urban solutions
Directors' statement
Urban Solution is both the promise of a Brazilian security company and its name. It is symptomatic of the permanent emergency solutions with which the daily dangers of growing inequality are to be kept at bay. Day and night, the porteiro - concierge and security guard in one - guards the wealth of his employers on the threshold between street and home. Between the exotic idyll of the front gardens and deterrent technology, it is his job to establish security and normality. Based on reports given by real porteiros and drawings by European artists in the colonial period and their texts about their travels in Brazil, urban solutions takes this situation as the starting point for a historical derivation and cinematic subversion of this “normality”.
Principal cast
Ivo Alexandre Junior
Sandra Dani
Heinz Limaverde
Ivo Medeiros
Alvaro RosaCosta
Martin Clausen, voice of the European Artist
Zé de Paiva, Gustavo’s voice
Screenplay
Arne Hector, Vinícius Lopes, Luciana Mazeto, Minze Tummescheit
Cinematography
Minze Tummescheit, Luciana Mazeto
Line Production Porto Alegre
Primeira Fila Produções - Daniela Mazzilli, Letícia Vieira
Line producer and location scout
Maitê Medeiros
Casting
Letícia Vieira
Editing
Minze Tummescheit, Arne Hector
Production design
Eder Ramos
Costumes
Mariane Collovini
Sound design
Sara Lehn, Christian Obermaier
Piano
Maria Hector
Music
Wilson das Neves
Lyrics
Paulo César Pinheiro
Music rights clearance
Tsonora Produções - Paola Oliveira
Translation
Leandro Engelke, Carolina Faller Moura, Sophie Schlondorff, Christelle Balustre-d'Erneville, Claire Karsenty
Funding
BKM
FFA - Short Tiger Award