The concept of a visual album is new, and therefore somewhat abstract. When Manu Gavassi showed me the script she had written for Gracinha, I thought the challenge was new and a little crazy. “Cool, so anything is possible?” I thought. I found that yes. It would be 8 music videos shot in less than 1 month, with stories interspersed. When I finally listened to the songs, I understood everything: that trip was going to work, and I was there to lead the process of turning a whirlwind of Manu's wonderful ideas into reality. An extraordinary mind of a creative, talented, courageous, generous, focused, intelligent, beautiful, and tasteful person... I had little time to plan in detail, but thanks to a team that believed in the process since the beginning, we embarked on this physical and spiritual journey to Ouro Preto, a city that carries an important and terrible history of colonial Brazil. We would film in various places, especially in the oldest theater in the Americas still in operation, The Opera House, which opened in 1770. My curiosity was aroused in a special way when I visited the locations. I studied about the city and managed to picture scenes we would do there, creating something new with Brazilian roots, telling Gracinha's story as a layer of fantasy suspended over the city's history, which touches reality without mixing with it. With photographer Nicholas Bluff, we made decisions that would place Gracinha in a special place in the convergence between art direction, styling, light, movement, and storytelling. "This story is real, although it doesn't seem like it." Gracinha would be located in the same imaginary place where fairy tales are, but more like the world as it is.
Directed by: @manugavassi & @gabdietrich
Logistics: @drumshugo
Art director: @anaarietti
Art directors ass: @barbarabesouchet
Art producer: @eduarbu
Makeup: @krisna
Makeup ass: @arthur.lordelo
Choreography: @maite_molnar
Scenography: @arlindo.gt
2AD: Amanda Novaes
1AD (pre-production): @taysperez
Editors: THIAGO LIMA e FERNANDO MAGNATA
Making of: @brenogaltier
BTS stills: @alli.zao

1AC: @valese
Videoassist: @dariovalese
Steadycam: @gusmorozini
16mm Loader and camera: @nestorgrun
Film scan & develop: @cinelabuk @runnerfilmes
Grading: @bleachcolorgrading / Serginho

Best-boy: BALBE JOSE FIGUEIREDO
Lighting ass: BRUNO CANHOTO
Lighting ass: CLAUDINEI MARCELINO
Grip-bestboy: @__ruiaraujo__
Grip ass: ORLANDO JESUS FRANCISCO
Grip ass: FABIO DA SILVA
Electricians: LUCIANO LOPES FERREIRA
RONALDO JOSÉ SILVA
ANTONIO CLÁUDIO SILVA

FIGURINO E MAQUIAGEM
Assistente de Stylist | Camila Pedroza
Assistente de Figurinista | Jéssica Neves
Costureira | Nádia Martins
Camareira | Linda Gomes, Roseli Machado
Assistente de Maquiagem | Arthur Lordelo, Paula Vidal, Wagner Carvalho, Otavio Gabriel Almeida, Amanda Lucci

Location Manager and Location Scout:

Cast:
@mandarinojoao
@fabioporchat
Titi

Making Of
Photos by Breno Galtier
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