Pedro de Filippis
Pedro de Filippis is a Brazilian filmmaker. In 2009, his debut short film, “Os Pêssegos da Cornicha,” about the arrival of a mining project in a small rural community, won the Best Documentary award both at the Mostra Minas and Cinecipó festivals, and was also screened in Mexico and Argentina. In 2016, he was selected for the Doc Nomads Master’s Program, for which he directed eight films in Portugal, Hungary and Belgium during the two years of the program, and received tutorship from film theorists such as Bill Nichols, J.P. Sniadecki and Marta Andreu. In 2021, he was nominated for the Global Emerging Filmmaker Award from Netflix and IDA.
While a fellow, Pedro will work on his first feature documentary film “Rejeito,” which follows the imminent rupture of precarious mining tailings dams above millions in the state of Minas Gerais, home of recent dam ruptures considered Brazil’s worst-ever socioenvironmental disasters. The film, with international co-production between Brazil and the U.S., has the support of institutions such as Sundance Institute, Doc Society and LEF Foundation.