastures, a few farms and divided in half by the São Marcos River. Antonio lives alone and isolated taking care of his small farm until the day he encounters Marcelo, a lonely motorcycler who suffers an accident crossing the region. Antonio takes care of Marcelo’s wounds. The two fall in love and live a story that transforms, destabilizes, and causes ruptures in each of them.
Only Good Things
2025
5.0Catalão, Brazil, 1984. The rural region of Batalha dos Neves is made up of large crop pastures, a few farms and divided in half by the São Marcos River. Antonio lives alone and isolated taking care of his small farm until the day he encounters Marcelo, a lonely motorcycler who suffers an accident crossing the region. Antonio takes care of Marcelo’s wounds. The two fall in love and live a story that transforms, destabilizes, and causes ruptures in each of them.
Only Good Things
2025
5.0Catalão, Brazil, 1984. The rural region of Batalha dos Neves is made up of large crop pastures, a few farms and divided in half by the São Marcos River. Antonio lives alone and isolated taking care of his small farm until the day he encounters Marcelo, a lonely motorcycler who suffers an accident crossing the region. Antonio takes care of Marcelo’s wounds. The two fall in love and live a story that transforms, destabilizes, and causes ruptures in each of them.
Only Good Things
2025
4.5Paulistas and Soledade are two rural regions located in the state of Goiás. In the early nineties the rural exodus was intensified with the expansion of monoculture farming and exploitation of water resources. Since 2014, there is no more young people living in the region. It's July, vacation time. Time when the children visit their parents.
Paulistas
2018
4.5Paulistas and Soledade are two rural regions located in the state of Goiás. In the early nineties the rural exodus was intensified with the expansion of monoculture farming and exploitation of water resources. Since 2014, there is no more young people living in the region. It's July, vacation time. Time when the children visit their parents.
Paulistas
2018
3.9Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.
Mr. Fox
2018
3.9Sr. Raposo is a staged documentary about the daily life of Acácio, who found out he was HIV+ in 1995.
Mr. Fox
2018
2.7The growing desire between Sandro and Maicon.
Neptune
2017
2.7The growing desire between Sandro and Maicon.
Neptune
2017
2.0Professional wrestling is also known as lucha libre and puroresu. FILL - Federação Internacional de Luta Livre - is one of the most important academies in the Brazilian independent scene. Their shows usually take place in the court of an old sports club in Vicente de Carvalho, North of Rio de Janeiro. "Tatame" is an effective portrait of the biggest stars of FILL; from their daily routine to the transformations they go through to become the main characters of the show.
Tatame
2016
10.0The second volume of an international collection of five short films focusing on men, including: Enter (2018); Free Fall [Caída libre] (2018); Haze [Ocaso] (2014); Mr. Fox [Sr. Raposo] (2018); Twice [Due volte] (2018).
Male Shorts: International V2
2018
8.5While Pedro Américo denies having fabricated fake news, Paulo Setubal reveals the Emperor’s innermost secrets.
Pedro Had a Horse
2023
8.5While Pedro Américo denies having fabricated fake news, Paulo Setubal reveals the Emperor’s innermost secrets.
Pedro Had a Horse
2023
4.0The first volume of an international collection of LGBTQ short films focusing on men. The 5 short films are: Just Past Noon on a Tuesday (2018); The Mousetrap [La tapette] (2016); The Storm [La tempête] (2017); P.D (2014); Neptune [Netuno] (2017).
Male Shorts: International V1
2018
NRIn a country where theocratic and inquisitive rituals of the collective unconscious serve the sacrifice of trans lives, “Until The Light Comes Back” is a ritual film that asserts the power of its protagonist over death as a mobilizing force, an enchantment spell and a rite of contradictions. This is because this is a film that understands contradiction as a core element in film characters and narratives to produce, like magic, other dimensions of reception.
Until The Light Comes Back
2022
1.0Caio and Jane had a long relationship but like all good things one day it all comes to an end. With many unsolved issues and some love still there between, they engage in long conversations through the night remembering their past and imagining certain scenarios.
Os Sobreviventes
2013
1.0Caio and Jane had a long relationship but like all good things one day it all comes to an end. With many unsolved issues and some love still there between, they engage in long conversations through the night remembering their past and imagining certain scenarios.
Os Sobreviventes
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Gil
2012
2.0Venus lies in bed with Uranus in the corner.
Uranus
2013
2.0Venus lies in bed with Uranus in the corner.
Uranus
2013
4.4In the countryside in Brazil, a group of boys hangs out around a gas station with its manager, Élcio. The men drink beer, do lots of macho stuff, play soccer. In the midst of this, there is an exchange of looks that demonstrates repressed desires, the need to sublimate oneself to be in tune with the rest of the world.
A Time to Kill, A Time to Die
2016
"When desire cannot be converted into a sensation of pleasure, it automatically transforms into anxiety." — Freud
Leite
2021
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Febre da Madeira
2015
NRAn elderly couple sees the furniture in their house suddenly disappear, as if by magic. They call the police and religious support, but nothing solves the situation.
Happiness Comes at 40
2014
NRLocated in the state of Goiás, the São Marcos River forms the boundary between the municipalities of Catalão and Campo Alegre. This area was once home to several farms, all belonging to members of the same family. Of some of these farms, only ruins remain, persistent reminders that, at one time, people lived there. The few inhabitants who have stayed are, day by day, losing more ground to large-scale soybean plantations and the reservoir created by the Serra do Facão Hydroelectric Power Plant. "Mar Verde" explores the routines and daily lives of these people.
Mar Verde
2014
NRLocated in the state of Goiás, the São Marcos River forms the boundary between the municipalities of Catalão and Campo Alegre. This area was once home to several farms, all belonging to members of the same family. Of some of these farms, only ruins remain, persistent reminders that, at one time, people lived there. The few inhabitants who have stayed are, day by day, losing more ground to large-scale soybean plantations and the reservoir created by the Serra do Facão Hydroelectric Power Plant. "Mar Verde" explores the routines and daily lives of these people.
Mar Verde
2014
