Roberto Minervini, an Italian-born Texas-based documentarian, former punk band singer and IT technician, is known for spending months or years building connections and trust within communities as he films their lives.Shooting handheld himself, filming without cutting until data cards are full and he can no longer hold up his Arri Amira camera, Minervini is seemingly obsessed with what he calls his responsibility to create “a sacred space…for them to be who they are. That’s who I am as a filmmaker.”His...
Grupo Globo
Roberto
Irineu
Marinho
Co-Owner / Chairman
Bulwarked by its still massive grip on free-to-air primetime, no large company in Latin America has embraced the SVOD revolution with as much energy as Brazil’s Globo. In January, Globo merged all operations — TV Globo, Globosat, Globoplay — into one company simply called Globo, repositioning as a direct-to-consumer giant offering integrated ad sales. It powered up its international production division with Sony Pictures Television (English-language show “The Angel of Hamburg”) and Mediapro Studio (“Submarine”) and launched a U.S. streamer while modernizing hit telenovelas including “A Life Worth Living” with less traditionalist takes on gender. SVOD audiences grew 567% in viewership between March and June. Globo continues to turn out top-notch standard-format series, such as the fourth season of medical drama “Under Pressure.”