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name: "Maria Carlota Bruno"
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roles: ["Producer"]
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average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T08:49:57.789188+00:00"
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# Maria Carlota Bruno

Producer. Born in Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2004–present
- **Also known as:** Maria Carlota Fernandes Bruno, Maria Carlota Fernandes
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 producing, 1 crew
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (1), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132253733, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1750060/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1455163

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*I'm Still Here*](https://film.one/film/im-still-here.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Maria Carlota Bruno, also credited as Maria Carlota Fernandes Bruno or Maria Carlota Fernandes, is a Brazilian film producer. She has worked at the independent production company VideoFilmes since 1989, becoming its Executive Director in 2011. The company was founded by Walter Salles and João Moreira Salles.

Bruno has contributed to numerous films, often in collaboration with Walter Salles. Her credits include assistant director roles on *The Motorcycle Diaries* (2004) and *Dark Water* (2005), line producer on *On the Road* (2012), and producer on *I'm Still Here* (2024). Other notable productions include *Paulina* (2015), *Song Without a Name* (2019), *Mariner of the Mountains* (2021), and *Noah's Ark* (2024).

*I'm Still Here* earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture; the film won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film. She has also served as an international juror at film festivals in Portugal, Chile and Peru.

*Sources: imdb.com, motionpictures.org, revistamarieclaire.globo.com, pt.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Produced (1) — the average rests on these

- *I'm Still Here* (2024), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/im-still-here.md)

### Crew (1)

- *The Motorcycle Diaries* (2004), Fi1m 77, Assistant Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-motorcycle-diaries.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Cyclone* (2025), Co-Producer
- *Creatures of the Mind* (2025), Producer
- *My Foreign Land* (2025), Producer
- *Manas* (2025), Associate Producer
- *I'm Still Here* (2024), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/im-still-here.md)
- *New World* (2024), Associate Producer
- *Noah's Ark* (2024), Producer
- *Mariner of the Mountains* (2023), Producer
- *Song Without a Name* (2020), Associate Producer
- *I Owe You a Letter About Brazil* (2019), Co-Producer
- *Unremember* (2019), Executive Producer
- *When the Earth Trembles* (2017), Executive Producer
- *In the Intense Now* (2017), Producer
- *Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Paulina* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Last Conversations* (2015), Executive Producer
- *Habi, The Foreigner* (2013), Executive Producer
- *On the Road* (2012), Line Producer
- *A Night in 67* (2010), Production Assistant
- *8,944 km from Cannes* (2007), Producer
- *Dot.com* (2007), Production Coordinator
- *Dark Water* (2005), Assistant Director
- *The Motorcycle Diaries* (2004), Assistant Director — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-motorcycle-diaries.md)
- *Castanha e Caju Contra o Encouraçado Titanic* (2002), Producer
- *Behind the Sun* (2001), Executive Producer's Assistant
- *Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion* (2000), Post Producer
- *João & Antônio* (1992), Production Coordinator
- *Cuddle*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2025: Best Picture (nominated), for *I'm Still Here*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) 2025: Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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